Crane Temple

As soon as I tossed to Yangzhou, I was led to the ginkgo tree at the intersection of the hotel before I got off the bus. I changed the meeting to the Shanghai, and I temporarily enjoyed the old town (residential area) of Yangzhou. The sun was shining, the breeze was coming, and the hands were frozen and trembling. I also insisted on wandering around and watching the trees [covering my face] in an old house somewhere, there were masters who demolished the old houses and built new ones. The tree that grew into the wall of the two families was forced to reveal its roots; Seeing me lively, the master directly handed me the shovel, and asked me to take pictures [screaming teeth] This is purely a posing, this shovel is afraid of a small 20 pounds, although I lift up to make the movement, but I dare not really go to the bricks; this is a hundred years of common wall, not so brute force can do the work. The masters working in the yard laughed and burst into tears, and the saws and chopsticks stopped. They were happy and I was happy. After a while, it was dark, frozen adult popsicles; hurry back to the hotel to work. On the sewing, I really have a knack for wandering around.

When I first heard about this monastery, I thought it was an ordinary temple in the old town. When I arrived, I found out that it was a worship temple. It was not visited by the outside world. There was an ancient tree at the gate. The master of the gate was also very enthusiastic about introducing the ancient tree for more than 700 years.

Yangzhou Xianhe Temple is famous for its four famous mosques in Islam in China, with Guangzhou Huaisheng Temple, Quanzhou Qingjing Temple and Hangzhou Phoenix Temple. The Xianhe Temple is shaped like a crane and is preserved intact, which is a clever blend of Chinese and Arab architectural styles. The temple was founded in the first year of Song Deyou (1275) by the 16th-century Sun Puhardin of Islam to St. Mohammed, and still has the remains of the four generations of Islamic culture of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing. When building the mosque, Puhardin laid out according to the shape of the crane from the "mouth" to the "tail". The original wall opposite the gate is "the pickaxe" (demolition in 1958); the temple is a corner archway, like a crane head; from the temple gate to the hall, is a narrow and curved ramp, shaped like a crane neck; the hall is equivalent to the crane body. The north and south sides of the hall have moths upturned half pavilion, like the crane wing (the south side half pavilion is Wangyue pavilion, the north side half pavilion has been closed); the back of the hall on the left and right sides of the courtyard, there are two ancient cypress, called crane feet. The back of the hall is facing the river, surrounded by bamboo rafts, shaped like a crane tail (the bamboo rafts do not exist after filling the Wenhe road); The front of the hall on both sides of the water wells are regarded as cranes. The red cross of the front of the Crane Temple is engraved with golden Arabic Taismi (Great Mercy and Mercy), and the cross of the kiln door in the middle of the back hall is engraved with a hundred circles, each circle is engraved with gold Arabic, which is the famous "100 words praise" praise God's glory.

It is worth going. After all, one of the four famous mosques on the southeast coast, but it must also be able to enter. It is only open to Islamic believers.

Legends and legends, faith and culture, blend in with each other.

The Xianhe Temple is near my home and the location is very good. Not far from the opposite is Wenchang Pavilion and Times Square.