Hongluo Temple Tourism Resort is located in Beijing Huairou County, 4 kilometers north of the southern foot of the Hongluo Mountain. Red Snail Temple was built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, expanded in the Sheng Tang Dynasty, the original name of the Daming Temple, sitting north to south, built on the mountain, the layout is rigorous, majestic. The temple covers an area of one hundred acres, divided into five courtyards, including the Central Courtyard, the East Crossing Courtyard, the West Crossing Courtyard, the East Shimokan, and the West Pagoda Courtyard, etc. Outside the courtyard, there is a large area of ancient woods and a vast mountain field. Ming Zhengtong years renamed Guoguo Zifu Zen Temple, because of the wonderful legend of the Red Snail Fairy, commonly known as the Red Snail Temple.
Hongluo Temple was built in the year of Emperor Mu Di Yonghe of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (345-356 AD). At that time, northern China was under the rule of Later Zhao during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. In the fourth year of Emperor Huai of Jin Dynasty (AD 310), Fotucheng, a monk from the Western region, came to China to preach, and was honored by the uncles and nephews of Emperor Shi Le and Shi Hu of the Later Zhao, so he propagated the Dharma and taught disciples, and built a wide range of temples and pagodas within the territory of the Later Zhao state. He was the first person to be officially authorized by the state to teach in China (Chinese people became monks), and died in Yegong Temple at the end of the Jianwu period of the Later Zhao Emperor Shi Hu (348 A.D., the fourth year of the Yonghe period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty). According to the Biography of the High Priests, Fototucheng spent more than 30 years in Later Zhao, building 893 temples, of which Hongluo Temple was one.
Hongluo Temple for the ten permanent temple, is China's largest Buddhist jungle in the north, for thousands of years has been a Buddhist shrine, the temple presided over by a number of royal orders, monks frequently, the Buddha extraordinary. Jin Dynasty, there is the famous Buddha Jue Zen Master, the Yuan Dynasty, there are cloud mountain Zen Master, the Qing Dynasty, the inter wake up (Mengdong) master presided over the Red Snail Temple, the creation of the Red Snail Pure Land Taoist Temple, Buddhism is more prosperous. In the Guangxu period, Yin Guang monks came to the Red Snail Temple to study Pure Land Buddhism, and then went to Putuo to create a Pure Land Taoist temple, so the world has "Putuo in the south, the north has the Red Snail," said.
Historically, the ancient temple has more than 300 piles of arable land, claiming to eat a hectare of land a day, in the territory of Huairou County and other districts and counties of Beijing have several lower courtyard. Emperor Kangxi visited Hongluo Temple in 1694 AD. History records that the Red Snail Temple has been expanded and rebuilt several times, famous at home and abroad, and the incense flourished.
The ancient temple covers an area of 100 acres, divided into five courtyards, room 244. In the courtyard to the mountain gate, the heavenly king hall, daxiongbao hall, the three holy hall as the axis, with four east and west of the hall; thousand hands guanyin hall, gamelan hall, the inter wake up zu shi hall, yingguang zu shi hall and recitation of the sutra room several rooms. The east yard for the reception; West yard for the abbot's retreat and ten square hall; East lower kan north for the old monk's retreat and Yanchuo hall, south for the practice of kung fu field; West upper kan for the snail tower and the columbarium.
Hongluo Temple in front of the main gate has an imposing four-pillar, three-door style giant pagoda, carved beams, pagoda above the National People's Congress Standing Committee Vice Chairman Lu Jiaxi inscribed the four words of the Beijing North giant temple. On the main door hangs a couplet, "A vein of pearl springs to participate in the wonderful meaning, the two peaks of the conch mountain proves that the Buddha has come". Inside the gate, the shadow wall is written on the Sumeru Shengjing four words, by the shadow wall in front of the folding to the east, the tourists walk through the bamboo forest in a winding path, suddenly feel excited.
Hongluo Temple has a unique natural ecological environment, it is backed by the Hongluo Mountain, south of Hongluo Lake. The forests are rich and lush, the layers of forests are colorful, the ancient trees in the sky, the whole temple is covered in thousands of acres of pine forests, forming a beautiful picture of the blue wave hiding the ancient temples. There are more than 600 kinds of trees and 60 kinds of plants around the temple, and there are many kinds of birds and wild animals living and breeding in the forest. According to the forestry department's estimation, there are more than one million trees in the area of Hongluo Temple, and the forest coverage rate is more than 90%. East of the temple's pine forest bathing garden (locally known as Luohan ditch) grows more than 1,000 acres of lush ancient pine trees, more than 100 years of ancient trees more than 10,000, is one of Beijing's important group of ancient trees. In the forest, there are twelve Chinese zodiac stone sculptures, and 500 life-size proportions of the Lohan carved out of green stone. Strolling in the ancient pine forest, breathing in the fresh air and enjoying the elegant environment, you can either visit the forest of different forms of luohan, or rest on the stone tables and benches everywhere, and achieve the effect of prolonging one's life in a leisurely and comfortable manner. There is a saying among the local people that if you go to the Luohan ditch, you will have a strong body and eliminate diseases.
Temple with male and female ginkgo, east side of the female, but not the results of flowering; west side of the male, flowering but not the results of the peculiarities of the west side of the male ginkgo, the tree is 30 meters high, around the trunk, there are ten side trunks, it is said that since the Tang Dynasty planted these two ginkgo, every change in a dynasty, there will be more than one side trunks, it's just a legend, but the ginkgo's age has been in the millennium or more, it is accurate and undoubtedly! The. Maharishi treasure hall after the wisteria send pine, Maharishi treasure hall behind the west side of the growth of a tree age hundreds of years of flat-top pine, tree height of 6 meters, there are 9 branches, straight to the east in all directions, the following with more than ten wood support, flat-top pine near, there are two bowl-thick wisteria such as the dragon and snake fluttering like around the pine tree, forming a huge umbrella, shade area of more than 400 square meters, every year, in the late spring and summer, the Every year in late spring and early summer, vine flowers like strings of purple pearls, hanging all over the branches, turquoise pine branches and purple vine flowers compete with each other, so that visitors marveled at. This is a big landscape of Hongluo Temple.
Hongluo Temple north of Hongluo Mountain, the southern foot of the more gentle, there are repaired hiking trails to reach the top of Hongluo Mountain, very easy for tourists to climb. The vegetation of the mountain is divided into cypress forest area, pine forest area, red leaf forest area, standing on the top of Hongluo Mountain, look around: the south is boundless plains, fields, villages, towns and towns as far as the eye can see; Northwest is the endless Jundu mountain range, surrounded by mountains, peaks and peaks, the Great Wall of China as a huge dragon winding in the mountains on top of the mountains; to the east: Yanqi Lake, Qinglong Gorge of the beautiful scenery as far as the eye can see. Hongluo Temple Scenic Area is divided into six scenic spots: Hongluo Mountain, Hongluo Temple, Guanyin Temple, Chengxiu Garden, Pine Forest Bathing Garden, and Five Hundred Luohan Garden, and there are the Royal Bamboo, male and female ginkgoes, and the wisteria sends the pine three outstanding scenes embellished in the middle of it, and humanistic landscapes are harmoniously and perfectly fused into one with natural landscapes, and thus the Hongluo Temple Scenic Area is a good place for people to pay respect to Buddha and worship their ancestors, hiking and physical fitness, sightseeing, and refreshment and tranquillity.
Tourist area environment elegant, ancient trees, evergreen, flowers in all seasons, humanistic landscape and natural landscape competition. Wisteria sends pine, imperial bamboo forest, male and female ginkgo is known as the three best scenes; Temple of the west of the pearl springs, turquoise like a mirror, boiling bubbles such as beads, known as the divine spring; Temple of the south of the Red Snail Lake, rippling, colorful light, is a good place for boating, swimming, fishing. Scenic area after years of development and construction, and gradually formed a food, housing, travel, travel, shopping, entertainment in one, comprehensive supporting facilities complete tourist resort scenic area.