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Baofan Temple is located in Baofan Village, Baofan Town, Pengxi County. Go along Chengnan Expressway to Pengxi entrance, walk five kilometers along a cement township road, pass through Huilongchang ancient town, and pass through the hometown of twenty-four filial piety Mengzong. You can see the dense ancient temples, which are located among the mountains and the trees are staggered. This is Baofan Temple, and the fairy painting is here. The scenery here is the highest, and its geography is like a lotus. According to the Ming monument "the building of Baofan Temple":
Baofan Temple, formerly known as Luohanyuan, was built from the Northern Song Dynasty to the first year of Pingyi (1064) and belongs to the pure land Sect of Zen. The present temple in Song Yingzong is called Zhao Shu Seal, which means the Buddha's saint and Brahma's treasure, and was later destroyed by the war. During the period from the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty to Chenghua Xu Bing (1466), only two monks, Zhou Hai and Qingcheng, accepted merits and led their disciples to build temples on the basis of the original Luohan Academy and revive Buddhism. Except for Lou Jing, Kongoji and Buddha statue, other buildings are well preserved up to now, covering an area of nearly 3,000 square meters, and the designated protection scope is14,000 square meters. The three-character gold-plated tablet of Baofan Temple in Shanmen was inscribed by Mr. Sha Menghai, a contemporary calligraphy master, and the tablet of Fairy Tales in the Garden was inscribed by Tan, a contemporary painter. Dozens of plaques and couplets left in the temple are mostly written by famous calligraphers in the hometown of calligraphy.
Murals and architecture
The building of Baofan Temple is in a three-way compound quadrangle layout. Among the existing buildings, except the cloisters on both sides were rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, the Heavenly King Hall, Ursa Major Hall and Guanyin Hall on the central axis are all typical buildings in the Ming Dynasty, especially the Ursa Major Hall, which was built in the first year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty (1450), with exquisite carving and solemn architectural appearance, and is a fine building in the Ming Dynasty.
This hall is made of wood, with a single eaves resting on the top of the mountain, three rooms and four rafters. The temple is square, with a length and width of 15.3 m and a height of 8.5 m. The arches under the eaves 18 are all 7 floors, with single copy and double descent. When going out, the arches are grated, the corners of the arches are tilted and the ends of the arches reach the rafters. Painted blue tiles on the roof, carved dragon ridges with bricks, carved swords, suzaku, Xuanwu, Qinglong and White Tiger. The four corners are iron horses flying dragonfly system. The construction of this temple has been appreciated by ancient architectural experts and scholars all over the world. After visiting here, National Cultural Heritage Administration ancient architecture experts believe that the Great Hall of the Baofan Temple is an alternative building in the Ming Dynasty, which is rare and precious in China.
The world-famous mural of Baofan Temple is painted in the Hall of Ursa Major. According to historical records, in the second year of Chenghua in Ming Dynasty (1466), monks Qingcheng, Yuan Jing, etc. The painter was asked to lay a picture on the mud wall of the Hall of the Great Hero 12, on which 24 Buddha statues were painted, with a total area of 104 square meters. According to the Buddhist scriptures translated by Tang Xuanzang, such as The Story that the Great Arhat Can't Tell Mydoro, the story of Arhat and the immortal * * * going to the Buddhist meeting is described, so the Buddhist paradise is also called the Arhat Map. There are only 10 left in the mural, and two of them are empty. One is the front, which was destroyed by later generations, and the other is the tail, which is said to have been abandoned by the immortal.
Bao Fan's murals dating back more than 530 years have all adopted techniques such as meticulous painting, gold leaching and powder squeezing. Although it is a Buddhist theme, based on the reality of the world, the figures of 103 are drawn vividly, either listening to the scriptures, threading the needle, or whispering in different modes. The integration of heaven and earth has a strong flavor of life and extraordinary artistic charm. Professor, a famous expert in Dunhuang studies and former president of Dunhuang Research Institute, called it a rare treasure of China painting art, and Tan, a famous painter and former president of Chongqing Painting Academy, praised it as the essence of Sichuan murals.
Among the existing 10 murals, the Tibetan Picture (also known as Lohan's Patching Picture) is the most exquisite. The figure is 3.60m high and 3. 18m wide. It was once included in The Complete Works of China Fine Arts. Our * * * has the honor 1 1. In the picture, the Tibetan Bodhisattva is giving a lecture, and the situation is superb. The left and right arhats seem to be laughing at themselves, thinking that tomorrow is the birthday of the Tathagata, and all the immortals and buddhas will gather in Dabao Leiyin Temple to listen to the dharma sound of the Buddha. Has Tibet forgotten this? But Lohan, a tiger, looks bored and plays with the tiger. The next Lohan, touch the needle with your right hand and protect it with your left hand. It seems that he has just finished mending a patch and is staring at the needle and biting the broken line. From the vivid modality and fine needle and thread, we can see that his painting skills are exquisite! In addition, the other nine shops, such as Shangfa Conference, Sacrifice to Lei Yin, Gongdharma, Zhunti Jieyin, Nantian Fairy, Long Mei Wennan, Luohan Jing Ling (I, II), and Gongde Perfect, are also original and interesting, which can be called fine products.
In addition to the murals in the Ursa Major Hall, there are four 25-square-meter Ming Dynasty murals "Ode to the Sky" shops in the Baofan Hall, which were moved from the nearby Ding Jing Temple and exhibited in the Guanyin Hall. This painting was painted in the second year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty (145 1), which was later than the mural in the Hall of the Great Hero (15). Although it is slightly inferior to the murals in the Hall of the Great Hero, it is also a precious cultural relic.
Mystery of immortal painting
There is no textual research on who made the mural of rice, but people used to call it immortal painting, which spread widely. There are three arguments that list its main points:
1. Painter Amin of tang style said that although Bao Fan's murals are works of Ming Dynasty, they are quite Tang Dynasty-style, and the painting style is particularly like Wu Daozi's exquisite clothes flying in the sky, and the walls are all magical strokes. Therefore, the folk rumor is that Bao Fan, a painter in the Tang Dynasty, painted immortals. Chongqing Museum once said in the "Investigation Report on the Murals in Baofan Temple" that the murals in Daiyuji are elegant, smooth in style and simple and elegant. The painted figures are vivid and smooth, which is quite similar to the brushwork of Wu Daozi, a famous painting master in the Tang Dynasty. They have high artistic attainments and are a rare and precious resource of Chinese painting art.
Second, the theory of immortal painting. According to legend, when the Baofan Temple was rebuilt, the elders in the temple invited an old man with a good face to paint. The old man loitered all day and refused to write letters. It wasn't until the day before the Buddha statue in the Hall of Ursa that he asked his elders for some brooms and mixed all kinds of pigments in a wooden bucket. In the dead of night, the old man sneaked into the hall, dipped in color and waved a broom, frantically wiping the wall. 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. After hearing the sound, the old man abandoned the broom and broke the wall and flew away. The wall broken by the legendary immortal old man still exists today, but in any case, it can never be repaired. The reason is still a mystery.
Third, the mural elves said. It is widely rumored in the local countryside that poultry, chickens, ducks and geese raised by villagers near Baofan Temple often disappear inexplicably after the production of Baofan mural. One day, the villagers suddenly found a little tiger (also called a big cat by the locals) killing chickens and ducks, so they called on their neighbors to rush there with sticks. The tiger went straight to the temple, and the villagers chased it into the temple, looking for it everywhere, but it was nowhere to be seen. Then they found the tiger on the mural, covered in sweat and with bloody chicken feathers on his mouth. It suddenly dawned on me that it was the tiger on the mural. And then it happens often. So, while the villagers were surprised, they nailed the tiger's eyes and cured the monster. So far, the villagers near Baofan Temple are still very happy to talk about this matter. Ze Zele said that the strange thing was vivid in my mind.
The fairy's wonderful skills are painted on the wall, and eternal painters are impossible to come. On 1956, Baofan Temple and its murals were announced as the first batch of provincial-level cultural relics protection units in Sichuan Province. In 2004, they were officially approved to declare national key cultural relics protection units.