Fenglin Temple Review

Fenglin Temple, Fengling Temple, the name behind it is more beautiful!

Humanities and scenery are good, worth a visit to the temple.

The poem of Yijiang monks "May Qingliangjie, talk about entering Fenglin, Songfeng and Sanskrit, flowing water playing the secluded piano, Yundan Manshu statue, flower and ancient Buddha heart, do not need to find yellow rolls, perform the king's voice." It is to describe Fenglin Temple. Wutai Mountain Fenglin Temple, in the Ming Jiajing years (1522-1566 years) the sky monk Zhuoqiu. It is a high-visibility valley, quite a deep mountain style ancient temple, once one of the ten temples of Wutai Mountain Qingmiao. The feeling of the whole monastery is summed up in the four words "atmosphere".

Fenglin Temple, Wutaishan, is located in Fenglin Valley, about eight kilometers away from Taihuai Town, Wutaishan, Shanxi Province. It is rumored to have been built in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, but there are also historical records that Fenglin Temple was founded by the monks of Chetian in the Ming Jiajing years (1522-1566). There is also a magical legend about this history that is circulating in the world. It is said that in the early years of Wanli, when the monk "worked" in front of the Buddha, there were thieves who saw two tigers outside the gate of the mountain. They thought it was the gate of the second tiger. From then on, the monk was the master of the second tiger. According to folklore here, Wanli's mother Li Niangniang suffered migraines after coming to Wutai Mountain, and she was light and heavy day and night, and hundreds of doctors could not heal. A witch came to Mao Sui to recommend herself, saying that she could cure this disease. Li Niangniang was half-believed and half-doubted, and invited the witch to the guest hall, and the maid asked God. The maid finished incense, finished talking about the illness, finished her head, and then looked at the witch, the red cloth over her head, a few snorts, stretched her waist, yawned, closed her eyes, and her teeth creaked. I drank two bowls of sugar water, and with a tone of depression, I first introduced herself: "I am a thousand-year-old Huxian on Fanxian Mountain..." Then I said a large string of words that no one could understand, and finally said: "The girl fell ill at night because someone in the southwest hit the wooden fish at night, "Just get rid of the fishermen." She snorted a few more times, stretched herself, yawned, opened her eyes, and returned to normal. She asked the maid, pretending to be very concerned; "What did the great immortals say," the maid said one by one. The witch said firmly; "Tell the sissy to catch the night fishermen. When the night came, Li Niangniang sent a guard to look for the night fishermen, and by the way asked about the reputation of the witch. When the guard found Fenglin Temple, he was catching up with the master of the second tiger to hit the wood fish in front of the Buddha, and asked: "Why do you read scriptures at night," the master of the second tiger said to the people, "this temple is more and less, in the remote place, the incense is snubbed, life is difficult, go out during the day, the family's work, only move in the night." The guard asked the master of the second tiger to ask the master of the witch's reputation, the master of the second tiger said without thinking: "She used to live in the nearby Zhulin Temple Village, the year before her husband died, she began to pretend to be a ghost, calling herself the king of the immortal. One night, she cheated us in the name of the thousand years of Huxian, a young worker who repaired the temple, to her house, and I publicly debunked her intrigue. Then she moved away and never came back. Then the guard told the master of the tiger the night, and warned him that he was forbidden to hit the master of the tiger at night, laughing, saying, "This is Wang Daxian's knife killing." He turned the subject around: "I have a prescription here, dedicated to Li Niangniang, can cure Li Niangniang's partial hearing migraine, this is the secret recipe of the ancestral tradition, it can be said that the medicine to the disease Li Niangniang came to Wutai Mountain soon, I heard that there was a two tiger master, since he took the medicine he prescribed, the disease really recovered, In order to thank the master of the second tiger for his kindness, in addition to the manor near Fenglin Temple all belonged to the master of the second tiger, and converted the temple. Since the manor near this temple is full of maple trees, this temple is commonly known as Fenglin Temple. After the emperor Wanli heard about it, he immediately called the master of the second tiger into Beijing. Legend, Still picked up with a gong. Without a few steps, the master of the second tiger was silent, and people built the tower in his silence. Fenglin Temple floated and fell down in historical occasions, after a few winds and frosts, in disrepair and dilapidated for a long time. Even the ancestral tower built outside the temple was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. Only one temple, a Buddha statue. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the statue has been renovated many times, but it has been changed in the original appearance, but it still retains the style of the Yuan Dynasty. The existing temple was rebuilt by the monk Zhenhui in 1994. Tickets and opening hours Tickets and opening hours: 5 yuan/person opening hours: winter 08：00-17：00, summer 06：00-19：00