Is there a temple with an alarm clock in Nanxiang, Jiading, Shanghai?

You mean there is a clock in Nanxiang Temple in Jiading, Shanghai? Yes

When it was first built, Bordet Foundation was very large, with a total area of 20 mu, small bridges and flowing water, bells and drums ringing, and the environment was elegant. By the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the temple had gone through a hundred years of wind and rain and became very shabby. Local scholars Xu Chengyi and Li Yanqiong raised funds to rebuild the main hall, which was named Tang Xingtang. Tang Xing Dian Ji is incomplete and has been lost, but the inscription is still there, which has become valuable information for analyzing and understanding Bo Dai Ji. During Song Kaibao's reign, Cai Hui, a monk in the temple, rebuilt the Bodhi Temple, and Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin wrote an inscription: "_ Build Bodaiji".

In the 20th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1592), the Jidaxiong Hall in Bordet suddenly collapsed and the Buddha statue was seriously damaged. It happened that the monk crossed the sea and the bright moon and was determined to raise money for reconstruction. He locked himself with chains and iron locks and threw the key into the well, claiming that he would never open the iron lock without raising money to build the hall. In order to commemorate the sea and the moon, everyone called this well "the key-casting well", which became a great beauty in Buddhism. The existing ancient ginkgo biloba was planted by monks in Guangnian Temple in Qing Dynasty. At that time, Tao Shu, the governor of Jiangsu Province, built Zhenchuan Academy and petite Yin Shu Garden beside the temple in memory of Gui Youguang, a writer of Ming Dynasty, which added elegance to the scroll and added the charm of Buddha's light and Brahma. The clock is a tool used by temples to tell the time and call people together. It is also called big clock, fishing clock and newspaper clock.