Jinge Temple, a famous temple in eastern Zhejiang, was founded in the first year of Tang Dali (AD 766) and has a glorious history. Jinge Temple was founded by Baizhang Huaihai, a Zen monk, and is located at the foot of Tuanpiao Peak in Jinge Mountain, Yinzhou. After the efforts of Luo Hanchen, Xu Tangzhiyu, Kun Shibao, Gu Bin, Wei Zai, Yongqing and Zhuo Fan in the Republic of China, the scale of the temple has been continuously expanded and the architecture has been continuously improved. After entering the Qing dynasty, it entered its heyday. At that time, there were six halls and six pavilions with unique architecture. In the first year of Northern Song Dynasty (1008), Song Zhenzong gave Jin 'eshan Zhenyan Temple, in the first year of Northern Song Dynasty (1064), Song Yingzong gave it to Jin 'eshan Zhenyan Temple, and in the fifteenth year of Ming Dynasty (1382), Jin 'eshan Zhenyan Temple was named as one of the world famous temples. The rich Zen style of Jinge Temple and the unique charm of "Jinge Ten Scenes" have made it famous. Many high-ranking officials and scholars in the past dynasties went to worship Buddha, sing poems and write poems and praise each other. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Shao Ming, a Japanese monk from Nanpu, studied Buddhism in a temple. During the Republic of China, Cliff from Germany, Miss Beckney from the United States and Mao, Chiang Kai-shek's original wife, lived in the temple for a long time. Over the years, Buddhist cultural delegations from Japan and South Korea have come to worship at the Golden Pavilion Temple.
However, in the past 1000 years, Jingu Temple was robbed several times. It was abandoned twice in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, rebuilt in Xuande (1426- 1435), abandoned again in Chenghua (1465- 1487), and abandoned again in Zhengde (1506-647). Finally, only a few shabby rooms were left, reclining in the sunset wind.
In the prosperous period, the rescue and protection of cultural heritage is receiving unprecedented attention and investment. In June 2003, the project of "Rebuilding the Golden Pavilion Temple" with an investment of 50 million yuan was officially launched, and the history of the construction of the Golden Pavilion Temple turned a new page. Today, two quaint wings, the magnificent Hall of Great Heroes and other buildings have stood on the ruins of the ancient temple. The Hall of the Great Heroes was rebuilt on the cornerstone of the high platform in the center of the central axis of the ancient temple ruins, with a building area of about 1400 square meters and a height of about 22.5 meters. The hall is seven rooms wide and five rooms deep. The scale of this building is also in the forefront of domestic temples. The main hall imitates the architectural style of the Golden Pavilion Temple in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, with a double-eaves and a mountain-resting structure. The overall design is exquisite and neat, magnificent and magnificent. The main hall is tiled, with far-reaching arches, exquisite eaves and blue bricks on the side walls. There are three gold foil Buddha statues in the center of the hall, all of which are glittering from a distance. In the middle is the statue of Sakyamuni, which is about 12.5 meters high. It is dignified and friendly, with Manjusri and Pu Xian statues on the left and right, plump and full of energy. On the east and west sides of the hall, there are 25 Tong Yuan and 10000 exquisite golden Buddha statues with different shapes. There are towering ancient trees, lush bamboo forests and gurgling streams around the Hall of Great Heroes, adding a bit of simplicity and tranquility. The completion of Daxiong Hall marks a magnificent and wonderful reconstruction of the ancient temple. Now the reconstruction projects such as Shanmen and Tianwang Temple are about to start, and the spring of the revival of Jingu Temple has really come!
The long river of history can be described as gurgling. I think the Millennium ups and downs of the Golden Pavilion Temple, as Mr. Yu wrote in the preface of Fragments of Civilization: "Every struggle, civilization may not be defeated, but the history and culture of real civilization will eventually continue, even if it has become a' fragment'."