Fengguo Temple is located in Yixian City, Liaoning Province. Built in the ninth year of Kaitai in Liao Dynasty (AD 1020), there are seven giant buddhas in the temple, also known as the Big Buddha Temple. Fengguo Temple is a magnificent and well-preserved ancient temple, covering an area of 30,000 square meters. It consists of ancient buildings such as the mountain gate, the memorial archway, the boundless hall, the bell tower, the tablet pavilion, the Daxiong Hall and the Xigong Temple. Located at the northern end of the central axis, Daxiong Hall is 9 rooms wide, 55 meters long, 5 rooms deep, 33 meters wide and 24 meters high, with a building area of 1.800 square meters. It is not only the largest wooden structure of Liao Dynasty in China, but also the largest hall in China.
2. Yizhou Fossil Museum
Yixian Yizhou Fossil Museum, a national AAA scenic spot, was founded in 1994. It is the first museum of paleontology fossils in Liaoning Province, and it is also a museum full of mystery. It consists of five parts: dinosaur exhibition hall, animal exhibition hall, plant exhibition hall, popular science film and television hall and painting and calligraphy exhibition hall. At present, the dinosaur exhibition hall displays the largest preserved dinosaur fossils in Liaoning Province, such as the first-line dragon and the cervical vertebra of sauropods.
3. Wanfo Hall Grottoes
Wanfo Hall Grottoes is located on the cliff on the north bank of South Daling River in Wanfo Hall Village, 9 kilometers northwest of Yixian County, Liaoning Province. Grottoes dug in the Northern Wei Dynasty are the earliest and largest grottoes in Northeast China. It is divided into east and west areas, 9 holes in the west area and 7 holes in the east area. The nine caves in the western area are divided into two floors, three in the upper floor and six in the lower floor. Among them, the fifth cave is engraved with the inscriptions on the cave-making of General Pingdong and General Yingzhou who assassinated jing yuan in the 23rd year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (499). The inscription is about 65,438+0 meters wide. It is engraved with the Hanazono Sakura Buddha, and there is a niche lintel in the shape of a house on a thousand Buddha statues. The inscription is beautifully written, and Kang Youwei, a famous scholar in the late Qing Dynasty and a scholar of the Reform Movement, praised it as "the crown of the Yuan and Wei Dynasties".