What are the temples in Guangzhou?

What are the temples in GuangzhouThe most familiar temples to Guangzhouers are the Hualin Temple, Guangxiao Temple, Liurong Temple, Sanyuan Palace, Huangdaxian Temple, Huai Sheng Temple and Pineapple Temple (South Sea Temple). Among them, Huai Sheng Temple is an Islamic temple.

Of these, the four temples of Guangxiao, Liurong, Hualin and Haibang are known as the four major Buddhist jungles in Guangzhou.

1, Sanyuan Palace

Located at the southern foot of Yuexiu Mountain on Yingyuan Road, it is the longest surviving and largest Taoist building in Guangzhou. Sanyuan Palace was founded by Bao Liang, the governor of Nanhai in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It was first named Yuegang Temple, then called Wushu Temple in Tang Dynasty, and was renamed Sanyuan Palace when it was rebuilt in Ming Dynasty.

Rumor has it that Bao Liang (also known as Xuan), the governor of Nanhai in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, built it for alchemy, initially known as Yue Gang Yuan. Bao Liang's daughter's aunt, good at medicine, and the famous Jin Dynasty medicine Ge Hong married, living here for 10 years, "by the well springs and red ai for the medical prescription, the living countless", after his death, people set up in this aunt of the temple to commemorate. Yuegang Yuan since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, after building, after several abandoned, in the Ming Wanli and Chongzhen when rebuilt, began to use the name of the Palace of Sanyuan (said that the Qing dynasty Shunzhi years rebuilt for the Palace of Sanyuan). Sanyuan, that is, the Taoists on the Palace of Heaven, Earth Palace, Water Palace of the general term, rumored to be able to forgive sins, bring good fortune and longevity.

2, Guangxiao Temple Guangxiao Temple is located in Guangzhou People's Park in the north, covers an area of 30,000 square meters, is a national key cultural relics protection units. The temple has a history of more than 1,500 years, Guangzhou has "no sheep city, the first light of filial piety," said that this statement may not be correct, but the temple is one of the oldest buildings in Guangdong. The temple was built in the Three Kingdoms, the name of the temple has changed repeatedly, to the Southern Song Dynasty Shaoxing twenty-one years (1151 years) and set the current name. The Tang Dynasty Yi Feng yuan year (676) monk Hui Neng in the temple precepts under the Bodhi tree in front of the precepts altar, the opening of the Southern Sect of Buddhism, known as the "Sixth Ancestor of Zen Buddhism", for the temple added immortal luster. Since then, there have been many temples, which had a certain influence on the development of Buddhism in China. 3, six banyan temple six banyan temple pagoda in chaoyang north road, guangzhou famous buddhist temple. Built in Liang Datong three years (537 years), has a history of more than 1,400 years, is one of the famous monuments in Guangzhou.

In 537 A.D., Venerable Tanyu, the maternal uncle of Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang (the most famous Buddhist monarch in Chinese history), came to Guangzhou in 537 A.D., having sought relics (Buddha's bones) from Cambodia. Xiao Yu, the assassin of Guangzhou, created the "Bao Zhuang Yan Temple" to welcome this Buddhist treasure. When it was rebuilt in the second year of Duan Gong (989) of the Northern Song Dynasty, the monks of the temple worshiped Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of the Zen Sect of Buddhism, for the purpose of practicing purification, and the temple was renamed as the Pure Wisdom Temple. Su Shi, a writer and calligrapher of the Song Dynasty, visited the temple in the third year of the Yuanfu era (1100) when he was passing through Guangzhou, and saw six ancient banyan trees in the temple, so he inscribed the word "Six Banyan". In the Ming Dynasty, the temple was called Six Banyan Temple, which is still in use today.

Flower Pagoda in the Six Banyan Temple, formerly known as the Baozhuangyan Temple Relic Pagoda. The tower was built at the same time as the six banyan temple, but the original tower was destroyed by fire in the tenth century A.D. In 1931, when the tower was rebuilt, it was reinforced with reinforced concrete on the inside. Now the tower is 57 meters high, octagonal nine steps, inside seventeen floors, along the stairs to the top of the tower, overlooking the city's scenery. The tower's appearance is magnificent, hanging bells hanging from the eaves, the whole tower seems to be a flower stacked into a flower column, the top of the tower seems to grow in the highest flower on the stamen heart. So people generally call it "flower tower".

4, Hualin Temple is located in guangzhou xiguan xiajiu road north side of xilai zheng street area. Before the Sui Dynasty this place for the Pearl River bank.

Southern Liang Wu Di common seven years (526 years), Tian Guo (i.e., ancient India) monk Bodhidharma east to China to preach. He first disembarked at the present Xilai Chodi and built the Xilai Nunnery at the landing place. Later generations of believers honored Dharma as the founder of Chinese Buddhism, and thus called his landing place Xilai Chodi. Hualin Temple is a Buddhist temple, more than 1,400 years ago, through the Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the lamp has been passed on.

In the 12th year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty (1655), the first Da Xiong Bao Dian was built, followed by the construction of pavilion halls and Pang Zha rooms, and changed Xilai Temple into Hualin Temple, becoming one of the four major jungles of Buddhism in Guangzhou. In the 29th year of the Daoguang period (1849), the abbot of the temple, Monk Fengyuan, by imperial decree, built the Hall of Five Hundred Lohans with a width of 31 meters, a depth of 44 meters, and a total area of 1,364 square meters, which, in addition to enshrining the Triple Jeweled Buddha, displayed five hundred statues of the Lohans in various forms of clay sculptures. There is also a wooden statue of the Italian traveler Marco Polo. Polo's wooden statue, the wooden statue is now stored in Venice Corelli Museum. Lohan Hall is a municipal-level cultural relics protection units.

5, Haibang Temple is located in Guangzhou City, Tongfu Road No. 337, was built in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, so far there are more than three hundred years of history, is a key cultural relics protection units in Guangzhou City. It is known as one of the five major jungles in Guangzhou for its solemn appearance, majestic halls, grand open space, and flourishing Buddhist fates.

The temple is said to have been the "Thousand Autumn Temple" in the Southern Han Dynasty. Later, the temple was deserted for a long time and became a mound for the residents. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was the round land of Guo Longyue, a rich gentleman. Monk light Mou, Yuet Chi teachers and disciples to Guo raised this place to build the Buddha Hall, according to the Buddhist scripture Hai Block Bhikkhu meditation Prajna Paramita Sutra to become a Buddha's meaning, named "Hai Block Temple".

Haibang Temple has a long history, forests and trees in the sky, the shade of the ground, the environment is elegant, pleasant scenery. "Hai Block spring color" for the former popular Yangcheng one of the eight scenic spots. Sights and valuable cultural relics, such as Haibang on the eagle's claw, sixteen Lohan, the four vajra, three bearded Goddess of Mercy, tiger turning back to the stone, Haibang Palace tiles, Tanyu bowl, Underworld bell, star rock tower and a large number of colorful. Together with the natural monks and other monks wrote a lot, and extended the teacher to teach students to poetry, so the poetry of the monks, there are many, "natural door, the poetry of the monks of sixty" reputation. Therefore, the history of the Shanghai Building Temple is not only to promote the practice of Zen place, but also celebrities and elegant people to cultivate the place.

6, Renwei Temple

Located in Longjin West Road, Temple Street, the old Pantang Township. The temple was built in the Song dynasty? v four years (1052). Since the Song Dynasty, successive generations of townspeople are "rate their private money" repair or rebuild. Before it was rebuilt in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there were only the first three houses in the middle road and the west sequence. The last two entries and the east sequence were added during the Qianlong period. Renwei Temple is a temple dedicated to the Taoist god Zhenwu Di. Now the main building is slightly trapezoidal, covering an area of 2,200 square meters, sitting north to south. Inside the Temple of Renwei wood carving is very delicate, the head of the door are made of wood carving craft components, carving auspicious motifs, all over the application of gold color. And the top for the five mountains wind volcano wall. The ridge is shiwan wenru shaped ceramic figures tile ridge, on the "tongzhi dingmao" characters. Renwei Temple is a cultural relics protection unit in Guangzhou. Its wood carving, stone carving, brick carvings have their own characteristics, ceramic sculpture, gray sculpture work fine and strong show, leaving a deep and strong impression on people.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

7, South China Sea Temple, also known as the Polo Temple, is located in Huangpu Nangang Town, Temple Head Village. South China Sea Temple is the ancient emperor sacrificed to the sea place, founded in the Sui Kaihuang fourteen years (594 AD), since the Sui and Tang dynasties have sent officials to the temple to hold ceremonies, leaving a lot of precious inscriptions, there is a "Southern Forest of Stelae," the name. Nanhai Temple is also an important historical site of China's ancient maritime transportation and trade, the birthplace of the ancient Maritime Silk Road. Temple existing cultural relics, Guangzhou City, the 1st to the 8th of the old and famous trees are in the temple, such as the temple is located in the west of a soapberry tree has a history of 390 years, the other several cottonwoods, sea red beans and other trees are more than 200 years old. Temple west of Zhangqiu Gang on the "Bathing Sun Pavilion", one of the eight scenic spots in Yangcheng in Song and Yuan Dynasty "Fuxu bathing sun" refers to this place, the pavilion has a poem by Su Dongpo monument. The Nanhai Temple is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit, and the annual "Polo Festival" in February of the lunar calendar is one of the largest folk temple fairs in Guangzhou.

8, Huangdaxian Temple

Guangzhou Huangdaxian Temple was built in the Qing Dynasty in the year of Hai (1899), the 1910s suffered war damage, but from the remains can be seen, such as stone couplets, bas-relief stone columns, plaques, door decorations, stone lions, etc., decorated with exquisite carvings.

In 1915, the host, Taoist Master Leung Yan-an, brought the portrait of Wong Tai Sin, the spirit stick and the medicine stick to Hong Kong, and built the Hong Kong Wong Tai Sin Temple in 1921, which has been y worshipped by Chinese people at home and abroad.

Guangzhou Wong Tai Sin Temple was officially rebuilt on November 9, 1997 by Guangzhou Jiayou Tourism Scenic Spot Development Company Limited, and on February 6, 1999, it was opened to the public. So far, it has received more than millions of visitors. There are precious cultural relics of the original Wong Tai Sin Temple in the ancestral hall, and there are also the main hall of Wong Tai Sin, Kwun Yum Hall, Lui Cho Hall, Kong Sheng Hall, God of Fortune Hall, Guan Di Hall, Doo Mo Hall, a display area, a Lingnan-style garden bed, a hundred million years of stones, a vegetarian restaurant, and shopping malls and plazas, etc., which provide tourists with meals, shopping and recreation.

9, Panyu Nansha Tianhou Palace

Nansha Tianhou Palace is close to the Pearl River estuary Lingdingyang, located in the southeast foothills of the Dajiao Shandong, by the mountains and the water, its buildings cascade according to the mountains, the halls of splendor, majestic, in the middle of the Queen of Heaven Plaza is the stone statue of Tin Hau, in honor of the goddess of the sea, Lin Mo, the architectural characteristics of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the style and the momentum of the Mausoleum of the Nanjing, the scale is now the world of its kind. Its scale is now the world's largest building of its kind, known as "the world's first palace of Tin Hau", but also the largest Mazu Temple in Southeast Asia. Tianhou Palace covers an area of 278 acres, with an investment of nearly 50 million yuan.

The Tianhou Sacred Statue is 14.5 meters high and stands in the square of Tianhou Palace, which covers an area of 1.5 hectares. The whole Tianhou Palace is surrounded by green trees, and the smoke curls up in the hall, which gives people a feeling of transcendence when they are in the middle of it.

There is also the Great Buddha Temple on Beijing Road, the Nengren Temple on Baiyun Mountain, the Five Immortals Temple on Huifu West Road, and the Chunyang Temple on Shuju Gang in Wufeng Village, Haizhu District, and so on.