A super detailed guide to Guigang Nanshan Temple

Nanshan Temple in Guigang - a thousand-year-old temple. In the first year of Jingyou (1034 AD), Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty personally wrote the words "Jingyou Zen Temple" and bestowed it on Nanshan Temple, so Nanshan Temple is also known as "Jingyou Zen Temple". When you come to Guigang, you can not only eat authentic snail noodles, but also Such high mountain rafting, Guigang's temple culture is also one of Guigang's characteristics. The peaks of Nanshan Temple are breathtakingly beautiful and are one of the best places to visit in Guigang. Wenbi Mountain: Wenbi Mountain is majestic and tall, heavy and dignified. Looking from the west, it looks like a pen, looking from the east, it looks like a monkey, and looking from the north, it looks like Guanyin. Octagonal Pavilion: Walk about 400 meters from Wenbi Mountain to Nanshan Temple located on Shishan Mountain. Enter the temple gate and then go up the stone steps to the Octagonal Pavilion. This pavilion was first built in the early Qing Dynasty and rebuilt in the late Qianlong period. It has a history of more than 200 years and is the oldest existing building in Nanshan Temple. A big-bellied Buddha is enshrined in the pavilion, with four great Vajras on both sides. The three walls of the pavilion are inlaid with stone tablets. Nanshan Big Cave: There is an antithetical couplet engraved on the entrance of Nanshan Big Cave: "The cave door is locked by clouds and keeps you warm for three winters, while the stone chamber is cool by the wind for nine summers." There is an evergreen pine tree on the stone wall of the cave entrance. This small pine tree has existed since the temple was built in 989 AD. For more than a thousand years, it has neither grown taller nor larger, always looking the same and evergreen all the year round, which is amazing. It is said that the allusion "May your fortune be as vast as the endless flowing water of the East Sea, and your longevity be as great as the evergreen pines of the Southern Mountains" originated from this. Flying Bell: There is a big iron bell on the left side of the cave, called the Flying Bell. It is one of the top ten famous bells in the country and is listed as a key protected cultural relic in Guangxi.