The Study On The Temples Of Mount Song In The Tang Dynasty

The study of Song the Mountain started from SongGaoShanZhi of Lu Yuan ming in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and it bloomed in Ming and Qin dynasties.Annals of Songyue, compiled by LuJian in Ming Dynasty, is the first grand annals about Song mountain.After that, scholars record the historical and cultural character about Song Mountain district through different writing styles, which are really historical meterial to study the culture of Song Mountain.In the Tang Dynasty, Construction methods of temples in Song Mountain can be divided into three types: the official camp temple, the temple from rebuided palace and the private camp temple. The official temple is enduring under the asylum of local officials,such as the Fawang Temple and the Shaolin Temple.The temples from rebuilded palaces are mostly located in which is beautiful.These temples’ predecessor are emperors’ palaces which were gradually broken because of imperial power struggle,emperor preferences and some other reasons and then were rebuilded into temples by the monk, such as Huishan Temple, Longtan Temple and so on.As one of the "Five Great Peaks" of China, Song Mountain has always been a good hermitage. Monks reconstructed the former residences.which has been unused after the hermits left into their place for practicing, just as the Luya Temple.Temples in the Song Mountain are distributed unevenly, and Taishi Mountain has more than Compared with Shaoshi Mountain. There are three reasons: Firstly, Taishi Mountain is the primary entrance to Song Mountain and also more famous than Shaoshi Mountain; Secondly,Taishi Mountain is more conducive to produce and live because of its easer topography;What’s more, Shaolin Temple has too much influenceon Shaoshi Mountain, which cause it’s hard for other temples to survive within its radiation.In the Tang Dynasty, Song Mountain was a place in which various strata will lose themselves here.The emperor was always coming to Song Mountain with a deep political purpose: sacrificing Song Mountain, announcing and seeking approval of the lower classes.The poets came to play in Song Mountain, contacted with monks which has left many classic poetry and enriched poem theme;In the Tang Dynasty,Song Mountain is the place where most hermits went to. Some people discerned the officialdom and selected to company with monks to hermitage in Song Mountain.And there are also some people fished for fame by this way.In the Song Mountain, monks often took part in social activities. In the temple,they held preaching activities and combined the teachings of Buddhism and the faith in folk of China, so that believers could accept Buddhism thoughts faster and better.At the same time, they also pointed out that Buddhist’s status is higher than the faith in folk. For example,People always asking monks to help to pray for rain. They believe that learn the Buddhist scriptures can save people, and the eminent monks can help the Mountain God and the Rain God.. In addition, the monks and the lays had a deep friendship and had some common interests so that they could make a deep friendship.