Tomorrow is the eighth day of April, which is the most lively temple fair in Wugu City. This Qingquan Temple, a well-preserved temple in southern Liaoning, is also a fa
Tomorrow is the eighth day of April, which is the most lively temple fair in Wugu City. This Qingquan Temple, a well-preserved temple in southern Liaoning, is also a famous scenic spot in this area.
There are many different versions of magical legends and stories in this ancient city and temple. When I was a child, I lived in another beautiful mountain village with a unique legend not too far from this ancient city. Therefore, our childhood, accompanied by these magical legends and beautiful scenery, thrived in the pure and simple nature.
Let's start with catching up with the temple fair when I was a child: The eighth day of the fourth lunar month is the exact day of the temple fair in Qingquan Temple, and the temple fair ceremony is complete and grand. The ancient city of Gu Wu was very lively that day: various religious activities were held in temples; The roadside three kilometers outside the city is full of tents, and merchants from far and near, local products, fruits and foods, and cold drinks and juices all come here to sell all kinds of goods. There are also various fun games brought by acrobatic performances of literary and art groups and game merchants, such as pull-ring, shooting, pitching and small trains. For our childhood, we are very happy to have these games. Maybe today's children don't understand these things, and they won't take pleasure in them, because they do. There are also relevant departments to publicize popular science, legal system and family planning knowledge. The township road at the foot of the mountain is crowded with all kinds of vehicles: 28 permanent bicycles, 26 medium-sized flying pigeon bicycles and 24 small bicycles for students; Honda motorcycle, Okada motorcycle; Cattle, horses and donkeys tied to roadside trees silently guard their cars, waiting for their owners to return; Agricultural tricycles, agricultural tractors, pickup trucks, etc. used by merchants to transport goods are arranged in an orderly manner ... blocking the originally spacious roads. The temple fair lasted for 5 days, and there was a sea of people inside and outside the city, which was very lively.
The rolling mountains here are called Weiba Mountain, and there is an ancient city around the mountains between the huge peaks called Kobushiro. There is an ancient temple in the ravine, which is Gu Wu Temple.
This ancient town, formerly known as Wei Ba Mountain City, was built in the Eastern Han Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,000 years. It was used to defend the city in northern Xinjiang at that time. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Koguryo, a northern minority, occupied Liaodong and expanded the mountain city of Wei Ba, initially forming a scale. Since then, all dynasties have stationed troops here, and Wei Ba Mountain City has become an important military fortress in the ancient north. The mountain city is built according to the situation, with deep valleys and inexhaustible springs. It's camped in the city, and it can attack when it enters and defend when it retreats. The mountain city is made of huge granite, which is tall and majestic. The original things and walls have fallen down, and now only the remains of the old site can be seen, and other places are still well preserved. There are Forbidden City, Dianjiangtai, dressing building, beacon tower, training ground and Yinmawan in the city, which is one of the important mountain cities separated from the Central Plains by northern minorities.
Millennium Temple, located in the mountain city of Wei Ba, is the above-mentioned Wugucheng Temple, whose predecessor was Qingquan Temple. Qingquan Temple was founded in the early Tang Dynasty. According to legend, Emperor Taizong stationed troops here during the Eastern Expedition, and relied on the water from the clear spring for the army and horses to drink. In order to repay the kindness of Buddha, King Tang attached great importance to this city, so he built this temple and named it "Qingquan". The inscription also records that "Tang Temple was rebuilt". As for the legend of the reconstruction of the ancient Wu, according to the inscription, the ancient Wu was born in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and married Wu Jundao. Husband and wife believe in Buddhism, come to this mountain city, miss mountains and rivers, and forget to return. After Wu Jundao's death, Gu Wu entered the temple as a nun to raise money to rebuild Qingquan Temple. After Gu Wu's death, she was buried on the north slope of the city (her grave can still be seen now). Bearing in mind the achievements of Guwu in rebuilding the ancient temple, later generations renamed Wei Ba Mountain City as Kobushiro and Qingquan Temple as Kobushiro Temple.
Wugu Town God Temple is surrounded by Wei Ba Mountain City, which is steep and steep, with dense trees and winding for more than ten miles. The temple is a provincial key cultural relic protection unit and the only one that was not completely destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. After Qingquan Temple was rebuilt by Guwu, according to inscriptions, it was overhauled twice in the 26th year of Qing Qianlong (A.D. 176 1) and in the 16th year of the Republic of China. After the overhaul in Qianlong period, it declined in Guangxu period. "Historical Relics of the Three Northeast Provinces" contains: "In the thirty-second year of Guangxu (1906) ..., the walls of the ancient temples in the city collapsed and piles of rubble piled up. There are broken monuments in the courtyard, half of which were erected by two generations of Tang Ming. Unfortunately, the handwriting is vague and can't be verified. There is a Maoan on each side, and there is an old monk in it, about eighty years old ... "In this way, it has to be repaired again. In the Republic of China 16, the front and rear halls were rebuilt and two auxiliary halls were added, namely, the middle hall, the second floor of the bell and drum, the skirt wall, the mountain gate, the security hall and the fire pool, which is the present scale. After the founding of New China, the government attached great importance to the protection of cultural relics and historic sites. Every year, it allocated funds for maintenance and repair, rebuilt five meditation rooms, rebuilt the gate and skirt wall, resurfaced the stone steps in the courtyard, and placed a pair of carved stone lions on both sides of the gate. At the gate of the city, the foreign affairs and tourism departments have newly built nine walking platforms, *** 135 granite steps, and a "Qingquan Pavilion" has been newly built in the spring well next to the temple. Qingquan Temple has experienced many vicissitudes, and has been built and repaired many times. Now the scale of the temple is more magnificent.
As for the name of this ancient temple, I have always been used to calling it Qingquan Temple. I always feel that Qingquan Temple is more historical and grounded than Gu Wu Temple.
Qingquan Temple is located in the valley on the mountainside southeast of the mountain city. From the steps of the east gate to the square in front of the temple, you can see the whole temple. The temple faces the east gate of the city and is built along the steep mountain. The surrounding skirt wall is made of granite and blue bricks. Climbing the 33rd stone steps, there is a snowflake stone screen surrounded by iron bars, engraved with more than 100 poems. Calligraphy is elegant, healthy and beautifully carved. Behind the snow screen is the main entrance of the temple. The lintel is engraved with three Chinese characters "one hole and one sky", and two bamboo doors are engraved with couplets of "Sun, Moon, Measuring Gankun". Entering the main entrance, you can climb the left and right stone steps to enter the temple. There is a bronze tripod with exquisite ears in the middle of the temple, with the bell tower on the left and the drum tower on the right. There are three stone tablets on both sides of the courtyard. The first two were built in the thirty-fifth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, and the rest were built in the Qing Dynasty, Tongzhi and the Republic of China. There are three halls in the whole temple. The front hall is the Hall of the Great Hero, which is the Buddha Hall of Sakyamuni, and the north hall is dedicated to statues of Guan Di, Fu You the Great, Zhou Cang and Guan Ping. Nanpeidian is the Hall of the King of Medicine, dedicated to the King of Medicine, the Dragon King and eight famous doctors. The middle-level South Hall is dedicated to Taishang Laojun, Confucius, Guan Gong, Yang Jian and Nezha. The North Hall is dedicated to the Jade Emperor, Emperor Zhenwu, Emperor Wenchang, Zuo Qinglong and Right White Tiger. The back floor is dedicated to 13 statues of Empress Xiao Yun, Empress Bixiao and Empress Xiao Qiong.
The front hall and the back hall are hard-mountain structures, and the middle hall is a double-eaves building. From the front hall to the back hall, after three stone steps, the cloisters are winding and criss-crossing, with colored plastic paintings and bright walls. There are many kinds of statues in the temple, which are lifelike. The murals in the temple depict fairy tales such as jewels, the sun, the moon, Longteng, Long Yun, a cave full of land, crossing the sea with eight immortals, and twenty-four filial piety.
In the southeast corner of Qingquan Temple, 250 meters away from the city wall, there is a "point platform". Now there is the former site of a triangular high platform, the former site of a dresser at the main entrance, and the site of the Forbidden City 350 meters away from the city wall in the north. "Ma Yin Bay" does not freeze in winter, does not dry up in summer, and the water gurgles.
I am a religious person. When I was a child, I often came to Qingquan Temple Temple Fair just to join in the fun. When I grow up, I will travel to Qingquan Temple just to enjoy historical sites.