A New Probe Into The Characteristics Of Buddhist Tourism In The Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty is the golden period of the history of our country, political stability and rapid development of economy and culture, the vast territory, the frequent exchanges with foreign countries, a variety of factors contributed to the wind of tourism popular in Tang Dynasty. At the same time, Buddhism as a kind of foreign culture, since when it was introduced to China in the Han Dynasty, had been developing rapidly, to enter the heyday in Tang Dynasty.Looser policy of Buddhism and support of numerous scholars who believers, spawned a massive buddhist temple construction,Chang ’an, Luoyang, and many of the southern temple at that time, its predecessor was dignitaries private garden,with more beautiful scenery and rich collection. At the same time, religious responsibility was temple unique openness, regardless of rank, wealth or poor, they all could enter. Because of this, the buddhist monastery with its unique beautiful landscape architecture had attracted a large number of tourists, became the important component of the tourism resources in the tang Dynasty. As a result, in the rich and colorful tourist activities of the Tang Dynasty, the buddhist temple tourist by its unique close and open, became a part of the tourism which could not be ignored in the Tang Dynasty,and it has important research value.This paper is dedicated to research the tang Dynasty buddhist temple as an important cultural tourism resources. Full text besides introduction and conclusion part, mainly divided into the tourism function of the Tang Dynasty buddhist temple, buddhist temple in the Tang Dynasty overview of tourism activities and the characteristics of the Tang Dynasty buddhist temple tourism activities and the influence three parts.Through the study of this three contents, this paper tried to present the whole picture of the Tang Dynasty buddhist temple tourism.The first part of the paper’s first chapter, also is the most important part of the thesis, mainly inspects the Tang Dynasty buddhist temple tourism function.The first section mainly discusses the monastery diet of the tourism function.There were many different kinds of food in the temple, mainly includes the monasteries lent, classified into the temple and other features of the temple’s diet tea.The second section mainly discusses the monastery accommodation function.The Tang Dynasty buddhist temple in the geographical position was superior, the more beautiful scenery, so people who came to accommodation as a tourist destination of tourists was not in the minority.This generally include recreational tourism function of few, learning, temporary path lodging and other accommodation functions such as bathing.The third section discusses the buddhist temple’s tour function in the Tang Dynasty.The ordinary people were fond of travelling in the Tang Dynasty, the main sightseeing object of what they entered into the buddhist temple, became the content of this section to study.Roughly divided into landscape garden, temple architecture and collection, and other temple landscape.The second part is the second chapter of the paper, an overview of mainly inspects of buddhist temple tourism activities in the Tang Dynasty.Involved the main groups of tourism activities, the main time of buddhist temple tourism activities and the buddhist temple’s representative figure of tourism activities in three aspects of the Tang Dynasty’s buddhist temple.Tang Dynasty buddhist temple tourism activity main groups including imperial tourists, bureaucratic scholar-bureaucrat, ordinary people and women.Among them, the study of women class to participate in the buddhist temple tourism was a major highlight of this paper, a class that was not only including the royal lady, even ordinary women status extremely lowly concubines and prostitutes class, they were also important in the Tang Dynasty buddhist temple tourist.The main time of the Tang Dynasty buddhist temple tourism activities, according to the summarization and analysis of the collected data, the author has found that the Tang Dynasty buddhist temple tourism activities were mainly concentrated in two periods:for by the spring breeze into the sweet spring outing of the brake and rustling autumn wind, the feeling and temple here.The representative figure of tourism activities in the Tang Dynasty buddhist temple, the author from many of the tourists choose Zhang Hu and temple tourism professionals-Duan Chengshi as the research object.The third part of this paper is mainly to investigate the characteristics of the Tang Dynasty buddhist temple tourism activities and influence.The characteristics of the Tang Dynasty buddhist temple tourism activities mainly included three aspects.First, the combination of close and secularization.On the basis of the strong participatory and fusion of secular factors, more and more close to people’s lives.Second, the open and diverse.Buddhist temple tourism service coverage was widespread, rich poor per capita can enter for sightseeing, but at the same time, there was also a level.Third, the "wild" temple tour-unique travel lasting appeal.The existence of "wild temple",was also a sparkle of the Tang Dynasty buddhist temple tourism.Although fewer involved in tourism, its unique tourism charm absolutely should not be ignored. The influence of the Tang Dynasty buddhist temple tourism activities was mainly embodied in the beneficial to the development, and the spread of Buddhism culture,the consolidation of the rule of the Tang Dynasty and to enrich the daily life of the Tang Dynasty.