Longhua Temple Site is located in the south of Chenhu Town in the northeast of Boxing County, between Feng Wu, Chongde and Zhaolou villages.
Longhua Temple was built in the middle and late Northern Wei Dynasty. During the Northern Wei Dynasty-Northern Qi Dynasty, the incense in the temple flourished. The temple has undergone three major renovations: First, during the Sui Dynasty. After the Sui Dynasty unified the whole country, Buddhism was honored as the state religion. During the reign of Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty, Longhua Temple was rebuilt, Longhua Tower was built, and Longhua Tower was built as a monument. The second is the Tang Dynasty. During the Wang Bo Uprising at the end of Sui Dynasty, Longhua Temple became the focus of people's opposition to Buddhism and rebel attacks, and suffered a disaster. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, good men and women rebuilt Longhua Temple, but the temple was much worse than before. The third is the Qing Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, Jin Bing invaded the Central Plains on a large scale and destroyed Longhua Temple in the war. It was not until the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty that Longhua Temple was rebuilt and revived. It is said that the temple building is magnificent, simple and generous, with the gate facing south, and it is divided into two parts: the main hall, the east and west wing and the bell and drum tower. During the Republic of China, the main hall of the temple collapsed due to disrepair; 1948, Longhua Temple became a pile of ruins due to years of war and irresistible natural disasters, and only the site has survived to this day.
The temple faces south, with front and back rooms, Daxiong Hall, Bell and Drum Tower, etc. The Sui Dynasty was rebuilt and then abandoned. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the scale was already very small and was finally abandoned. 1926 Longhua Monument was unearthed at the site in the third year of Sui Renshou (603). It is 1.45 m high and 1.06 m wide, with 25 lines of inscriptions and 50 characters in regular script, which still has the legacy of Weibei.
The site is 2000 meters long from east to west, 1.500 meters wide from north to south, with an area of about 3 million square meters and cultural accumulation of 1 meter. It is the largest site of the Northern Dynasties found in Shandong Province at present. More than 200 broken monuments, gold and copper statues, stone sculptures and white porcelain-fired Buddha statues from the Southern and Northern Dynasties have been unearthed, as well as a large number of pottery, porcelain and copper coins from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, such as black glazed porcelain pots, bottles, bowls, pots, plates, cups, clay-gray pottery tiles, dripping water, tiles, tiles, tiles and so on. The discovery of these precious cultural relics is of great historical value to the study of China's history, calligraphy, Buddhism, literature and art, among which the most striking are three discoveries: First, a large number of stone Buddha statues were unearthed in 1976; Second, the statue of "Venus, the Oriental Beauty God" unearthed in 1978-a statue of Qingshi Bodhisattva; Thirdly, 1983 unearthed hundreds of gold and bronze Buddha statues, and also unearthed a number of white porcelain burnt Buddha statues.
1976, 72 stone carvings, including statues, statues, Buddha heads and Buddha seats, were unearthed in the former site of Longhua Temple in Zhang Guan Village, Boxing County. There are 2 statues in the Eastern Wei Dynasty and 7 statues in the Northern Qi Dynasty, which is worthy of being the highest in the Northern Dynasties. The themes of the statue are Buddha, Bodhisattva, One Buddha and Two Bodhisattvas, Maitreya Buddha, Prince, Lushena Buddha and so on. Most single buddhas and bodhisattvas are statues. Buddhas are made of high-fleshed bun or spiral bun, with thin eyebrows, long eyes, thin lips and short neck, and straight body. Wear a shoulder-length dress, revealing the right side or praise belt, and the clothing pattern is sparse and smooth. Handmade fearless seal and willing seal. Most of the original gold ornaments on the white jade statues have fallen off, and the bluestone statues are painted. Bodhisattva wears three crowns or Buddha crowns (Guanyin Bodhisattva). The bag is painted with hanging shoulders, hanging bells on the chest collar, wreaths across the abdomen, passing through the wall in the middle, and silk hanging from the shoulders to the side. Some bodhisattvas are made of white porcelain. A white porcelain bodhisattva is topless, with a long skirt under her arm, a neptune hanging down and a treasure in her hand. Backlit, legs drooping, reclining on a stepped square seat with a waist.
1983, there were 94 gold and bronze sculptures in Longhua Temple site, including 39 with inscriptions, the earliest of which was 5 in Taihe period, which lasted for four dynasties, lasting 125 years, and was called "Small Bronze Sculptures of Southern and Northern Dynasties in China" by experts at home and abroad.
In 2006, Longhua Temple site, as an ancient site from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty, was listed in the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council.