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Traveling to Suzhou, I came to Hanshan Temple to visit. Puming Pagoda is one of the parts of Hanshan Temple. Puming Pagoda is "a temple sign". It is the theme building of the Pagoda and the highest point of Hanshan Temple. It is easy to see a pagoda in front of Hanshan Temple. That is, the Puming Tower. Hanshan Temple, formerly known as "Miao Li Puming Tower Courtyard", was originally a place to worship the spiritual bones of the ancestors, the tower was destroyed and later rebuilt.

20230702 Morning: 1. "Puming Pagoda" is located in the "Hanshan Temple" in the scenic spot of 4A. Hanshan Temple is the famous temple in the western suburbs of Suzhou on the banks of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. It was built in the Southern Dynasty during the Xiaoliang Tianjian Year (502-519). It was founded by the Hanshan monk, one of the "Hehe 2 Holys". It was once one of the "Ten famous temples" in China. Afterwards, it was due to the famous poem "Fengqiao Night Po" by Zhang Ji, a poet in Tang Tianbao years. "Gusu City outside Hanshan Temple, the bell to the passenger ship in the middle of the night" is famous in the world, the incense is extremely strong, and there are famous footprints such as Zhu Yuanxu, Yue Fei, Tang Yu, Wen Zhengming, Wang Shiqi, Lin Zexu, Dong Qichang, Kang Youwei and other famous people in history. The temple is large in scale, roughly five-in-one courtyard, covering an area of 1.3 10,000 square meters. ① Address: No. 24 Hanshan Temple Lane, Fengqiao Road, Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province ② Transportation: direct bus access, easy to stop by car. ③ peak season: no. ④ Time: 1 hour. 2. There is a temple landmark "Puming Pagoda" in the courtyard, which is the commanding height of the whole temple. The initial name of Hanshan Temple is named after this tower. The tower is 5 floors of Tang style, only one floor is open, and the center has 4 Buddha statues facing the surroundings. Outside the tower is surrounded by pools, and the koi in the pool is in a group. The table is a great location for feeding fish, and you can experience the happiness of being surrounded by colorful salmon. On the west side, a modern-built wall is built, and the history of the tower is recorded after the wall. On the north side is the circulation place of French objects; on the south side is the south gate exit. Several times of the tower's rise and fall are specific: ① Tang Wuzong "Huichang Destroyed Buddha" movement before and after the five generations of the ten-nation period (907-979) was destroyed during the war, until the Northern Song Dynasty Taiping Xingguo Year (976-983), Taining Festival made Sun Chengxu rebuild the 7-story pagoda. ② When Jin Yan invaded Suzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty for four years (1130), the tower was destroyed by the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers, until Shaoxing four years (1134) monks relocated and rebuilt, which took 3 years. ③ At the end of the Yuan Dynasty (about 1366), when Xu Da, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, led the troops to attack another force, Zhang Shicheng, the temple and the tower were destroyed, and then it was not rebuilt for more than 600 years, until the reconstruction began with government support in 1993, which took nearly tens of millions of dollars for three years.

Hanshan Temple is located in Gusu District, Suzhou City, built in the southern dynasty of Xiaoliang Dynasty during the Tianjian Dynasty. Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji wrote a poem "Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, the bell to the passenger ship in the middle of the night" when he passed through Hanshan Temple. Most of the temples in Hanshan are Qing Dynasty buildings, mainly with the Daxiong Palace, Tibetan Jinglou, Bell Tower, Stele Gallery.

The Puming Pagoda is located in the gate of Hanshan Temple, behind the temple. The Hanshan Temple was built as the "Miao Li Puming Pagoda", and the Puming Pagoda is its symbol. The Buddhist Temple has suffered fires many times and the Pagoda has been destroyed three times. However, the aspirations of monks and believers in the past eras to build the towers will not be destroyed. In 1991, after the first initiative and many parties to run, the restoration of the pagoda was approved, and the foundation was laid the next year, and completed in December 1995. Since then, a Tangfeng pagoda stands tall, ancient charm Buddha Wei, Pudu all beings.

Hanshan Temple is the most famous monument in Suzhou, and Gusu City enjoys a long history. Hanshan Temple was not originally called Hanshan Temple, called "Miao Lipu Mingtayuan". Speaking of the stone monuments of Hanshan Temple, the most famous of course is the poem monument "Fengqiao Yebo" written by literati in the past. Zhang Ji this poem is out, and tourists from Hanshan Temple come. Shake yourself into the "ten famous temples of ancient times" in China.