Shaolin Temple was built on the north bank of Shaoxi River in Dengfeng, Henan Province, with a large scale. From the mountain gate to the Thousand Buddha Hall, * * * enters the courtyard with a total area of 30,000 square meters. The main entrance of the mountain gate is a three-room-wide single-eaves building, which is located on the top of the mountain. It is located on a 2-meter-high brick platform with hard mountain gates and splayed walls on the left and right sides. The overall configuration is high and low, which is very imposing. There are three characters "Shaolin Temple" written by Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty on his forehead, which are vigorous, handsome and delicate. It also adds a beautiful scenery.
There is a pair of stone lions in front of the mountain gate, male and female, carved in Qing Dynasty. As soon as I entered the gate of Shaolin Temple, Maitreya was enshrined in a Buddhist niche, with a big belly and a big smile. He is called "the Buddha with a big belly" and "the Buddha with a high heart". Behind the shrine stands a woodcarving statue of Wei Tuo, the patron saint of Shaolin Temple.
After crossing the mountain gate, it is a long tunnel, and the road is surrounded by forest of steles. There are more than 20 historical stone tablets here, and there is a long corridor on the east side of the road. More than 100 famous monuments from Tang Dynasty to Qing Dynasty are displayed in the corridor. Stone tablets, like forests, are called forest of steles.
The Dharma Pavilion behind the abbot's room is a temple-style building with a single eaves. According to legend, the second ancestor Hui Ke stood in front of Dharma and Brokeback Buddha. The East Attached Hall is located on the west side of Dharma Pavilion, and was rebuilt at 1983. There are "South Amitabha Buddha" stone statues and "Fa Bi Ying Shi" in the temple.
Further from Shaolin Temple, not far to the west, is the largest Tallinn in China, with an area of about 2 1 1,000 square meters. These ancient pagodas are the tombs of Shaolin Temple monks after their death. There are more than 230 towers, big and small, high and low. These pagodas are the soul residences of Shaolin Temple monks. Under each pagoda, there is a story, a name and a monk. The fame and fortune of monks before and after their death is weathered here alone with the blue bricks and years. Ancient pagodas have different architectural styles due to different architectural ages. They are elegant in shape and exquisite in stone carving. Most of the inscriptions on the towers involve ancient Chinese and foreign cultural exchanges and Shaolin martial arts, which provide real historical materials for the study of ancient masonry carving art in China.
From Tallinn to NATO 1000 meters, you will arrive at Chuzu Temple. It faces the valley on three sides and has five breasts on its back. The scenery is elegant and beautiful. It is the oldest and most valuable wooden structure building in Henan Province, built to commemorate the Dharma face wall. There are exquisite reliefs around eaves columns, inner columns, stone carvings under walls and altars. There is a statue of Dharma in the shrine of the Hall of Great Heroes.
Climbing southwest from Shaolin Temple, there is a Buddhist temple on the top of the mountain, which is the second ancestral temple. According to legend, Hui Ke, the second ancestor of Zen Buddhism, learned Buddhism from Dharma and recovered his wounds here after his broken arm was handed down from generation to generation. There are four wells in front of the temple, which are said to have been dug by Hui Ke. These four wells are very close, but the water tastes different. They are called "Zhuoxijing", and the locals also call them "four wells of bitterness, spicy, sour and sweet".
"Look at Zhongyue tomorrow and stay in Shaolin tonight. Peace of mind depends on six Zen, and the temple is deep in Qian Shan. The ancient style of the tree lingers, and the earth spirit turns cloudy at dusk. " I should teach banyan rain to send me songs at the night window. "Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty crossed Luoshui to Shaolin Temple and stayed in Shaolin Temple for one night, leaving this poem. But I can only fulfill my dream of visiting Shaolin Temple in a hurry, and then I left Songshan Mountain in a hurry. ...
I saw Shaolin, a decadent scene at that time. The walls of the temple have peeled off, and the pavilions of the gate have lost their luster. Only the three characters "Shaolin Temple", the treasure of Emperor Kangxi's imperial brush, still stand out from the crowd after the storm, which shows that the emperor's old son loves Shaolin.
Arriving in Tallinn, the sun has begun to set in the west, the setting sun shines on the silent Tallinn, and pine and cypress surround Tallinn, presenting a solemn scene.
In my imagination, Tallinn is the resting place of eminent monks in past dynasties, and it should be a solemn and quiet place. However, when I was in Tallinn, I didn't feel quiet, and I didn't hear the ringing of birds, but the noise of inferior speakers in the hands of tour guides kept coming and going. Perhaps the tour guide's explanations can help people understand historical allusions, but who can guarantee that you can keep those explanations in mind when you leave the scenic spot? Thinking of this, I simply left the noise of tourists and speakers, walked alone to the depths of Tallinn, and began to look for the quiet atmosphere I imagined.
Looking around the whole Tallinn, it seems that its area and quantity are far from my imagination, and my heart is inevitably lost. The messy stone pagoda, bearing thousands of years of wind and rain, has become a bit shabby and scattered, especially lacking the mystery and solemnity in film and television works. Small vendors in twos and threes shuttled through Tallinn. If there are no patrols on the ground in front of Tallinn, they can go out of Tallinn and sell souvenirs such as rosaries, bracelets and decorations to tourists. When the duty officer came, he rushed into Tallinn like a mouse and sold it to the tourists in Tallinn. I am disappointed that the solemn Tallinn has become a "guerrilla field" for vendors and duty personnel to catch cats and mice, but their commodity prices are indeed much lower than the stalls on the road, which caters to the needs of people like me who usually want to tear a dime in half, and I am moved by their persistence and patience. If our staff at all levels have one-third of the patience and dedication to work for the people, why is our society not progressing and our people are not harmonious?
Occasionally, we found a relatively new stone tower behind Tallinn, on which airplanes and ships were carved. Everyone couldn't help laughing. These monks are still in the world of mortals and boarded modern ships. The tour guide quickly explained that Tallinn also has modern stone pagodas, and the country once asked not to build new stone pagodas. However, through the unremitting efforts of the temple, we can still continue to bury modern monks and abbots. We monks are also advancing with the times, and we should share the fruits of reform, opening up and modernization.
Tallinn in Shaolin Temple is the tomb of eminent monks in past dynasties. There are more than 230 ancient pagodas since the Tang Dynasty, which is the largest Tallinn in China. Pagodas have many structures such as brick, stone and masonry, and their shapes are also different, such as square, rectangle, hexagon, octagon and circle, with different styles and shapes. There are single-story pagodas with single eaves, single-story pagodas with dense eaves, Indian slope pagodas and various Lama pagodas. According to the tour guide, Tallinn has 2 Tang pagodas, 2 Song pagodas, 10 golden pagodas, 46 Yuan pagodas and 148 Ming pagodas. Most of the rest are pagodas of the Qing Dynasty or of unknown age. These pagodas are filled with the ashes of monks of past dynasties. After the death of a famous Buddhist monk, he put the ashes or bones into the underground palace and built a stupa on it. Guided by the tour guide, we carefully studied the calligraphy and sculpture that Tallinn could see clearly.