Shangfeng Temple

Shangfeng Temple is situated at the highest peak of Mountain Hengshan——the side of Zhurong Peak. It is located at the high and cold mountainous area, which is completely with stone wall and iron tiles. As for its architectural layout, under the entrance of mountain, there is the granite torii, on the torri, it is engraved with three characters the white marble on the plaque “Shangfeng Temple”, and there is the carved stone inscription on both sides: “The mark of the holy cloth of southern China, all of the immigrating people in Jianghan admire it altogether; The mountain god blesses the grand prosperous sacrifice, the ancient Buddha of Western Paradise share the fragrance of the joss of burning sticks altogether”. The elevation of temple is more than one thousand meters, being in the temple, you will feel like being in the palace of the heaven. On one side of the temple, there is the Lei Pool (the Thunder Pool). Each year of the period that the excited insects awaken, the wind and rain suddenly encounters with the thunderclap hovering over it, the insects experience the ecdysis with the falling the shell, that is why the Yuhua Pond (the emergence pond) has its name.

Publishes at : 08-01-04 22:21

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