The most helpless thousand year old temple in China, known as Jiangbei Xiaojiuhua, is rarely known,

Temple, can be said to be a kind of long-lasting culture in the country, it is located in Lujiang County, Hefei, Anhui Province of the actual Zen Temple, obviously called practical, many people feel surprised.

There is a temple with a thousand-year-old history in Nanjing, called Dingshan Temple, which once ranked first in the "Four Hundred and Eighty Temples of the Southern Dynasty", and was known as "the first ancient temple in Jiangbei" with a history of more than 1,500 years, and Dingshan Temple is one of the ancestral gardens of Chinese Zen Buddhism.

The actual Zen Temple, located near Yefu Mountain in Lujiang, has a history of thousands of years. The style of the temple retains the characteristics of the graceful atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the meticulous carving of the Song Dynasty, especially the Daxiong Treasure Hall is the most famous in East China. Because the place where the temple was built is relatively remote, it is not well known.

Xiaojiuhua Temple, also known as Jiuhua Temple, was formerly known as Dongyue Temple.

Xiaojiuhua Temple was built in the 44th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1685) in the people of Wu Guozhong and the monks to raise and build the apse, enshrine the master of the Netherworld (that is, the Bodhisattva of the King of the Dizang, so commonly known as the Dizang Temple), and cast the furnace in the court. In the forty-third year of Kangxi (1704), Guozhongzi Changyun and the monk Langhan raised and built the Dashi Palace. In the fourth year of Qianlong (1738), Emperor Guan Hall and Liu Gong Temple were built.

In the fifth year of Qianlong (1740), the prison monk Yunshan built a mountain gate, a guest hall, a dining hall, a kitchen, etc. Qianlong was destroyed in ten years. In the fourth year of Guangxu (1878), the monk Yongyuan and the lotus hall rebuilt five mountain gates, and in the eighth year of Guangxu (1882), the monk Lianjue Lian often built three East Guest Halls.

In the ninth year of Guangxu (1883), three rooms were built in the west. In the tenth year of Guangxu (1884), the east wall was built, three abbot rooms were built, and five Guanyin halls were built in the eleventh year of Guangxu (1885). The scale of Pingwang Xiaojiuhua Temple in the historical materials is acceptable, the incense in the temple is particularly prosperous, from July 1 to October 1 of the lunar calendar every year, pilgrims from far and near gather, visitors come one after another, the incense market is very prosperous for a while, the social influence is great, it forms a certain sensational benefit in the surrounding area, it is famous in the country, it spreads in Southeast Asia, the literati and ink writers travel endlessly, leaving a lot of chanting quatrains and calligraphy and painting ink treasures.

In the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, it is recorded in the "Pingwang Zhi": It was built in the 40th year of the Ming Dynasty (1616) to commemorate the Jizo Bodhisattva. At that time, the scale was large, with the temple of the priest, the hall of the pharmacist, the temple of Liu Gong and the mountain gate, the guest room, the hall, the kitchen, all available, the eaves and the corners, the temple was heavy, the people who worshiped the top membrane flocked here, it was a famous temple in the south of the Yangtze River at that time.

The years are long, the vicissitudes of life have changed greatly, and the famous temples and ancient temples have endured the historical storms. In 1949, it was changed to Pingwang Grain Management Office, and in 1970, it was rebuilt into a flour mill, and the original temple building was converted to other uses, which was unrecognizable. Fortunately, there is still an osmanthus tree, a boxwood tree and an ancient well on the ruins of the temple, as physical evidence, leaving historical memories.