History of Ciyun Temple

Chen Congzhou, a professor at Tongji University in Shanghai, rewrote the door plaque for Ciyun Nunnery and wrote the door couplet "There are sounds in the tide, the pines listen to the rhyme, the mountains are endless, the water is boundless". In March 1985, it was approved by the County People's Government as a religious tourist attraction and cultural relic protection unit and opened to the outside world. On the west side of the back hall, there is a marble tablet inscribed on the tree, which is engraved with a poem from "Jiang Chengzi·Visiting Penglai Xiandao in Daishan Mountain" that Zhao Puchu, president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, filled out impromptu and handwritten when he inspected Ciyun Nunnery in October 1989. The words are: "The Buddha's land is spread over three thousand places, and he goes up to the Immortal Mountain to present gifts to the golden immortals. The body appears to be heavy, and the endless splendor appears. Zen refers to the heart and opens the pavilion. Looking at the sea, it is bluer than blue. An old man in the sutra room is alone and leisurely, visiting again and again, Show your kind face. Collecting the poems between the tides is still speechless, but remember that it is good to rest on the edge of the screen, use your eyes to smell, and observe with your ears." There is also a marble tablet in front of the nunnery, which is engraved with a poem composed and written by Jiang Dongshu, a famous calligrapher and expert in literature and history, after visiting Ciyun Nunnery in May 1990. The poem says: "There are many dangers in traveling through famous mountains, and it is difficult to compare with a thousand mountains." This mountain is a place of research; the perilous peaks are roaring and the waves are surging; the treasure hall has a phantom body hanging in the mirror; Lao Na has been sleepless for sixty years, and the immortal mushroom has been hidden in the mist for hundreds of thousands of years; even if there are few spiritual friends, the same is true of human affairs."