The humanistic history of Cisheng Temple, the historical development of Ciyun Temple

Qinglongshan Ciyun Temple is located in Minquan Village, Dayugou Town, Gongyi City, more than 20 kilometers away from Gongyi City. Here the four mountains are surrounded by the posture of the people, a water stream, the peaks and peaks are connected, the forest is shaded, the environment is very quiet, it is an ideal situation for leisure and vacation.

Ciyun Temple was built in the Han Dynasty and is the first jungle in Gongyi. According to the inscription in the temple: "Emperor Yongping of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the seventh year (64 AD), there is a monk Morteng, Zhu Flange began to build the White Horse Temple in the west of Luoyang City, and traveled its mountain, because of its mountain and moon show, then opened Ciyun Temple."

Therefore, to call it Ciyun means that the Buddha's compassion is as vast as a cloud, covering the whole world.

Tsz Yun Temple has gone through vicissitudes, rise or abandon, has continued to this day, it has been trapped by more than 2,000 years of ups and downs, has become a reverie of the ancient temple. Tang Zhenguan first year to three years (627-629 AD), Tang monk Tang Sanzang Xuanzang Fengyi rebuilt this temple. Incense was still very strong in the Song Dynasty.

In the Yuan Dynasty, due to wars and famines, it was deserted. From the ninth year of Ming orthodoxy (1444 AD) to the fifth year of Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty (1866 AD), there were repairs in all dynasties. In the heyday, the halls were lined up, the gold was splendid, the monks were five or six hundred, and the pilgrims were like clouds, and they came one after another.

The shape of the hero, and the beauty of the system, that is, the Lushan of the Yuan Gong, the Shaolin of Dharma, there is no metaphor for this place.

The ancient Ciyun Temple has experienced more than 2,000 years of vicissitudes of time, and gradually went downhill after the end of the Qing Dynasty. The existing inscriptions of Tsz Yun Temple can be regarded as precious tourism resources in terms of their artistic value and historical value; to be protected. There is a clear stele engraved with "Qinglong Mountain Ciyun Temple 53 peaks present the realm map", the surrounding peaks, ten thousand ravines contend, Mo Teng, Zhu Flange stand far away Qinglong Peak.

Fluttering like immortals, the floor plan line of Tsz Yun Temple is engraved in the middle of the stele, leaving us with precious historical information.

Ciyun Temple was founded in the fifth year of Emperor Xuanhe of Song Dynasty (1123 AD), and is located on the southern branch of the ancient silk road. The Silk Road starts from Chang'an and crosses the Qinling Mountains, passes through the land of the pre-Qin Dynasty, passes through the Minxian County, goes out of Longshan, and passes through Longtai to Longxi, Ciyun Temple has become a transit station for the introduction and dissemination of Chinese and Western Buddhist culture. In 2003, the people of Tianshui City were officially approved as a place for religious and tourist activities.

Wushan Ciyun Temple has 4 monks, is the Pure Land Sect Dojo, divided into the upper temple and the lower temple.

The current host is Shi Hongji, commonly known as Zhang Zhiji (also known as Zhang Fifty-eight). He was born on February 27, 1965 in Zhaogou Village, Tange Town, Wushan County, Gansu Province. Since childhood, he was kind-hearted and compassionate, and even a little ant could not bear to hurt him, so he took refuge in the Three Jewels in 1992 and received full ordination in Wutai Mountain, Shanxi Province in 1995.

In 1900, when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded, the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu passed through Tianzhen and settled in Ciyun Temple when they fled from Beijing. It may be that the "Guanbei Giant Temple" left a deep impression on them, and when they returned to Beijing, they sent someone to send two wooden plaques. Cixi's inscription is "Heroic Soul Eternal", and Emperor Guangxu's inscription is "Mountains and rivers are idle".

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there were two monks, Lotte and Miaoming, who came to Ciyun Temple as monks. When they saw that the building in the Pilu Hall was exquisitely structured, but it had been empty for more than 300 years, they repeatedly asked the imperial court for the issuance of scriptures. In the thirty-second year of Qianlong (1767), the scriptures were finally allowed to be invited to Ciyun Temple.

This sutra is composed of the Sutra Collection, the Vinaya Collection, and the Treatise Collection, collectively known as the "Three Collections", with a total of more than 8,800 volumes. Since then, the reputation of Tsz Wan Temple has been greatly enhanced, and the incense has become more and more prosperous. In order to better protect the precious cultural relics, this set of Qianlong carved scriptures has been moved to the Huayan Temple under Datong.

Cisheng Temple was built in the Tang Zhenguan period, after the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, it was destroyed in the war, and was rebuilt in the Yuan to Yuan period. Covering an area of 7,000 square meters, there are 3 existing buildings: Mountain Gate, Tianwang Palace, and Daxiong Palace. On June 25, 2001, Cisheng Temple, as an ancient building of the Yuan Dynasty, was announced as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.