Longxing Temple Stele
There were many inscriptions in Longxing Temple, among which the more famous one was Longzang Temple Stele. The Stele of Longzang Temple was carved in the sixth year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui Dynasty (586 years). It was a very valuable inscription in Longxing Temple. It was established by Wang Xiaoxian, the governor of Hengzhou, who was ordered by the emperor to encourage more than 10,000 common people in Hengzhou to build Longzang Temple. Not only did this monument have historical value, but it also had extremely high calligraphy value. The inscription mainly recorded the construction of the temple, such as the process of the Hengzhou governor persuading the construction of Longzang Temple, the scale of the temple at that time, the architectural landscape and the surrounding environment, etc. It was an important historical material for studying the history of Longxing Temple. In terms of calligraphy, his handwriting was "neat, dense, thin, and strong, the first in the Sui Dynasty". His strokes were deep and powerful, with a combination of hardness and softness. The composition was rigorous and elegant, and the square was neat. It was already a mature image of regular script. It inherited the remnant wind of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and opened the first calligraphy of the early Tang Dynasty. It nourished a group of calligraphers such as Ouyang Xun, Yu Shinan, and Chu Suiliang. It was praised by Kang Youwei as "this integrated monument of the Six Dynasties, not only the first in the Sui Dynasty". There is also a "Holy Lord's Life Longevity Zhuyan Stele" in the temple, carved in the fourth year of Yuan Yanyou (1317), now standing in Zhengding Longxing Temple behind the wheel. In addition, there are five imperial steles of the Qing Dynasty in the temple, including one imperial stele of Kangxi, three imperial steles of Qianlong and one imperial stele of Jiaqing. Among them, the imperial stele of Longxing Temple in the fifty-second year of Kangxi and the rebuilding of Zhengding Longxing Great Buddha Temple in the forty-fifth year of Qianlong are located in the pavilions covered with yellow glazed tiles on the east and west sides of the moon platform of Great Compassion Pavilion. The other two imperial steles of Qianlong (engraved with six poems in total) and one imperial stele of Jiaqing are imperial poetry steles, which are respectively located in the side hall of Great Compassion Pavilion-Cishi Pavilion. Behind the Wheel Collection Pavilion and south of the Ci Pavilion. The novel "Hidden Dragon" is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Longxing Temple
There were many Longxing Monasteries, among which the more famous one was located in Zhengding County, Hebei Province. It was built in the sixth year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui Dynasty (586 years). It was originally named Longzang Temple. In the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Longxing Temple. In the forty-ninth year of Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1710 years), Kangxi gave it the title of "Imperial Construction of Longxing Temple". The name of the temple is still used today. It was one of the top ten famous temples in China. It was also one of the oldest, large-scale and well-preserved Buddhist monasteries in China. It was also one of the monasteries with the most Song Dynasty buildings, statues, and stone carvings in China. It was a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. The monastery occupied an area of 82500 square meters. The eastern part of the building was the living area of the monks, the middle was the place for Buddhist activities, and the western part was the imperial palace. Its architectural attractions were deep from north to south. At the southernmost end of the central axis was a glazed screen wall. To the north were more than ten halls, such as the Heavenly King Hall, Mani Hall, and the Great Compassion Pavilion. They were scattered in height, clear in order, and magnificent. It was a typical example of the architectural layout of ancient Buddhist temples in China. There were many cultural relics in the temple, including steles, porcelain, paintings and other artistic treasures of the past dynasties. Among them, six cultural relics were the most famous in the country. They were called the "Six Wonders" of Longxing Temple: the unique shape of Mani Hall, the colorful hanging statue of Guanyin known as the "Oriental Beauty God", the oldest and largest rotating wheel collection of Song Dynasty in China, the Longzang Temple stele praised as "the first stele of Sui Dynasty" and "the ancestor of regular script", the highest bronze Buddha in ancient China, and the bronze cast Thousand Buddha Dun, which was known as the unique one in China. In addition, there is also Longxing Temple in the north of Jifeng Mountain, Liangquan Village, Maying Town, Weibin District, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province. It was built in the early Tang Dynasty and was one of the eight monasteries in Guanzhong before the liberation. There is also Longxing Temple on the west side of the south section of Chengfang Road, Chengguan Town, Zhijin County, Guizhou Province. It was built in the sixth year of Kangxi (1667) and rebuilt in the 18th year of Daoguang (1838). It faces south and covers an area of about 870 square meters and a building area of about 620 square meters. The novel "Hidden Dragon" is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Longxing Temple ticket price
Zhengding Longxing Temple adult ticket 50 yuan; Students with student ID card, 60 - 69 years old old with ID card or old age card, 1.2 - 1.4 meters children half price; Elderly people over 70 years old with ID card or old age card, children under 1.2 meters, elderly people over 60 years old (not clear whether 60 - 69 years old elderly are included, here according to other free tickets in the information speculated to include), disabled people, military free tickets. In addition, the team ticket price starts from 45 yuan. The novel "Hidden Dragon" is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Longxing Temple Sutra Pavilion
Longxing Temple was located in Dongmenli Street, Zhengding County, Hebei Province, and was an AAA-level tourist attraction. The Sutra Library had a certain history of development. In the 17th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1891), the Sutra Library of Longxing Temple was rebuilt. Later, Monk Lianxi went to Beijing to collect the scriptures and put them in this library. However, the library was destroyed and the scriptures were lost. Judging from the architectural layout, Longxing Temple was huge. There were many buildings along the main axis, and the Sutra Depository was one of them. In the temple, there was also a revolving chamber related to scriptures. The revolving chamber was a large bookshelf that could rotate and hold more than two tons of scriptures. The novel "Hidden Dragon" is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
The stele of Suilong Temple
The Stele of Longzang Temple was engraved in the sixth year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui Dynasty (586 years). It was called the Stele of Longzang Temple, which was built by the governor of Hengzhou, Duke of E, for the country. It was hidden in Longxing Temple in Zhengding, Hebei Province. The original Longzang Temple of Sui Dynasty was built by Wang Xiaoxian, the governor of Hengzhou at that time, who was ordered to organize more than 10,000 people in the state to donate money. The stele was 3.15 meters tall and had 1500 words in total. There were 30 lines of inscriptions on it, 50 words per line, written in regular script. There is no name of the author, Ouyang Xiu's "Collection of Ancient Records" believes that the author is Zhang Gongli, who signed at the end of the stele, but the word is damaged and difficult to identify the author. The stele was in the middle script style and was of great significance. In terms of the art of calligraphy, its diction was exquisite and its calligraphy skills were wonderful. It was the first of its kind in Tang Dynasty and occupied an important position in the history of the development of regular script. It was called "the first in Sui Dynasty". His pen is thin and vigorous, depressed, deep and sincere, and his body is flat and elegant, graceful and clear. It melts elegant, ancient, clumsy, broad and deep in a furnace. The pen is square outside and round inside, straight and square, vigorous and sharp, integrating the solemn and solemn stele with the graceful and exquisite post. It gathered the strokes of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and sometimes came out of the Han Li style. It was square, straight, tall, broad, elegant, flat, and natural. It made the graceful, beautiful, thin, hard, and steep into one, forming a "new regular script". It had an impact on the shape, development, and maturity of the regular script of the Tang Dynasty. The regular script masters of the early Tang Dynasty and the middle and late period were more or less influenced by it. However, there was a controversy over the term "ancestor of regular script" because regular script had gradually matured at the end of the Han Dynasty. There were two to three hundred years between Zhong Yao and the Stele of Longzang Temple. Although the Stele of Longzang Temple retained some official script, it was a standard regular script. In addition, Ouyang Xun, who was an old minister of the Sui Dynasty in the early Tang Dynasty, was already very mature in the Sui Dynasty. Therefore, it was not very objective to call it "ancestor of regular script". In addition, there was also a Longzang Temple built in the Tang Dynasty in Sichuan Rongjun Hospital in Long 'an Community, southwest of Xinfan Town, Chengdu. It was originally called Cihui Temple. It was expanded into a temple during Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty. After being destroyed and rebuilt, it was once a cultural gathering during the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty. In 2019, it became a national cultural protection unit. It is still not open now. Only the hexagonal pavilion and stele pavilion outside the mountain gate can be used for the patient's family members to rest. The novel "Hidden Dragon" is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Longzang Temple Stele
"Longzang Temple Stele" was engraved in the sixth year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui Dynasty (586 years), and it was an inscription in regular script. It has 30 lines, each line has 12 or 50 words, the stele is hidden in Hebei Zhengding Longxing Temple. Although there is no name of the author, Ouyang Xiu's "Collection of Ancient Records" believes that the author is Zhang Gongli, who signed at the end of the stele. This stele was huge, with about 1,500 words. The diction was exquisite, and the calligraphy was exquisite. It was the first of its kind in the Tang Dynasty and occupied an important position in the history of the development of regular script. It was praised as the "number one in the Sui Dynasty". From the point of view of calligraphy art, it belongs to the style of Zhongkai calligraphy. The strokes are thin and vigorous, deep and sincere, and the style is flat and elegant, graceful and clear, melting elegant, ancient, clumsy, broad and deep in a furnace. The pen is square on the outside and round on the inside. The straight pen is square and sharp. It combines the solemnity of the stele and the elegance of the post into one. It was influenced by the Northern Stele. Its writing style, strokes, and structure had a strong shadow of the Northern Stele. It also had traces of the Bell King system (Wang Xizhi and others), combining the circular strokes of the Han Li and the square sharpness of the Northern Stele. Many scholars in later generations highly approved of it. For example, Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty thought that "the calligraphy and painting were vigorous and had the style of Ou and Yu"; Bao Shichen of the Qing Dynasty said that "Longzang Temple" was enough to inherit the right army, all of which were in the middle of fairness and understanding, and the mysterious changes were incredible ". Although some people believed that it was the ancestor of regular script, there was also controversy. This was because regular script had gradually matured at the end of the Han Dynasty. There was a gap of two to three hundred years between Zhong Yao and the Longzang Temple Stele. By the Sui Dynasty, regular script had already developed quite well. The Longzang Temple Stele only retained a standard regular script with some official script. It had an important academic value in the evolution of calligraphy and was a rare art treasure. The tablet was semi-circular in shape, embossed six intersecting dragons engraved on it. It was unique in shape and exquisite in carving. It had the simple and unsophisticated style of the Sui Dynasty. In addition, in Sichuan Rongjun Hospital in Longan Community, southwest of Xinfan Town, Sichuan Province (Longzang Temple was built in Tang Dynasty, formerly known as Cihui Temple, and expanded into a temple during Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty), there were also situations related to Longzang Temple. The novel "Hidden Dragon" is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
The murals in the Mani Hall of Longxing Temple in Zhengding
The murals in the Mani Hall of Longxing Temple in Zhengding have high artistic value and rich content. Judging from the contents of the murals, the inner walls of the east and west fan walls of the inner trough were painted with "Twelve Yuan Jue Bodhisattvas" and "Eight Great Bodhisattvas".(This part was repainted in the Qing Dynasty); The Four Treasures Mansion was painted with the "Twenty-four Heavens", while the East Treasures Mansion's "Great Compassion Honoring the Heavens" and "Devil Mother Heaven" were well preserved; the inner wall of the eaves vividly depicted the birth of Buddha Sakyamuni, becoming a monk, asceticism, enlightenment, and Nirvana, which was called the "Origin of Buddhism"; the east and west fan walls were painted with "Western Victory" and "Eastern Pure Glazed World" respectively. Except for some of the existing murals that were painted in the Qing Dynasty, most of them were remnants of the Ming Dynasty. Although it lasted for more than 500 years, the existing area was still 422 square meters except for some peeling off. Among them,"Western Scenery" was centered on the Three Saints of the West. There were more than 400 Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Arhats, musicians, and saints. The whole mural was mainly green, with some powder and gold, which made the layers clear and the colors gorgeous. In terms of artistic style, his fine brush painting was a heavy color figure painting. The production inherited the traditional techniques of the Tang and Song Dynasties. First, they used light ink to draw out the rough outline of the image, then added color, which meant that the ink line was formed and the color became rhyme. The center of the ink line moved the brush, using ancient hairspring and iron line drawing in many places. The lines were smooth and the strokes were rigorous. He used a single line to portray the faces of the characters to make them round and vivid. The lines of the costumes were vigorous, and the dresses were elegant and free. The murals were painted in red, green, ochre, and white. The paint was made of traditional minerals. The colors were gorgeous and suitable for cold and heat. The clothes, ribbons, headlights, backlights, building walls, and wooden structures were mainly red and green. The clouds were mainly white and green. The techniques of dripping powder and gold were also used to enhance the three-dimensional sense of the picture and the magnificent scene. In terms of protection, from 1977 to 1980, Mr. Qi Yingtao, a famous cultural relic expert in China, presided over the removal, restoration and restoration of the mural on the eaves wall. From April 2016 to October 2017, the Dunhuang Research Institute implemented the mural protection project, which effectively protected this precious historical and cultural treasure. The novel "Hidden Dragon" is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Longzang Temple Stele Version
There are several good copies of Longzang Temple Stele handed down from generation to generation: First, Qing Huangyun, Tang Handi, Shen Shuyong and others handed over the rubbings of Yuan and Ming Dynasties, which are now stored in Shanghai Library; Second, Wang Yirong and Wang Daxie handed over the rubbings of the early Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, half a page and twenty-eight words were missing. Zhang Yansheng added Jiadao's edition to complete the whole edition. The novel " Hidden Dragon " is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Longzang Temple Stele Inscription
The stele of Longzang Temple mainly recorded the process of the governor of Hengzhou, Duke of E, Wang Xiaoxian, persuading more than 10,000 commoners in Hengzhou to build Longzang Temple under the emperor's order. At the same time, it also introduced the scale, architectural landscape and surrounding environment of the temple at that time. The inscription is written in regular script. There are 30 lines on the front of the tablet, each line is about 50 words, a total of 1446 words. There are titles and the names of Hengzhou counties on the back and left of the tablet, divided into 5 sections and 30 lines, with different words per line. The original author of the stele and the author of the book did not sign their names. Ouyang Xiu believed that the author was Zhang Gongli, who signed at the end of the stele, but the author of the book could not be verified. The novel " Hidden Dragon " is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Longzang Temple Stele Calligraphy
There was no information about the copybooks of the 'Longzang Temple Stele' that were being sold or published. However, from the information provided, it could be seen that the Stele of Longzang Temple was of great significance in the history of calligraphy. It was a representative stele of the Sui Dynasty. The font was simple and pure, and the font was slightly square. It retained the style of official script and was hailed as the first stele of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The pen was powerful, and the strokes were carved into the bones and muscles. The structure was square, the arrangement was symmetrical and wide, the layout was horizontal and vertical, the characters were dense on the left and right, sparse on the top and bottom, similar to the layout of official script, full of ancient and natural beauty. Many calligraphers of the Tang Dynasty absorbed its essence and formed Tang Kai. If you want to find the copybook of Longzang Temple Stele, you can search through calligraphy bookstores, online calligraphy platforms, or related cultural and art stores. The novel " Hidden Dragon " is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Pronunciation of Longzang Temple Stele
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