Xi'an Tips 丨 Da Cien Temple

The colorful color of the Yanta District of Xi'an City is colorful all year round. Here you can find the most beautiful scenery, or elegant and clear, or gorgeous, and move you with never repeated beauty. "Come to find a dream, where is the old courtyard and the flowers return. This side has Yuan Guo Xintian." After a few autumn wind and autumn, the leaves gradually yellow, a natural sense of vicissitudes. The tip of the eyebrows, like overnight, returned to thousands of years ago.

Da Cien Temple attracts tourists to visit

Da Cien Temple has a very prominent position in the history of Chinese Buddhism. It is located at the southern end of today's Yanta Road. It was built in the twenty -two years of Tang Taizong Zhenguan. Standing with the world -famous big goose pagoda. Since the Tang Dynasty, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda has been an important part of Chang'an City. It has become a famous iconic building in Xi'an to this day. The Great Wild Goose Pagoda has a history of more than 1,300 years. It is the oldest and largest Sifang Pavilion brick tower. There are countless tourists who come to visit each year.

The Da Cien Temple sits north to the south and adopts a traditional central axis layout. From south to north, it is composed of five parts including Shanmen, Daxiong Temple, Fatang, Dayan Pagoda, and Xuanzang Sanzangyuan. The area centered on the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is high and the surrounding area is low. The east side of the central axis is the bell tower, guest hall, Galan Temple, Ganlu Hall, Caishen Temple, etc. The west side of the middle axis Showing Hall, Guanyin Hall, etc. There are cultural management homes and East Monk Academy on the east side. There are office centers, west monks, Zhai Hall, abbot tower, Peony Pavilion, etc. on the west side. Harmony can be said to be a very neat ancient building complex.

Da Cien Temple

According to the Biography of Ci En, the Da Ci En Temple in the Tang Dynasty "Chonglou Fu Hall, Yunge Cave House, more than ten hospitals, totaling 1,897 rooms", the whole temple accounted for half of Jinchangfang. Today, the specific courtyard name cannot be verified. It can only be learned from the relevant literature that there are courtyards such as Nanchi, Duanmen, Great Buddha Temple, Classic Council, Yuanguo Hospital, Taizhenyuan, and West Courtyard. , Also known as the Xita Temple, from this, it can be seen that today's Da Ci En Temple only retains a small part of the Xita Temple of Tang Da Cien Temple.

The entire layout of the Great Ci En Temple is symmetrical and rigorous

Since its establishment, the Great Ci En Temple is not only a royal temple, but also a place where the people loved by the people during the Tang Dynasty. The peony of the Great Ci En Temple is very famous. Every time the flowers are blooming, there is a continuous stream of flowers. There are also many murals made by many famous artists, such as Yan Liben, Wu Daozi, and Wei Chi, which are unfortunately destroyed. On the Shimen lintel and door frames of the four -door hole under the Da Cien Temple, the exquisite Tang Dynasty line is still retained.

Source: Yanta Impression

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