Daci Rock South Monastery

China has seven Monastery, South had two, that is, Daci Rock South Monastery, Yunnan Western Hills Monastery. Five northern Shanxi Hengshan respectively Monastery, Hebei Cangyan Monastery, Qi County, Henan Province, Chaoyang Monastery, Monastery in Xining of Qinghai, Shaanxi Yulin Caves Monastery.

Directory
One. Monastery summary
II. Datong, Shanxi Hengshan Hanging Monastery 1. Introduction
2. Monastery literary atmosphere
3. Monastery history
4. Monastery of the peculiar layout of the building
5. Transportation
6. Monastery Travel Tips
III. Hebei Cangyan Monastery
IV. Yunnan Western Hills Monastery
Five. Monastery in Qinghai, Xining
VI. Qi County, Henan Province, Chaoyang Monastery
VII. Zhejiang Jiande About Daci Rock Monastery
View Buddha Pavilion
Yuhua Lake
Tianzhanyundu
Traffic
Eight, one in Yulin Grottoes Monastery. Monastery summary
II. Datong, Shanxi Hengshan Hanging Monastery 1. Introduction
2. Monastery literary atmosphere
3. Monastery history
4. Monastery of the peculiar layout of the building
5. Transportation
6. Monastery Travel Tips
III. Hebei Cangyan Monastery
IV. Yunnan Western Hills Monastery
Five. Monastery in Qinghai, Xining
VI. Qi County, Henan Province, Chaoyang Monastery
VII. Zhejiang Jiande About Daci Rock Monastery
View Buddha Pavilion
Yuhua Lake
Tianzhanyundu
Traffic
VIII, Yulin Grottoes Monastery
Edit this paragraph to start one. Monastery summary
China has seven Monastery, the North has five, the South has two. Five northern Shanxi Hengshan respectively Monastery, Hebei Cangyan Monastery, Monastery, Chaoyang Qi County of Henan, Zhejiang Jiande Daci Rock Monastery, Monastery in Xining in Qinghai. The south is the southern two Daci Rock Monastery, Yunnan Western Hills Monastery.
Edit this paragraph II. Hengshan Hanging Monastery of Datong
1. Introduction
Monastery, also known as Xuan Kong Temple, located in Hunyuan County, Shanxi Province, 65 km from Datong, the national key cultural relics protection units. Monastery was built in the late Northern Wei dynasty 1500 years ago, fifteen years of Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 491), the ages have done repairs on the Monastery, the Northern Wei dynasty, from the pulpit of Taoism Pingcheng, this Datong this southward , the ancient craftsmen under the Taoist "no bark heard the voice of the cock" Building a Monastery. Monastery about 50 meters high from the ground, hanging Monastery in Shanxi
Temple of the development of our country's architectural heritage and architectural style, the architectural features can be summarized as "odd, suspended, clever" in the name. Church - Monastery afar, like a pair of exquisitely carved relief, set in the cliff climbed from near Monastery, a great volley to fly trend. Suspended - 40 Diange monastery there, the surface is more than a dozen appear to support their roots sized thick wooden pillars, in fact, is not bound by any power poles. It is said that the Monastery is completed, without these stakes, it does not seem to see the Monastery of any support, afraid to go to the temple will fall, in order to have reassured the people, so in the temple under the settlement some poles, so it was with "Monastery , half-day high, three aerial lifting tail "to describe the Monastery. How - embodied in the Temple when the local conditions, take advantage of the natural state of the cliff layout and construction of various parts of the temple construction, the general layout of the temple construction plane, built in three-dimensional shapes such as space, gate, bell tower, main hall, side hall, etc. there, the design is very compact. Heng Monastery is the only existing Buddhism and Taoism and Confucianism one unique temples. It is built on the cliffs of Hengshan Golden Dragon Gorge, the face of Hengshan, perched Ping, upload, rock, deep valley beneath, pavilion vacant, odd coincidence structure. Monastery of the total Diange forty, using principles of mechanics to fly half-inserted as the base beam, beam asked the pretext of rock up and down the dark one, the gallery is about connecting bar, surprising twists and turns, virtual and real. Temple, copper, iron, stone, clay Buddha statue eighties, and the temple of rock on the "spectacular", Li Bai, the Tang Dynasty calligraphy Shixian. The ancients said: "mirage suspect the sea, the birds did not cloud Road." Xu sighed Ming Dynasty Great traveler as "living world view." Hengshan Hanging Monastery of Datong, Datong City Hengshan mountain flying dragon Gap in the west half of the peak Ping cliff cliff, was built in 15 years of Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 491), was founded early. The highest point of the three religions in the house 90 meters from the ground, due to river siltation over the years, is 58 meters remaining. 1957 as the key units in Shanxi Province in 1982, included in the national key cultural relics protection units. The entire temple, upload cliff, ravine beneath, back under rock niche, Simen south, west is positive. The whole temple of wood frame structure, in accordance with principles of mechanics, semi-insert the base beams, dark rock pretext of care, one beam up and down, left and right column tightly linked gallery. Only area of 152.5 square meters, has a size of the housing 40. Monastery of the overall layout of the temple, Buddhist temple, the temple, three Buddha, Tai-Hall, Temple, Drum Tower, Bell Tower, Garan Temple, Songzi Kwun Yam Temple, Earth Store Buddha Temple, the Buddhist goddess concept of inter-house release Buddha Temple, Lei Yin Temple, the three palace, Chun-yang Palace, along the cliff, the house of the three religions, five permitted and so on. Hall floor there is a change in the distribution are symmetric, scattered in contact, winding loop, virtual and real, small, space rich, varied levels, small in the big, feel a small place, compact, scattered dependencies, and its layout Hirakawa is different from the central axis of the temple prominent, symmetrical, but also from higher mountain temples in the mountain and gradually the pattern of embossing are following the cliff, the potential degree of trial type, go with the flow, volley and structure, it seems, Cascading scattered, subtle changes, so that the combination of form and space compared to the orderly artistic effect. Monastery afar, like an exquisitely carved in relief, set in the cliff climbed from near Monastery, a great volley to fly trend. Board Monastery, hanging ladder climbing, fly across the stack, through caves, drilling skylights, roof walk, step Qulang, twists and turns, ups and downs, around the roundabout, look up at blue sky line, bow and TV, Gap Flows, bite boom into a song, such as exposure to nine palaces, like Tengyun Gui-dream. Monastery of the appearance not only breathtaking, exotic, spectacular, building construction is also distinctive, colorful forms, eaves have Dan Yan, Zhong Yan, three canopies, Results masts are carrying beam structure, flat structure, brackets, structure, roof is ridge, vertical ridges, closure ridges, barren. Overall appearance, clever structure macro system, many piles, resulting in a Cave House, a hole in the floor, Hall Building Banbi Banbi caves, caves with Temple, even the floor of the house style, It combines the art of landscape architecture in China , yet the pattern of traditional architecture. Monastery of the existing variety of bronze, iron, clay, stone statues, many styles, the style has the early period is characterized by a high artistic value of the treasures.
2. Monastery literary atmosphere
Monastery is the ancient literati longing for place, the image of the ancient poets praise: "Flying Club Danya, the clouds closed several times, mirage suspect the sea, the birds that did not cloud." In 735 AD, after the tour Shixian Li Bai, wrote in the wall of the "spectacular" two characters, but still not feel reflect their own excitement, then in the "strong" on a little more. Chong six years, Xu traveled to this, known as the "macro world." In 1989, Comrade Li Tieying to Hengshan inspection, brush and wrote "Weizai God the" four characters, when people feel almost apart, can not help asking what the original intention of building the Monastery? Why after 1500 years, can be preserved?
3. Monastery history
Monastery in Shanxi Hunyuan County, 65 km from Datong, the national key cultural relics units to maintain, is the only Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism one of the unique temple. Monastery of the six are among the main Diange connected with wooden stairs. Many statues inside the temple, but these special about the statue hall in the Monastery of the three religions, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and three representatives of Confucius, Lao Tzu, Buddha statues were living in a room, the Chinese ancestor of the three religions live together like this One room is very rare. Monastery was built in the late Northern Wei dynasty 1,400 years ago, the ages have made repairs to the Monastery, the Northern Wei dynasty, from the pulpit of Taoism Pingcheng, this Datong southward to this, the ancient craftsmen under the Taoist "does not hear the cock Bark sound "Building a Monastery.
4. Monastery of the peculiar layout of the building
Monastery about 50 meters high from the ground, Monastery of the development of China's architectural heritage and architectural style, the architectural features can be summarized as "odd, suspended, clever" in the name. "Hanging" is another feature of the Monastery, the whole temple there Diange 40, the surface is more than a dozen appear to support their roots sized thick wooden pillars, in fact, is not bound by any power poles. It is said that the Monastery is completed, the stakes are actually not, but people did not seem to see the Monastery of any support, afraid to go to the temple will fall, in order to have reassured the people, so in the temple under the settlement some poles, so it was with the "Monastery, half high, three aerial lifting tail" to describe the Monastery. But the real focus of support in hard rock, the rock hewn look of the trapezoidal shape of right angle, and then flew into the beam, so that an acute angle with the right angle trapezoidal part of the full close, using principles of mechanics to fly half-beam-based interpolation. Furthermore, the Monastery of the beams used to fly the local specialty wood is processed into iron fir, and said with a tung oil soaked, so afraid of termites bite, but also the role of anti-corrosion, so the Monastery back a thousand years is not a miracle, but the wisdom of the people crystallization. Monastery of the "clever" embodied in the Temple when the local conditions, take advantage of the natural state of the cliff layout and construction of various parts of the temple construction, the general layout of the temple construction plane, built in three-dimensional shapes such as space, gate, bell tower, main hall , side hall and others have, the design is very compact. Eighty Buddha statue inside the temple there. Worthy of the "odd" is that the design and location of Temple, Monastery in the mountains or deep valleys in a small basin, the middle of the body hanging on the cliffs, the cliffs like an umbrella prominent part of the peak, the temple from rainfall. The foot of flooding, also from flooded. Surrounding mountains also reduce the sun exposure time. Location can be preserved is the Monastery of the important reasons. Tang Kaiyuan twenty-three years (735 years), Li Bai, after visiting the Monastery, in the cliffs to write a "spectacular", said Xu Ming Dynasty Great travel Monastery as the "macro world."
5. Transportation
1, near the train station in Datong minibus ride to the Hunyuan County, fares 22 yuan. If a line of 4 120 per bag than spend a rental Charade, from the same price, but much more convenient and comfortable, or take day trips Hengshan coach. 2, another line starting from the Wutai Mountain, Datong bound by the direction of the car to go. 3, the first upward along the steep stone paths, built into the temple to watch the clever layout of the unique 40 seat hall, and then register to Cuipingshan along the mountain path along the cliff hanging, dragon sparkling lake view scenery ha. Opening hours: 8:30 ~ 5:30 pm (winter) 8:00 ~ 6:00 pm (summer) Monastery of travel tickets (season 130 yuan / person, low season 125 yuan / person, from April 6 implementation)
6. Monastery Travel Tips
1, Food: hunyuan is Shanxi Province, eating habits in order pasta. 2, native: hunyuan jelly (Hengshan the characteristics of food, flavor peculiar, unique) beans (commonly known as lotus bean), Beiqi mushrooms (commonly known as constant mushroom), Hengshan is Beiqi (high quality Astragalus origin), Hengshan Astragalus sheep. 3, Climate: Hengshan is a temperate semi-arid continental climate, four distinct seasons, summer rainfall concentrated mostly sunny autumn weather, the temperature difference between day and night, the annual average temperature is 6.1 ℃. 4, the best tourist features: Peach Blossom Spring tours, summer, autumn and summer and winter view of snow.
Edit this paragraph III. Hebei Cangyan Monastery
Cangyan
Bridge House, Temple Monastery is one of the three. According to research for the Sui Dynasty stone bridge building, slightly earlier than Zhaozhou Anji Bridge. Bridge House, Temple of Tang Dynasty architecture. It sat west to east, 15 meters long and 8 meters wide. From the mechanical point of view, this house full of weight and tourists, the total weight of about 35 tons, this methodology, the bridge's arch should be recorded between 3.5 to 4 meters, while the arch bridge is 2.8 meters high. The cliffs across the mountains between the two for open shoulder arch, wing angle Gao Qiao, tassels painting, elevated above the sky Wu Hai, a sky high of Granville, vacated the potential to fly. The bridge was built in the bridge floor hall of the Sakyamuni Buddha, Amitabha, pharmacists glass optical Wang For three statues, the middle of the back of the plastic Statue, like Eighteen both sides of the hall. Towering temple of the unique bridge building, in the Emerald mountains, canyons at the line to form a "rainbow bridge house," the world wonders, as Cangyan "Ruin" is one. The most amazing inexplicable is that the bridge 100 meters above the floor, bend the house, and passers-green skin yellowing phenomena, optical experts, Qigong masters, Buddhists vary, this is Cangyan "one qi" . According to legend, the eldest daughter of Emperor Cangyan is the place where a monk Princess Nanyang, the mountain has a real capacity of the Princess Hall, commonly known as Princess Temple. Cangyan the movie "Crouching Tiger" and "Mummy 3" shooting location.
Edit this paragraph IV. Yunnan Western Hills Monastery
Samcheonggak, in Ocean side of Mount Huashan Nan too. View from north to south, Yamagata outline resembles a mosquito Maitreya, named Rohan Hill. Rohan Mountain cliffs, mountains and a thousand yards south scarps linked list attached to the foothills that is vast and Dianchi Lake. Samcheonggak nine Western Hills Monastery in Yunnan
Eleventh Court Taoist architectural complex, layered on top of embedded decorated in the cliff, into a "Monastery" at risk. Yuan Dynasty, ruled by the Ocean foothills Liangwang Yunnan built "a thousand steps Cliff" stone step stone mountains, opened up the summer house of Ocean Cliff Shannan. Over the past once thought that this element of the King of Liang Samcheonggak Summer Palace, Summer Palace, in the actual King of Liang Samcheonggak, the goal is more the lower South, the Pro Mountain standings hanging edges. September 1999, in accordance with Xu "You too Mountain in mind" and other historical records, with the assistance of the office in the Western Hills, sweep aside the deep weeds of Qi, to find the house of Rohan and the King of Liang Zhu Nan Temple Summer Palace ruins. Hu the "Nanzhao unofficial" set, Yuan positive twenty-seven years (1367) in April, King of Liang paste wood children do not spend birthday, ministers Chen He, the feast at the King of Liang Summer Palace, Kunming pool. The "beam Wangsheng Chen Yan Xian, Kunming Ikegami Poetry": Xian Jun Yan Tian considered guests, tent house first Shiju Hai Sea. Beautiful sunny day to open thousands of miles, a unicorn riding Grass River. Complains bonus warm glass of wine, jade armor battle wide around people. Had drunk Baiguan salty Jishou, May Wang Gaoshou thousands of spring. Mrs Elisa wooden stick to positive twenty-seven children birthday feast, the Summer Palace, already "tent house first Shiju Hai Bin" Clearly, the King of Liang's summer palace built, not later than children without spending a wooden stick as the King of Liang period. Birthday dinner in celebration this year, children do not take pass away wood paste, royal clan to turn as the King of Liang, following the assassination of Walter density, reign title, "Tuyen Quang", said the system, the title designation Guan Zhu, recovery examination. Department of the assassination of Walter secret turn Pakistan Yunnan Last King of Liang. Hongwu years, the Japanese monk machine first, Yunnan Exile "King of Liang Court," Poetry: Bi chicken fly has been ages, it is said King of Liang past this tour. Ying Feng Nian hole peach, Yaqian Yoo Department of dragon boat. What are Unluckiness and Frustration Castle, artesian water merciless sun. Know ye were singing and dancing, the Han Yan Qiu misty lock shortage. Jiajingnianjian, Yang Shen of the "Yunnan Sea Song" is also described King of Liang Court: The King of Liang Court, the central pavilion of water, the crow binary with a five-lake. Hongqiao ten miles across the sea, the Moon Palace Palace Night fragrance. Ming and Qing Dynasties, Chronicles, travelogues, poetry Summer Palace were recorded on the King of Liang. Ming Xu "You too Mountain in mind" inspection records in more detail: "Back under the North Bridge, Ye Rohan main hall, rear cliff high hundred yards. Yanan turning point, the spring party stagnant water cliff foot, is towards the bridge into seam down who said spoon Cold Spring. South over spring, that is, off the southeast, the loftier columns on the cliff, suspended Ying-Ping ray belt, if the next note Tui hillside collapsed cliff, straight bottom. pings between the Fan Yu Sin Temple, Ray Temple, the three permitted, Fu Shou Temple, Kwan Tai Temple, Cheung Sin Temple, Zhen Wu Temple, sequential put together. Zhenwu house on top of the cliff more Jie startled, this past summer King of Liang, also known as summer sets, to do at the South Temple, a small stone on the hole House also. more South Temple to do the cliff is not the, dome wall cloud cover, but even more to re-expand the cliff ... ... "Luo Hansi site, in front of this cliff under Samcheonggak. Ming Shiyu "Miao Shan be rebuilt Temple Inscription of Rohan" records, Luo Hansi formerly known as "Miao temple set." Also known as the "Sea Ya Temple", built in the Ming Hongzhi nine years (1496), "cliffs of stone hanging mid-air, such as Ocean-like, fine-sounding name is Dian Luo Hansi." To the Ming Zheng, Jiajing (1506 ~ 1566) form Samcheonggak South Temple complex. Jiajingnianjian, Luo Hansi Temple in the cliff, "carved Han Wang Ziyuan (Wang Bao) Jin Mabi chicken move the text, the Han Li Falla body, cover Yang Tai Shi (Shen) who moved Juan." Inscribed to Wang Bao Yang Shen "Move Jinma Bi Chicken Song" when the South has formed Samcheonggak Shengjing Buddhist Temple. Samcheonggak Zhu Sheng Temple in the Qing Dai Jiong Sun Daoguang "Kunming County," there are still records. To the Republic of Yuan Jia Guzhuan "You remember the Western Hills", the have switched dumping destroyed: "tea Samcheonggak, the Court, Mountain attractions also. Wu Meicun poem 'Maple Chicken Taixie chaos cloud, is the King of Liang old Summer Palace' , the Court Palace also. Ming Zhu track when one of the North Temple. North Temple on South Temple, the Temple in this note destroyed. "Samcheonggak paint a portrait of a pair of Anonymous in the name of the joint: Banbi from dangerous, Ling such as the screen, sea as a mirror, boat, such as leaves, picturesque villages castle, the status of seasons Temptress Moon, Chaomu Ching Yin, how ancient and modern visitors, who appreciate the thousands of weather; nine autumn Pro in excellent shape, the hole goes, and spring cliffs, pine with Tao, flowers and birds Linhe love, recalling eight stars cream, off River running, a rare habitat hometown late to freely roam the Golden Hushan. Western Hills historical development, should be restored King of Liang Zhu Summer Palace sites, the formation of the upper and lower Luohanshan South Temple Sacred Site Wall dangerous buildings.
Edit this paragraph five. Monastery in Qinghai, Xining
Built in Northern Wei Dynasty, and is now the second largest Monastery, also called Earthen view, this is the only way the Silk Road south line, so the shed where the footprints of many famous monks, thousands of years of wind and rain this scrubbing the great Buddhist temple to the north
A beautiful landscape. Known as the North Temple, located in Xining City, Kitayama, yard, well-developed Danxia recessed to the inside, the formation of caves of varying sizes, known as "Cave-eighth nine holes," said Hall between Redcliffe Yu-hung, Plank Road corridor, the cave temples and pavilions connected to the house of a hole in sets of holes, the holes are Buddhist and Taoist deities, like plastic, known as China's second Monastery. Retained some of the existing cave in to Yongqing years from the Tang Dynasty murals, high artistic value, has been called "Xi-Ping Mogao Grottoes," said. East of Forest Hill stands a huge statue of up to 30 meters "Open King Kong" Buddhism called "the Buddha", Taoism known as "Shadow Queen Mother is" forceful rough; top of the tower there is a rather life, every time Rain in the Mist, Mountain hidden fog, mist afar house. Disappeared the tower, "Kitayama smoke" hence the name. North Temple in history have had a lot of names. Mountain before the Ming Dynasty "shrines", it is "earth building shrines," said. Due to the Ming Dynasty Yongle Emperor Ciming "Yongxing Temple" only the name of the temple, dating back over 580 years of history. Because of floor repeatedly, structured, like an earth building, and therefore, "Earthen mountain". Wei Li Tao Yuan Tae travelers travel to Xining, the board Earthen Hill, his "Waterways" wrote? "Huangshui east, the Earth Building South, on the earth building, the north hillside of the original. Peak height of three hundred I feet have if shaved. "Earthen view of a Taoist Temple, and therefore," Earthen view, "said. Kitayama excited like a young phoenix wings to fly, while the Earth Building Hill also deemed a young phoenix wings, from the addition of Tim, a nickname called "Phoenix Wing Mountain." Although the name of the lot, but North Temple is one of the most used name for. The mountain temple is one of the major attractions in Xining area. Because of its geographical location? And the stylized style, has become a place people visit. In the Northern Wei Dynasty "Waterways" records of the North Temple, when the Northern Wei Qinghai, the figure also indicate the situation in the location in the West North Temple level pavilion? This Xining City. See North Temple popularity is very high. North Temple is a landform shape by a special built. Level here is almost like purple sandstone, conglomerate, during which also there are the layers of gypsum and Glauber, rock hard and soft and white, long-term geological time, running water, weathering and other forces, but under the action of the Red Cliff, cave, Xianfeng as the main feature of the Dan Xia landforms are typical of development. Soft rock in the recesses to form holes of different sizes, locally known as "Nine Cave eighth hole", inside a plastic Jade Emperor, Guanyin, Monju, Fugen, Kuan Buddha and other gods. Patterns on the wall painted statues, flowers, landscapes month with the Han, Tibetan Buddhist painting style has been called "Western square Mogao Grottoes" reputation. Hard rock bulge outward, like a roof, the temple built in his palace, the temples hanging, plank road corridors will be connected caves temples and pavilions that house a hole in sets of holes, the holes Tibetan Buddhist path along the cliff back to the song Gallery close to the cliff, and even vacant erection, can be regarded as a veritable Monastery was. Weiming Di years, Buddhism flourished in Shan State (now Xining) have followers for a niche in the Earthen Rock Hill off between the caisson painting, sculpture wall, so the wall, Temple Court building along the cliff, climbing believers worship, prevailed while. Than fourteen hundred years ago. Taoism is the Qing Dynasty into the mountains Earthen thing. Weiming Di after five years, after the cool Lu Kuang-occupied Wuwei, Gansu Corridor, Silk Road barrier, some monks to the music all by Lanzhou, Xining? Via the North River, Daban Mountain to Zhangye, to India, since Buddhism flourished in Hehuang region. "Ning Ting Tower" is located in the top of the mountain earth buildings, the original top of the arch, the three palace, Ray Hall, etc, the surface shape of the six five-story tower Qiaojiao tower, tower in the solid, green-brick structure. Nineteen years is Hongwu in Xining by the text of the construction of Changxing Hougeng Bing repair. "Lingguan Hall" is located in the foot, repair Ming Dynasty Hongwu years, destroyed by the flames of war burned, rebuilt in 1915. The original entrance, east and west sides have rooms, rooms middle horizontal tablet letter "Lingguan Hall" the three characters, Xining, Qing Xuantong donor community will Lingguan Hall refurbished. South Korea to name only a static two San Chung, noble and wise. Earthen Yamane buried west side, the locals called "monk grave." "Open King Kong" is located in the central mountain earth buildings, the east and west of a connected one, two open-air King Middle School more than ten meters, the system of two prominent part of the cliff, like two angels (also known as King), the local people called the flash Buddha Its intention is to flash out from the mountains. The west one, has been weathering the collapse does not distinguish features; east of a still intact. Landscape cliff erosion was originally to be wind and rain erosion, the formation of peculiar cliff. Later in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, National Cheng Kung University Artificial carved statues, known as the "Open King Kong." "Kitayama misty rain", as one of the eight Xining. Its origin refers to the North Temple in rain and fog in the scene, the time of sunset in Zhaohui, Yuan Wang Shan Zi Taying, quite spectacular, especially in the rain, mist, clouds, wind around the mountain, seems like a Dan-ink, and sometimes the whole mountain hidden in the clouds, flickering, even more some poetic. "Nine Cave eighth hole" set in the steep hillside, mountain adherent, very spectacular, most notably the ancient cave, the cave structures vary, no set of holes and some holes and some holes have a set of holes. The holes have a Buddha statue, there are Taoist deity, thousands of odd shapes and sizes, along the cliff between holes and hole after another. Today has been digging the canal north Temple Mountain, afforestation, become a new tourist destination.