Yixing Lingshan Temple

Lingshan Temple, located in Zhu Tong Village, Yixing Street, is an orthodox Taoist temple with a recorded history of more than 500 years. The existing buildings face north, and from high to low along the mountain, they are the Temple of Wealth, Jade Emperor Temple, Cihang Hall, Wenchang Hall and Shanmen. More than 50 living rooms, such as Zhaitang and dormitory, are all on the hillside, which is magnificent.

Lingshan Temple is dedicated to Jaco, the great Cishan emperor who created the world and made contributions to water control. He helped the people through water control all his life and won the love of the people. Yixing people built a temple here to commemorate his meritorious service in water control.

The New Records of Jingxi County, Yixing, Guangxu (Volume II) said that there was a Lingshan Temple between Gui Jing, behind which Li and Mrs. Liu Zhaoer were dedicated. There are four ancient cypresses in the Jiangsongfen Hall in Xianfeng, which are thousands of years old. Cooper was the only one left when the temple soldiers were destroyed. In the seven years of Tongzhi, wild crops suffered, Shanshan and Shanting people prayed for God and suffered from extinction. Because of the reconstruction of the temple. There are three stones in the ten-stone chapter of Jingxi County Records of Yixing: Lingshan Temple Monument, written by Jiang. Rebuilding Lingshan Temple Monument, written by Zhang Bangji and Jiang Yingzhen. Rebuilding Lingshan Temple Monument, written by Pan Zongluo and Yue Ji.

According to the existing inscriptions of Lingshan Temple in Yixing, there were only three small huts when the ancestors built the temple, and they were later expanded, rebuilt and rebuilt by believers over the years. By the 23rd year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty, there were 99 half-hall apartments, which were extremely large.

Lingshan Hall was rebuilt for the first time in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, and was built by gentry. Later, Shanting and Shanxie in Cong Shan Township rebuilt the theater, and the body of the temple god took on a new look. In less than five or six years, there was a sudden mutiny and nothing was left. Passers-by sighed for a long time.

The second renovation was from the 24th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty to the 2nd year of Daoguang. The gatehouse, Ursa Hall, pavilions, huts, Kannonji, etc. have all been rebuilt and windows have been added. In the mountain pavilion, Yoshiko Yura built half of it, and the reconstruction cost was * * * 344,300. After being killed by Geng Shen, there were no rafters in the temple to shelter from the wind and rain.

The third reconstruction was carried out during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. Because of the folk plague, insect plague and locust plague, God prayed for it to make it safe. The first meeting to raise money, Tongzhi five years to build six towers of tulou, for the statue of the great emperor and Li Furen; East is the acne department, Guo Jian, jellyfish; In the west, Jiang Meng's vision and the Temple of Heaven and Tianpo, and later, Guanyin, Huangcheng and other temples were built. At the same time, it is stipulated that February 8 of the lunar calendar will be the incense field for two days every year.

The fourth time was in the thirteenth year of Tongzhi, and the West Building, the Ten Kings Hall and the East and West Kanlou were rebuilt. However, the funds for the main hall and Ying are huge, and we cannot be caught off guard.

The fifth time, from the twelfth year of Guangxu to the twenty-first year of Guangxu, Yi Li Jiang Demao helped foreign countries with seven thousand yuan, and Yi Dong Lu Jibao helped money with two coins. So, funds were raised, and in a few years, the main hall was resplendent and beautifully carved, but it was restored! In the spring and autumn of more than 20 years, the work was completed one by one, and there was no shortage of money.

The founders and leaders of the meeting carved stones as records. Fu Chunshan, the founder of the East, was led by JI Wang, the nephew of this family. The founders of Xifang are Jiang Yifen, Wu Yuan, Pu Shengjia and Pan. The first meeting was with Hong Kui and Wu Sheng, and Shen Dachang was the cashier.

The Taoist priest in charge of Lingshan Temple is Li Honggao, a master in the city. He moved from Hui Zhen Temple to Guoli Temple and then to Lingshan Temple. In order to ensure the maintenance of temple funds and the salaries of Taoist priests, from the 22nd year of Guangxu to the 23rd year of Guangxu, 50 mu of mountain fields, 98 mu of flat fields and more than 50 mu of farmland were set up. Enter the temple fair on the eighth day of February. It was managed by Yi Kuang master Li Honggao and inscribed on the property of Master Yi Kuang. After liberation, the land was collectively owned, and the temple property was managed by Taoist priests Liu Rulin, Qian Zhixiang, Ni and Dong Deyin, until the temple concept of "breaking the capitalism" was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

1994, Lingshan Temple was approved as a venue for Taoist activities. Qian Zhiqiang, the sixth generation Taoist priest of Lingshan Temple, and Qian Jinquan, the seventh generation Taoist priest of Lingshan Temple, mobilized all believers to donate money. Three temples, Cishan, Sanqing and Zhaitang, have been built successively. In 2000, Yang Zuhong, the 18th director of Lingshan Temple, was in charge of the temple affairs of Lingshan Temple.

Remembering the heroes of water control, paying homage to Emperor Zushan, praying for good weather and good weather by the officials and people, making persistent efforts and not afraid of difficulties, constantly striving for and rebuilding new buildings on the broken temple foundation, making the temple look more and more prosperous and more religious, and striving to inherit the glorious tradition of courage to unite and strive for victory in the face of great disasters, which is worth learning from local chronicles.