The ancestral court of the Huanglong Sect—Huanglong Temple

Huanglong Temple, formerly known as Huanglong Yugan Temple, was founded by Chaohui, a disciple of Zen Master Qingyuan Xuanquanyan, in the second year of Qianning in the Tang Dynasty (AD 895). It has a history of more than 1,100 years. The temple site was personally determined by Sima Tutuo, the "ancestor of Feng Shui", so monks gathered together and the sect's reputation was far-reaching. Chaohui Zen Master surrendered Lu Dongbin as a waiter boy, and became famous and was known as the "Dharma Cave"; three times in the Tang and Song Dynasties (i.e. In the second year of Guanghua (899), the first year of Yuanyou (904), and the eighth year of Xiangfu (1015), Chaohui and Huanglong Temple were named "Huanglong Dade Patriarch", "Huanglong Patriarch" and "Chong'en Huanglong Temple". Therefore, it is known as "Sanchi Chong'en Zen Temple".

There are still many historical relics, such as monk tombs and cliff carvings scattered around the temple. The famous landscape "Nine Passes and Thirteen Locks" is right in front of the temple.

Huanglong Temple has been praised by literati and poets of all ages, and rare handwritings have been handed down from generation to generation. A large number of scholars and officials who converted to Huanglong Sect, such as Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Zhang Shangying, Xu Xi, and scholars such as Zeng Gong and Lu You who once traveled to Xiushui, all wrote poems and articles for Huanglong Temple. Especially Huang Tingjian, because he was a native of Xiushui, Jiangxi, and was a member of the Ancestor Xinhuitang, and he was closely associated with a group of eminent Huanglong monks such as Lingyuan Weiqing, Diexinwuxin, Tusita Huizhao, Qingliang Huihong, etc., so he was called Huanglong. There are many poems and calligraphy left in the temple. According to legend, all the large and small plaques and inscriptions in Huanglong Temple at that time were written by Huang Tingjian. His handwriting includes "Three Character Poems" in regular script, "Monk Huitang's Opening of the Hall" in regular script, "Praise to Guanyin" and "Ode to Burning Incense" in running script, as well as the cliff stone inscriptions "Lingyuan", "Huanglong Mountain" and "Faku". wait. The word "Lingyuan" is engraved in regular script on the boulder on the left side of the Lingyuan Arch Bridge; the plaque "Sanchi Chong'en Zen Temple" remains in the temple forever, and the three words "Huanglong Mountain" are engraved on the dismounted stone wall in front of the temple, with a diameter of 85 cm. , whose vigorous and vigorous handwriting is still clearly visible.

In the spring of the first year of Chongning, Huang Tingjian was demoted from Sichuan and was pardoned and came back to practice. He visited his Taoist friend Lingyuan Weiqing, whom he had not seen for many years, and met his Taoist friend Dai Daochun at Huanglong Temple. At that time, Huitang Zuxin had passed away, and the pagoda was on the side of Huinan. Huang Tingjian wrote "Ode to Burning Incense" and paid homage to the twin pagodas of Huinan and Zuxin. He wrote a farewell poem that said:

Ten days of walking in the mountains are stained by rain. , Facing Luohui in front of Mufu Mountain. The fields are filled with wild water, but the sunny doves call the rainy doves to return.

Master Lingyuan has the human celestial eye, and the founder of the Twin Pagodas is the machine of all Buddhas. Now that my white hair and gray face have returned, I ask you, are you still different from the past?

On the right side of the temple, there are stone carvings with the words "Cuiyun Cave". When Ao and Mao came to pay homage to the elder Qing Gong, there were five hundred people in the hall. On the second day of Jianyiyou, there was an inscription by Han Ju, a poet from Jiangxi, on the side. On the right side of the temple, there are stone steps carved into the cliff, which are named the Ladder to Heaven. The six characters "Namo Amitabha" are engraved on the stone wall. There is a place where monks were burned on the side, called "Huaren Pit". There are two characters "Three Passes" carved on the stone wall. About five hundred meters in front of the temple, there are two words "Faku" carved on the stone wall on the right side.

Dozens of towers (pavilions) tombs of eminent monks, known as the Huanglong Temple Pagoda Forest, are located in the right front of Huanglong Temple. Huinan, the founder of the Huanglong Sect, passed away in the second year of Xining in the Song Dynasty. The pagodas are buried on the right front of the temple and have been preserved to this day. After the death of Zu Xin and Shi Xin, the main descendants of his two generations, their stupas were built here. Later generations called them the Three Pagodas, and they are a famous cultural site in Huanglong Temple.

In the existing Guanyin Hall, the four characters "Jianfeng Miaofa" written on the wooden Zen plaque dated to the sixth year of Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty are still intact even though it is more than 130 years ago. The most valuable and rare thing is that a couplet inscribed by Liu Ji is still intact in the temple: "Lü Zu came here to meditate, and he began to understand the secrets of spiritual practice; Huang Gong visited Daodengsi, and the cause of his birth was revealed."