Jiangxin Temple and its famous couplet

Since the Tang Dynasty, there have been forest landmarks on Jiangxin Island. In the seventh year of Tang Xiantong (866), Puzi Zen Temple was built on the east mountain; in the second year of Song Kaibao (969), Jingxin Lecture Hall was built on the west mountain. In the fourth year of Song Jianyan (1130), when the Jin army invaded Lin'an (now Hangzhou) from the south, Emperor Gaozong Zhao Gou fled the chaos and led his courtiers to Wenzhou via the sea route, and stayed at Puzi Zen Temple. The imperial inscriptions 'Qinghui' and 'Yuguang' were erected respectively in Qinghui Pavilion and Yuguang Jing She of Puzi Zen Temple. Now 'Yuguang' is lost, and 'Qinghui' still exists in Jiangxin Temple. On the 16th day of the leap tenth month in the seventh year of Shaoxing, Master Qing Liao was ordered to preside over Longxiang Xingqing Zen Temple. According to the 'Wenzhou Prefecture Records', 'The solitary island was originally two islands, facing each other from east to west with a river running through them, and there was a dragon pool that was deep and unpredictable.' Longxiang Temple (Puzi Zen Temple) is located on the small island on the east, and Xingqing Temple (Jingxin Lecture Hall) is on the small island on the west, and the two temples face each other across the water. Coinciding with the accumulation of river silt, Master Qing Liao personally led the monks to throw stones and fill the soil, filling the rapid river between the two islands, and built Zhongchuan Temple on the filled land. After Qing Liao reported this to Emperor Gaozong of Song, Emperor Gaozong was very satisfied and granted the name change of Zhongchuan Temple to Jiangxin Temple, and combined 'three temples into one', collectively referred to as 'Longxiang Xingqing Zen Temple'. After the completion of Jiangxin Temple, it became the dojo of Emperor Gaozong, and its reputation was greatly boosted, ranking among the five mountains and ten temples of Zen Buddhism. Every spring and autumn, officials from the capital were sent to the temple to worship and offer incense. The prosperity of the temple began in the Southern Song Dynasty and continued until the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, with officials coming to the temple to worship in an endless stream. Not only did domestic monks come to visit, but monks from Japan and Silla (Korea) such as Yijie, Yiyin, and Shaoming also came to study and exchange in succession, reaching the peak of the time. The original temple of Jiangxin Temple was magnificent and magnificent. In the more than 800 years since then, Jiangxin Temple has been rebuilt and repaired several times. The current main hall was rebuilt in the 54th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1789). It is a three-entry courtyard with east-west corridors running through the front and back. The mountain gate of Jiangxin Temple hangs a pair of overlapping couplets that are well-known to the people of Wenzhou, written by Wang Shipeng, the champion of the Southern Song Dynasty: Clouds morning morning morning morning morning morning morning morning scattered tide long long long long long long long long消. According to a research scholar, there can be 30 ways to read it. There are two main readings, with the phonetic notation as follows: 1. Cloud morning tide, morning morning tide, morning tide morning scattered; (yun zhao chao, zhao zhao chao, zhao chao zhao san); tide long long, long long long, long long long消 (chao chang zhang, chang chang zhang, chang zhang changxiao). 2. Cloud morning morning morning, morning morning morning, morning morning scattered; (yun zhao zhao chao, zhao zhao chao, zhao zhao san); tide long long long, long long long, long long消 (chao chang chang zhang, chang chang zhang, chang chang xiao). Haiyan Spring, commonly known as Dongjing, is also one of the ten scenes of Jiangxin Island 'Haiyan Spring Fragrance'. Haiyan Spring is one of the three famous springs in the ancient city of Wenzhou. The 'Qianlong Prefecture Records' of the Qing Dynasty recorded: 'The taste of the springs in Ou is the best with the Jade Eyebrow Spring of Cuiwei Mountain, the Gold Sand Well of Songtai Mountain, and the Sea Eye Spring of Solitary Island.' In the seventh year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1137), Master Qing Liao came to Wenzhou to preside over Longxiang and Xingqing two temples. During the prosperous period of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were up to a thousand monks on the island, but the river water was salty and not edible. In order to solve this problem, Master Qing Liao started to select a site to dig a well. The excavation of Haiyan Spring completely solved the difficulty of drinking water for the monks. The monks in the temple fetched water to make tea, and the pine smoke was lingering for a while, like a poem and a painting, full of interest.