Yuanshan Temple, formerly known as Xuanshan Temple, was built in the first year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 127) with a long history. The temple is dedicated to "the God of the Arctic, the way of true martial arts, Xuantianzong", which is in the same strain as the ancestral temple of Wudang Mountain in Hubei and the ancestral temple of Foshan. Coupled with the worship of Buddha statues such as Sakyamuni, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Maitreya Buddha and Bodhisattva, the traces of temples spread widely. In the Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty, in order to avoid anonymity, it was changed from "Xuan" to "Yuan", hence the name Yuanshan Temple.
Historical source
Yuanshan Temple is closely related to the history of ancient Jieshiwei. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a large number of precious temple cultural relics recorded the historical facts of the Chinese nation, especially the coastal people of Guangdong, in resisting foreign aggression and defending the country. Imperial envoys, officials and celebrities from the imperial court came here for defense meetings, sightseeing and mountains, leaving many cliff stone carvings and inscriptions. At present, there are bronze statues of Zhenwu in the Southern Song Dynasty, wood carvings such as Sakyamuni, Dharma and Maitreya in the Ming Dynasty, bronze furnaces in Xuande, and a large number of couplet murals, stone carvings and traditional calligraphy and painting arts, with more than 40 plaques inscribed by celebrities in past dynasties. Among them, three plaques were identified as China cultural celebrity plaques. Emperor Mu Zongdi of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty presented the tablet "Wei Xuanling Table", which was inscribed by Empress Dowager Cixi. The other two plaques are Lin Zexu's "Water is virtuous and gas is long" and Liu Yongfu's "Gas-filled Avenue", the leader of the Black Flag Army.
Landscape layout The main building of the tourist area, Yuanshan Temple, has 99 gates, main hall, front, middle and rear halls, affiliated halls, halls and temples. Temple layout is neat, the structure is rigorous, archways overlap, high ridge cornices, carved beams and painted buildings.
Fuxing Tower of Yuanshan Temple in Xuanwu Mountain Tourist Area is an octagonal three-story stone tower made of 5340 pieces of granite. The ancient stage in front of Yuanshan Temple was built in the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the 15th year of Qing Qianlong. The stage is 1.5m high and 22m wide. Its shape is concise and exquisite, and the plaque of "Taige Pian" hanging in the center of the stage is inscribed by Li Wentian, who explored flowers in the fifth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty. The ancient stage is the oldest and largest temple stage in Guangdong.
There is a wind fossil behind the Yuanshan Temple, like yue longmen, a carp, which has a history of 100 million years. In the sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, jinshanwei, governor of Zhili, wrote the inscription "Arise from Longyan", which is of great historical research value. There are many ancient banyan trees behind the temple, and their branches have many inverted roots. For example, pillars and columns stand against tall ancient banyan trees. No matter how many times 12 typhoon blows, they have not moved for hundreds of years.
Xuanwu Mountain has parks, vegetarian restaurants, exhibition halls and related service facilities.
Shengshan Temple, an ancient bell tower, was built in the first year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 127). It is a group building composed of quadrangles. There are 99 buildings including gate, front hall, middle hall, main hall, attached hall, left and right cloisters and abbot hall. The Ursa Mahayana Hall is dedicated to the mysterious god and Siddhartha Gautama. In June of 200 1 year, Yuanshan Temple was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Shipai was built in 1996. It is a stone archway with five floors, four columns and three rooms, with a height of 18.5 meters. It is one of the largest carved dragon stone archways in eastern Guangdong. The whole archway is exquisitely carved and laid, with exquisite construction technology, vivid patterns, magnificent architectural momentum and great Buddhist color.
Santaibao is located behind Fuxing Tower, where Shen Rong, Cheng Yuquan, Inspector Zheng Qianshan and Yao Long met at the foot of Xuanwu Mountain in the 10th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1582). The original inscription has been abolished. It was restored in 198 1 year.