Even if many people have never been to Suzhou, they must know the two lines of the poem "Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, the bell reaches the passenger ship at midnight".

Hanshan Temple was built during the Tianjian period of Xiao Liang in the Southern Dynasties. It was initially named "Miaolipming Pagoda Courtyard". During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, an eminent monk Han Shan came here from Tiantai Mountain Guoqing Temple to live here and changed his name to Hanshan Temple. It has a history of more than a thousand years.

However, what made Hanshan Temple famous was Zhang Ji's song "Mooring at Night on Maple Bridge".

Hanshan Temple is not big. Once you enter the gate, you will find the Daxiong Hall.

This building is called Flower Basket Building. The house has only two main pillars, just like the handles of a flower basket, hence the name.

Next to it is a free life pond, a small stone bridge, and a statue of the earth, all small and exquisite.

The building behind the main hall has a Buddhist Sutra Building on the upper floor and a Hanshi Hall on the lower floor. There are Hanshan Mountain and collected stone statues in it, also called the "Harmony Ancestral Court".

Hanshan was originally a monk at Guoqing Temple in Tiantai Mountain and was good at poetry; Shi De was an orphan who was brought to Tiantai Mountain Guoqing Temple by the eminent monk Feng Gan, so he was named "Shi De". Hanshan and Shide are good friends, and people call them "Two Immortals of Harmony".

There is a question and answer between Hanshan and Shide that is widely circulated among the people: "Hanshan asked Shide: There are people in the world who slander me, deceive me, humiliate me, laugh at me, despise me, despise me, hate me, and deceive me. How should we deal with it? Shi De said: Just endure him, let him, let him, avoid him, respect him, ignore him, and watch him in ten years!"

If you go to Tiantai Mountain Guoqing Temple, there is a "Three Sages Hall" in it, where Fenggan, Hanshan and Shide are worshipped. The original name of Sanxian Hall is "Tiger Roar Hall". Legend has it that Feng Gan's mount tiger was once kept here.

It is also very interesting to jump out of the attractions and see stories.

The Puming Pagoda is 42.2 meters high and is a pavilions with a wooden structure like a Tang Dynasty. The pagoda is cast in copper and gilded, is 9.6 meters high and weighs 12 tons.

Tourists go to Hanshan Temple and see this tower far away.

The big iron bell was built by Chen Kuilong, governor of Jiangsu Province, in the thirty-second year of Guangxu (1906).

"The bell reaches the passenger ship at midnight"-ringing the bell at midnight is a custom in temples in Wuzhong, called the "fixed night bell". Yongzheng once wrote a poem,"The smoke from the lake welcomes the people's moon, and the fixed night bell is transmitted from the mountain temple." So the midnight bell has a long history.

Some people say that Zhang Ji wrote "Night Mooring at Maple Bridge" when he passed through Suzhou because he failed in the scientific expedition. I specially searched for the information and found that it was not.

Zhang Ji was born in present-day Xiangyang, Hubei Province. He studied hard in the books of sages and sages since he was a child and passed the Jinshi examination in 753 AD. This is recorded in "The Legend of Tang Scholars":"Ji, the word Yi Sun, was born in Xiangzhou. In the twelfth year of Tianbao, Yang Jun, assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, came to the post." The twelfth year of Tianbao is 753 AD. In 755 AD, the An-Shi Rebellion broke out. In June of the following year, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty led some officials to escape from the west of Chang 'an into Shu. Most of other officials and scholars also fled to the relatively safe south. Zhang Ji also took a boat to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Therefore, Zhang Ji's actual situation at that time was that after winning the Jinshi, the Ministry of Civil Affairs had not yet been awarded an official position. During the waiting period, the Anshi Rebellion broke out. The country was in crisis and Zhang Ji's own future was also affected, so when the boat stopped at Hanshan Temple, he was full of sadness and wrote this poem.

The bell tower has a hexagonal pavilion with double eaves. Inside it is the "First Buddha Bell in the World" of Hanshan Temple. It is an ancient bronze bell modeled on the Tang style. It has a total weight of 108 tons, a bell height of 8.588 meters, and a maximum diameter of the bell bottom skirt of 5.188 meters. The main inscription on the clock face "Mahayana Wonderful Fa Lotus Sutra" has a total of 69800 words, and there are a total of 70094 words on the clock face. The skirt of the clock is engraved with nine exquisite flying pictures and six-milled-mouth skirt.

The huge Chinese poetry stele outside the bell tower is engraved on one side with the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, which is said to be written by the Emperor Qianlong; on the other side is "Night Mooring on Maple Bridge" written by Wen Yuyue, a famous scholar in the Qing Dynasty. Yu Yue was the great-grandfather of modern poet Yu Pingbo, and Zhang Taiyan and Wu Changshuo both came from him.

On the wall outside the temple, literati from past dynasties sang poems from Hanshan Temple.

Poetry by Chen Kuilong, governor of Jiangsu Province who supervised the construction of Hanshan Temple bells. There are also poems by Tang Yin, Wang Shizhen and others.

Opposite Hanshan Temple is Maple Bridge.

It is not yet possible to determine when the Maple Bridge was built. The current bridge was rebuilt in the 35th year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, destroyed in the 10th year of Xianfeng, and rebuilt in the 6th year of Tongzhi. It is a simple and elegant stone arch bridge.

I think, more than 1400 years ago, on that moonlit winter night, what was the Maple Bridge that Zhang Ji saw?

Next to Maple Bridge is Tieling Pass.

Tielingguan, also known as Fengqiao Enemy Tower, was built in the 36th year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty. It is the only well-preserved relic of the Anti-Japanese Gate Tower in Suzhou.

The tower is mottled with moss, and a sense of vicissitudes hits your face.

Hanshan Temple and Fengqiao Scenic Area in autumn and winter are like a light-ink landscape painting, revealing a bit of loneliness and loneliness. However, when I recite "Night Mooring on Maple Bridge" several times in my heart, I feel that it has endless charm.

Su Shi said: It is a pity that I don't visit Tiger Hill when I go to Suzhou.

Tiger Hill was originally called Haiyong Mountain. Legend has it that this place used to be an ocean, but a mountain appeared after the volcanic eruption, hence the name. During the Spring and Autumn Period, King Helu of Wu was injured in a battle with Li of the State of Yue and died soon after. His son Fu Chai buried him here. It is said that three days after his burial, there was a white tiger squatting on the mountain, so "Haiyong Mountain" was renamed Huqiu Mountain.

Crossing the Haiyong Bridge is the Broken Beam Hall.

The "Duanliang Hall" was built in the Yuan Dynasty and has a history of more than 600 years.

The main beam of the main hall is formed by joining the left and right sections. The whole hall does not use metal members for fastening, but only uses bamboo and wood tenons. In terms of architectural techniques, techniques such as Bodhisattva roof, chessboard, pipa hanging, and bucket arch are used to play the role of jacking force and lifting force, sharing the pressure of the roof on the girders.

Therefore, although the main beam is connected to two sections, it is still very strong, reflecting the ingenuity and superb skills of ancient craftsmen, and is known as the Broken Beam Hall that will last for thousands of years.

Passing through the Broken Beam Hall, on the left side is Yongcui Villa.

The house is built along the mountains and looks very inconspicuous. Many people will ignore it and move forward.

Yongcui Villa was initiated by Hong Jun. It is a closed terraced classical garden and the only garden in Suzhou without water inside. However, when you walk in, you will find pavilions, pavilions, lakes, rocks and rockery in their most suitable positions. Ancient trees, green bamboo, rattan and vines are intertwined, and everything is full of greenery. The word "green" is worthy of the name.

Hong Jun was the No. 1 scholar in Suzhou during the Tongzhi period of the late Qing Dynasty and a diplomat. From 1889 to 1892, he served as the Qing court's minister to Russia, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. He was the only diplomat among the No. 1 scholars in ancient China.

In the villa, there are Baoweng Xuan, Wenquan Pavilion, Yongcui Pavilion, Yuejia Xuan, Linglan Jingshe, etc. Just by hearing the names, you feel full of poetry.

On weekends, there are no other tourists except me who are looking around. Therefore, I came across an extremely quiet tiger hill.

Next to Yongcui Villa is Hanhan Spring.

It is said that Master Hanhan, a monk of the Liang Dynasty, was a water-carrying monk in the temple. He suffered from eye diseases since he was a child, but he had good ears and good heart. Once he carried water through here and stepped on moss and fell. He thought: Is there a spring water underneath? So he dug soil here to find a spring. When the villagers saw him doing so blindly, they all laughed at him for his stupidity. However, not long after, a clear spring emerged from the ground and sprayed onto Han Han's face. After a refreshing moment, his eyes saw light again.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, King Helu of Wu summoned the most famous swordsmiths at that time, Gan General Mo Ye and his wife, the most famous swordsmiths at that time, to forge swords for him. After the sword was forged, He Lu tried the sword, raised the sword and lowered it against the stone, and cut the stone in two.

Of course, this is just a legend. In fact, this stone is a typical tuff formed by volcanic eruptions. It has been weathered over a long time and forms a long, straight crack along the crack, dividing the entire stone in two, just like a sharp weapon splitting it.

Jianchi is the essence of Tiger Hill.

The four words "Huqiu Sword Pool" were originally written by Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. Later, after a long time, the stone surface was eroded by wind and frost, and the word "Huqiu" fell and disappeared. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, a famous Suzhou stone carving named Zhang Zhongyu copied the original and re-carved it.

Jianchi is the most mysterious and attractive monument in the Tiger Hill Scenic Area. It looks like a pool of clear water, but in fact, it is the tomb of King Helu of Wu.

In 496 BC, Helu, King of Wu, died after being injured in the Battle of Wu and Yue. His son Fuchai buried his body here and hid 3,000 swords such as "Bianzhu" and "Yuchang" that Helu loved during his lifetime. Hidden together deep in the palace, hence the name of the sword pool.

It's a little weird, the tomb is underwater? However, according to records, the sword pond was dredged after the founding of the People's Republic of China. After the water was drained, a tent-long tunnel was found at the narrowest point in the north of the pool. There is a stone slab standing at the end, shaped like a tomb door. In order to avoid affecting the safety of the Yunyan Temple Tower above, it was closed immediately without digging deeply.

So far, this remains a mysterious mystery.

The word sword pool was written by Zhou Boqi of the Yuan Dynasty, and the word wind valley and cloud spring is said to be written by Mi Fu.

Although the sword pool is not big, the mottled stone walls and the vines and moss climbing on them make the entire sword pool look very simple. Although the distance from the top to the pool surface is not very high, the stone walls are straight up and down, giving people the feeling of standing on the wall. It is very strange.

On top of the sword pond is a stone bridge with two boreholes on the bridge, so the name of the bridge is called "Shuangjing Bridge".

Legend has it that this was used by temple monks on the mountain in the old days to draw water. Standing on the bridge and hanging down the bucket, you can draw water directly from the pool below.

It is also said that during the Spring and Autumn Period, Xi Shi once dressed up in the well.

Passing through the round door with the words "Rising Sea and Floating Lan" inscribed, the Tiger Hill Pagoda is in front of you.

The official name of the Huqiu Pagoda is Yunyan Temple Pagoda. It was built in the sixth year of Xiande of the Later Zhou Dynasty (959). It is an octagonal imitation wood structure loft-style brick and wooden eaves tower with a total of 7 floors and a height of 48.2 meters.

Yunyan Temple Pagoda is a typical representative of the Jiangnan imitation wood-storied multi-storey brick tower in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. It is an earlier existing Jiangnan imitation wood-storied tower and represents the formal characteristics of the early imitation wood-brick tower.

I remember the first time I came here, when I saw the Tiger Hill Pagoda, I was a little muttering, why does this tower seem to be tilted, like the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

Only when I came back to Baidu did I realize that it turned out to be the largest leaning tower in China, known as the "Leaning Tower of Oriental Pisa".

The following are Baidu data:

According to records, due to foundation reasons, the Huqiu Tower has been tilted to the northeast since the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644). The center of the tower top deviates from the center of the ground floor by 2.34 meters, and the inclination is 2.48 degrees. In 1956, the Suzhou City government invited ancient architectural experts to use iron hoop grouting to reinforce and repair the ancient tower, and finally preserved it. From 1981 to 1986, the tower was subjected to the second overhaul of "reinforcing the tower foundation", which turned the thousand-year-old ancient pagoda, which had been tilted to 2.34 meters, into safety.

There are fences around the tower, so tourists cannot enter it. If you take a picture across the railing of the main entrance, you will see that the base is very inclined.

Turning the corner, I saw the three big characters Yanghe River. I looked up again and saw a secluded valley below, with the sound of thin mountain streams flowing.

Follow the path below.

Yanghe Stream was silent and no one was there. The white crane saw me coming and flew away, leaving a gray crane and I staring at each other. A big tree beside the stream reached the sky. When the wind blew, the leaves rustled down.

The main hall is an existing Buddhist hall in Huqiu Yunyan Temple. Walking down the main hall, there are 53 steps in total. There is a saying,"Fifty-three ginseng, refer to Buddha." It is said that no matter which step you walk on or which level of the step you walk on, you can always see the Bodhisattva in the middle when you turn around.

Tiger Hill is actually small and exquisite. Many scenic spots are together and you will miss them accidentally. You should pay close attention to looking for them. It is recommended to learn about Tiger Hill before visiting, so that it will be more purposeful to play.

After the tour, you can go out directly from the North Gate, or you can return to the South Gate and take a boat to Shantang.

TIPS:

Hanshan Temple and Tiger Hill are all on the same line and can be played on the same day. It is recommended to visit Hanshan Temple in the morning, Tiger Hill in the afternoon, and Shantang Street in the evening, just to watch the night.