1. Wu Cheng'en, the author of The Journey to the West, visited the Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang many times and left poems. This is the only Jinshan Temple that Wu Cheng'en has been to according to historical records, and the poems reveal the author's love for Jinshan Temple, so it is not impossible for the author to position such a dreamy temple as a monk in his later creation.
The full text of this poem is as follows:
Ten years of dusty dreams have been around Zhong Ling. Today, I tried to use a jar. Drunk, singing flowers and water, playing books, begging the monk. On a blue day, the moon falls on the river, and chickens crow in the temple every day. Hearing the laughter below, I was shocked by the white clouds. At the end, there is an inscription: I stayed in Jinshan Temple in Wu Jia in autumn, thanks to Sheyang as Mr. Mo Hu and Sheyang as a layman in summer.
I dreamed of going around Jinshan Temple for several years and returning to the boat for a thousand miles to win the tour. The Buddha country is really quiet with a river and a moon, and the guests stay in the water for a while. The Dragon Palace is long in the night, and the Pian Yu floats in the autumn. Drunk by the stone fence, Xia Ji set out from Haimen East Building. One of Sheyang's first surviving manuscripts
In the Journey to the West, Jinshan Temple is in Jiangzhou, while Zhenjiang is near the Yangtze River. Jinshan was also an island at the mouth of the Yangtze River at that time, so the small wooden boards of Tang Priest could float to Jinshan Temple. So in the eleventh episode, there is a poem about the Jinshan Island, which was raised by a monk in Qian 'an. In addition, in the appendix of the eighth chapter of the article, Chen Guangrui went to avenge a monk in the river when he was in trouble, and there was a passage by Liu Hongdao:' There is a Jinshan Temple and a Jiaoshan Temple in Jiangzhou, and I want you to visit that temple. Among them, Jiaoshan Temple is mentioned, which is also in line with the actual situation in Zhenjiang, so it can be inferred that Jiangzhou in The Journey to the West is now Zhenjiang and Jinshan Temple is now Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple.
3. Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang is the birthplace of China Land and Water Law Society. In the fourth year of Tian Jian, Liang Wudi (505), Liang Wudi personally went to Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang to attend the grand ceremony of the amphibious dharma meeting, which was the beginning of Buddhism holding the amphibious dharma meeting in China. In the seventh and eighth years of Song Yuanfeng (1084- 1085), during the abbot of Fo Yin, the Hai family went to the temple to set up an amphibious law meeting, which was presided over by Fo Yin himself, with a large scale; In the ninth year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1 173), Siming was appointed as the advocate of Jinshan Land and Water Law Society, and Shi Tian Mu Bai and Siming East Lake Job Mountain built land and water in four seasons. In the third year of the Yuan Dynasty (13 16), the imperial court held a grand land and water Dojo in Jinshan Temple, attended by 1500 monks. In the third year of the Yuan Dynasty (13 16), the imperial court set up the Land and Water Law Society in Jinshan Temple, Zhenjiang, and in the second year of Zhi Zhi (1322), the Land and Water Law Society was completed on a larger scale. It can be seen that the amphibious dharma meeting of Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang is famous in history. This coincides with what Tang Priest of The Journey to the West said at the Land and Water Law Conference.