In the northern suburb of Xinghua City, Wu Turbine Dang, there is a magnificent, brilliant temple jungle - the upper temple. This "floating" in the water in the temple, is the country's largest Buddhist shrine on the water, known for its long history overseas.
Shangfang Temple is located in the northern suburb of Xinghua, at the northern end of Wuhu Dang Park. Ming Chongzhen years, the newspaper Temple Langran monk traveled to Xinghua, found that this pure land and China's first Chinese translation of the Buddhist text "Forty-two chapters of the Sutra" in the "view of Xinghua, such as the four seasons of the wood," this allusion, so in the water and the sky of Xinghua city east of the Daxu stacks nunnery Buddhist training.
The eastern end of the ancient city of Xinghua is facing a vast pool of clear water, known as the ancient East Gate Park. Parking in the stacks of rolling banks, thousands of islands peaks. A car road river straight to the end of the lake. Lang Ran because of its location in the eastern suburbs, according to the "Han Shu - Meng Kang note" in the "above the north and east is also called, the Yang gas is born" of the ceremony, so the temple named above the temple.
The "three treasures" of the Above Temple are: square bamboo, chime ancient plums, and dead peonies. Ancient temple a few times, but in 1944, destroyed in the war. 1996 Xinghua City Government to implement the religious policy, in 1996 began to relocate and rebuild the expansion of the scale, according to the original style of the building: the wall, the gate hall, heavenly kings hall, Maharajah's treasure hall, the collection of scripture building, the priests' room, the room, the precepts, and so on. Temple west of the original reeds and water, constituting a natural western garden and release pool.
It is the largest Buddhist capital resort on water in the country, famous at home and abroad for its long history. Shangshang Temple was originally a direct lineage of Chinese Buddhism Zen Buddhism, Linji Sect of Ching Shan School, the ancestral home for the Zhejiang Tianmu Mountain Newspaper Temple, was first built in the Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen period. After generations of great monks and monks painstakingly management, built halls, halls, buildings, rooms, houses, more than 300, the halls and pavilions towering Huan, solemn statues, bells and drums chanting sound ceaselessly. Now the temple covers an area of more than 150 acres, surrounded by thousands of acres of water. Through the gate, a stone arch bridge over the Miluo River leads visitors to the Hall of Heavenly Kings, and behind the hall is the Dasi Release Pond with green lotus in the waves. Pool a seabird arch up Sumeru lotus seat, lotus seat on the 10-meter-high jade statue of Guanyin eyes downcast, looking down on the multitude of beings. Behind the maestro, a flat sublime Edward Terrace, the upper and lower two layers of alabaster sculpture arching a heavy eaves and flying corners, majestic Maharishi Temple.
Two, the water forest
Water, is the soul of the water forest; green, is the water forest of life color.
Water Forest, the river green and clear, lush sequoia, shade, smoke curls, presenting a faction of intoxicating green. That green is thick green, light green, pale green, emerald green, is overlapping green, is full of spiritual green, green fresh, green dazzling, green intoxicating.
17 kilometers away from the city of Xinghua, there is one of the province's largest artificial ecological forest --- Li Zhongzhen Water Forest Park. Here is a good place for urbanites to return to nature and relax, a natural oxygen bar.
This artificial ecological forest was built in the early 1980s, an area of 1,500 acres, including 1,050 acres of woodland, planted 100,000 Metasequoia, Picea and other varieties of trees, the forest volume of 12,500 cubic meters, the use of forests, stacks, ditches and fish three-dimensional model. It is a paradise for wildlife, with owls, ducks and egrets nesting here, covering the sky and making a spectacular sight. Every year when the spring flowers bloom, birds gather in the treetops, fish jump in the ditch, flowers and plants sway with the wind. Formation of "water in the forest, fish in the water, birds in the forest" unique water landscape. In the northwestern part of the Hudang area, Li Zhong, Shagou and other towns are rich in lotus root, lotus area of nearly 20,000 acres. In the summer and fall season, the lotus leaves here are endlessly blue, reflecting the sun lotus flowers in a different red. The harmony between man and nature is perfectly reflected in the water township of Xinghua.
In the afternoon, the hot sun scorching the earth, go to the forest on the asphalt road heat wave rolling, let a person sweating. But the spirit is lifted when a latticework of thousands of acres of palisades surrounded by water floats in the smoke and waves, and a vast expanse of cedar forests is lush and swaying on the water.
Far away, the cedar forests stand on the neat stacks, like a square formation waiting for parade; stacks and stacks, is an equally neat ditch, inside the duckweed point, fish swim shrimp play. Various kinds of grasses grow vigorously at the foot of the trees and along the edge of the ditch, green and green, spreading flat.
Near the water forest, full of eyes everywhere is the beating green notes, the face is everywhere green. The luxuriant dike, reeds swaying shallow water, pregnant with countless green life: plantain, salt grass, tiger's tail, dog's tail, fragrant mugwort ...... "branches shake the gulls and birds fly, the water swings the forest shadow slanting", the green in the sky reveals a faction of harmony and vividness.
Walking in the forest on the path, the roadside tall and straight Sequoia and Picea trees straight, the sword is generally straight into the sky, was a long strip of peeling pieces of the tree both like the armor worn by the generals, but also like a relief sculpture carved full of perseverance and vicissitudes of life. Those soft branches and leaves are softly open, in the wind to stretch, the wind moves the leaves dance between a few reddish-brown balls of fruit to cover the dotted; due to long-term immersion in the water and become enlarged roots, like a strong man's sinewy feet, biting the land under the body.
At the end of the road, the sky opens up in front of us. In the wide embrace of the cedar forest, a beautiful fish pond came into view. The pond is surrounded by stone dykes, the turquoise water is clear to the bottom, waving their heads and tails of the fish in the water between the grass play. Pool side of the lotus pond, the petals of the lotus has been disabled, disk-like lotus leaves, some lying comfortably in the water, some with the wind up, just like the skirt of the girl. In the center of the water a few bunches of tall reeds and irises fluttering in the wind, and a few high ground, like a very small island, on which rested a few resting waterfowl.
A long and narrow stone bridge, from the shore to the pool side of the pavilion, the pavilion and the opposite leaning on the water's edge of the painting pavilion looking at each other, so that the light of the water in the forest, adding a strong sense of poetry and picturesque.
The fishpond is next to a small curved river, the river is quietly flowing, a three-hole bridge lying on it. Walking along the river, a row of clinging willows. At the dam that cuts off the river, I met a fisherman who was dragging his nets ready to go. After jumping into his canoe, the canoe was swiftly sent out of the river with a flick of the bamboo, and the cedar forests on both sides of the river receded rapidly behind him.
At this moment, "the boat is traveling on the blue wave, people are swimming in the painting", only to see the setting sun slowly into the depths of the cedar forest, the tired birds also returned to the forest in groups. The reflection of the cedar forest in the sparkling waves swaying, charming evening sun will be rendered between the water and the sky an orange ...... countless birds out of the foraging for food from elsewhere in the fish ponds, river gullies, fields back to their own homes, suddenly herons flying sparrows dance, birds crowing and frogs singing, and this is when the forest has really become lively.
The water town of Xinghua is full of lakes and harbors with fish, shrimp, snails, frogs, and aquatic insects, which provide abundant food for birds. And the water forest provides birds with a quiet, hidden nesting habitat, incubation and breeding sites, forming the spectacle of ten thousand birds gathered. As far as the eye can see, the green lushness is dotted with dense bird feathers. This place has become a paradise for hundreds of rare birds such as cranes, black storks, owls, gray herons, herons, egrets, etc., and there are tens of thousands of summer migratory birds roosting and breeding here every year.
Three, thousands of islands cauliflower yellow
When the warm spring wind, with "February to good scenery ......" song blowing in the face, rape flowers also show its style. If you step out of the city of Xinghua in Jiangsu Province to the east, without much distance, look away, there is an extremely peculiar field into your eyes. It does not have the usual crop fields that sprawling green, but has a sky covered with golden yellow. The large yellow flower bulbs, thousands of clusters together, into blocks of acres connected together, a sea of flowers between heaven and earth, the sky and earth gold color. Standing in this flower like an ocean of real estate, so that people can not help but rise up ten thousand lofty feelings.
Four, Zheng Banqiao's former residence
An ordinary house, because of its owner's extraordinary influence, and make visitors impressed, this is the literati at home and abroad, Xinghua "Banqiao's former residence".
Several days of spring rain, the air is wet, not a lot of tourists, more and more so that this has been more than two hundred years of history of the courtyard quiet exception. Into the former residence, welcome to see Zhao Puchu, Liu Haisu inscription of "Zheng Banqiao residence" and "Zheng Xie residence" two large plaque.
The former residence for the pink walls and gray tiles, although the area is not large, but can temporarily avoid the hustle and bustle. Yard walk, can quietly listen to their footsteps echo in the yard.
Zheng Banqiao is a poet, calligrapher and painter, and was the leading figure of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou" in the Qing Dynasty. Zheng's family has been studying for many generations, and he was a scholarly disciple. Zheng Banqiao spent his teenage years here until the first year of the Qianlong reign, when he was 44 years old and received his bachelor's degree.
Banqiao's former residence is on Zhengjia Lane outside the east gate of Xinghua. There is not much bamboo in Xinghua, but this area is special. From the ancient Banqiao into the city, you have to go through a bamboo alley of more than two hundred steps. In the bamboo alley, every family to bamboo as a business. Banqiao in this kind of everywhere see bamboo environment, how can not produce love bamboo compassion bamboo feelings.
"No bamboo, no residence" is a big favorite of Banqiao. Under the eaves of the study in Banqiao's former residence, a clump of bamboos was planted. In his study, Banqiao could enjoy the shadow of bamboo through the window paper, just like enjoying a natural picture. As you can imagine, the sound of the rain hitting the bamboos during the night rain was heart-wrenching. In the study of the study of the board bridge will give birth to unlimited interest in bamboo ink. He said: "Where I paint bamboo, no teacher, more in the paper window wall sunlight and moonlight in the shadow of the ear."
Ink bamboo became the most important subject of Zheng Banqiao painting poetry. In his pen, bamboo also turned into a character. Bamboo proud, unyielding, modest and strong section, can be said to be a reflection of the lofty temperament of Banqiao. He left the local fathers and mothers in Weifang County when he left his official post, the poems and paintings are still the subject of bamboo, in an ink bamboo picture, he wrote: "the veil thrown away not for the official, the bag Xiao Xiao two sleeves cold. Write a branch of thin bamboo, the autumn wind on the river as a fishing rod." It is still widely circulated among the people. As you can imagine, the sound of the rain hitting the bamboo at night is heartwarming. In the study in the study of the board bridge will give birth to unlimited interest in the bamboo ink. He said: "Where I paint bamboo, no teacher, more than in the paper window wall sunlight and moon shadow in the ear."