The poem "There are four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasty, and how many towers are in the mist and rain". The Southern Dynasty is today's Nanjing City.
After the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the four dynasties of Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen that established their capital in Jiankang (now Nanjing) were collectively called the Southern Dynasties. The emperors and big bureaucrats of the Southern Dynasties loved Buddhism and built large Buddhist temples in the capital (now Nanjing). According to "Southern History·Xunli·Guo Zushen Biography": "There are more than 500 Buddhist temples in the capital" (there are more than 500 Buddhist temples in Kyoto). The four hundred and eighty temples mentioned here are approximate figures.
Original poem:
"Jiangnan Spring" Tang Dynasty: Du Mu
Thousands of miles away, the orioles sing green and reflect red, and the wind of wine flags and wine flags in the mountains and rivers of water villages. ?
In the 480 temples of the Southern Dynasty, many towers were in the mist.
Interpretation:
The vast south of the Yangtze River is full of orioles, dancing swallows, green trees and red flowers, and wine flags are flying everywhere in the villages near the water and in the city walls at the foot of the mountains. Many of the more than 480 ancient temples left over from the Southern Dynasties are now shrouded in mist.
Extended information:
In 229, Emperor Wu Sun Quan established his capital in Moling and changed its name to Jianye. The rise of Nanjing since then has enabled China's political center to step out of the Yellow River cultural plate and lead the development of the Yangtze River Basin and the entire southern China. Since then, the Song, Qi, Liang and Chen Dynasties of the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties have successively established their capitals here, so Nanjing is known as the "ancient capital of the Six Dynasties". Today, the ruins of Jiankang City are preserved under the Nanjing Library and the Six Dynasties Museum.
Jiankang City during the Six Dynasties was the largest city in the world at that time, with a population of one million. It was the first city in the world with a population of more than one million. The migration of clothes and clothes to the south enabled the Han nation to preserve China in Nanjing. Zhengshuo of culture. Nanjing City and Rome City in the Six Dynasties were both known as the "two major centers of classical civilization in the world". The culture of the Southern Dynasties, represented by Jiankang, had a profound impact on human history.
Jiankang City in the Six Dynasties played an important role in the history of the development of ancient Chinese capitals. It pioneered the axially symmetrical layout of the capital city. Its layout and architectural form had a profound impact on later generations and profoundly affected East Asian countries. Taicheng, the imperial palace of the Six Dynasties, was imitated by the capitals of the Northern Wei Dynasty and other countries in East Asia. It was inherited from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, and profoundly influenced the form of capital construction in later generations.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Jiangnanchun·Thousands of miles of orioles singing in green and reflecting red
Baidu Encyclopedia - Nanjing (capital and sub-provincial city of Jiangsu Province)