Qionghua is a precious flower in ancient my country. It blooms every May, with eight and five petals, and the petals are like white jade plates, and the flowers are as beautiful as jade butterflies dancing. According to legend, the Emperor of Sui Dynasty once went to Yangzhou to see Qionghua, so Qionghua became famous all over the world. Every year at the turn of spring and summer, there are endless people coming to appreciate the flowers.

There are lotus flowers in front of Pingyuan Tower. On the east side is the "Tang Zhaoti Temple Lotus" and on the west side is the "Tang Zhaoti Temple Qinglian" and in the middle is the "China-Japanese Friendship Lotus".

It is said that in the spring of 1980, in order to celebrate the "Japanese national treasure monk Jianzhen statue of China Exhibition" to be exhibited in Daming Temple in Yangzhou, the Botanical Research Institute sent a special person to send these three lotus varieties here. The ancient stone pots for planting lotus are antiques from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and were specially selected and configured by the Yangzhou Garden Management Office.

Yan Chenyu and Koala walked east from the Mainland Hall, and the most distinctive building of the Daming Temple that she saw was the Jianzhen Memorial Hall. The memorial hall was based on the foundation for commemorating the 1,200th anniversary of Master Jianzhen's death, and was laid in China and Japan to commemorate the 1,200th anniversary of Jianzhen's death.

The memorial hall is designed according to the architectural rules of the Tang Dynasty and in accordance with the style of the "Golden Hall" of Tangzhaoti Temple in Japan. It is composed of the main hall, stele pavilion and corridor. The lines are strong, the structure is neat and simple. The famous architect Professor Liang Sicheng presided over the design plan, which was his last work designed during his lifetime.

The courtyard is planted with cherry blossoms, pine trees and green grass. The whole building looks simple, elegant, solemn and solemn. There are also introductions and historical materials about Jianzhen’s deeds to cross the east and displays of historical materials in the south of the memorial hall. The entire area covers a total area of ​​2,540 square meters.

There are many famous monks in the ancient temple of Daming Temple, among which Jianzhen, a master of the law studies in the Tang Dynasty, is the most famous.

Jianzhen (687-763) was a high-ranking monk and medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty. He was surnamed Chunyu. He became a monk at Dayun Temple at the age of 14. At the age of 20, he went to Chang'an to receive "full precepts" from Master Hongjing. He toured the two capitals (Chang'an, Luoyang) and studied the Three Canons. He specialized in Master Fali's "Four Parts of the Laws of the Law", Master Dingbin's "Embroidering the Sect" and Master Daoxuan's "Practice and Concubine", and eventually became the descendant of the Nanshan Sect of the Vinaya Sect.

Jianzhen returned to Yangzhou at the age of 26, and became the abbot of Daming Temple at the age of 55, preaching precepts and preaching rules. He built pagodas in the temple and shaped Buddha statues, and became a knowledgeable and talented Buddhist master.

In the first year of Tianbao (742), the Japanese monk Rong Rui and Puzhao were commissioned by the Japanese Buddhist community and the Emperor to sincerely ask him to go to Japan to preach the precepts. Jianzhen happily agreed. From that year to the twelfth year of Tianbao. During the 12 years, he led people to cross the east five times, but failed due to sea storms, floods, and obstructions from local officials. In particular, he drifted on the sea for 14 days for the fifth time.

On his way back, Japanese disciple Rong Rui died of illness. Jianzhen was so sad that he suffered from a heat and suddenly became blind. However, his ambition to travel east to spread the Dharma became stronger. In the twelve year of Tianbao, Jianzhen, 66, traveled to the east with the Japanese envoy to the Tang Dynasty for the sixth time. Finally arrived in Japan. When Master Jianzhen traveled to the east, he brought a large number of Buddhist scriptures, Buddhist tools and Buddha statues, and 38 skilled craftsmen.

When he arrived in Japan, while promoting Buddhism and teaching precepts, he also spread Chinese culture, taught medical knowledge, and helped Japan build Buddhist temples. The Tangzhaoti Temple in Nara City, which Jianzhen presided over the construction of the Tang Dynasty, retained the style of the Tang Dynasty architecture and is still a national treasure-level building in Japan.

Jianzhen is knowledgeable and capable in medicine. He is very loving. He once presided over the Beta Inn in Dayun Temple to cure diseases. He personally decocted medicine for the sick and cured the diseases of Empress Dowager Guangming and Emperor Shengwu. The Japanese Emperor was awarded the title of "Great Monk Capital" and "Yamato Shang". The Japanese people called Jianzhen "The Body of the Flat", which means that his achievements were enough to represent the roof of the culture of the Flat Period.

Before Jianzhen made his way to the east, monks such as the Tang Dynasty from Dafuxian Temple in Luoyang were invited to travel to the east. Why did Japan insist on inviting Jianzhen? Moreover, after arriving in Japan, Jianzhen's status was much higher than monks from China, India, Baekje and other places of the same era.

Some researchers believe that at that time, Japan invited high monks from the Tang Dynasty to travel to the east to preach the Dharma, mainly to solve the problem of Japanese monks' lax precepts. Japanese people generally adopted the "self-swearing and voluntary" method to become monks. There are many understandings of the precepts. In other words, anyone who is willing can declare himself a monk, and there are no precepts and restrictions.

Both the Japanese government and the people highly value Buddhism, but they feel that such casual monks cannot trust, so strict precepts emerge, and the monks' requirements are regulated by taking precepts.

Due to different Buddhist sects, the content of the precepts varies greatly. Most monks receive the five precepts, eight precepts, ten precepts, etc. The strictest one is Mahayana scholars, who must receive 250 precepts, which is called "full precepts". No one in Japan understood this strict precept at that time, and he was determined to hire a monk in China.

Jianzhen is a monk who has truly received "full precepts". Before going to Japan, he had already received precepts for more than 40,000 monks, which is the ideal object that Japan is looking for. Today, the Buddhist community in Japan no longer rejects eating meat and marrying a wife. The monks of the Vinaya Sect in Tangzhaoti Temple founded by Master Jianzhen are still one of the few monks in Japan who strictly observe the precepts except the Linji Sect.

Jianzhen lived in Japan for 10 years, died of illness in Nara, Japan in the first year of Guangde in the Tang Dynasty (763), at the age of 76. During his 10 years in Japan, he established the Vinaya School for Japan and corrected the Tripitaka in Japan.

He also introduced the architecture and sculpture art of China to Japan. Under his personal design and presidency, the "Tangzhaoti Temple" was built in Nara, Japan.

In addition, he cured the eye disease of the Japanese Empress Dowager Guangming, and personally identified drugs with olfactory sense, introduced medical knowledge to the Japanese people, exchanged science and technology such as Buddhism, linguistics, literature, architecture, sculpture, calligraphy, printing, etc., promoted the development of Japanese culture, and was praised by the Japanese people as the "father of culture" and the "ancestor of the Vinaya School".

The dry painted red seating statue created by Jianzhen before his death was enshrined in Tangzhaoti Temple in Japan. It has become a national treasure of Japan. The 1980 year-old Jianzhen seating statue once returned to the capital of China and was exhibited in Yangzhou for nearly a month.

In order to welcome the statue of Jianzhen, President Zhao Puchu wrote the stone heading "The Wind and Moon in the Sky" to welcome the statue of Jianzhen. It was placed on the west gate on the east side of the main hall of Jianzhen Memorial Hall. This gate is the only place that leads to the main hall of Jianzhen Memorial Hall when returning to the "visiting relatives" of Jianzhen Memorial Hall.

When Elder Morimoto Xiaoshu escorted the statue of Master Jianzhen from the Chinese History Museum to Fayuan Temple for exhibition on May 4, he was welcomed by more than 100 monks from each temple in the capital of Fayuan Temple. After leaving the "Jianzhen Memorial Hall" and passing through a courtyard, he was the "Jianzhen Memorial Pavilion".

A huge monument on white marble, Sumeru mount lies in the pavilion. The front is the "Monument to the Great Monk of Jianzhen of Tang" written by Guo Moruo. The back is the inscription and chant of Zhao Puchu who wrote a book to commemorate the 1200th anniversary of Jianzhen's death.

On the right front of the monument pavilion is a portrait of the famous architect Mr. Liang Sicheng. To commemorate the 1200th anniversary of Jianzhen's death, China and Japan decided to prepare for the construction of the "Jianzhen Memorial Hall" at Daming Temple in Yangzhou and held a groundbreaking ceremony.

The Jianzhen Memorial Hall was designed by the famous architect Liang Sicheng. It has a foyer, a stele pavilion, a main hall, and an east-west corridor, covering an area of ​​2,540 square meters. The entire building is in the style of the Tang Dynasty, and the main hall is similar to the main hall of the Tangzhaoti Temple in Nara, Japan.

There is also a half-body statue of Mr. Zhao Puchu, the former president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, erected on the left front of the monument pavilion. There is also a poetic monument next to the statue.

Zhao Puchu's "Dream of Yangzhou? Visiting Jianzhen's Former Residence" is in the evening, and the film is flying over the clouds. He shines his clothes on the Shugang, and has a long history of his life. He sacrificed his life and traveled to Penglai through the wind and waves. In the Nara period, Zhaoti Temple was so romantic!

The masters of the two countries jointly recommended each other, and they counted poetry and wine, and only accompanied each other. The bright moon in Yangzhou, how many heroic talents! The east wind changed the face of Wucheng, and rewarded all the achievements and contributed to the Jianghuai River. The important tasks of the Lu Liang were left with us.

The stone lantern presented by the elder Morimoto Takasumoto, Nara, Japan, was presented by the Japanese parliamentary member. In his speech, he said: "There is a stone lantern in the Daming Temple in Yangzhou. It is a pair of stone lanterns in the Tangzhaoti Temple in Japan. It is still burning today, symbolizing the eternal decline of Sino-Japanese friendship."

The statue of Master Jianzhen is built in Japan for imitating Jianzhen. The statue of Master Jianzhen is enshrined in the middle of the memorial hall. This statue is made of a statue of Master Jianzhen imitating the statue of Master Jianzhen in Nara, Japan, and is made of nanmu carved and dried paint.

There is a copper incense burner in front of the statue, which is the great contribution made by Emperor Hirohito of Japan to commend Master Jianzhen to the cause of friendship between Japan and China. On the left side of the main hall is the "Tang envoy model" used by Jianzhen when he traveled to Japan to the east.

A cabinet displays the commemorative banners given by a friendly delegation from Japan to China in the 1970s and 1980s when visiting the Jianzhen Memorial Hall.

More than a thousand years later, Master Jianzhen is still playing a role in friendly use between China and Japan. The memorial hall uses a large number of pictures and text materials to reflect Master Jianzhen's life, as well as his tragic experience of going east six times, sending Japan the tragic experience of Buddhism and culture in the Tang Dynasty.

The memorial hall contains photos of the 1980 Japanese Tangzhaoti Temple Jianzhen dry paint statue returning to China. Among them are Comrade Deng's photo of the filial elder Moriki Moriki who escorted the escort of the sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred sacred

The opposite of the memorial hall was originally Qingkong Pavilion, and it is now the exhibition room for cultural relics and historical materials for Jianzhen's life. Under the advocacy of Master Xingyun, the Jianzhen Library was built by the Foundation. The Jianzhen Library was completed. Master Xingyun personally came to Yangzhou to cut the ribbon and participated in the tree planting activity.

Mr. Kazuo Ikeda spent a huge amount of money to buy a treasure from the Yongkang period of the Western Jin Dynasty - the White Jade Buddha Head. This Buddha Head has been around for more than 1,700 years ago, and its value is immeasurable.

Kazuo Ikeda had a strong wish in his later years, which was to let the Buddha's head return to his hometown, China. Later, Le Feng, deputy director of the Chen Congzhou Art Museum and vice president of the Folk Culture Society, finally returned to Daming Temple in Yangzhou after many twists and turns.
Chapter completed!