What is the aerial photography of the Millennium Temple in Xiangyang, Hubei?
20 17 12, Xiangyang, Hubei. When the north has entered the season of ice and snow, Xiangyang, Hubei Province, which is located in the hinterland of the middle reaches of the Han River and the transitional zone between the north and the south of China, has just entered the early winter. Out of Xiangyang city, more than ten kilometers to the west, there is a hidden Millennium temple. Golden ginkgo leaves dance with the wind, covering the whole temple, just like the pure land of Buddhism, becoming the most beautiful scenery in this season.
This temple, called guangde temple, is located on the way to Gulong Middle School where Zhuge Liang lived in seclusion, less than two kilometers apart. But tourists usually go straight to Gulong, and few people notice this humble temple. Guangde temple, a small town, was founded in the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty (627-649 AD), formerly known as Yunju Temple. During Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty, Ming Xianzong gave the plaque "Guangde Zen Forest", so it was renamed "guangde temple", which is a famous ten-square jungle in the history of Buddhism in Hubei. According to the inscription in the temple, during Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty, Wang Xiang Zhu Jianshu's beloved wife died, took a fancy to the geomantic omen of Yunju Temple, and buried Effie beside the temple.
Kricketot, the host of Yunju Temple, was very dissatisfied and wanted to take the crowd away. Ming Xianzong had to come forward to mediate and let Wang Xiang choose a piece of land with a treasure trove of geomantic omen nearby, and the government made its own materials to build a temple for the monks. After the temple was completed, Ming Xianzong personally named it "guangde temple". "To guangde temple" is still hanging on the gate of guangde temple. The most worth seeing in guangde temple is the Duobao stupa guarded by ginkgo trees, which is also the most unique King Kong throne stupa found in China at present. Seen from the air, the multi-tower is a plane octagon, and the main tower is different from the four towers in style. Its architectural style is unique in China and it is a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Duobao Pagoda is a masonry structure, which was built in Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty from seven to nine years (1494- 1496). The first floor is octagonal, and the upper floor is five small towers. Among the five small pagodas, the main tower in the middle is a Tibetan pagoda, the other four pagodas are four-story Chinese hexagonal attic pagodas, and there is a square pavilion with four corners and four tips, which leads directly to the platform at the top of the tower.
According to Hokkeyo, Duobao Tathagata is Hokkeyo's protector and admirer. There is such a description in the stupa of the Lotus Sutra. When Sakyamuni Buddha proclaimed the northern boundary of Daoism, "there were seven pagodas in front of the Second Buddha, which were 500 meters high and 250 meters wide, gushing out of the ground and living in the air." There is a niche on each side of the octagon of the tower base, and the niche lintel is flame-shaped, and there is a Buddha sitting on the lotus platform in the niche. The left and right sides of the niche are engraved with the donor and source of the niche respectively. The season has passed the solar term of heavy snow, but the ancient ginkgo in guangde temple has just begun to yellow.
This is probably the latest ginkgo tree with yellow leaves in Hubei Province. This ginkgo tree in guangde temple has a history of thousands of years, and it was sealed by the emperors of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty gave him the title of "general tree" and Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty gave him the title of "protector". It is said that because of the seal, there are some leaves on the crown of this ginkgo tree, which are yellow in spring and summer, just like wearing a yellow robe. There is a poem written like this: "The ancient trees are towering into the sky to read the vicissitudes of life, and the Buddha country feels wonderful." Want to look up at longevity fruit, the frost leaves are full of chrysanthemum yellow. "