Reliably Speaking, Lingyin Temple China travel deals was built in326 when Southern China was in the reign of East Jin Dynasty. Up to today, the history of Lingyin Temple has been more than 1600 years. Lingyin Temple becomes the earliest Buddhist Temple in Hangzhou. Its name origins have been mentioned above. During the reign of Wuyue Kingdom (907-978), when China was separately under the administration of five Dynasties and roughly ten kingdoms, the King Qian Chu was a worshipper of Buddhism. Lingyin Temple with his help developed quickly, which was mainly embodied in the extension of buildings---there were 9 towers, 18 pavilions, 72 halls and more than 3000 monks in Lingyin Temple.

During Northern Song Dynasty, some scholars ranked buddhist temples of Jiangnan region, and Lingyin Temple was ranked first as the Top Zen Buddhist Temple. At the time, China had a list of Buddhist Temple named Wushan Shilin( Five Buddhist Mountains and Five Buddhist Forests China travel service), and Lingyin Temple was ranked the top of it. Lingyin Temple indeed has the surroundings of retreat, which is in harmony with its name. The whole temple was deeply surrounded diversity of peaks and forests. Fei Lai Feng and Cold Spring are the fantastic attractions around Lingyin Temple.

During the southward visit of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, he was quite attracted by the gorgeous surroundings of Bei Gao Feng and joyfully inscribed the tablet for Lingyin Temple. But there was an interesting story. It was said that Emperor Kangxi made a mistake which embarrassed him a lot when him did not handle the layout of his handwritings well. The traditional Chinese of Ling. The upper part of the character is another independent character(rain), and the middle part is three口 in line and the bottom was also a character, 巫(wizard). Generally, traditional character of Ling is comprised of three parts. But he was too happy to care more about the whole structure of the character and wrote the Yu(雨) quite large, which did harm to the whole writing of Ling. He was troubled but could not tell followers. He considered for a minute. In a flash, he brought to mind that the surroundings of Lingyin Temple, especially the area of Bei Gao Feng always appeared the large scale of mist and covered the whole temple. He got an idea and added a character Yun, Cloud) below Yu, and imperially named Lingyin Temple Yun Lin Chan Si( Cloud-Forest Zen Monastery Public China Holidays ). Today’s huge tablet written by Emperor Kangxi is in front of Hall of the Heavenly Kings. However, the local people still preferred to call it Lingyin Temple.

Having experienced thousands of years, Lingyin Temple still kept well. During the period of Northern Expedition (1926-1927), The 31st Team's Colonel Xu Tujing under the leadership of Warlord Wu Peifu burnt down this time-honored temple rebuilt in the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty just for getting illegally a quite treasured legacy----Ancient Crock of Sheng Tian Tang, which was an ancient big crock originally used for immortality of Monk Bibo, the first governor of Lingyin Temple. 


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