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| | Two Celestial Being Pavilion [edit this] | | This pavilion, with very delicate carvings, was built in the Song Dynasty (420?479 ) and rebuilt in the age of emperor Jiaqing Reign in the Qing Dynasty (1616?1911). In the center of pavilion there are two steles on which carved two celestial beings each, one is Chen Tuan, the other is Lu Dongbin. Once upon time two celestial beings often played chess here. One day a woodcutter was passing by and was attracted to have a look. When the woodcutter backed his village after the end of one round, no one could recognize him. Later the folks knew from his dress he was a man lived thousands years before. And this also produced an idiom: A while of one round of chess in celestial being land, is one thousand year on earth. This story indicates that Huqiu is a place even suitable for celestial being to live. There are also two couplets in the pavilion, one is, it's not a real dream when dreaming of dreaming; the other is, Finding reason in the reason is the reason. | Edit by: ch | |
| Thousand Workman Stones [edit this] | | This is the key landscape of Huqiu. It is said when He Lv, the king of Wu Kingdom died, his son Fu Chai, notorious one in historic books buried his father on Huqiu. Avoiding tomb was robbed by the workmen some day?he pretended to invite all workmen building tomb to have a dinner and watch crane dancing on this stone to celebrate the work finished. After they were drunk in the middle night, he ordered soldiers to kill all of them. Flood flew over everywhere even made this huge stone into red. After that, the stone became redder when it was rainy or cloudy, and seemed to bleed when it was flushed by rainwater, which seemed to tell people that miserable story. Now?here's the red stone as you see. Sure no one would consider the red color is really caused by the workmen’s blood. Actually, this is the acidity rhyolite, whose original color is red. It is amazing that there are two rocks bulged with smooth walls which seem to be cut by knife; however, it is naturally shaped. | Edit by: ch | |
| the Site of Stone Kwan-yin Hall [edit this] | | It is said in Huzhou there were two brothers Zang Kui and Zang Ning who had filial piety and served their mother for ten years. One day the elder brother Zang Kui fell sick for overwork and poor living condition. At night he then recited the title of Kwan-yin?and dreamed of a person in white pricking with a needle on his ears and he recovered right at once. The two brother?one was good at painting and the other at carving. They made a wish to draw a picture of Kwan-yin, but didn't remember her appearance clearly. One night Kwan-yin appeared again in Kui's dream, still in white. He at once got up and wrote down every detail from his memory, and finally made a fair solemn, kindly figure which arouses respect of people. Every one saw it thought it good and called it “Dreamed Kwan-yin”. Gradually the figure became popular. | Edit by: ch | |
| Third Fount [edit this] | | According to the legend, Lu Yu, named as Tea Saint, came to Huqiu in Zhen Yuan Period, Tang Dynasty (618?907), digging a well here and taking the water in this well as standard. He wrote a book Tea after comparing different waters in separate places. Because the water is clear and sweet, the well was named by Lu as “Third Fount”. The walls of fount are in ochre with nature vein, as beautiful as iron flowers. So Su Dongpo, famous poet in the Song Dynasty (420?479) also named it Iron Flower Wall. | Edit by: ch | |
| The Main Hall [edit this] | | The Main Hall is the only existing Buddhism hall of the Yun Yan Temple?and the present hall is only for displaying Buddhism in accordance with Hinayana. There are 53-steps from up to down. While travelers step down, they can always see the Bodhisattva sitting in the center of the hall no matter which step they are standing as long as them turn around. It is said that the boy Shang Cai once desired to become a Buddha, and knelt to kowtow to each master till the 52nd one, but all his efforts gained nothing. Later he was enlightened by Bodhisattva Wenshu and was taught by Bodhisattva Kwan-yin?his 53rd teacher and at last he reached the achievement to be a Buddha. | Edit by: ch | |
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