description of baofan temple attractions:
baofan temple is located in baofan village, baofan town, Pengxi county. Along Chengnan Expressway to Pengxi entrance, take a seven-turn and eight-turn walk along a cement township road for five kilometers, pass through Huilongchang, an ancient town, and pass through the hometown of Meng Zong, the twenty-fourth filial piety. You can see a dense ancient temple, which is located between mountains and mountains and staggered trees. This is the Baofan Temple, where the fairy paintings are located. The scenery here is the highest, and its geography is like a lotus flower. According to the Ming monument "The Building of Baofan Temple", it is said:
baofan temple, formerly known as Luohan temple, was founded in the first year of zhiping in the northern song dynasty (164) and belongs to Zen Buddhism and pure land school. The present temple is called Zhaoshu Seal in Song Yingzong, which means the sage of Buddha and the treasure of Brahma, and was later destroyed by the war. During the period from Ding Sinian of the Ming Dynasty to Bingxu of Chenghua (1466), only two monks, Hai Zhou and Qing Cheng, accepted the merits, and successively led their disciples to build temples on the basis of the original Luohan Academy to revive Buddhism. Except for the Jinglou, Jingang Temple and Buddha statue, the other buildings have been well preserved, covering nearly 3, square meters, and the designated protection area is 14, square meters. Bao Fan Temple, a three-character gold-plated tablet at Shanmen, was written by Mr. Sha Menghai, a contemporary calligraphy master, and the tablet of Fairy Trace in the Painting Garden was inscribed by Tan Jiancheng, a contemporary painter. The remaining dozens of plaques and couplets in the temple are mostly written by famous calligraphers in the hometown of calligraphy.
murals and buildings
the building of baofan temple is in the layout of three-in-one courtyard. Among the existing buildings, except that the corridors on both sides were rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, the Heavenly King Hall, Daxiong Hall and Guanyin Hall on the central axis are all typical buildings of the Ming Dynasty, especially the Daxiong Hall, which was rebuilt in the first year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty (145), is exquisitely carved and has a solemn and quiet architectural appearance, which can be called a good architectural structure of the Ming Dynasty.
this hall is a wooden structure with one eaves resting on the top of the mountain, three rooms and four rafters carrying beams. The temple is square, with a length and width of 15.3 meters and a height of 8.5 meters. There are 18 bucket arches under the eaves, all of which are made of 7 storeys, single copy and double overhangs, and the overhangs are made into grate teeth, and the horns are raised, and the overhangs reach the rafters. The roof is painted with blue tiles, carved with brick dragon ridges, and sculpted with swords, rosefinch, Xuanwu, Qinglong and white tiger. The four corners are all iron horses of the flying dragonfly system. The building of this temple has always been appreciated by experts and scholars in ancient architecture all over the world. After visiting here, experts in ancient architecture in National Cultural Heritage Administration think that the Daxiong Hall of Baofan Temple is an alternative building in the Ming Dynasty, which is rare in China and very precious.
The murals of Baofan Temple, which are well-known at home and abroad, are painted in the Hall of Daxiong. According to historical records, in the second year of Ming Chenghua (1466), monks Qing Cheng, Jing Yuan, etc. invited painters to shop 12 mud wall paintings of Daxiong Hall, on which 24 statues of Buddha were painted, called "Western Mirror", with a total area of 14 square meters. Based on Tang Xuanzang's translation of "The Story of the Great Arhat's Difficult to Mention Mydoro's Statement" and other Buddhist scriptures, it describes the story of Arhats and all the immortals who went to the Buddhist Association, so "Westland" is also called "Arhat Map". There are only 1 murals left, and there are two vacant ones. One is the frontage, which was damaged by later generations, and the other is the tail, which was abandoned by immortals in legend.
baofan murals, which have been around for more than 53 years, all adopt techniques such as meticulous painting and heavy color, draining gold and squeezing powder. Although it is a Buddhist theme, it is based on the reality of the world, drawing 13 portraits, or listening to the scriptures, or threading the needle, or whispering each modality, which is vivid. Heaven and earth, integrated into one, have a strong flavor of life and extraordinary artistic charm. Professor Duan Wenjie, a famous expert in Dunhuang studies and former president of Dunhuang Research Institute, called it a rare treasure of Chinese painting art, and Tan Xuekai, a famous painter and former president of Chongqing Painting Academy, praised it as the essence of Sichuan murals.
among the 1 existing murals, Dizang Illustration (also known as Lohan Mending) is the most exquisite. The picture is 3.6 meters high and 3.18 meters wide. It was once included in The Complete Works of China Fine Arts. There are 11 statues of * * * in this shop. In the picture, the Tibetan Bodhisattva is holding a relic orb and giving a lecture. The situation is superb and beyond the image. The left and right arhats seem to be laughing to themselves, thinking that tomorrow will be the birthday of the Tathagata, and all the immortals and buddhas will gather in Dabao Leiyin Temple to listen to the Buddha's dharma voice. Has Tibet forgotten this? But Lohan, who is a tiger, looks bored and plays with the tiger. Lohan, who came next, touched the needle with his right hand and protected it with his left hand. It seemed that he had just finished mending a patch, and he was staring at the needle and biting off the thread. From the vivid modality and the fine needle and thread, it can be seen that his painting skills are exquisite! In addition, the other nine shops, such as Going to the Fa Conference, Sacrifice to Lei Yin, Tribute to Dharma, Zhun Ti Jie Yin, Nan Tian Xian Zi, Long Mei Wen Nan, Lohan Ling Jing (I and II) and Merit Perfection, are also ingenious and interesting, which can be called fine works.
in addition to the murals in daxiong temple, baofan temple also has four 25-square-meter shops of Ming dynasty mural "tribute to the heavens" moved from nearby dingjing temple, which are displayed in Guanyin hall. This painting was painted in the second year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty (1451), which was 15 years later than the mural in Daxiong Hall. Although it is slightly inferior to the mural in Daxiong Hall, it is also a precious cultural relic.
Mystery of Fairy Painting
There is no test as to who made the mural of Bao Fan, but people are used to calling it Fairy Painting, and it is widely spread. There are three arguments to list its main points:
First, tang style, a Ming Dynasty painter, said that although the mural of Bao Fan was a work of Ming Dynasty, it was quite Tang Dynasty style, and its style was especially like that of Wu Daozi, which was full of exquisite brushwork, so it was popular. The Chongqing Museum once said in the Report on the Investigation of the Murals in Baofan Temple that the murals in Daxiong Temple are lightly painted, with smooth style and quaint and simple style. The painted figures are vivid and vivid, with lines, which are quite similar to the brushwork of Wu Daozi, a famous painting master in the Tang Dynasty. They have high artistic attainments and are rare and valuable resources for the painting art of the motherland.
secondly, the immortal painting theory. According to legend, when the Baofan Temple was rebuilt, the elders in the temple invited an old man with a beautiful face to paint. The old man wandered around all day and refused to write. It was not until the day before the Buddha statue in Daxiong Hall opened that he asked the elders for some brooms and mixed all kinds of pigments in a wooden bucket. When the night was still, the old man sneaked into the hall, dipped in color and waved his broom, and wiped the walls wildly. A curious young monk went to peep, but when he saw the broom passing by, the statue was vivid, colorful and resplendent, and he couldn't help cheering loudly. When the old man heard the sound, he abandoned the broom and broke the wall and flew away. The wall broken by the legendary immortal old man still exists today, but no matter what, it can never be restored. The reason is still a mystery.
thirdly, the mural genie said. It is widely rumored in the local countryside that poultry, chickens, ducks and geese raised by villagers near Baofan Temple have often disappeared inexplicably since the mural of Baofan was made. One day, the villagers suddenly found a little tiger (also known as a big cat by the locals) culling chickens and ducks, and called on the neighbors to pick up sticks and chase them away. The little tiger went straight to the temple, and the villagers chased it into the temple, searched everywhere, but it was nowhere to be seen. Then they found the tiger on the mural, sweating all over, and blood-stained chicken feathers stuck to his mouth. Only then did they suddenly realize that it was the tiger on the mural. After that, it often happens again. So, while the villagers were surprised, they nailed the tiger's eyes with nails before they cured the monster. So far, the villagers near Baofan Temple have talked about this matter, and they are still very happy. Ze Ze Le said that the strange thing was vivid.
the immortal's wonderful skills are painted on the wall, and the immortal can't come skillfully. Baofan Temple and murals were announced as the first batch of provincial-level cultural relics protection units in Sichuan Province in 1956, and were officially approved to declare national key cultural relics protection units in 24.