2011年9月21日星期三

Tour to Great Bell Temple

Traveled the Great Bell Temple, the first to talk about the origin of this temple. 1733, the Yongzheng reign has XI contains personally ordered the construction of this temple, and sleep hygiene Yubi Uighurian Temple. Then here is the outer suburbs, not downtown today, is the "right across the city's clamor, the left around the mountains of-sheng," the "Silent Kiyonaga land." The prevailing size of cities, where the rings than the equivalent of now, the book records the dense woods at that time, not even farming farmland.
    
Students feel is typical of the Ming and Qing temple architecture, law-abiding, all over the country's temple temple is probably the case, so a kind of deja vu, but this is the case here previously that the main reason. But traveled the depths of the temple did not find the reasons for Temple, first built should not be put to a special bell. Its like a traditional temple faces south, the front hall clock tower on either side of the Drum Tower, in the Main Hall, after the rear, then after a scripture library, supposedly so that the temple is generally complete. But in the end surface is large Bell Hall, so the pattern is somewhat puzzling, it is estimated than one project, but when the clock was ready to move into purpose-built, which is the temple bell is very understanding and reason, but on the whole monastery appears to be too narrow, as opposed to open around that time, the pattern is not perfect on a bit. Bell Hall of bluestone base, it looks very grand, the bottom circle on behalf of hemispherical dome, the general form of this temple can not be used, we can see the clock at the time of the position.
    
Importance of agriculture in China's feudal dynasties, the ancient is dependent on the weather, drought, no rain in the north often times, and, when they can not artificial rainfall, so the emperor was a big rain. Qianlong Dynasty, Temple Health and sleep became a formal rain location, status comparable to Xiannongtan, later emperor, most have been to here, so great reputation, the people of incense also very strong. Gradually each year, the temple, where the capital has become one of eight festivals, the most famous event is the money to fight the eye. The people are able to throw coins into the New Year will be the top of the clock-sized hole on behalf of the coming year's fortunes, very lucky.
    
From the emperor to the people, regarded the future of the hands of heaven and earth deities and superstition can not say it is not a sad, when the Western emphasis on science, after the change, an unprecedented political and economic development, has been the prototype of modern society, while China is thousands of years unchanged, the more perfect the feudal autocracy, all aspects can be reflected. After a hundred years have been subjected to aggression in China, we can say is a necessity.