Jing 'an Temple is located in Jing 'an District, Shanghai. Its history can be traced back to the ten years of Sun Wu Chiwu in the Three Kingdoms (247 years). It is the oldest Buddhist temple in Shanghai. According to legend, during the Three Kingdoms period, a monk named "Kang Senghui" came to Shanghai and built the Chongxuan Temple on the basis of a small temple. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Chongxuan Temple was renamed Jing 'an Temple.
In the ninth year of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty, Jing 'an Temple was moved to its present site. Between the main entrance of the temple and the main hall, it is just above an ancient well named "Yongquan". The water in the well keeps boiling and bubbling, just like boiling water. At that time, some people said that Jing 'an Temple was on a "yellow grave".
During the Qing government, Eight-Nation Alliance entered China, and Jing 'an Temple was just included in the British Concession. In order to build roads, the British indented the main entrance of Jing 'an Temple by tens of meters, so the location of the ancient well was exposed on the road outside the temple gate and became a scenic spot.
Cultural value
1, tantric school of Han dynasty
In modern times, Jing 'an Temple changed from Zen Buddhism to tantric Buddhism, and in 1947, it changed from a descendant jungle to a ten-party sage jungle, that is, the abbot was no longer passed down by the monks of this temple, but recruited sages and abbots from all over the country. 1953, master Song Chi, the abbot at that time, set up an altar in the temple to worship the tantric school, which revived the tantric school in the Han Dynasty that had been lost since the Tang Dynasty. There is a secret altar on the upper floor of the temple, and there are many mancha.
2. Jing 'an Temple Fair
Jing 'an Temple Fair originated from the annual Bathing Buddha Festival. In the seventh year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (188 1), it was reopened, and finally 1963. Bathing Buddha Festival on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month.