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On the afternoon of the 14th day of the first month of Gengyin, I went to the south slope of Sheshan with my netizens Tian Feng, Yi Renxing and Hu after attending the activity of searching for the Spring Festival view organized by Sailor 002, a netizen of Wuhan Edition of Hanwang Humanities. This is the wish of netizens as early as last year's National Day holiday. When we walked into Longhua Temple, we found two very precious stone tablets on the left side of Daxiong Hall, so we carefully identified the handwriting on them and analyzed the age of the stone tablets. From the inscription, one side belongs to Hongzhi period of Ming Dynasty, and the other side belongs to Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. On another tablet, the words "preface to Wang Teng-ting" and "Tang Wang" can be distinguished. At this time, pilgrims came to complain to us. As early as the second year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (1466), Wang Ding, the eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, opened up a pure land at the southern foot of Sheshan Mountain in Wuchang and gave a plaque to Longhua Temple. After 13 years of Chenghua and Hongzhi, it was continuously rebuilt and expanded. By the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, there were five Buddhist temples, three Guanyin halls, three Tianwang halls, three mountain gates, one bell tower and 48 east-west corridors in the temple, with a total length of 264 meters. The Buddhist temple is majestic, with solemn treasures, small bridges and flowing water, surrounded by cypresses and bamboos, and finally becomes a big jungle. During the reign of Shunzhi and Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, the temple was rebuilt many times and became one of the larger temples in Wuchang City. In Chapter 38 of The Scholars in the late Qing Dynasty, Uncle Yashu's son-in-law is a son-in-law, Lama is a monk, and he recognized his godmother. This describes Longhua Temple as follows: Let's say that Longhua Temple is famous in Wuchang provincial capital. Located in Binyangmen, this Longhua Temple is a huge jungle. It is said that it has been burning incense for thousands of years. In the middle of the temple is Sakyamuni's "Daxiong Hall". In addition, there are many guanyin temple, Luohan Hall, Zhaitang, Guest Hall, Zen Hall, Monk's Room and Ququ Bay. In addition, there is an exquisite room for female guests. As Longhua Temple is a famous scenic spot in Wuchang, civil and military officials in he cheng always come with joy in their spare time, even former Chinese mainland guests come here with admiration.

Master Taixu, a famous Buddhist monk in modern times, wrote in his autobiography: "1In April of 939, Wuchang and Guangzhou invited me to give lectures. Hundreds of people from Wuchang, including Chen Yin, invited Li Futing to give a public speech, and set up a couch Longhua Temple for me, that is, taking Longhua Temple Buddhist Hall as the lecture hall, which can accommodate 300 to 400 people, and sent Chen Laihang to meet me. ..... I went to Wuchang with Sexual White and talked about faith in Longhua Temple. " According to the Buddhist Times of the Republic of China, in May of the eighth year of the Republic of China, Taixu began to talk about faith in Longhua Temple in Wuchang, and published a book on faith.

Longhua Temple, originally covering an area of 6,000 square meters, is a Buddhist Taoist temple of Bhikuni. 1954, Wuchang Zhong Ni responded to the government's call and started production to save itself. At 1958, the big monk of Longhua Temple gave this temple to 172 monks of 72 small temples. Give birth outside during the day and go back to the temple to live a religious life at night. After the temple house, the land was occupied many times. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, the religious policy was implemented, and Longhua Temple recovered the occupied property and land. At that time, the land area of the house was still more than 6,000 square meters, and there were more than 100 people living in Nepal. Longhua Temple once collected a large number of historical relics, such as three iron buddhas, natural dragon retaining walls, and a large number of ancient inscriptions, rabbit stones, cat stones, etc., which have all been lost.

The rights and interests of Longhua Temple were infringed after the reform and opening up 1994. Driven by economic interests, some people, for their own interests and regardless of China's religious policy, dismantled the gatehouse of Longhua Temple, the Heavenly King Hall with wooden structure in Qing Dynasty, the islands in Ming Dynasty and the houses in Zhong Ni without authorization, and transformed them into commercial buildings and residential buildings. Only one main hall was left, and another seven-story residential building was built, which was extremely out of harmony with the temple. Up to now, it has been reported that some people want to tear down the existing halls and residential buildings and move to Jiu Feng. As soon as this wind blows, the Nepalese people are restless. The mountain is not high, and the fairy is famous. Isn't there a place to build a small temple in the huge snake mountain? Yes, Snake Mountain is famous for the Yellow Crane Tower, but if Longhua Temple exists, from the perspective of tourism, it is the best policy to be bigger and stronger. At the beginning of 2008, in the planning of "Building a Famous City with Two Axes and Five Pieces" in Wuchang, it was proposed to create an artistic conception of "seclusion, green tour and overlapping stories" in the natural ecological plate of Snake Mountain, focusing on restoring natural mountains, restoring forest vegetation, creating natural ecology, optimizing sightseeing routes, building an urban forest full of wild interests and gathering people, retaining the temple function of Longhua Temple, and building an "ancient temple hidden in the deep mountains"