Where is the Jingxin Temple in Jiuhua Mountain?
Jingxin Temple, located in Jinchong Village at the east foot of Lotus Peak, is only eight kilometers away from Qingyang County. Walking along the back steps of Jinshan Village for one kilometer, an inconspicuous temple is faintly visible in the background of renovation, that is, "Jingxin Temple". The locals call it "Old buddhist nun". According to legend, Daoji, a mad monk who became a Buddha in the Tang Dynasty, lived here for many years.
According to Records of Jiuhua Mountain, Jingxin Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty, which is an "An Temple", also known as "Biyun Temple", commonly known as "Old Temple". Shi Xitan, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, rebuilt and expanded Biyun Temple and renamed it "Jingxin Temple". Jiuhua poem written by the famous Taoist Shi Xitan was lost in the early days. There are only five old records, but only two are now recorded, namely Jiuhua Chongshou Pagoda and Qibuquan. The three main halls of Jingxin Temple were built by abbot Juejing and his disciples Mingshun and Tong Ming in the 16th year of Chenghua in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1480). The main hall is an all-stone structure, not only the four walls are made of green hemp strips, but also the beams, columns and arches of the whole hall are chiseled with green hemp, surrounded by one person and carved into moire patterns. On the beam of the main entrance, eight characters are written: "Good weather, peaceful country and safe people". The whole building is full of Gu Zhuo and simplicity. In ancient times, buildings built entirely of stone like this were mostly used to build "road pavilions" on official roads for travelers to rest. As a temple building, especially in the mountainous area of southern Anhui, which is rich in wood, it is rare to abandon wood for stone, and it is the only existing temple in the Jiuhua Mountain Holy Land. I don't know what the abbot's purpose is, but it is still a mystery. Another interesting phenomenon is that the gate of this temple is inclined rather than right, "inclined" by about 30 degrees from south to east.
According to monk Di Bing, the owner of the temple, there have been no mosquitoes and flies in this temple in summer since ancient times. It is also said that Lu Zhongyuan, a descendant of Sun Simiao, a drug king in the Tang Dynasty, once lived here, studied and practiced his teacher's Thousand Women and Thousand Women's Wings, went to the countryside to practice medicine, and combined with his own practice and experience, devoted himself to compiling Thousand Women for Huize descendants. He also said that Lu Zhongyuan did not forget his teacher's kindness, and enshrined his teacher's icon in the main hall, commonly known as "Medicine King Bodhisattva", which was offered day and night. From then on, the mosquitoes and flies around were afraid to enter the temple because of the magic of the drug king. The Bodhisattva of the King of Medicine is still enshrined in the temple.
The magic of Jingxin Temple also lies in its unique geographical location. To the west of the temple gate is the "Bijia Mountain" vein-Jiuhuashan Houshan, which winds to the south, with towering walls and staggered peaks. The temple gate goes out to the east side of the mountain, and at the foot is a farm field in Ma Pingchuan; Backed by a flat "flat top"; The location is "horizontal" on the mountainside-so the locals call the temple site "Upper Row". According to the old man who knows Feng Shui, this is a "plush chair" shape, a place of Feng Shui, which coincides with Zuo Qinglong and Right White Tiger. Just the right white tiger-Bijia Mountain is too high and sinister; The Qinglong on the left lacked potential, so when the monk Xitan was repairing and expanding the temple, he built a stone tower with a level of one or seven in front of the temple. The tower is five meters high, slightly to the south, slightly "S"-shaped, like a snake-shaped sword on the weapon spectrum, standing on the dangerous rock, named Qingfeng. Looking from a distance, the Qingfeng Tower is like a "dragon" piercing the sky, and the "white tiger" on the left really lives up to expectations. It is also said that the site of Jingxin Temple is "on the top" and coincides with the "bamboo raft". On the west side of Jingxin Temple, there is a ravine-Yinwa, which does not enter the sun all the year round. There is a Tian Quan at the peak of spring storage, which is clear and sweet. The spring water is inexhaustible, overflowing into a stream, passing through Jingxin Temple along the "Yinwa" and flowing to the southeast, which is called "Longxi". Because the "bamboo raft" is easily lost by water, which violates the taboo of "past tense" in Jingxin Temple, there is a Qingfeng Tower in the town, which is the "pole" of the raft. Of course, these are legends and unreliable superstitions, but in the era and cultural background at that time, the possibility of this construction idea cannot be ruled out. But we can be sure that in the Song Dynasty, the foreign religious culture was obviously localized and secularized in the collision with the traditional Taoist culture in China, from the environmental layout of Jingxin Temple, the stone carvings on the beams and the "crooked doors" in the temple.
There is also a mystery in Jingxin Temple, which is the "curved bridge". The curved bridge is not called "curved bridge", but called "Longxi Bridge", also called "Jingxin Bridge". Xitan, also a poet and monk, was built in the Song Baoqing period (A.D. 1226) and is a two-hole flat bridge. The strangeness of the bridge lies in the arrow shape of the bridge body, that is, the ">" shape. If Longxi is regarded as an arrow shaft and Longxi Bridge as an arrow, it is like an "arrow" on a string, ready to go. Ancient bridges, pagodas and temples are mysterious triangles. What is its moral? I'm afraid only Hitan knew at that time.
There are many temples and fields since ancient times. Or "kubunden" given by the government; Or the "Shi Tian" of believers; Or temples "buy fields" from incense. However, Zhuangtian in Xinsi Temple was obtained in violation of the precepts of the Saman: On September 22nd, Jiaqing, Qing Dynasty, the monk gallery method in the temple fought against the local rich man, namely, "Winning" and "Sixteen hills in an acre of paddy field in Jinchangmao", and made it clear that his descendants could not get it back, and "the publication of tablets will always be subject to this". This inscription is still embedded in the lower right of the temple gate.
Jingxin Temple is really a "land of geomantic omen". Due to the unique natural environment, there have been strange astronomical phenomena here: local pilgrims and tourists have witnessed a mirage on the top of Lianhuafeng Mountain in Jingxin Temple twice. One occurred at 3 pm on the 16th day of the first lunar month in 2000; One time occurred at around 1 1 Sunday morning 10 in the same year. They were both cleared by the rain. According to witnesses, there is another "Lotus" above Lotus Peak and Yun Ni, and the two "Lotus" echo each other from a distance, which is spectacular. Jingxin Temple is not only ancient and mysterious, but also has very charming natural scenery. In addition to Chuquan Peak in Jingxin Temple, there are also Luoji Peak and Zhonglianhua Peak, which are shaped like ancient people's hair, and overlap with each other. The valley is green. The natural landscape and human landscape here blend together; Buddhist atmosphere and folklore cast a mysterious color on Jingxin Temple.