Zhongwei Gaomiao wins with high-rise buildings and pavilions.

Ningxia Zhongwei High Temple is a national key cultural relic protection unit, which was founded in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty and has become a large-scale ancient architectural complex in Qing Dynasty. It is said that there are 18 temples in the old 9 Temple of Zhongwei, and only the high temple is towering, towering and superb, so it is called the high temple. 1963 was approved to be opened as a place for Buddhist activities, where monks lived permanently, offering more than 600 bronze sculptures, jade carvings, wood carvings, clay sculptures and icons, and was selected in the "Two Thousand Years of Buddhism in China" list.

In the forty-eighth year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (AD 1709), a strong earthquake occurred in Ningxia, resulting in the collapse of all superstructure. After the earthquake, it was rebuilt within four years and named "New Temple". 1 1 24th of the month (AD1739 65438+13rd of the month), a strong earthquake occurred again in Ningxia, and most of the temples collapsed. After that, it will be rebuilt year by year. In the eighth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1858), the Fajie Building in the square in front of the gate and the brick archway, the East-West Building and the East-West Tianchi in the temple were added, and it was renamed the Jade Emperor Pavilion. On the fifth day of the lunar calendar1February 942/KLOC-0, a temple fair was held here. Due to careless incense, a big fire broke out, and all the buildings above Nantianmen were burned down at one time. The following year, the temple was rebuilt and expanded again, increasing its height. It lasted for 4 years and was completed on 1946. It was named "Gaomiao". The existing Zhongwei High Temple is the embryonic form after reconstruction and addition in Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty and 1940s. Its architectural style is still dominated by ancient buildings in the Qing Dynasty.

Gao Miao wins by height. There are more than 260 overlapping buildings on a platform of only over 4,000 square meters. The whole building complex is divided into two parts, the front is low and the back is high, and it is like a phoenix spreading its wings. The front yard is Baoan Temple and its mountain gate, and upstairs is Nanxianmen Daxiong Hall and Zhonglou. On the top floor are wuyue Temple, Huangyuting and Notre Dame, which are connected by wooden ladders. The two wings of the main body are Bell and Drum Tower, Wenlou and Wulou. On the north-south axis, the buildings are interlocking, increasing step by step, symmetrical left and right, echoing up and down, connected by pavilions and corridors, winding, pecking at each other and flying high. Coupled with the unique roofs of nine ridges, four corners, cross mountains and general helmets, magnificent buildings with different styles have been formed. There is a famous couplet on the brick-carved archway of Gaomiao Temple: "Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism all come from here;" The self-creation and self-transformation of heaven and earth are all here. "The horizontal batch is:" Supreme Law Bridge ". It can be seen that this was once a religious place integrating Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.