At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, during the temple fair, it started from Mashiqiao in the east and reached Gongmen in the west. Stalls eating and playing with goods and shoulder vendors gathered on both sides of the road. At the entrance of the palace, there are more than a dozen clothing stores north of West Road, which set up stalls to sell goods. Tourists stop to watch, often packed. In front of Baita Temple, there are candied haws, Wei Qing, beautiful hearts and famous mountains. Others whistle and sing "October Sputum Fan" to sell small flower baskets. On the east side of Temple Head Courtyard is a stall selling mountain products daily necessities; There are stalls selling rice cakes, cut cakes, bean flour cakes and glutinous rice lotus root on the west side. The second courtyard in the temple has always been a venue for folk operas, and there have also been sheds for storytelling, drum sets, cross talk and acrobatics. In the 1930s, Fu's Laoting Drum and Hou Wude's Pear Drum were hung on the stone fence of Daxiong Hall. Below the stone fence is a food stall filled with bean juice, tofu brain, fried meatballs and fried tofu. The east side of the Second Hospital is mostly a high stall with a cloth shed on it, which can provide shade for tourists. Clothes, shoes and hats, foreign socks, combs, wigs, cosmetics, floral patterns and velvet silk flower are sold here. Goods (toys) stalls are full of flowers, big-head monk dance dances, whips, wooden knives and guns that can't be moved, rabbits pounding, Bajie playing with wooden fish, cloth tigers, mud dowry, bamboo dragonflies, wooden snails, cymbals and drums ... Flowers are sold in the west alley of Gate 2, and the seasons are different. Baita Temple has always been famous for its flowers and wooden bowls. In addition, there are flowerpots, flower seeds and fish tanks. On the steps of the second door, there are often stalls for magnetic flux, copper powder and salt. There are two teahouses in the north of Luxi Corridor, which are open as usual when there is no temple fair. On weekdays, the main customers are people who pull houses and run together. They gather here every morning to listen to each other's information about real estate leasing and trading. Dismissed at noon During the temple fair, tourists come to the temple to have a tea break. At the same time, supply drinking water to vendors who drive away temples, and take care of items on their behalf, and charge some storage fees.
There is a clearing in the west of the tower yard. From 1930s to 1950s, many folk artists told stories and sang operas here. Zhang Xiufeng (stage name "Little Bee") sang West Road Pingxi here in his early years, and later switched to singing funny drums, specializing in singing Liu Long Public Security, which was very popular. Akuoqun used to catch a bus in Dazifu Garden, but later he entered the field of Quyi, where he also talked about storytelling "Little Wuyi" and so on. Yang Shulin sang "Yang Jiajiang" and "Hu Jiajiang" on the drum of Changle Pavilion here. In addition, there are civilized dramas of family photos, antics of "Big Monster" and his wife and daughter, and horse wrestling. After liberation, there was Chang Yinquan's ballad: three chivalrous men and five righteous men. Lan Jianshu sells medicine and bonesetting while performing arts. He Guangzhen sells insect drugs by showing various parasites of human body. There are also some anonymous artists who pull foreign films here and make small movies with sunshine. Some businessmen put a copper basin or tie a ponytail on the ground and let tourists stand in the distance and throw copper coins into it. Those who hit but didn't jump out will win the prize. There are also people who play bronze drums and blow foreign horns to sell medicine and sugar. At the same time, two words came out from time to time in the crowded crowd: "Rat poison, specially for mice!" " "Strange sounds, eye-catching in the clearing north of the tower yard, are almost all medical divination astrology, as well as divination kiosks, with divination, physiognomy and round lights (divination looking for someone to find another job). They pretend to be non-monk and non-Taoist to attract tourists.
Yuanbao Hutong at the back door of the temple is a bird market. Pigeons, quails, eagles, birds, rabbits, dogs and other poultry and livestock are sold here. Qiu Lai sells autumn insects, such as crickets, fruit and "oil gourd". In spring, small goldfish are sold. In addition, there are pigeon whistle, bird food cans, cricket cans, bird food, fishing gear and so on. During the temple fair, some bird dealers and people carrying cages and birds gathered here to trade. The land is narrow and the people are thick, just like an ant nest. After 1960, major temples such as Baita Temple were replaced by modern shopping malls. A non-staple food shopping mall was set up at the entrance of Baita Temple.
Miaoying Tower, renamed Miaoying Temple, is a famous temple in Beijing, named after a white ancient pagoda in the temple. Located in Fuchengmennei Street, Beijing, this temple is one of the important buildings preserved in the Yuan Dynasty. It belongs to the Museum of Special Sites of Social Sciences. It was officially opened to the public on 1980. The White Pagoda was built in the eighth year of Yuan Dynasty (12 17), which was designed and built for Anika, a famous Nepalese craftsman who entered China at that time. After the completion of the White Pagoda, a large-scale temple was built with the pagoda as the center, named "Great Sage Shouwan 'an Temple", which became one of the important projects of Kublai Khan's Yuan construction. Tomorrow, after the reconstruction in the first year of Shun, it will be renamed as "Miaoying Temple". The temple consists of the Heavenly King Hall, Zhu Yi Heart Mirror Hall, seven buddha Hall, Six Temples and Towers. Among them, the Six Temples have maintained the original Buddhist temple structure, with wood carvings of Sakyamuni Buddha, Amitabha Buddha and Pharmacist Buddha in the Qing Dynasty, and eight statues of the protector of Tibetan Buddhism hanging on the east and west walls. The White Pagoda in the pagoda courtyard is a bowl-covered stupa with a height of 50.9 meters, which is exquisite and majestic. The Museum displays the "Exhibition of Precious Cultural Relics of Baita Temple", which shows the precious Buddhist cultural relics found inside the tower, including the mantra written by Qianlong, the finely carved red Todoroki, a set of five Buddha crowns, patchwork robes decorated with more than a thousand pearls and gems, and five-color Hada. Excellent quality and exquisite workmanship; "Art Exhibition of Ten Thousand Buddha Statues in Tibet" * * * exhibited nearly ten thousand bronze Buddha statues and bronze gold-plated Buddha statues in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. An unprecedented number of statues, different casting areas and styles show the magical charm of China's profound traditional culture from one side.