Places of interest and cultural, historical and customary characteristics of Songjiang District

In the Xining period of the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, from A.D. 1068 to A.D. 1094, the Xing Shengjiao Temple Pagoda, which is famous in the south of the Yangtze River, was built here. During the Ming Dynasty, large temples such as the Prefectural City God Temple and Guan Di Temple were built here. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the north side of the Xing Shengjiao Temple was built in the words of Dong Qichang, a great calligrapher and painter of the Ming Dynasty, Li Daiwen, a famous general who fought against the Qing Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Shen Quan, a famous calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, so the north side of the cross-street was called the Sanguine Street in the year, which was to commemorate these three celebrities in the history of Songjiang.

2. Drunken White Pond

It is one of the five classical gardens in Shanghai. It has a history of more than 900 years since the predecessor of this garden. The park covers an area of seventy-six acres. Inside the park, there are many ancient trees, pavilions and monuments. Its curved railings and thresholds, corridors and paths are ancient in color and aroma. There are five classical gardens in Shanghai, namely, Shanghai Yuyuan Garden, Jiading Ancient Ripple Garden, Qiuxia Garden, Qingpu Qushui Garden and Songjiang Drunken White Pond. And Drunken White Pool is the oldest garden among the five gardens.

3. Xilin Zen Temple

Xilin Zen Temple

Xilin Zen Temple From the People's Road along the West Zhongshan Road westbound 300 meters, there is a brilliant Palace of the Brahma in front of the eyes, which is the famous temple Xilin Zen Temple in Jiangnan. Walking into the Zen Temple gate looking up, that is, the President of the Buddhist Association of Jiangsu Mingshan Grand Master's hand Ze: "Daxiong Baodian" plaque title, point of painting overflowing with Datong Yungang stone carvings orthodox Northern Wei's rich calligraphy style, it is not extraordinary hand reachable. On the ridge of the temple, "Buddha's sunshine" four big words in the sunlight dazzling, is Jin Yingzi priests left. Behind the ridge is "Dharma. The wheel is always turning".

The dragon kissed the ridge on both sides of the fish tail, lace drip above by the plastic small Bodhisattvas, vertical band for the four heavenly kings, the top of the spine in the center of the ornamental gourd. Looking up at the entire hall, for our country's ancient temple traditional hiatus single-eaved architectural style. Ridge top left and right also decorated with elephant trunks. And molded "before the dragon after the phoenix", meaning that the dragon and phoenix. Plus the ridge decorated with seven lines back to the line, gray ancient tile roof, so that people seem to see the real era of construction. In fact, this building brilliant, magnificent hall, is in the original hall on the site of the new building. Really earlier than the Ming Dynasty, the construction of the hall, can only see two pieces of about 4 tons of weight on the round bottom of the mulberry stone, the relics of seven hundred years ago, has become the new hall of the town of treasures. Out of the six floor-to-ceiling lattice of long windows composed of the back door of the main hall, only more than ten steps away, the towering Xilin Zen Temple round should be pagoda. Pagoda body seven layers of eight sides, brick and wood structure, the tower wall in the wall with brick ladder can be climbed. Pagoda height of 46.5 meters, so far is still Shanghai's highest pagoda. According to the relevant tablets, said "the tower is lofty and solemn, three Wu tower without its right" Xilin Temple and Xilin Tower has been more than seven hundred years of history. To Ming Hongwu twenty-one years (1388) to rebuild the temple and pagoda, in honor of the founder of the Southern Song Dynasty hospital in the clouds of the high priest monk Yuan Ying Zen Master, so the Chongen Tower renamed for the round should be tower. Pagoda was in the forty-first year of the Ming Wanli (1613), the Qing dynasty Qianlong 58 years (1793), Daoguang twenty years (1840) and the early years of Guangxu (1875) and several times rebuilt. Round should be pagoda today, was called Xilin tower. 1992 autumn, by the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Management Committee grants, by the Songjiang Museum presided over the Xilin tower repair matters. 1993 door November 29, when the repair staff unloading tower brake, found the top of the gourd copper sandwich liner, placed in a number of statues of the Buddha and the ancient money and other cultural relics. There are gold Buddha statue, silver Buddha statue, gilt-silver Guanyin statue, gilt-silver Wen Kuixing statue, jade carving Guanyin statue, Buddhist scriptures, remembering silver, remembering wooden board, copper seal and ancient money. More than fifty pieces. Among them to the Daoguang to Guangxu years of the majority of things. On December 15 of the same year, in the base of the tower brick palace, and found a number of gilded silver Buddha, gilded copper Buddha, bronze Buddha, jade carving Lohan statue, jade wall, jade ring, jade ink stone, ancient money, Buddhist scriptures, as well as amber, onyx and other ornaments **** more than 70 pieces. To the Ming Dynasty, there are still Song and Yuan and pre-Song things. 1994 January 23 to 25 on the Pagoda Palace excavation, found in. 0.65 cubic space in the underground palace, the orderly arrangement of the Buddha, Goddess of Mercy, silver tower model. The tripod furnace plate basin, just like a small underground Buddha Hall. Several treasure pots filled with hundreds of jade carvings. Agate, amber, crystal, coral and other ornaments. Geogong small Buddha Hall has more than 70 zhun paste gold and silver Buddha statues, paste gold and silver square tower and other models, as well as bronze pots and pans, jade marigolds, jade bowls, jade plates, etc., more amazing is that the underground palace for the Xilin Zen Buddhist temple founding monk round should be Zen master's relics, which is the famous temple of the town of the temple treasure.