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The Second Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty and has been renovated in subsequent dynasties. The existing temple is a residential-style building in southern Anhui in the late Qing Dynasty. In the temple, there are two holy images, one of literature and one of martial arts, wearing black gauze, wearing court clothes, jade belts around the waist, wearing court boots, seven feet tall, plump face, and three black beards. His chest was high, and his eyes were piercing. Why do the two saints look like this? Because they are not bodhisattvas, but the two uncles of Jin Jizo. According to legend, Jin Jizo crossed the sea from Silla and entered the Tang Dynasty. He cultivated in Jiuhua Mountain and built a Buddhist temple. After his fame spread, even monks from Silla came to worship him as a teacher. Jindizang led his disciples to cultivate wasteland, and they could not self-sufficient food, so they dug white soil, known as "Guanyin soil", to feed their hunger. The emaciated state of the monks was called "the withered people in the south" at that time. When the news reached Silla, Jin Jizo's mother was heartbroken and anxious, so she sent two younger brothers who were ministers of Silla to travel to the mountain to visit. Jin Dizang saw the two uncles, mixed with joy and sorrow, greeted them with courtesy, and expressed his lifelong determination to cultivate Taoism in Jiuhua. The two uncles were deeply impressed and stayed on the mountain. But the two of them couldn't stand the "five precepts", and they often drank and ate meat. Jindi Zang drove them down the mountain without persuading them to change. Later, at the foot of Jiuhua Mountain, the villagers built temples and statues here to commemorate them. In the past, on the 30th day of the seventh lunar month, the "Ksitigarbha Dharma Meeting" was held on the mountain to commemorate the day of Jindizang's enlightenment. Partygoers may also drink alcohol. This can be described as a special religious custom in Jiuhua Mountain. Now the incense of the Second Temple is flourishing, and Korean tourists and pilgrims come to Jiuhua Mountain to worship incense. The Second Temple is one of the holy places that must be worshipped.