The magical "Daipo Temple" in Yunnan is going down the whole way. Why is it built like this?

The Yuantong Zen Temple with Yunnan characteristics, from the moment you enter the archway, you will find that the entire process is downhill. It may be built to facilitate drainage, or it may be due to the local geographical environment. In fact, there are no relevant records about the construction of Yuantong Zen Temple. Many people think that the temple was built this way to facilitate drainage, but I think it may also be because the site was chosen here, so the mistake was made in order to make the temple look better. The center is built as a release pond.

1. Regarding the downhill design of Yuantong Zen Temple, many people believe that the ancients deliberately selected the site here to reduce drainage problems

Yuantong Zen Temple is a typical inverted slope. Temple?, the biggest feature of this temple with a history of more than 1,200 years is that it basically goes all the way down, starting from entering the archway, and the lowest end of the temple is the release pool; for Yuantong Zen Temple Many people believe that the design was specifically chosen to facilitate drainage. Although drainage is something every temple cares about, would it be built here specifically for a simple drainage problem? I think this is not the real reason. After all, for the ancients, drainage issues were not simply considered when building temples.

2. In fact, the terrain of Yuantong Zen Temple may have been like this when the site was selected, and the lowest end was built as a release pond according to the actual situation

As for the lower end of Yuantong Zen Temple, For slope construction, I even think that the site itself is downhill; in the thinking of ancient people, temple construction is ultimately about feng shui and meaning. Maybe when the temple was built, the site was downhill, and the craftsmen were building At that time, in order to create a stable and all-round momentum of the temple, the main hall could only be built at the lowest point, and a special drainage pond was built to prevent rainwater from directly invading the main hall, creating a special downhill temple.

The construction of Yuantong Zen Temple may be due to the geographical environment, so that a low-lying release pond can always accompany the main hall.