A brief history of Jiangxin Temple
According to "Wenzhou Fuzhi", the island was originally two islands, east and west facing each other in the middle stream, and Longtan is unfathomable. At that time, it happened that the river was silted up, and the young Zen master personally led the people to throw stones to fill Zhongchuan, so he founded Zhongchuan Temple on it. Due to the praise of Emperor Gaozong, Nakagawa Temple was changed to Jiangxin Temple, Fusaiji to Longxiang Temple and Jingxin Temple to Xingqing Temple. At the same time, there are two monuments, namely "Qinghui" and "Bathing Light", and there are "Qinghuixuan" and "Bathing Light Hall" in Longxiang Temple (Qinghui Monument is still there, but Bathing Light Monument is long gone). It was ordered to unify the three temples into one, and the total name was Longxiang Xingqing Temple, which included all the pavilions and pavilions on the island and gave thousands of acres of incense lamps, and regarded the temple as the "Gaozong Dojo". The imperial court sends Beijing officials to worship in the temple every spring and autumn. The "Wangjiang Pavilion" was specially built outside Yongqing Gate as a place to cross the Hengjiang River. Build Monk Street (now Maxing Heshang Street) from the head of Bazi Bridge to the bottom of Yongqing Gate, and order citizens to open a shop to serve monks. Therefore, the peak of incense began in the Southern Song Dynasty and continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, and there were still official believers coming to the temple in an endless stream.
The original hall of Jiangxin Temple is magnificent, and there is a poem in Wen Tianxiang: "The building is 100 feet high and the tower is full of dragons." At present, the main hall was rebuilt in the 54th year of Qing Qianlong (1789), and it is divided into three parts: the former is the King Kong Hall, with bell and drum towers at both ends (the ancient bell in the Song Dynasty is still there). Two Bodhisattvas, Maitreya and Wei Tuo, are provided in China, with four heavenly kings on both sides. On the wall hung a four-character plaque inscribed by Song Zhuxi (the word Huiweng). Outside the mountain gate, there is a wooden couplet written by the champion Wang of the Song Dynasty, which is famous in ancient and modern times. The "Tong Yuan Hall" in the middle is dedicated to the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva, with auspicious and dragon girls standing on both sides. There is amitabha behind the main hall. The northeast corner is the Guanyin statue (which was presented by Japan), and the northwest corner is the Tibetan statue. On the left front is the Galapagos Temple, and on the right front is the Ancestor Hall. This temple is the most spectacular, with the plaque of "Tong Yuan Dian" written by Qianlong Imperial Book on the upper eaves and "Jiang Tian Fu Di" (untitled) on the lower eaves. In the center of the hall is the plaque of "Cihang Pudu" inscribed by Wu Lana, Governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, and the couplet of Zhu Zheng was written by Wang Anshi (Character Festival) in the Song Dynasty (this couplet was originally hung in Xingqing Temple). Qianzhulian is a couplet of a book written by Chen (Zi Wan), a juren in Yongjia, Tongzhi, Qing Dynasty: "Smoke waves on all sides, and a few doubts move to Pengdao, and Jinshan flies; A niche incense, there are relics of Shu monks, and there is a legacy of the Song Dynasty. " There are five corridors in front of the main hall, with Sanwei Hall in the east and living room in the west. Later, these were three temples, among which the statues Tomi, Guanyin and the Great Trend Three Saints were erected. The forehead and couplets in the temple were written by Master Hongyi. Each corridor has five buildings for monks to live in. There are seven main buildings in the abbot room to the west of the Hall of Great Heroes, and three buildings in the East-West Pavilion. In the middle of the building, there is a different version of Tibetan scriptures, including ten volumes of printed Dong 'ou ancient scriptures and the upper and lower volumes of Nakagawa Zen Master's Nakagawa collection (incomplete). This abbot's room has always been a place where precious calligraphy and painting cultural relics are concentrated. There are three abbot rooms in the west, three in the back, the warehouse in the front and the big room in the back. There are three "Anxianju" in the west of Tang Qi, which were built in 1935 and used as female guest rooms when Qin Yun was the abbot. "Going to Lai Zhai" is located on the right side in front of "An Xianju", where Tong Zhen lived in seclusion during the Qianlong period. Master Hongyi, a monk, once settled here in the summer, leaving a lot of Mo Bao (it has been completely demolished, leaving only a clearing). Jiangxin Temple is divided into four major temples (namely, Zen Hall, Buddhist Hall, Warehouse and Guest Hall). Before liberation, the abbots of Huashan, Weishan and Qin Yun led the public to practice and gathered the good knowledge of the elders in the mountains to give lectures. As many as seventy or eighty monks live in normal religious activities and are quite prosperous.