Greater than the sky, famous throughout the world: Hongtong Guangsheng Temple

Hongtong, a thousand-year-old county, is one of the birthplaces of ancient Chinese civilization, and also the origin of immigration with the widest radiation and greatest influence in our country's history of immigration. Guangsheng Temple, which was founded in the first year of Jianhe in the Eastern Han Dynasty, is located 17 kilometers northeast of Hongtong County, at the southern foot of Huoshan Mountain. It consists of the Upper Temple Feihong Tower and Amitabha Hall architectural group located at the top of the mountain, the Lower Temple architectural group at the foot of the mountain, and the Water God Temple, which preserves the most complete temple for the worship of the Water God in our country. It is said that Guangsheng Temple has three unique features: the exquisite murals in the Water God Temple in the Lower Temple, the towering and spectacular 'Rainbow Glazed Tower' in the Upper Temple, and the rare treasure 'Zhaocheng Gold Collection' once stored in the Amitabha Hall of the Upper Temple. When you come to the top of the mountain where the Upper Temple of Guangsheng Temple is located, the towering Feihong Tower will stand in front of you. The glazed pagoda has 13 levels, with a total height of 47.31 meters. The body of the tower gradually narrows from bottom to top, and the eaves can almost form a straight line, shaped like a cone. The entire Feihong Tower is exquisitely constructed and beautiful. The body of the tower is an octagonal plane. Except for the wooden corridor on the bottom floor, the others are all built of green bricks. Each floor has glazed eaves, and the glazed imitation wood structure and lotus petals are alternated, giving people a sense of towering into the clouds and exquisite beauty. The Feihong Tower is one of the five Buddha relic pagodas and one of the four ancient pagodas existing in China. It is also the only glazed pagoda found so far that has the inscription of craftsmen and the highest multicolored glazed pagoda in the world. What is astonishing is that the Feihong Tower has experienced an earthquake of more than 8 degrees in the 34th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, and the tower remains intact. Its exquisite design and unique shape made Mr. Chen Wanli, the father of ceramic archaeology and an expert in ancient Chinese ceramics who came to inspect in modern times, marvel at its 'miraculous craftsmanship'. The rare treasure 'Zhaocheng Gold Collection', which totals 6980 volumes and more than 60 million words, is praised by the Buddhist world as a 'unique secret book between heaven and earth'. It was carved in the early Jin Dynasty and was treasured and offered in Guangsheng Temple. The 'Zhaocheng Gold Collection' is the format of the first woodblock printed Tripitaka 'Kaibao Zang' in the Song Dynasty. This Tripitaka is a good translation of the Sanskrit scriptures brought back from Tianzhu by the Tang Dynasty Tripitaka Master Xuanzang. There is only one copy in the world, so it is regarded as a rare treasure. It is known as one of the four treasures of the National Library, along with the 'Yongle Encyclopedia', 'Siku Quanshu', and 'Dunhuang Manuscripts'. Guangsheng Temple