Established in the song dynasty, Shanghai longhua temple is one of the oldest temples in jiangnan area. I actually is not interested for a temple, just read each scene after Shanghai, always don't want to miss any possible scenery, and it Shanghai botanical garden is close, can be arranged in a line, the facts also prove that the idea is to rely on spectrum, because I felt the longhua temple of of primitive simplicity and thick, is completely different from those of newly built new temples. The longhua temple was built for the "gamma seven hall" of the song dynasty. The first in the central axis is the maitreya temple, which honors the maitreya's maitreya. Second into the great hall, there are 4 meters high on both sides of the two, four major Kings in the middle of sacrifice crown maitreya like a statue of day, wearing a five wreaths all, Buddha's crown is maitreya court practice in pocket rate day's nature, behind the niches for wei camel. The center of the third is Ursa major, to which the Lou covered the Buddha, is dharmakaya, Buddha, or so for the manjusri, samantabhadra, both sides along the wall for 20 heavens and sixteen arhats, behind for the island, have a statue of guanyin, good boy, etc. The fourth entrance is the three temples, the fifth is the abbot, in the enclosed courtyard, the sixth is the Tibetan classics building. On both sides there are bell and drum towers. The bell tower has three flying eaves. The drum tower has a drum with a diameter of 1.7m. The object hall has the guanyin hall, the inner plastic thousand hands guanyin, tall and exquisite, another luo han tang. There are incense buildings and peony gardens in the three temples. The area of the temple, although not too big, can feel to very heavy sense of history to precipitate, may be due to the temple in gingko yellow, just like temples collocation constitutes a beautiful beautiful scenery, and when I go to is a working day in the evening, tourists and pilgrims are very rare, so we feel the old temple is very quiet. After come out of time, under the big tree at the door, I saw a beautiful bird, completely fearless man beside, was very quiet and play foraging, estimated under such atmosphere of Buddhism, they also think people won't hurt them. Longhua pagoda is located in longhua temple, built in tai-ping song xingguo two years (AD 977), 40.64 meters high tower, towering, pavilions type, square, the eight brick timberwork, tower body orange, brake lever towering, each layer has the flat seat, GouLan, curved bar, high cornices wing, extend profound, grand and spectacular. In particular, there is an exquisite, antique brass bell hanging from the top of each of the flying eaves. Breeze gently, the bell is melodious, clear and sweet, its scenery, pleasing to the mind. Longhua tower brick body and basic part is still more than 1000 years old song dynasty original, for Shanghai area to present the most perfect ancient pagoda.
