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　　Dear friends, to Suzhou tourism, Hanshan Temple is a place people yearnfor, today we visit the scenic spot is Hanshan Temple. Hanshan Temple is locatedin Fengqiao town in the west of the city. It was built in 508-519 A.D. duringthe reign of emperor Tianjian of Liang Dynasty. At that time, it was called"Miaoli Puming pagoda courtyard". It was only called Hanshan Temple in the TangDynasty. Hanshan Temple is not named because of mountain, but because of people.In the Tang Dynasty, Hanshan and Shide two eminent monks came here. Tocommemorate Hanshan, later generations changed the name of the temple to HanshanTemple. Hanshan is a poet monk in the Tang Dynasty. He wrote hanshanzi'scollection of poems and stayed in the world. Hanshan Temple has been famous bothat home and abroad since the Tang Dynasty

　　First, Zhang Ji, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, made it a household name. "Themoon falls, the birds sing, the frost is all over the sky, the river Maplefishing fire sleeps; the Hanshan Temple outside the city of Gusu, the midnightbell rings to the passenger ship. "These verses, which are handed down fromgeneration to generation, play an important role in the spread of literaturebecause of scenery, scenery because of the name of the text, and the rhyme ofthe bell. This poem is not only widely spread in China, but also spread to Japanin the east very early. Therefore, Yu Yue, a famous scholar in Qing Dynasty,said in the article of rebuilding Hanshan Temple: "no child in his country canrecite it. "Today, it is still included in Japanese school textbooks. InSoutheast Asia, Europe and America, these poems are also very popular.

　　Secondly, Buddhist disciples have always believed that Hanshan and Shide,the Tang Dynasty monks who once lived in this temple, were the reincarnatedeminent monks of Manjusri and Puxian, and deified them as the two immortals ofHehe in China, becoming the most popular immortals. According to folklore, monkShide took a bell in Hanshan Temple and traveled across the sea to a placecalled sadi in Japan to spread Buddhism and Chinese culture. The story waspublished in the 4th issue of China Medical Journal in 1989 in the form of comicstrips, entitled "the bell of Hanshan Temple", which added a pleasant topic ofSino Japanese friendship to Hanshan Temple.

　　Third, according to folk legend, the bell in Zhang Ji's poems, after manyvicissitudes, flowed into Japan in the late Ming Dynasty. At the end of the QingDynasty, Mr. Yamada Hanshan of Japan explored everywhere to return the clock toits owner, but he had no whereabouts. He raised money to cast a pair of bronzebells, one for Hanshan Temple, and the other for Guanshan Temple of Japan. Ithas written a beautiful page in the history of Sino Japanese folk culturalexchanges and friendly exchanges.

　　Fourth, the bell of Hanshan Temple not only has a long cultural andhistorical connotation, but also has a wonderful function. This function can besummed up in 12 words as "hearing the bell, clear worries, long wisdom,Bodhisattva". Bodhi, in Sanskrit (ancient Indian characters), means "awakening"and "great enlightenment". So tourists have to listen to the bell of HanshanTemple.

　　Zhang Ji, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, was famous when he came to Beijingfor the exam. On his way home, he moored at Fengqiao at night. Inspired by thebell of Hanshan Temple in the middle of the night, he wrote down the masterpieceof Night Mooring at Fengqiao, which has occupied an eye-catching place in thehistory of Chinese literature. It was the bell of Hanshan Temple that made himget rid of his worries and continue to study hard in the cold window. Later, hewent to the capital again to take the exam and won the Jinshi. In a word, thebell of Hanshan Temple in Suzhou can calm the mind, enlighten the mind and placegood expectations. Now we are going to enter Hanshan Temple scenic area.

　　Hanshan Temple scenic area has "ancient temple, ancient bridge, ancientpass, ancient town, ancient canal" for tourists to visit. Ancient temple refersto Hanshan Temple. The ancient pass refers to the tielingguan pass at theintersection of the Grand Canal and Shangtang river. It was built in 1557 ad. itwas a pass to fight against Japanese pirates in the Ming Dynasty, withmagnificent towers. The ancient bridge refers to the Jiangcun bridge and theFengqiao bridge on the Grand Canal on the west side of Hanshan Temple. The PoetZhang Ji's famous sentence "Jiangfeng fishing fire vs. sorrow sleep" refers tothese two bridges. Fengqiao town, where Hanshan Temple is located, is an ancienttown with many shops, teahouses and bookstores. The ancient canal refers to theBeijing Hangzhou Grand Canal beside Hanshan Temple. The Grand Canal, 1794kilometers long from Beijing to Hangzhou, was dug by Emperor Yang of the SuiDynasty between 605 and 610 ad. The Grand Canal promoted the material andcultural exchanges between the north and the south, and also brought prosperityto Suzhou's economy.