How about Chongfu Temple in Shuozhou? Are there any interesting places?

Chongfu Temple is a national key cultural relics protection unit, located on the north side of Neidong Street in Shuozhou Ancient City. It was founded in the second year of Tang Linde (665) by Wei Chijingde, Duke of Hubei. The main hall of Chongfu Temple is Tommy Hall, which was built in the third year of Emperor Xizong of Jin Dynasty (1 143). It has a history of more than 800 years and is very precious. The temple is seven rooms wide, 40.96 meters wide and 48 rafters deep, 22.5438+0 meters. The temple rests on the top of the mountain, with a single eaves and a total height of about 2 1 m. The temple is located on a tall pedestal, 2.4 meters high, and there is a spacious platform in front of the pedestal, which makes the temple tall and magnificent. There is a vertical plaque of "Tomi Hall" under the eaves in front of the temple, which is an original of the 24th year of Jin Dading (1 184). The first five rooms of the hall are separated by doors, and two large doors are installed between the back eaves and both ends for visitors to enter the hall. In order to enlarge the interior space, be careful with five rooms and subtract the middle pillar. Only two of the four gold pillars in the front slot were left and moved to the middle line of the second room, which increased the space for the altar position and the Buddha position. This practice of reducing columns and shifting columns is a bold innovation in the architectural history of China. The statues in the main hall of Amitabha Buddha are distributed on the big Buddha altar which spans four rooms. Amida Buddha is in the middle of the main statue, Guanyin Bodhisattva is on the left and Bodhisattva is on the right. Buddhism is called the "Three Saints of the West". There are four bodhisattva statues on both sides of the main image, with a slightly curved body; There are two King Kong standing in two corners of the stage, majestic and dazzling. It seems that they are fulfilling their duty to protect the law. These colored sculptures are all works when the temple was built. Although it was reloaded in the Ming Dynasty, its shape, body, clothing and face have not changed much, and it is still a treasure in the statues of the Jin Dynasty in China. There are murals painted around the Amitabha Hall, covering an area of 345.75 square meters, which are also works of the Jin Dynasty. The paintings are mainly Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. In a temple, buildings, statues, murals, colored glasses, door and window partitions, plaques under the eaves, ink and other cultural relics of the Jin Dynasty gather together. After more than 800 years of cold and heat, it is really rare. In addition, there are thousand Buddha Pavilion, Tianwang Hall, Bell and Drum Tower, Manjusri Hall, Dizang King Hall, Sanbao Hall and Guanyin Hall, which are also quite spectacular. In addition to the above-mentioned magnificent temples and pavilions, Chongfu Temple also preserves carved pavilions, stone statues and many unearthed cultural relics from the Tang, Liao and Song Dynasties. Among them, the stone statues in the Liao Dynasty and the stone pagoda in the Northern Wei Dynasty are also very eye-catching.

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