Buddhist towns in Buddhist temples

Buddhist temple is a famous town with a long history in Yiwu. 193 1 years ago, before the opening of the Hangjiang Railway, Fotang Town became the local economic and transportation center with the advantage of Yiwu river transportation, and had the reputation of "Little Lanxi". Fotang Town is the largest town in Yiwu, and Fotang Town in Yiwu is a famous historical and cultural town in China.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yiwu River was the main waterway in the east, west and south of Yiwu. Up to Weishan in Dongyang, down to Jinhua, Lanxi, Hangzhou, Quxian and Changshan, and up to Tunxi in Anhui. Can pass bamboo rafts and 3 to 5 tons of wooden sailboats. Fotang Town was the main water pier at that time, which brought prosperity to shipping, commerce and service industry.

In (Jiaqing) Yiwu County Records, there are as many as six entries describing Buddhist temples. Such as Buddha town, Buddha city, Buddha street, Buddha port, upper Buddhist temple, lower Buddhist temple and so on. Under the entry of Fotang Town, it is recorded that "there is a cloudy yellow (mountain) in the south, a big stream (river) in the north, a floating beam (bridge) across, and boats are moored like ants". During the Qianlong period, Yang, a magistrate of Yiwu, wrote in Wanshan Bridge that Fotang Town was "a town on all sides, with Jia leading the car and neighboring cities". It shows that Fotang Town was famous more than 220 years ago. By the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Buddhist temples had become one of the "four major towns in eastern Zhejiang".