Jingjue Temple is located 22 kilometers north-southeast of Yutian County, east of Manziying Village, Yangjiatao Township, at the intersection of Huanxiang River and Shaliu River. Covering an area of ??18,540 square meters. It belongs to the royal temple and is known as the "No. 1 Temple in Jingdong". Basic introduction Chinese name: Jingjue Temple Address: 22 kilometers north-southeast of Yutian County Area: 18,540 square meters Honor: The first temple in Jingdong Founded: Tang Dynasty Geographical location, "the first temple in Jingdong", historical style, geography Location Jingjue Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty and was named after the Buddhist Jingye Awakening Vacuum. From 1842 to 1855 AD, four large-scale reconstruction, expansion and repairs were carried out. The existing buildings are all Qing Dynasty buildings. In 2000 AD, national, provincial and municipal leaders were extremely concerned about Jingjue Temple and each donated huge sums of money. Hong Kong's Southeast Asia Wood Industry Corporation, as well as enterprises, institutions and individuals who cared about Jingjue Temple also donated money and materials. After more than a year of intense construction by Chengde Ancient Construction Company, an elegant and beautiful archway and screen wall were erected at the entrance of Jingjue Temple, and a square of more than 5,000 square meters was paved. Nowadays, this thousand-year-old temple has been washed away from its dilapidated appearance and has truly restored its original architectural style. It is presented to the world with a brand-new look and has been highly praised by Chinese and foreign architects, religious circles, historians, and aestheticians. . "The No. 1 Temple in Jingdong" Jingjue Temple is located in the east of Manziying Village in the southeast of Yutian County. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in Hebei Province and is known as the "No. 1 Temple in Jingdong". On May 25, 2006, Jingjue Temple, as an ancient building from the Qing Dynasty, was approved by the State Council to be included in the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units. Jingjue Temple is a national key cultural relic protection unit and a national AAA-level scenic spot. It is located in the east of Manziying Village, Yangjiatao Township, Yutian County. It covers an area of ??18,540 square meters and has a very advantageous geographical location. It is located in the hinterland of Beijing, Tianjin and Tang Dynasty, and in the west. It is 110 kilometers from Beijing, 35 kilometers from Tangshan City to the southeast, 140 kilometers from Tianjin to the southwest, and 10 kilometers from the Yahongqiao exit of the Beijing-Shenyang Expressway to the south. It is far away from the hustle and bustle of cities and towns, and is rich in field scenery that is rare for city dwellers. Looking to the north, the large and small hills of the remaining mountains of Yanshan Mountain can be vaguely distinguished, and the Huanxiang River flows slowly in front of the door. Whether it is the spring of March with pink willows and pink willows, or the nineteen-month cold winter with ice and snow, there is endless poetry and painting here. Jingjue Temple was first built in the Tang Dynasty and has been built through the Song, Jin, Liao, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Over the past thousands of years, it has experienced vicissitudes of time, but it still retains its spacious, open-minded, solemn and solemn style in front of today's people. . Someone said: "Jingjue Temple is a poem. It uses dignified and implicit language to state a philosophy that is both simple and mysterious, and tells a hope that is both wonderful and illusory. Jingjue Temple is a book, and its charm is not only It lies in its gorgeous and elegant decoration, and more importantly, its colorful, profound and profound connotation." Tangshan Jianlong Industrial Co., Ltd. Historical Style Jingjue Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty and rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty. It is a large-scale temple with rigorous layout. A group of ancient buildings with reasonable structure and unique style. The main building has three halls: gate hall, main hall and back hall; third floor: stele tower, bell tower and drum tower. The architectural art of Jingjue Temple combines the styles of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and combines the characteristics of the official and Yan dynasties. The dragon and phoenix totems on the Longmen Tower and Fengmen Tower on both sides of the main hall are rare among the people. The two dragon-plate stone pillars built in high relief in the front corridor of the palace are unique. The beams and pillars are gilded with powder and painted with Soviet-style paintings; the heads and rafters have portraits of human heads and comic strips with stories. The entire temple building has exquisite painting and murals, the stone carvings and sculptures are lifelike, and the calligraphy on the inscriptions is even more amazing. Jingjue Temple enjoys the reputation of "the first temple in Jingdong". Experts on ancient architecture commented that the scale is impressive, the craftsmanship is superb, and the style is unique. Jingjue Temple is a Buddhist temple, but it is different from other Buddhist temples. Its exquisite architectural structure and richly painted carvings are unforgettable and have high historical, artistic and scientific value. The main building has three halls: Gate Hall, Main Hall (Xiangfu Palace), and Back Hall (Main Hall); the third floor: Stele Tower, Bell Tower, and Drum Tower. In addition, there are East and West Wings, Dragon and Phoenix Gate Tower, East and West Wings, Zhiran Tombstone Pavilion and so on. The most eye-catching thing is the gate hall - "Beamless Hall", which can be said to be the first wonder of the ancient temple. The gate hall has a construction area of ??120 square meters and a height of 12 meters. It is made of masonry arches filled with cement mortar. It has no beams, no purlins and no columns.
Its inner and outer walls are made of polished bricks with seams that are thin and even, like white lines stretched hard. Its rafters, flights, arches, and arches are all carefully carved with blue bricks, and there are ninety inscriptions engraved between the raised mouths. There are six Buddha statues with different expressions. Except for doors and windows, there are no wooden products in the whole temple. It is an architectural masterpiece. Another wonder is the main hall (Xiangfu Palace), which is 20 meters high and has a construction area of ??200 square meters. The double eaves resting on the top of the mountain are completely exposed. This hall is a wooden structure without any nails or rivets. The "suspended beams and hanging columns" in it seem to be suspended but not suspended, and they are built using the principles of mechanics. Especially under the skylight, there are 36 wooden grids. Each wooden grid has painted scenery and clay figures, arranged into myths, legends or historical stories such as "Journey to the West". Baoxia is supported by 8 stone pillars, with 12 brackets protruding from the front eaves. The ends of the brackets are carved into the shapes of the 12 zodiac animals. The sparrow is inlaid with eight Buddhist treasures carved from mahogany: wheel, umbrella, umbrella, cover, flower, pot, fish, and long. The size of the apse is roughly the same as that of the main hall, and its architectural structure is unique and novel. The upper part is the Xieshan Mountain, and the lower part is the Hard Mountain Mountain. It has an obvious architectural style of the Ming Dynasty, which is also rare in ancient buildings. When you enter the hall, you can see that the beams and columns are suspended or sunk, and are well-proportioned, with appropriate light and shade. There is a corridor in front of the hall, with four thick stone pillars erected on the corridor. The two middle pillars are carved with lifelike coiled dragons, which is another architectural wonder of Jingjue Temple. The "third floor" of Jingjue Temple is also graceful and has its own characteristics, especially the stele tower standing behind the gate hall, which is elegant in shape, superb in craftsmanship and full of artistic charm. The stele tower is a typical railing-style building with a green glazed tile roof and six-story brackets with lifelike Buddha statues carved on the ends. The stele tower is divided into two floors. The upper floor is a pavilion, which was originally a Buddhist scriptures pavilion; the lower floor has four large stele and two Through the small stele, these stone stele not only provide valuable information for studying the history of Jingjue Temple, but also have precious artistic value, which often make tourists linger and praise them. What is particularly special is the "Inscription of the Continuation of the Jingjue Temple" written by Wang Jingde, a famous calligrapher from the Qing Dynasty, standing here. His large cursive calligraphy with flying dragons and phoenixes, unrolled and elegant, has won the applause of today's people. The inscription *** has fourteen "Zhi" characters. Each "Zhi" character is written in a different way, but each has its own charm. It is truly a masterpiece of calligraphy art. The Bell and Drum Towers are located at the southern end of the East and West side halls, with the bell in the east and the drum in the west. The two floors are both cross ridges, surrounded by hills. The hills are embedded with brick carvings of four dragons playing with pearls. It has Tibetan Buddhist architectural characteristics. The iron bell originally hung in the bell tower was cast in the eighth year of Daoguang's reign (1828). The copper bell cast in early 2009 is now hung, and the bells sound louder and more melodious. The big drum on the Drum Tower was made in 1993. At the connection between the side hall and the main hall, there is a small and exquisite gate tower on the east and west sides, with a dragon in the east and a phoenix in the west. The dragon is about to rise into the sky, and the phoenix seems to be flying away. What's even more amazing is that from the north, you can see the wood but not the stone, and from the south, you can see the stone but not the wood. It's really amazing. Jingjue Temple not only attracts thousands of tourists with its grand scale and novel structure, but its various sculptures are also dazzling and overwhelming. From the material point of view, there are stone carvings, wood carvings, and brick carvings; from the perspective of samples, there are relief carvings, openwork carvings, and solid carvings. Judging from the content, there are both palace-style flying dragons and dancing phoenixes, as well as folk sentiments of "bringing in wealth and treasures"; both solemn and majestic Buddhist idols, and interesting "monkeys poking hornet's nests". The appearance of the purlins, the four walls of the hall, the skirts of the doors and windows, and the ends of the brackets are all exquisitely painted and carved, and no one is missing. At the beginning of the new century, national, provincial and municipal leaders have shown great concern for Jingjue Temple and allocated special funds for its reconstruction. Southeast Asia Wood Industry Corporation and other enterprises and institutions that care about public welfare, as well as the general public, have also extended their support. With enthusiastic hands, we donated money and materials for the reconstruction of Jingjue Temple. *** The Yutian County Party Committee, Yutian County People’s Government and relevant departments hired ancient architecture experts from the Hebei Provincial Cultural Relics Administration Bureau as the project technical director to rebuild Jingjue Temple. After more than a year of intensive construction, not only were the problems of defects, decay, and water leakage at the top of the main building components resolved, but the oil decorations were also repainted. At the same time, an antique archway and screen wall were built at the gate, adding luster to Jingjue Temple. A square with an area of ??5,000 square meters has been built between the archway and the screen wall. A garden and pavilion have been built in the backyard. Some of the walking trails have been hardened and the green area has been increased, which greatly facilitates tourists traveling from north to south. The Buddha statues in the hall are basically complete and all service facilities are improving. In order to speed up the tourism development of Jingjue Temple and improve the amateur cultural living standards of the general public, the Spring Festival Temple Fair is held every year from the 15th to the 20th of the first lunar month, attracting a large number of pilgrims, rich and colorful folk cultural activities, and folk culture being displayed. Tourism products are further developed.
Nowadays, this thousand-year-old temple attracts tourists from all over the world with its ancient majesty and magic. It is dazzling like a bright pearl, presented to the world with a new look, and has become a new tourist attraction in Jingdong area.