Tour guide words of Nanhua Temple

Hello everyone! Welcome to Nanhua Temple in Shaoguan. I am xxx, the tour guide. I am glad to have the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Nanhua Temple with you and have a wonderful time.

Nanhua Temple is located on the bank of Caoxi, 22km southeast of Shaoguan City. Huineng, the sixth ancestor, created Zen here, which is the ancestral home of Zen Buddhism. 1983, the first batch of Nanhua temples were designated as national key temples by the State Council.

Zen is China's original creation, and it is a typical China Buddhism. Indian Buddhism only has Zen, but there is no Zen. According to legend, Dharma came to the Northern Wei Dynasty from India and proposed a new method of meditation. Dharma passed this meditation on to Hui Ke, and Hui Ke passed it on to monks and ladies, and then preached faith and patience. After Hongren, it was divided into two systems: North and South. Shen Xiubei preached Buddhism and established the Northern Sect; Huineng spread Buddhism to the south and established Nanzong. The Zen show of the Northern Sect has gradually declined in the near future. Huineng's disciple Shenhui and others advocated it, and with the support of moving to the DPRK, he achieved the orthodox status of Zen, thus becoming the mainstream of Buddhism in China, and Huineng became the actual founder of Zen. Due to the six generations from Dharma to Huineng, the traditional old theory regards Dharma as the "ancestor" and Huineng as the "sixth ancestor".

After the establishment of Zen Buddhism, its influence has been expanding and developing, and five sects (Cao Dong, Yunmen, Fayan, Lin Ji and Luyang) have been competing with each other. They not only replaced the status of other sects in China, but also spread abroad. Introduced to Korea in the ninth century; /kloc-was introduced to Japan in the 2nd and 3rd centuries and became the mainstream of Buddhism in these countries. Since then, Zen has spread from East Asia to Southeast Asia, and even to Europe and America. Nowadays, a large number of foreign Buddhists come to Nanhua Temple to worship their ancestors every year.

Nanhua Temple was built in the first year of Tian Liang Prison in the Southern and Northern Dynasties (5XX AD). According to historical records, Sanzang Zhile, an Indian monk, went north from Guangzhou and passed through Caoxi in 1998. He suggested building a temple here, because he "scooped up water and drank it, which smells unusual", "looked around the mountains and fell in love with the wonderful scenery" and "looked like a mountain in the western world". After three years in prison, the temple was built, and Liang Wudi named it "Baolin Temple". Later, it was renamed Zhongxing Temple and Fashen Temple, and in the first year of Song Kaibao (AD 968), Song Taizong gave it the name of Nanhua Zen Temple, and the name of the temple has been used ever since.

The present structure of Nanhua Temple was rebuilt in the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934). It was funded by Li Hanhun, then director of the appeasement office in northwest Guangdong, and presided over by the famous monk Xu Ye. It took ten years to build 243 temples and 690 new statues, making Nanhua Temple the leading Buddhist shrine in Guangdong Province. Now the building area of the whole temple is 1. The temple has a building area of 20,000 square meters, which retains the ancient architectural style of China and is symmetrically arranged on both sides of the central axis. Enter from the main entrance, followed by Caoximen, Fangshengchi, Baolinmen, Tianwang Hall, Daxiong Hall, Tibetan Classics Pavilion, Zhao Ling Pagoda, Liuzu Hall and Zhang Fang Room. In the Hall of Ursa Major, there are three statues as high as 8. 3 1 m, there are more than 500 painted sculptures of Lohan with four walls, all of which are art treasures. Master Huineng, Master Hanshan and Master Dantian of the Six Ancestors are enshrined in the Hall of the Six Ancestors. Twenty-nine stone carvings are newly embedded in the left and right walls. According to the classic records of Zen Buddhism, there are portraits of twenty-nine Huineng stepmonks, including Nanyue Huairang, Baizhang Huaihai, Mijuan Lingyou, Yangshan Huiji, Linji Yi Xuan and Qumen Wenyan. There is an old tin spring (commonly known as Jiulong Spring) on the right side behind the temple, which is cold all year round. It is said that Hui Neng, the sixth ancestor of that year, often washed clothes here, and Su Shi wrote an inscription for him. There are nine "living fossils of plants" in front of the spring, which are more than 40 meters high. According to experts' research, it is the tallest water pine in the world, with a tree age of more than 5XX years. There are more than 300 national first-class protected cultural relics in Nanhua Temple, such as the true body of the Six Ancestors, the imperial edict of the Tang, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the robe of a thousand buddhas, the hidden gold in the Qing Dynasty, and the iron cast Guanyin.

Throughout the ages, Nanhua Temple has attracted many people because of Huineng's lofty position in the history of Buddhism and philosophy in China. Su Shi, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, once expressed such a deep yearning in a poem written to a friend: "The water smells of Caoxikou, and its eyes are as clean as an ancient Buddha's clothes, so you don't come to Jiangnan as incense. Where is this body? " "The national hero of the Southern Song Dynasty once wrote," Who hasn't died in life since ancient times? Wen Tianxiang, who left Dan Xin to shine in the history of history, also wrote such a sincere and moving poem as Looking South: "Traveling thousands of miles north, forgetting the west and forgetting the east." Traveling to South China is like dreaming. I know a little about Buddhism, and my sufferings are with me. The tangible will eventually die, but the vacuum will not die. Laugh at Cao He sitting in front of the door. "In modern times, many famous social figures have also come here for sightseeing. 1924, when Sun Yat-sen launched the Second Northern Expedition in Shaoguan, he came with Tan Yan, Liu Chengyu and Xu Shiying. At that time, the government and military affairs were extremely busy, and he donated silver dollars to the temple, asking him to take care of everything in the temple and protect cultural relics for future generations to pay tribute to.