Everything in China's 5,000-year-old culture is the epitome of culture, and the epitome of these cultures can be reflected in square Chinese characters, while the big one can be reflected in the towering Forbidden City building. China has a long history of ancient architecture, most of which are made of wood. The oldest building is a temple, which is mostly used by the royal family for worship or pilgrimage.
However, there is an ancient temple that has been circulating for thousands of years. It is well preserved and has not been destroyed by the war. There have been no birds and insects in the temple for thousands of years, and it is spotless. Today, I will tell you about this amazing ancient temple-Guobao Temple.
Guobao Temple, located in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, is one of the national key cultural relics protection units. Guobao Temple is famous not because it is a religious temple, but because of its exquisite architectural technology, which is sought after by many people.
There are many temples in China. Guobao Temple stands out among many temples, on the one hand, because of its exquisite construction technology, on the other hand, because birds and insects have disappeared for thousands of years, and the temple is clean and spotless. This may be a folk legend or it may be true, but no one knows whether it is true or not, because even with the rapid development of science and technology, many scholars and scientists have not solved the mystery of the national security temple.
The predecessor of Guobao Temple is Lingshan Temple, which was built in the ancestral period of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, Li Xian, a descendant of the Tang Dynasty, gave Lingshan Temple a plaque with the words "Guobao Temple" engraved on it, and Lingshan Temple was renamed Guobao Temple. When Guobao Temple was still Lingshan Temple, during the Tang Wuzong period, many activities broke out to undermine the law. Many monasteries were forcibly demolished in the activities of breaking the law, and the government even ordered monks and nuns to be secularized. Many monks and nuns were forced to leave the monasteries and go out to survive.
In the era of Tang Xizong, people had a strong desire to repair and rebuild the national security temple. In order to comply with public opinion, Gong Ke, the great monk of Guo Ning Temple in Ningbo, traveled thousands of miles to Chang 'an and asked the emperor to repair the Guobao Temple. Tang Xizong agreed to the monk's request and gave Guobao Temple a plaque engraved with the words "Guobao Temple".
At 1975, the rumor that the national security temple is invulnerable and spotless for many years has attracted many experts to find out. People found a unique smell of wood in the beams and columns of the National Security Temple. Through research, it is found that the wood used in Guobao Temple is different from the common redwood and golden nanmu in royal temples in the past, but a kind of wood called "Chinese fir", which contains a pungent smell that birds, animals and insects don't like.
The singing of birds and insects in Guobao Temple all year round is also inextricably linked with this yellow cedar. The reason why Guobao Temple has been spotless for many years is because of the "air duct" formed by the well-defined arched roof in the temple. Outside air enters the "air duct" to form a vortex airflow, which keeps rotating in the main hall of Guobao Temple, making it difficult for dust to fall on the beam of the main hall.
There were many skilled craftsmen in ancient China, but the birds and insects in the National Security Temple were untouched and spotless. Few of them have really preserved the perfect combination of nature and man-made, and I can't help admiring the whimsy of ancient craftsmen! Dear friends, what do you want to say after reading it? Welcome to leave a message at the bottom of the article!
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