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Chongshan Temple is located in the south of the middle section of Ma Shang Street in Taiyuan, formerly known as Baima Temple, and later changed to yanshou temple. It was changed to Chongshan Temple in the early Ming Dynasty. It is a famous temple in Sanjin and a tourist attraction.

138 1 year (14th year of Ming Hongwu), the third son of Zhu Yuanzhang, king of Jin Dynasty, sent Yongping and Hou Xiecheng to Zhu Yuanzhang for instructions to build (expand) a new temple on the site of Baima Temple, and Justin was transferred from the right guardian to 13965438.

Since its establishment, Chongshan Temple has had glorious years and unfortunate experiences. When it was the White Horse Temple, it was once the palace where Emperor Yang Di visited Taiyuan. After the completion of Chongshan Temple, it occupies a special position among the Buddhist temples in Sanjin and becomes the management center of Buddhism in Shanxi. It has been known as "the first jungle in Huicheng" for nearly 500 years. Because of its large scale, it is "like the Fairy Palace, which is the first grand view in the state of Jin" and the nature of the incense courtyard of the king of Jin. According to the existing plan of Chongshan Temple in Ming Dynasty, Chongshan Temple in Ming Dynasty covers an area of1.4000 square meters, and has six halls, namely King Kong Hall, Heavenly King Hall, Daxiong Hall, Pilu Hall, Compassion Hall and Jinling Hall. On both sides of each hall, there are temples, galleries and abbots' courtyards that are symmetrical. From south to north, there are East Temple of Galapagos, West Temple of Galapagos, Luohan Hall, Lunzang Hall, East Hall of Tuans, West Hall of Tuans, East Corridor, West Corridor, East Bird and West Bird. These buildings each take a main hall as the main body, forming an independent courtyard, which is divided into palace walls, mountain gates, flower beds and trees, forming a self-contained system. On the east and west sides of the six main courtyards, there are nine monasteries and monasteries, such as Huizong Courtyard, Definition Courtyard, Lin Jue Courtyard, Hung Kai Courtyard, Ji Yun Courtyard, Xingshan Courtyard, Cisheng Courtyard, Changle Courtyard, Falin Courtyard, Buddha Selection Courtyard and Mei Courtyard, as well as East and West New Courtyards, Kitchen Courtyard, Teahouse and Jingting Pavilion. The main entrance of the temple is a row of beams, with shadow walls and gardens in front and mills and warehouses on both sides. In this huge building complex, the most magnificent is the Hall of the Great Heroes, which is 9 rooms wide and about 33 meters high. Surrounded by white stone railings, the roof is decorated with decapitation, simple directions and sea fish, which is known as the "Jade Buddha Hall". There are no temples on both sides of the main hall, only two and a half long corridors have been built, and murals with Buddhist stories and Buddhist stories have been painted, which further highlights the main position of the main hall. This huge group building, with its grand and rigorous plane layout, grand building scale and exquisite plastic arts, fully shows the industriousness and wisdom of the ancient working people in China, and also embodies the ethos of "exhausting property and keeping the height and width" and "luxurious and spacious buildings and halls" in Buddhist temple architecture. Unfortunately, this building, which was made up of countless people's fat and paste, was swallowed up by a fire in 1864 (the third year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty), leaving only one group of buildings, namely the present Chongshan Temple. 1882 (the eighth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty), Governor Zhang Zhidong of Shanxi proposed to build a huge Confucian temple on the site of Chongshan Temple, and divide Chongshan Temple into two parts.

The existing Chongshan Temple covers an area of nearly 3,000 square meters and belongs to the original temple 1/46. There are buildings such as the mountain gate, the bell tower, the Hall of Great Compassion, the East and West Wing, and the East Courtyard. After liberation, it was carefully maintained by the government and listed as a key cultural relics protection unit in Shanxi Province. Although it has lost its grandeur, it still shows the grandeur and magnificence of the ancient temple, and maintains the position of "the famous temple in Sanjin" and the management center of Shanxi Buddhism (the site of the provincial Buddhist Association). It is a treasure house of Buddhist culture and art and China traditional art, whether it is a magnificent, stretching and bodybuilding wooden building or a tantric statue with strange shapes and well-proportioned proportions; Whether it is the copying of murals with full composition and colorful colors, or various Buddhist collections and sculptures from the Song Dynasty to the present, they are precious physical materials for studying ancient Chinese architecture, sculpture, painting art, printing technology and religious history, and have important historical and artistic value.

The entrance of Chongshan Temple is beamless, with dense eaves and covered with green glazed tiles, with three rooms wide and three doors. The book in front of the gate is Compassion for the People, Zuo Shu's is Tang Zong Ruins, and the book on the right is Jin Yuan Nerve. A pair of iron lions crouched on the left and right sides of the door, fierce and powerful. There are bell and drum towers on both sides of the mountain gate. The clock on the bell tower was cast in 1506 (the first year of the Ming Dynasty), with a height of 2m, an outer diameter of 18m, a bell lip thickness of 5cm, and a nominal weight of 9999 kg, which actually exceeded 10000 kg, in order to avoid the word "ten thousand" of the emperor.

Entering the mountain gate, facing the Hall of Great Compassion, with wings on both sides. The old trees in the hospital are lush and the environment is quiet. There are sandalwood, tripod and tower incense burners in the hospital. The Hall of Great Compassion is the main building of the existing Chongshan Temple, which stands on a wide platform. There is a flat "convex" platform in front of the temple, 7 rooms wide and 4 rooms deep. The eaves rest on the top of the mountain, and the eaves are far-reaching. Yellow-green glazed tile finishing, the height is nearly 20 meters. The surrounding eaves columns are all inclined inward. The eaves chess is divided into two layers, the upper part weighs five steps and the lower part has seven steps. The glass on the side ridge of the roof kisses animals in rows, and the image is realistic. Interestingly, there is a sword behind both kisses. Legend has it that there are stingrays in the East China Sea, which can storm the rain with their tails to put out the fire. The wooden buildings in China are flammable, so they are made into kissing animals according to the image of catfish and put on houses to avoid fire. Fearing that the owl would "go AWOL", he stabbed him in the back with his sword and returned to town. On the front eaves of the main hall, there is a gold plaque of "Hall of Great Compassion", and on the door, there is a plaque inscribed by Zhao Puchu, president of the Chinese Buddhist Association. There is a couplet next to the door, which reads "Thousands of hands and bowls of flowers, great compassion and great wisdom, great king and great hope". The whole hall is solemn. Although it has experienced more than 600 years of wind and rain, it has never been overhauled except for local repairs in Chenghua, Zhengde, Jiajing and early Qing Dynasty. Beam, square, roof, fan, board door, etc. They all belong to the original objects in the early Ming Dynasty, and are typical existing Ming Dynasty wooden buildings in Taiyuan.