Yangshan Qiyin Temple is located at the foot of Jiyun Peak in Mingyue Mountain, more than 20 kilometers south of Yichun City, Jiangxi Province. It was built by Zen Master Huiji in the fifth year of Huichang in the Tang Dynasty (AD 845). It emerged in the first year of Xuanzong. Prime Minister Pei Xiu and Jiangxi Observer Wei Zhou strongly supported the construction. The three words "Qiyin Temple" on the forehead of the original temple were personally inscribed by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. During the Taiping and Xingguo reign of Emperor Taizong Zhao Jiong of the Song Dynasty, Qiyin Temple was renamed "Taiping Xingguo Temple" by imperial decree. In the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Renzong personally inscribed a plaque with the title "Taiping Xingguo Temple on Dayang Mountain", and gave the title of "Huizhao" to Zen Master Xiling, the abbot of the Zen temple. He also ordered minister Cheng Jufu to write "A Note on the Reconstruction of Taiping Xingguo Temple on Dayang Mountain", written by The great calligrapher Zhao Mengfu wrote elixirs and erected a stone tablet in front of the temple. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taiping Xingguo Temple gradually declined. In the eleventh year of Daoguang's reign (AD 1831), Taiping Xingguo Temple was rebuilt for the last time after being destroyed by fire again, and was renamed "Xingguo Ancient Temple". In the 1950s, the last few monks of Xingguo Ancient Temple were expelled and returned to secular life, and all the temple facilities were burned down. After the reform and opening up, the government has become more harmonious, the country has become prosperous, and society has been stable. The reasons for the restoration of Yangshan Qiyin Temple have gradually matured. In 2005, under the auspices of Master Yanghang, the eleventh generation descendant of the Weiyang Sect, the Zen temple began to be rebuilt. In September 2011, the temple successfully completed the reconstruction work.
The whole temple includes the Main Hall, Tianwang Hall, Jialan Hall, Juxian Pavilion, Guanyin Pavilion, Sutra Pavilion, Bell Tower and other facilities. There is a pagoda tomb of the ancestor behind the temple. The overall style of the temple is the architectural style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The exterior is entirely made of granite slabs, and the interior floor is entirely paved with gold bricks. With green tiles and yellow walls, it blends in with the natural landscape surrounded by quiet bamboo forests. The careful layout makes the temple space open and grand, with free height and height. The buildings are horizontal and vertical, the eaves are high and low, the corridor walls are advanced and retreated, the courtyards are divided and closed, the interfaces are real and empty, and the space volume is appropriate. Through the connection of corridors and verandas, a quiet and friendly closed space is formed. In addition, the bells and drums are appropriately placed, and the incense burners are well decorated. The composition of intentions is extremely rich, and the sense of rhythm is strong. The interior and courtyard spaces of the building group commemorate the mountain spirit, and the mulberry trees and flowers introduce the natural scenery. The entire temple melts among the natural mountain springs and ravines, becoming an important component of the specific scenery. Added to it are the sounds of wind, rain, bells and bells. The sound of drums, the shadow of the sun and the moon, the loud chanting of sutras and the curling of incense combine the beauty of architecture, nature and humanity into one, permeating the interest of landscape poetry, landscape painting and landscape prose.
During the Huichang period of the Tang Dynasty (841), Zen Master Huiji, the founder of the Weiyang Sect, said goodbye to Weishan and came to Yangshan. At that time, during the "Huichang Dharma Disaster", the Buddhist sect fell away. Zen Master Huiji lives in seclusion in Yangshan Mountain, killing grass and cutting trees, building sheds and nunneries, hiding his light and shadows. After the death of the Dharma, Buddhism was revived, and the imperial court ordered him to live in "Qiyin Zen Temple". Later, Buddhism was widely promoted. Because of his inheritance, his teaching methods were distinctive from the past, and he became a family of his own. This family started in Weishan and flourished in Yangshan. According to Zhao Jiong's introduction, later generations called it "Weiyang Sect". Qiyin Temple in Yangshan is the first ancestral court of Weiyang Sect. Although Qiyin Temple belongs to the Weiyang Sect, famous eminent monks such as Zen Master Chu Yuan of the Linji Sect, Zen Master Yangshan of the Caodong Sect, Zen Master Foyin of the Yunmen Sect, Zen Master Xingwei of the Huanglong Sect, etc., all once abboted Qiyin. temple. Famous scholars from the Song Dynasty, including Huang Tingjian, Fan Chengda, Xin Qiji, Zhu Xi, etc., also visited the temple.
"Buddhism has five leaves, one of which is in Yangshan." The Weiyang Sect was the first to rise among the five Zen sects. It was also known as the Linji Sect, Caodong Sect, Yunmen Sect, Fayan Sect, etc. It is "one flower and five leaves". The Zen style of Weiyang Sect is rigorous, and its Zen method focuses on the overall manifestation of great use, achieving the goal of governing things in a coherent manner, and moving in harmony. Understanding requires getting straight to the point. The style of attracting people is profound and mysterious in the ordinary. Later generations called it "a tacit understanding between the square and the circle, like the grain echoing the rhyme, and like the Guan matching the talisman." The emphasis was on teaching, so that the master and the disciple could have a tacit understanding. Zen Master Huiji has lived in the mountain for twenty years. With his "mountain style", monks from all over the world come to pick their clothes. Mazu Daoyi, Dongshan Liangjie, Huangbo Xiyun, Baizhang Huaihai, Yangshan Huiji and other Dharma schools, Dragon Elephant, taught sermons in the mountains and helped the people, leaving behind many popular Zen Buddhist sayings. In Zen Buddhism and China It has left a profound mark on the development of Buddhism and even Chinese culture.