The planning sketch shows in turn that there are three mountain gate halls, with a width of 13m and a depth of 8m, with a discharge pond on each side. Behind the Bell Tower and Drum Tower, there are five bays of Guan Yue Hall (lower hall), with a width of 2 1.5 m and a depth of 10 m, with Qinglong Pavilion on the left and Baihu Pavilion on the right. Wei Tuo Hall and Chelan Hall, with slightly less rules, were built on the back side, and the Thousand-Buddha Pagoda stood on the left side of the lower hall. Walking 30 meters down the aisle is the main hall-Daxiong Hall, with five rooms wide, three rooms in the middle 15 meters wide and two rooms on the side 8 meters wide. The front and rear corridors are paved with blue bricks, carved beams and painted buildings, and hollowed out flower ridges. The center is dedicated to the Buddha, with eighteen arhats on both sides. According to Wu and Li Jiatai's recollection, the height of Buddha Gold is nearly 10 m, and the diameter of stele is 1 m.. On both sides of the temple, there are Long Ting, Tomi Hall, 500 Luohan Hall and various squatters, living rooms and fasting halls. On the right front is the ancient arhat pine tree. Walking through the flower garden and climbing the steps 1 m high, there are a row of three halls, followed by Manjusri Hall, Guanyin Hall and Pu Xian Hall from north to south. On both sides of the three main halls are Zen room, Lao room, Gongde building, medicine garden and kitchen. Then set foot on the steps of 1 meter high, which is a spacious courtyard with an ancestral hall (upper hall) in the middle, which is equivalent to the regulations of the lower hall and dedicated to the memorial tablets of the great monks of past dynasties. On the left are the abbot's room, abbot's room and lay building, and on the right are Xianjue Hall and Liao Fang. Finally, through the backyard paddock, it is the sitting convex mountain under Qinshan and Leifeng. Jungles and ponds are mostly places where monks meditate and do their homework. Several buildings stand out. Eighteen pagodas stand at the highest point about 400 meters away from the mountain gate on the central axis. From the east side down, there are old monk tombs, grave-sweeping pavilions, biochemical stoves, Leigong pavilions and so on. Are hidden in the scenic forest composed of hundreds of acres of towering ancient and famous trees.
However, all this was completely destroyed at the end of 1969! Of course, the decline of Qinshan Temple began with the "temple-oriented" movement that lasted from the late Qing Dynasty to the whole Republic of China. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Eight-Nation Alliance and other domestic and foreign troubles followed. The Qing empire was restless, its national strength declined, and people with lofty ideals rose up against each other, and western learning spread to the east. The foundation of Buddhism, which has prevailed in China for thousands of years, began to shake, and the most influential one was "temple production promoting learning". Under the call of saving the country through education, new schools have mushroomed in temples of all sizes. The hustle and bustle of the school virtually restricts and occupies the space of Buddhist activities in temples. Qinshan Temple keeps pace with the times and promotes learning without ambiguity. Qinshan Temple New School was established in the spring of 1899, and enrolled more than 30 students in Lizhou, Anfu (Linli), Shimen and Anxiang counties for the first time. A few years later, modern celebrities such as Lin Xiumei, the father of the Revolution of 1911, Lin, the leader of New China, and Nie Tanggu, the first person of China Chemical Industry, emerged here.
According to several elderly people who were born in the middle and late period of the people's Republic of China (before moving to Taiwan), although they have been running schools, the temple has not suffered too much, and the Shanmen Temple has been seriously renovated for about 30 years. Mr. Liu Shanchu, an important official of the Central Committee who returned to his hometown when the government of the Republic of China moved south from Nanjing, took the opportunity to resign and retire from Lin Quan because of his old age, physical weakness and boredom with political affairs. The old gentleman personally wrote the four characters "Qinshan Zen Forest", and the abbot invited senior craftsmen to sketch with five-color broken porcelain pieces. The rising sun, reflecting the mountain gate, is colorful, like the Buddha's light shining and the Buddha's son coming. There is a hollow straight wooden fish with a length of more than two meters and a diameter of 0.5 meters hanging by the mountain gate (wooden fish was long or straight before the Tang Dynasty or the Five Dynasties, used to knock on the door to announce dawn and alarm. After the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, it evolved into tuanyu, which was used for chanting. Knock with a lotus pestle, and the sound travels far. This is used to summon agricultural workers and monks who work for miles around to rest and eat. It is said that it was hung on Muyu Mountain a long time ago, which is the origin of Muyu Mountain's name. There is also a temple treasure in the town. The abbot is generally mysterious, and monks and nuns are called "Nine Fire Copper Bodhisattvas", weighing 100 kilograms. "Jiuhuo" refers to high-purity refined copper that has been smelted many times. Exquisite carving, I don't know which dynasty or generation it is. In addition, the books of "human desire" and "contentment" on both sides of the central gate of the back hall also left a deep impression on several old people. This is the motto of Buddhism and the ancestral motto of China people. When people are distracted by material desires, it is undoubtedly a good medicine to warn the world and detoxify.
In the time series of 1952, Qinshan Temple began the countdown to the end of its life: first, it was "beating the mud fetus" and "beating the bodhisattva", breaking superstition and emancipating the mind. It is said that the local distance at that time also led to many "mental accidents", and the spiritual sustenance for thousands of years was once shattered. No wonder either "the master's grandmother is possessed by evil spirits" or "the western mother-in-law is haunted by ghosts", but it can only be said in private. The bodhisattva left and the monk drove away, leaving only three helpless monks from other places. The temple was empty. Shanmen Temple has naturally become the office space of advanced society, and the lower hall, middle hall and back hall have all been transformed into squeezing workshops and warehouses. Yang Guisheng, who lived this life as a child, described the scene he saw as a child: "When I saw it, there was only one entrance, which was quite spacious. It has become Youfang Village, with great momentum, big houses, big oil mills, Dagunguo Scenic Resort, big woks, fires, great strength and great sensory impact. "
1957, China, eager to get rid of poverty and work hard, began to overheat its economy, followed by the people's commune and the Great Leap Forward movement, which wasted people's money. "One day" should be "equal to 20 years" and "surpass Britain and catch up with the United States". How can we achieve such a high-profile leap-forward development without eating our ancestors' food, losing our ancestors' family property and robbing Peter to pay Paul? 1965-1The late 1950s was the peak period for young people to go to school after the war, so it was inevitable to tear down temples and repair schools. Some favorite leading comrades also hitchhiked to tear down the temple and repair the yamen. Needless to say, many of our complacent "leap-forward development", "extraordinary development" and "sense of superiority" are at the expense of ruining our ancestors, confusing the people or completely ignoring the well-being of future generations.
According to Mr. Xiong Shuming, the fourth group of Qinshan Temple, Lin, then vice chairman of the Central People's Government (whose grandmother's home is near the temple), returned to his hometown in Linli on 1957, and sent a secretary to Qinshan Temple to preach the central government's document on the protection of historical sites. He also stayed at his house for two nights. However, the general trend does not help.
/kloc-demolished the temple in 0/957, transported bricks and materials to Qiaojiahe, six kilometers away, and built Liucheng District Office (1980 abolished the district-level organizational system at the end of the year); 1958, the 400-meter-long paddock and west guest room in Shangsi Temple were demolished, and people moved by boat, entered the Lijiang River via Lishui, and landed at Luofengpo, Chengguan. Now about 60 years old, people who study in Lixian No.1 Complete Primary School have participated in carrying bricks and tiles unloaded from ships many times. * * * built a small classroom with four big tile houses, which were gradually demolished after190' s and replaced by reinforced concrete buildings. The magnificent Hall of Heroes was 1969 when it was demolished. At that time, he was eager to build Qiaojiahe Party School, and in 1970, the surplus materials were used to build Qiaojiahe Cadre School (also known as cowshed). According to eyewitness village cadres Li Jiatai and Xiong Shuming, after the villagers learned the news, they encouraged Li Jiatai, secretary of the Party branch, to stop it, while Liu Shuming and Liu Lianhao went to the county to find Li, deputy secretary of the county party Committee, and Chen Theory, the principal of the cadre school responsible for demolition. Of course, it didn't work. The nave and the remaining buildings were all swept away, including pillars, step stones, monk's tomb towers and monuments, or transported to the county to repair the streets. A rural forest farm took advantage of the fire to rob a batch of materials to repair fields. The author once thought: If we put it now, the villagers would dare to gather together to "stop work". Of course, who is stupid enough to tear down an old house in a remote mountainous area now? But not necessarily, as long as it is conducive to career or personal wealth, he will do the same stupid thing. 10 years later, Master Zong Zhi of Qinshan Temple lived in Japan. 1983 and 84 years later, monks paid a visit to Qinshan Temple. The master was alone in the lonely arhat pine tree, "no temple to worship the ancestors" and "no respect for worshipping Buddha", so he had to return home with tears. Oh, how sad! How painful! According to Wu, director of the County Bureau of Religious Affairs, not long ago, two Xinhua News Agency reporters were blocked from interviewing Qinshan Temple and were removed from the provincial key restoration and protection list for fear that the status quo would be exposed.
Mr. Ji Xianlin, a master of Chinese studies, wrote in the Academic Grand Ceremony of China in the 20th Century: The preface says: "The Japanese have successfully integrated western culture with their own traditional culture, including religious beliefs and customs, ethics and so on. New learning, not losing the old, and achieving a high degree of harmony. " The successors of the proletarian cause of our generation once thought that it was a happy and heroic thing to smash the old world. History has proved that it is only self-deception, and it is ourselves and our descendants who are hurt. The world has been saved by generations of ancestors, not only our generation, but also our children and grandchildren. We have no reason to judge that our ancestors left only the old culture and the old world, so we must completely crush it! Recently, some scholars pointed out: "The growth of human beings needs rich and diverse cultural soil. Practice has proved that no matter how smart people are, they cannot provide a unified and healthy cultural soil for the broad masses of the people. " (No.1 2006) The "old world" and "old culture" were destroyed by us. Decades have passed, and the "new world" and "new culture" have not yet been seen. Brothers and sisters, we not only have no face to see our ancestors buried in the ground, but also have no face to see our descendants!
It is also deplorable that Qinshan Temple survived a well in the Tang Dynasty. Five meters southwest of the well, there used to be a big camphor tree. I don't know how old this tree is, but its diameter is only two meters, its height is twenty meters, and its crown covers more than mu. According to the estimation of forestry experts, it should take no less than 500 years to grow such a big tree. According to the 20-year-old generation, 500 years can be traced back to the 25th generation, but it is the neighbor and friend of our old ancestors under a blue sky. 1957, this "grandpa" was ruthlessly cut for immediate benefit, which was too thick. After making it smaller, it was used as a wood press to extract oil. His old man still lives in a small dark publishing house on Muyu Mountain. Some people say that it is difficult to preserve ancient trees in areas with poor culture; Cultural prosperity, economic development and regional prosperity will naturally arouse people's awareness of living in harmony with animals and plants, and will naturally arouse people's feelings and protection behaviors for ancient trees. After an ancient camphor tree was cut down in the north back of Kannonji, someone dug up its stump and hired sixteen strong laborers to carry it away. There is also a large area of scenic forest composed of ancient and famous trees on the left mountain. It takes time to cut down a tree every year without leaving any land. It is transported abroad to be burnt into charcoal for large-scale steelmaking by foreign institutions or units, or sent to Matoushan in Daohe Township to build a soil fire road. The 2.5-kilometer-long "railway" sleepers are all ancient and famous trees in Qinshan Temple.