Yingjiang Temple is located on the Yangtze River outside Zongyang Gate in Anqing City. It is composed of buildings such as Tianwang Hall, Ursa Major Hall, Zhenta, Pilu Hall and Tibetan Scripture Building. The whole temple is built on the high ground along the Yangtze River, and its grand hall can be seen from ten miles away from the Yangtze River.
Yingjiang Temple was founded in the seventh year of Song Kaibao (974), and was once called the ancient ten thousand Buddhist temples. In the forty-seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (16 19), it was named "Yongchang Temple for Protecting the Country" and the temple was expanded. It was rebuilt in the early Qing Dynasty, and in the second year of Kangxi (1663), the Hall of the Great Hero and the Hall of the King of Heaven were rebuilt. Xianfeng eleven years (186 1 year) was destroyed by war. In the first year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1862), it was rebuilt and named Yingjiang Temple, which meant that the temple stood in front of the Yangtze River. In the first year of Guangxu (1875), Empress Dowager Cixi presented Yingjiang Temple with a "Miaoming Garden", which was hung on the sutra depository and burned in 1929.
Since the establishment of Yingjiang Temple, incense has flourished in the past dynasties. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the government has maintained and protected temples many times. 1983, Yingjiang Temple was listed as a national key Buddhist temple in Han areas, and 1984 was handed over to the Buddhist community for management and use. In recent years, Yingjiang Temple has set up a management committee composed of monks, restored the jungle system, set up a vegetarian restaurant, and realized the cultivation of temples by temples. Yingjiang Temple's palaces and pavilions have also been repaired, becoming a pearl of Anqing City embedded in the Yangtze River.
The Heavenly King Hall and the Ursa Major Hall are built on high platforms, with magnificent momentum, hard hilltops and small blue tile roofs. Pilu Temple rests on the top of the mountain, with double eaves and simple tiles, one bucket and one stack, and no arches. Buddhist scripture building is a modern temple building with double eaves and a small blue tile roof.
Zhenxing Tower is the most distinctive building in Yingjiang Temple, also known as the Ten Thousand Buddha Pagoda. It was built in the second year of Qin Long in Ming Dynasty (15 autumn year) and rebuilt in the second year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1663). In the eleventh year of Xianfeng (186 1), the sixth and seventh floors were destroyed by gunfire, and 187 1 893 was rebuilt twice. The existing vibration tower has seven floors and is 60 meters high. The plan shape of the tower is a regular octagon, the length of the bottom is about 5.5 meters, and the distance between the two opposite sides is about 13 meters, which is gradually reduced. This tower is hollow, with stone steps leading to the top. The first and second floors are from the entrance outside the tower, and more than three floors are located between two regular octagonal walls. There are three or four arch culverts in the top space of octagonal melon skin in the center of the tower, and one side of the arch culvert is provided with a stone entrance and exit. There are arch niches on the tower surface without arch culvert, and 1 to 5 small niches are symmetrically arranged on both sides of each arch culvert or niche. There are more than 600 brick-carved Buddha statues in the niche, and there are seams behind the niche leading to the cloister in the tower and the Buddha statue on the top of the empty hall, which makes the Buddha lamp always bright and unique. There is a cylindrical cloister with a width of about 3 meters at the bottom of the tower, and there are columnless cloisters on more than two floors, distributed at the eaves, tied with bronze bells, and Sanskrit sounds constantly. The top of the tower is an octagonal sumitomo, which is connected with a bowl cover, a photograph wheel, a vase, etc. And are connected by copper shafts to form a tower brake. From the phase transition to the flying angle, there are eight iron cables connected in an umbrella shape. Zhenfeng Tower is not only the pearl of Yingjiang Temple, but also the proud model of Anqing architecture. "Tower shadow crossing the river" is one of the eight scenic spots in Anqing, and there is a saying that "Don't talk about towers after Anqing". True Light Pagoda is listed as a key cultural relic protection unit by Anhui provincial government.
1In August, 1994, Master Feng Wan, director of Anqing Buddhist Association and abbot of Yingjiang Temple, aged 8/kloc-0, donated 6,000 yuan to the Hope Project in Qianshan County. In the second year, donate again.
1996 During the Spring Festival, Master Feng Wan donated another 5,000 yuan to Anqing Social Welfare Institute. The Buddhist Association of Anqing City and more than 200 Buddhists from eight counties and three districts in Anqing area, under the auspices of abbot Feng Wan of Yingjiang Temple, held a grand ceremony in Yingjiang Temple from August 6 to August 20, 1995 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the victory of the world anti-fascist war and the people of China, to pray for the martyrs who died in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the world anti-fascist war, and to wish the world permanent peace.
Islam: Mosque
The mosque is located at the south gate (No.7 Mosque Street). It was built in Ming Xianzong Chenghua for six years (1465). At that time, the area was small and it was named "Muslim Hall". Xianfeng was defeated by soldiers in the 11th year (186 1 year). In the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870), the Hui people raised funds to rebuild and expand the original site and renamed it "Mosque". There are about 50 or 60 inscriptions, plaques and couplets in Chinese and Arabic. There are also bronze ding, calligraphy and painting hexagonal palace lanterns, all of which were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. 198 1, Anqing Municipal People's Government allocated funds to rebuild the main hall. The mosque covers an area of 1.829 m2, and the building area is 1.09 1.2 m2. There are two groups of buildings in the temple. One group is the main hall, hall and living room of worship. The main buildings, such as the Treasure Hall, are 25 meters long and 23 meters wide, with an area of 575 square meters and a height of about 20 meters. It is a palace-style brick-wood structure with 56 wooden pillars, which are resplendent and magnificent for Hui people to study, perform ceremonies, attend classes and make pilgrimages to Islam. The other group is Imam House, Confucian Classics School, Bathroom and Yangzhengtang, with a total area of 327.86 square meters. The whole building is unique, grand and solemn. In addition, there are partition walls, lighting walls, doors, hanging doors and so on. Around the temple, the layout is exquisite and the style is completely different from other Buddhist temples. The temple is a famous Islamic mosque in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Titlig] title = titlig style = right src = 58c3ab7f28a35d531add1ee titlig (former residence of Zhao Puchu), located in Tiantaili Street, Yingjiang District, Anqing City. Because Zhao, Zhao Tuan, Zhao Jiyuan and Zhao Zengzhong are four generations of Hanlin in the Zhao family, they are called "Taishi Emperor" and "four generations of Hanlin Family". In the thirty-third year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1907), Mr. Zhao Puchu, former vice chairman of the 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, honorary chairman of the Central Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party and president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, was born here. The former residence covers an area of 4,463 square meters with a building area of 2,773 square meters. Granite paving square, unique Zhao Gujing. The building complex faces south, and the external walls are blue bricks and clear walls, which are simple and elegant. The horse head wall is undulating and knotted. The main building is a brick-wood structure with a rectangular plane, 42 meters long from east to west and 84 meters wide from north to south. It is divided into four entrances of East Road, three entrances of West Road and seven entrances of * *. Except for the three bays in the west, the rest are all five bays, all of which are about 20 meters wide. The two central axes are regularly arranged along the north-south direction, and each entrance is connected by a wing or corridor. East enters, east enters, east enters, east enters, east enters, and there is a patio between west enters and west enters, which plays the role of lighting and receiving water from all sides. The back garden of the ancient building complex is 982 square meters in the northwest, and there is a 32-meter-long stele gallery on the west side of the garden, which is inlaid with the inscription of Mr. Zhao Puchu's calligraphy work 1 1. The style of Shitai Dike (the former residence of Zhao Puchu) combines the grandeur and roughness of ancient buildings in the north with the exquisiteness and delicacy of ancient buildings in Huizhou. It has strong local characteristics and historical, scientific and artistic values, and is also a well-preserved and large-scale ancient architectural complex of Ming and Qing Dynasties in our province.
Taoism: Basically not.