There is still half a month left, and the most beautiful autumn scenery by Taihu Lake cannot be hidden.
Wentu/Ying Zhigang
After a rain, the fragrance of osmanthus on the streets and courtyards became stronger and stronger. Autumn entered Gusu overnight. The most gorgeous season in Jiangnan quietly debuts.
After living in this city for a long time, I naturally have a picture of the four seasons in my heart. In another half a month, Guangfu's ginkgo will turn yellow.
Choose a free time to go to this ancient lake town, which is blessed by Buddha's Buddha's light and blessed by heaven and earth, and take a walk at will. In the evening drums and morning bells, look at the mountain trails, green tiles and ancient walls, with rainy flowers and golden lights scattered all over the place.
Ginkgo biloba is a sacred object in the Buddhist world. When you enter the pure land and enjoy autumn, you naturally feel more solemn and pure.
Guangfu has the oldest temple in Wu. Tongguanyin Temple, formerly known as Guangfu Temple, was built during the Datong period of the Liang Dynasty and has a history of nearly 1500 years.
I heard from local elderly people that there were originally four ancient ginkgo trees in the temple, one tree was killed by lightning, two trees were felled and destroyed, and only one tree is left.
Standing under this thousand-year-old tree, listening to the Sanskrit sound curling in the hall, a tree's yellow leaves flying in the blue sky in late autumn, as if reading through thousands of ancient and modern legends.
A friend said that in the temple, you can see the reincarnation of spring, summer, autumn and winter in an instant, those lives that start in the end and return to the pure land.
I don't have such discerning eyes. I can only look up at the fallen leaves that know autumn. Those brilliant scenery mark the end of a season and praise the returning dance of life.
Falling on the post road, it is as golden as chrysanthemum; buried in the soil, it is as gentle as satin; where the heart is at peace, leisure begins.
Enjoy autumn with blessings. Although it is autumn everywhere, everything you can see is scenery. But I had to list one, two, three, four, and I had to go to everything I had to go to.
"Three green mountains and three water sides, one fragrant snow and the other platform." This is the description of the stone wall by Sun Yuanxiang of the Qing Dynasty.
The stone wall is located on Nanshan Mountain, also known as Panchi Mountain. It is a remnant of Tianmu Mountain that protrudes into Taihu Lake. There is a dock to the east of the top of the mountain, which is concave. Because the surrounding stone walls are like knives and are more than ten meters high, it is named "stone wall".
Hidden in the mountains and forests, there is a solemn and quiet ancient temple-Yonghui Zen Temple.
Although Yonghui Temple is now under the jurisdiction of the Pure Land Sect, it was built by monks of the Linji Sect, and there are still many spiritual bone towers of the Linji Sect masters on the mountain.
In the third year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, after Master Hanshan, a Buddhist monk of the Linji Sect, came here to build a hut, tourists continued to visit and became a famous Buddhist attraction on the coast of Taihu Lake.
Yonghui Zen Temple has many wonderful treasures. Today, we only talk about the two ancient ginkgo trees at the mountain gate.
These two ginkgo trees were planted personally by Monk Hanshan. One female and one male have a history of more than 500 years. Locals even say that the ginkgo trees in Suzhou are their descendants.
Two ginkgo trees have towering crowns and shaped like a pagoda. For more than 500 years, ginkgo leaves have fallen and grown again, and have fallen again and again, passed down from generation to generation, and have continued to grow endlessly.
Since the Tang Dynasty, my country's eminent monks have replaced the "Buddhist sacred tree" Bodhi tree with highly adaptable ginkgo trees and full of yellow leaves in autumn, and have been widely planted in temples around the country.
Like Bodhi, ginkgo biloba leaves are clean and elegant, and have the beauty of being free from worldly customs. Every late autumn, yellow leaves fly across the trees, blending with the cassock on the monks, giving them a more solemn and solemn beauty.
If you come at this time, stand on the top of the mountain and look inside and outside the temple. Every place is covered with golden ginkgo leaves. Then look at the shining lake and the shadows of sails under your feet. There is a feeling of wanting to leave the dust. The joy of leaving.
