Originally named "Yunlong Temple", Zhongsi Temple is located in Tanjiawan Formation, Zhongsi Village, ban qiao, Huichuan District, Zunyi City. It was once a provincial-level cultural relic protection unit in Guizhou, but now it has been damaged. There is a monument in the temple that says "Yongsanjia Yunlong Temple was built in the Ming Dynasty", and the ancient poem published on the right side of the stone fence in the front hall and the middle hall says: "The concept of expanding the scale of the road is expanded, and it will be re-published tomorrow, which has a leisure place, such as Fu Youqin talking under the moon. , "Zunyi Prefecture Records" contains Yunlong Temple in Yongan Mountain, 80 miles north of the city, also known as Zhongsi. Yunlong Temple was built in the late Ming Dynasty and perfected in the early Qing Dynasty. After liberation, it was used as a school, township government, commune, hospital, etc., and failed to be properly protected. /kloc-since 0/978, government agencies and units have moved out one after another, and the temple is uninhabited. 1976 The pottery pot factory was built, which aggravated the damage of the temple. Now only the ruins are left.
The middle temple was built on the front slope surrounded by mountains in the mountain basin, with a magnificent momentum. In the early years, the surrounding ancient trees were towering, shrubs were overgrown, bamboo was thickly trimmed, and there were green bamboos in front of the temple, like the sea. Up to now, the ancient Chinese fir still stands for a hundred years. Cangshan stands behind the temple, and the ancient temple is hidden in a green wave, and the environment is very quiet.
The stone staircase at the front of the temple is located at the foot of the mountain opposite to the present Zhongsi Primary School. A 4-meter-wide stone staircase climbs up 72 steps, reaches Xiaoshikan in front of the mountain, and then reaches the entrance of the mountain by 1 1 steps. The stone staircase at the front and back of the temple is ***23 steps, with four sections * *1.
The mountain gate is a wooden building with overhanging eaves and resting on the top of the mountain. The width of three rooms is 14.6 meters. Because the terrain layout is not on the central axis of the temple, it is 20 degrees south-east. Four arches on the upper floor carved four gods, and eight arches on the lower floor carved birds, animals and flowers. On the upper floor of the Jade Emperor Pavilion, the Jade Emperor sits on the pavilion, with two generals, Hum and Ha, standing on both sides, and the Lingguan downstairs holds the whip to guard the mountain gate, with Chuanzu in the left corner and Black God in the right corner. All kinds of patterns and patterns are carved around the pavilion.
Entering the front yard, the bell tower and drum tower stand symmetrically in the front hall. All of them have overhanging eaves, four walls and spire structure. On the upper floor, there is a Xiao Xuan window with a curved ring and a flower corridor, which can be inhabited. There is a drum tower on the lower floor, and there are 16 wood carving lion arches under the wing angle. The carving technique is very exquisite. Under the Bell and Drum Tower, there were two fundraising events in the 12th year of Daoguang (1832) and the 16th year of Daoguang (1836).
The front hall, built on the foundation of a stone platform, has 54 rooms with a width of 32.55 meters and four rooms with a depth of 10.6 meters on the left and right sides. It is high 10 meter, with corridors around the front and back. It is a wooden building with a rest hill. On the forehead under the eaves, there is a large-scale long-scroll woodcut of "Two Dragons Grab Treasure", which is a rare treasure identified by experts. On the beam of the corridor behind the hall, there are long-scroll "Battle Map", 35 warriors with perseverance and 8 horses. There are animal-shaped arches on the pillars in front of and behind the temple. There is a patio between the front and back halls, all paved with bluestone slabs. The front hall faces the mountain gate and several statues are arranged, facing the giant Buddha in the back hall, and the seat is the Naive Wuzu teacher in the northern town.
There are three vertical treads in the middle and both sides of the patio to climb the back hall. There are accessory halls on the north and south sides of the patio, which are the same height as the front hall. There are 6 relief patterns on the corridor of the accessory hall, and the back hall is a double-eaved mountain-resting type with a width of 32 meters and a depth of 14 meters. On the forehead of the two pillars in front of the temple, there is a large-scale long-scroll woodcut of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Water Manjin Mountain", which is a fine carving. There are four supporting arches (wood carvings) on the eaves column in front of the temple, of which "Li Cun Shatuo moves troops" is carved on the left, "Guan Yunchang goes to the meeting with a single knife" on the right, and "golden couple" is carved in the middle, and other carvings are also very exquisite.
There are exquisite stone carvings on the stone fence in front of the back hall, front hall and mountain gate, which are large in number, large in size and concentrated, and can be regarded as rare moments in the province.
On both sides of the 72nd stone staircase at the foot of the mountain, there are stone statues of male and female. In front of Xiaoshiba at the mountain gate, there is a long 1. 1 meter stone fence. On the 12 observation posts, there are carved images of lions, monkeys, elephants, unicorns, four elephants, rhinoceroses and so on. Among them, there is a rhinoceros looking at the moon, and its pattern and various animal heads are facing the mountain gate.
The front stone fence is sumitomo-shaped, with honeysuckle pattern continuous Wan Ziwen carved all over the upper and lower parts, and lotus flowers sandwiched in it, which is vivid and rich. There are six large-scale hollowed-out reliefs and carved bluestones at the waist of the stone fence beam, such as "fishing, firewood, ploughing, reading, drinking and fighting", which are exquisite in skills and are masterpieces of the Ming Dynasty. There are also six square observation columns, and the front of each column is carved with poems and couplets. The pictures are "Wild deer hitting the bell", "Butterfly playing peony", "Magpie making plum" and "Monster's hoof |".
There is a row of horizontal carvings of14m high/.1m in the stone fence on the abutment of the back hall. On each pillar of 10, there are circular stone carvings such as arhat, unicorn, lion monkey and four elephants, and the front of the pillar is ancient poetry and couplet stone carvings. This column *** 10 niche, the stone wall is engraved with large murals such as "Linfeng Asahi, Golden Lion Yue Bai, Baima Crossing the River (also known as Liu Beima Tiaotanxi), Golden Rooster and Purdue sentient Beings" (also known as Han Xiangzi Duwengong), and a Tang poem "a buddhist retreat behind broken-mountain temple". In front of the temple, there are two carved stone carvings on the stone fence on both sides of the footpath, looking up at the sky, and the lions on the ground climb on a stone drum.
There is a stone water tank on display in the north of the patio, which is engraved with "Long live a monument building". Zunyi Prefecture records: "The monk made another stone plate, making a carp jump in the shape of a dragon gate, which is exquisite and unique. The dragon's mouth is open and the pearl is in its mouth, and the one who has it is alive than Zhu." On the stone jar, the dragon hovers in the clouds, the scales and claws appear inside, the faucet is in the middle, and the bottom is a torrent. The carp bends and bounces in the river to make a yue longmen shape, and the seven-level pagoda in Zhenjiang on the riverside stands as a hollow carving.
Legend has it that there is also a vivid stone dragon in the temple. Because there is no place to put it, it is placed among the bamboos beside the temple, and it has been buried for a long time.
After the collapse of the middle temple, Zunyi County transported the stone carvings on the stone columns of the front and back halls to the Yangcan base of Huangfenzui, Shenxi Town, Honghuagang District, Zunyi City for preservation. Today, there are two rows of stone carvings on the left and right sides of the Huangfenmen Gate. At present, only the temple building foundation is well preserved and a century-old ancient Chinese fir stands still.
20 12 1 1 month, local villagers voluntarily excavated the site of the temple in order to protect the cultural relics of the temple, expecting units, departments or individuals with the ability and financial resources to invest in restoring the temple, so as to develop rural tourism and promote the local economy while protecting the cultural heritage.