How to contact yunmen temple in Xiangxiang?

Yunmen temple, Xiangxiang Contact: 073 1-56779336 is located in Xiangxiang City.

Brief introduction of yunmen temple scenic spots in Xiangxiang;

Yunmen temple is located in the southwest of Xiangxiang Bus Station, near Dongfeng Road. It was founded in the second year of the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1050). Because there were two stone tablets at the entrance of the temple at that time, the color was clear and moist, and it was also called jasper produced in Gengshan, so it was named Shibei Temple. In the 9th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 14 1 1), a monk, Ci Hui, came to live in the temple from Yunmen Mountain, Zhejiang Province, and when he saw the colorful auspicious clouds, he changed his name to yunmen temple.

Yunmen temple covers an area of about 10 mu, and the main buildings are the rich dome, the middle hall, the Hall of Great Heroes and the Guanyin Pavilion. Guanyin Pavilion is the most spectacular. The exhibition hall is 35.4m deep,17.5m wide and15m high. Brick walls bear loads on three sides, the roof rests on double eaves, and the corner of the house rises. Under the double eaves, there is a skylight, and the viewer can stand on the front lawn and look at the Buddha's face through the skylight.

There is a Buddhist shrine in the pavilion, decorated with two large wooden pillars decorated with red paint, and engraved with gold couplets: "Love and kindness, why shame the Buddha as a loving father, everyone is called a loving mother; Want Want gives birth to the sea, and directly matches it. Kun is called Guangji. A tablet inscribed by Ceng Guoquan in the 6th year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1857) is hung on the Buddhist shrine. There is a bronze round flat-bellied incense burner in the pavilion, with a diameter of 0.55 meters and a height of 0.23 meters. A pair of monster heads are cast on the outside of the furnace belly, which is extremely beautiful. Guanyin Buddha statue in the museum is a mixed structure of clay sculpture and wood carving, inlaid with gold, and is 1 1.4m high, making it the highest Guanyin Buddha statue in the south of the Yangtze River.

The Buddha statue stands upright on the lotus throne, with plump cheeks, slightly bent eyes and dignified and kind shape; The belt seems to be fluttering, and the crown seems to be trembling; Hair on the sideburns can be counted; The Buddha's mole on the forehead is clearly visible; Two earlobes and shoulders, hanging and shaking; The tip of the nose is slightly upturned, and the lips are slightly open, as if mumbling Buddha. There are 24 crowns on the top of the Buddha, each of which is a living Buddha; There are thousands of hands in the upper body, and there is a beautiful eye in each palm. Among them, 4 pairs of big hands, or holding Buddha high, or crossing the heavenly book, or waving their arms and holding halberds, or an index number, are just right in size and position; The whole shape is symmetrical, beautifully carved, strange and beautiful.

On the corridors on both sides in front of the pavilion, there are 8 arhats 18 carved in Qiyang in the 19th year of Guangxu (A.D. 1893), each of which is 1.5 meters high, with different shapes, or happy, angry, sad, happy, Zen and staring. Facial muscles, forehead wrinkles, nervousness due to anger, nervousness due to sadness, stretching due to joy, psychological changes, behavior patterns, be vividly portrayed. These art treasures are the crystallization of our ancestors' painstaking efforts.

According to "Eighteen Arhats Monument", 100 years ago, a monk traveled far away to raise money for carving eighteen Arhats for decades, and it took those skilled craftsmen another five years to carve an axe.

1959, Hunan Provincial People's Committee announced yunmen temple as the key cultural relics protection unit in the province. In the same year, Xiangxiang County People's Government built the first county-level museum in Hunan Province, and asked Mr. Guo Moruo to write the name of the museum. In the national tourist map drawn by the National Tourism Administration, yunmen temple is listed as one of the tourist attractions, receiving more than 654.38+million Chinese and foreign tourists every year. In the past 40 years, the museum has collected more than 7,000 cultural relics and materials.

According to the statistics of 1996, after cleaning and re-appraisal, there are 532 pieces of porcelain, 7 pieces of pottery, 4 pieces of calligraphy and painting, 368 pieces of ancient books, rubbings and documents, 942 pieces of various metal objects, 42 pieces of jade, and 6500 pieces of carved handicrafts.