The Taoist style of ancient temples is not inferior, which depends on the emphasis on culture and education and the cultivation of monks. Guo Zi Temple has always been related to a famous monk. Sun, the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem for the temple, "If the dream is floating, it is free." Shoupeng Wang, the champion, recited "The Buddha is full of incense, and the moon is high in the sea"; In modern times, Master Ying wrote an inscription for the temple "I can't tell others, but I will be kind to you". At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a famous monk, a master of diligence, came to Fuding to raise money. Living in Case Temple and giving lectures is the beginning of Guo Zi Temple. In the 13th year of the Republic of China, a school was opened in the temple to recruit children from Tongshan and other places, and Zhuangzi, a native of Taishun County, Zhejiang Province and a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, was hired. Local celebrities such as Weng Jiang, Liu Bijiang, Bai Lin and scholar Chang Xin have all taught. Master Hadith is committed to promoting education. 1992, the "Mindong Buddhist College" was opened in the temple. For more than ten years, he has sent a considerable number of monks to the national intermediate Buddhist colleges, making a unique contribution to the cultivation of Buddhist successors. 1998 The Buddhist Painting and Calligraphy Institute was established with the aim of "letting monks know about art and artists know about Buddhism". The works created by the academy have won many awards in national painting and calligraphy competitions and have been collected by experts at home and abroad. In 200 1 year, the Buddhist publication Sheng Hai was founded by Master Xian Zhi. In its unique way, it makes unfathomable Buddhism vivid, colloquial and easy to understand, and has won the favor of readers and Buddhist practitioners. It is listed as a collection by many Buddhist libraries in China. 1980, Guo Zi Temple was designated as one of the first key temples opened to the outside world by the provincial government, and then registered by the county people's government according to law, and was designated as a key cultural relics protection unit in the county. It has been rated as an advanced unit for many years and won the honor of "Advanced Greening Unit" in Ningde area. 1995, after Master Xian Zhi took over as the director, in order to develop the temple into a garden-style temple integrating pilgrimage, sightseeing and tourism, a national first-class garden design unit was specially hired to make detailed planning and design for long-term development. The stratum is dominated by palaces in Ming and Qing Dynasties and jungle buildings in Tang and Song Dynasties. The overall conception of garden-style temples in the south of the Yangtze River supplemented by garden buildings. Some projects such as the main mountain gate, the release pond, the Galapagos Hall, the teaching building, the living room, the tower courtyard and the bonsai garden have been completed. Especially since 1998, with the advocacy and funding of overseas Buddhist groups, the Buddhist culture and art cemetery "Lianfengshan Fushou Garden" built on the hillside at the corner of the temple has changed the face of the previous cemetery and incorporated various Buddhist culture and art towers and celebrity calligraphy inscriptions; The whole cemetery has rich Buddhist cultural and artistic characteristics combined with profound traditional culture, which has strong artistic appreciation value. There are also large stone carving buildings, pavilions, Taihu Rockery, white marble lotus pond and other supporting facilities in the cemetery. In order to repay the majority of believers, a small amount of Buddhist ashes at home and abroad are allocated, and the economic expenses of funeral for the majority of believers are donated to temple construction to support the development of social charity.
"Buddhism is in the world and never leaves the world." Carrying forward the fine tradition of Buddhism and embodying the spirit of the times, the monks in Guo Zi Temple are practicing Buddhism on earth with the five concepts of "literature, religion, Zen, purity and goodness", silently doing the cause of joining the WTO with the unique dedication of Buddhism, and making special contributions to the development of Buddhism and social peace and stability.