The Great Hall of Heroes, the Tibetan Scripture Building, the Bell Tower and the inscription "a night-mooring near maple bridge" are all landmark buildings of Hanshan Temple.
There are 36 Hanshan poems and 16 arhats hanging on both sides of the hall. The two stone monks in the temple are Hanshan and Picked. Hanshan, also known as Hanshanzi, originally lived in Han Yan, Shifeng County (now Tiantai, Zhejiang Province) during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty. He is good at poetry articles and wrote more than 300 poems, which were later compiled into Hanshanzi Poems. Picked up, originally an orphan, was taken into Tiantai Mountain by Feng Gan as a monk, so he was named "Picked up" and became friends with Hanshan. Later generations compiled his poems into a book and attached them to Hanshanzi's Poems. This stone painting is a kind of freehand brushwork, which can depict the vivid expressions of the two of them smiling and clapping with only a few strokes, and has certain artistic value. There are six five-needled pines on both sides of the front yard of the Ursa Major Hall, which were planted in the temple on the afternoon of 1976 by friends of a friendly delegation from all walks of life in Ehime Prefecture, Japan (a delegation of 26 people headed by the governor of Ehime Prefecture). This tree grows in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, and is called "five-leaf pine" in Japan. It has been growing for five years. On the right side of the Ursa Major Hall hangs a bronze bell from zhina given by Japanese friends in the late Qing Dynasty. The clock face is engraved with an inscription describing the reason for casting the clock. This clock is made of two * * * pieces, one is hung in Tingshan Temple in Japan, and the other is sent to Hanshan Temple.
The Tibetan Classics Building is the original collection place of Chen Fang's Tibetan Classics. On the roof, there are sculptures of the Monkey King, Tang Priest, Pig Bajie and Sha Wujing in the Journey to the West. The inner wall of the first floor is embedded with the scriptures of King Kong Prajna Paramita (Zen). It is also embedded with calligraphy inscriptions by Dong Qichang and others. The bell tower is two-story octagonal. The stone tablet downstairs was erected during the reconstruction of Hanshan Temple. The inscription on the front of the monument was written by Cheng Dequan, and the name and amount of money of the fundraiser when Hanshan Temple was rebuilt were engraved on the back of the monument. Every year on New Year's Eve, Chinese and foreign tourists gather in Hanshan Temple to listen to the bell of 108 from the bell tower, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new in the melodious bell, and pray for peace. When a monk rings a bell, knocking 108 has two main meanings. First, there are 12 months, 24 solar terms and 72 days every year, which add up to 108. When the bell rings 65,438+008, it means the end of the year, which means saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. Second, according to Buddhist legends, mortals have 108 kinds of troubles a year. When the bell rings 108 times, all people's troubles can be eliminated.
In the stele gallery of Hanshan Temple, an ancient temple in the south of the Yangtze River, there is a stone tablet engraved with the famous sentence "a night-mooring near maple bridge" by Zhang Ji, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty: "On a frosty night, Jiang Feng sleeps after fishing. Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, passenger ships are ringing at midnight. " This poem tablet written by Yu Yue, a famous scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, has become a must of Hanshan Temple. According to legend, the poet Zhang Ji went to Chang 'an (now Xi 'an), the capital of the Tang Dynasty, to catch the exam. When he came back, he passed Hanshan Temple and stayed on a passenger ship near Qiao Feng for the night. He can't sleep at night, and he feels it when he hears the bells of Hanshan Temple. Night parking near Fengqiao is almost a household name in Japan. Japanese pupils teach and recite this poem as a text. Today, when I traveled to Suzhou that day, they all quickly saw an inscription on a poem.