Foshan postal code

Foshan, referred to as "Buddha" for short, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province. Foshan is located in the middle of Guangdong Province, in the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, Guangzhou in the east and Zhongshan in the south. Together with Guangzhou, we will form the "Guangzhou-Buddha Metropolitan Circle", vigorously promote the cooperation between Guangzhou and Buddhism, and build an international metropolis. It is one of the cities in the Pearl River Delta, an important node city in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and an important part of the Pearl River-Xijiang Economic Belt.

The administrative division covers an area of 3797.72 square kilometers. As of 20 18, the city has five districts under its jurisdiction. According to the data of the seventh national census, as of 0: 00 June 2020 165438+ 10 October 1, the resident population of Foshan was 9,498,863.

The origin of Foshan:

Foshan was called the hometown of Ji Hua in ancient times. In the second year of Long 'an in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Da Kun, a master of Sanzang in Binzhou, gave a lecture at a temple on Tapogang in China. After he returned to China, as time went by, the temple collapsed. In the second year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, villagers dug up the ground on the tower slope and got the third-class bronze Buddha, so they rebuilt the temple on the pillar and offered three bronze buddhas. Since then, Ji Hua Township has been renamed Foshan, which is the origin of Foshan's name.

In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, villagers rebuilt the temple, but at this time, residential buildings gradually appeared near Tapogang, which brought inconvenience to the construction of Buddhist temples. They chose the reconstruction site in the suburbs (formerly known as Shige, which belongs to the East Production Brigade of Suburban Commune, that is, part of the current site of the Party School of Foshan District Committee) and named it Tapo Ancient Temple.

During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Qin An, a monk, went to Beijing to celebrate the birthday of Empress Dowager Cide and received a batch of Buddhist scriptures from the imperial court. Qin 'an also raised funds to expand the Buddhist temple in Beijing, and built a Buddhist scripture building in the temple to store these Buddhist scriptures, so Tapo Ancient Temple is also called Jingtang Ancient Temple. As for the original Tapo Temple, it was the villagers here who converted it into an ancient temple. Dedicated to the statue of Dongyue Emperor, renamed Tapo Temple.

The above contents refer to Foshan.