Photos of Yinna Mountain (Lingguang Temple)

Yinna Mountain is located in Yanyangjingfeng, Meixian County, eastern Guangdong. There are many audiences in the temple on the mountain. Lingguang Temple, a thousand-year-old ancient temple located at the foot of the mountain, is more famous. The original name of Lingguang Temple is Shengshou Temple, and together with Guangxiao Temple in Guangzhou, Nanhua Temple in Shaoguan and Kaiyuan Temple in Chaozhou have become the four famous temples in Guangdong. This temple was built in the Tang Dynasty, built on the mountain, and has been very popular for thousands of years. Lingguang Temple has "three musts", one must be "life and death cypress". Among the two cypress trees in front of the temple, which are more than 1,100 years old, one has withered for more than 300 years, but it has not rotted and is still standing. The cypresses stand side by side; the second is the lush green trees behind the hall, but the roof of the hall has never fallen leaves, the reason is still a mystery; and the third is the "pineapple top". Most of the existing buildings in Lingshan Temple were built after the Ming and Qing dynasties. The roof of the main hall is a spiral-shaped caisson made of more than 1,000 pieces of rectangular wood, commonly known as Polo Ding. When the incense burns in the temple, there is not a trace of smoke outside the temple, and the smoke will circle up along the spiral caisson and spread naturally. There are only two places in the country (the other is the Temple of Heaven in Beijing) with such a delicate structure.