Where is the location of Xukou Temple?

Xukou also regards Zen Temple as a cultural tourist attraction.

The temple is located in Xiangshan, Xukou, facing Taihu Lake. In Tang Dynasty, Pei Du (now Shanxi Province), a Wenxi man from Hedong, visited the temple (AD 765-839) and found three jade belts beside the tide pavilion, hoping to return them to their original owners. After that, Pei Du was a scholar in Zhenyuan five-year exam, and his official career was gradually promoted, and he served as prime minister of four dynasties. Pei Du did not forget to protect the Buddha's soul in Xiangshan Temple. He expanded the temple and changed it to "bring it back". Since then, the incense has flourished and lasted forever. The inscription "Watching Tide" in Li Genyuan official script adds luster to the exhibition hall. Looking at Taihu Lake from the railing, the calm lake surface is like a mirror, the waves are rolling, and the seventy-two peaks are vast.

At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Jia adapted this story into a drama "Mountain Temple with Pei Du", also known as "With Pei Du". The story says that before Pei Du became an official, a fortuneteller judged that he was short-lived and would die in an accident. Bah, laugh it off. Later, Pei Du accidentally found a family heirloom-a gold belt, but he found it and returned it to its original owner, thus saving three lives, not only avoiding violent death, but also winning the first prize, becoming a generation of famous officials and supporting their lives.

In the Ming Dynasty, Shen Cai also wrote The Return of the Belt, the plot of which is roughly the same as that of the Yuan drama Guishan Temple in Pei Du. It is quite vivid to write about the jade belt that Pei Du picked up in a temple in Xiangshan, so as to gain wealth, become a scholar and prime minister, and write about the desolate place in the world.

Inside the temple, there are Daxiong Hall, Tianwang Hall, Guanyin Hall, Dizang Hall, Auntie Hall, Xisanxian Hall and Tide Pavilion. The most distinctive Dizang Temple is divided into three layers, the upper layer is Tian Yun Hall, the middle layer is the tall and solemn Dizang Bodhisattva, and the lower layer is the Yan Wang Hall. It is a paradise for good men and women to pray for disaster relief and help luck.

Traffic guide

Address of scenic spots: Huanxiangshan Road, Xukou Town, Wuzhong District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Bus route: Take bus No.58, No.63, No.581,No.585, No.691in Suzhou and get off at Temple Station.