It is not known whether the primitive ancestors lived here all the time. Later, the well-documented records about the village history are Xingning Temple and Baishi Buddha, which were built in the Northern Qi Dynasty. Coming out of the Mediyaju Community and crossing Zhongshan Road to the north, it is probably the position diagonally opposite to the west of Baifo Bus Terminal. There is a north-south main road leading to Baifo Village, named Xingning Temple Street. At the end of this road, Xingning Temple in the middle of the road comes into view. Xingning Temple is located on a brick platform one and a half meters high. There is only one main hall, which looks old and the paint at the bottom of the column has fallen off. The whole building seems to be carved out of beams and painted with a picture, but all the doors and windows are made of cement. This was rebuilt by the villagers after the destruction of Zhongxing Ning Temple during the Cultural Revolution. But the white stone Buddha in the temple is an authentic antique. In order to prevent theft, there are two doors in the hall, and there is an iron gate inside the wooden door. Through the iron gate, you can vaguely see a gray Buddha standing on the main hall.
Xingning Temple is only open for believers to burn incense on the first and fifteenth days of the first year, but the reporter easily found the home of Wu Shulan who kept the key. At the age of 80, she is still hale and hearty, and she is happy to introduce this stone Buddha to foreign guests. Under her guidance, the reporter entered the temple and saw a stone Buddha about 4 meters high. The stone Buddha is wearing red and yellow silk, and the carved clothes lines are not clear. Pushing the red cloth from the side, you can see the stone Buddha stepping on the lotus. There is a gray slate behind the Buddha statue with a broken edge. If you look closely, you can find the flowing pattern on it. Wu Shulan said that the slate, the Buddha's body and the lotus seat are integrated and carved with a whole piece of white marble. There is a 2-meter-wide cement pad behind the Buddha statue, which makes the giant Buddha stand upright.
According to the records of Shijiazhuang place names, Xingning Temple was built in the first year of Tianbao in the Northern Qi Dynasty (AD 550). The Xingning Temple in 550 AD was much larger than that in 20 14, and the square in front of the temple extended to the south of the high platform in 20 14. Xingning Temple used to have a wall, a mountain gate, a front hall and a back hall, with 12 east and west wings. The whole building is magnificent and magnificent, which makes people think it is a temple at close range and a city at a distance. In the third year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1524), a rebuilt stone tablet was engraved with the words "Baifo Village ... the village was founded in the first year of natural forest protection in Daqi because of temple knowledge ...".
Are there any monuments to prove the history and origin of the village name today? Ma Guizeng, a villager in Baifokou, pointed to a stone tablet on the ground in front of the temple and told reporters that this is. Several people worked together to remove the slate pressed on the tablet, and used two buckets of water to wash away the sediment on it, but only the words on the tablet were vague and the records about the age could not be seen clearly.
Historically, this white Buddha has experienced disasters. First, it was stolen twice during the Japanese puppet regime. The thief tried to cut off the Buddha's head because his body was too heavy. Although it failed twice, the hacksaw sawed into a third of the stone Buddha's neck. The villagers had to build a shrine with bricks, cover the whole stone Buddha inside, and weld the net with steel wire, only showing their faces. In the early days of the Cultural Revolution, Sanguan Temple, which was no less than Xingning Temple, was completely destroyed. Of course, this stone Buddha can no longer be enshrined. As a result, more than a dozen people, including Bu Qinglu, a villager from the second team, pulled the Buddha statue down with ropes and buried it on the spot.
1987, the village took out more than 90,000 yuan to rebuild Xingning Temple, and the villagers spontaneously donated more than 30,000 yuan. The Hall of Great Heroes was completed and the White Buddha was relocated. However, the cultural relics thief did not die. 1On the night of June 2, 993, thieves broke into the house and cut off the front face of the White Buddha, leaving only the ears and the back of the head. This angered the villagers, who had to ask Quyang masons to re-carve the front of the white marble. Looking at this white Buddha today, there is no trace of connection at all. It is said that the face is almost the same as before. The villagers welded iron doors and windows to reinforce the main hall. Later, the thief stole it again, but the villagers found it before he did it. He chased all the way to the East Second Ring Road and was finally caught and sent to the police station.