Dongdu garden scenic spot

Dongdu garden scenic spot

Dongduyuan is located at the intersection of national highway 204 and provincial highway 338 in Tangqiao town. It is the successful sailing place of master Jianzhen's sixth eastward voyage to Japan in 753. It was called huangsipu in ancient times. "Shazhou county annals" contains: "after five successive failures of Tang Monk Jianzhen's eastward voyage to Japan, he successfully set sail at huangsipukou for the sixth time."

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Dongduyuan is located at the intersection of national highway 204 and provincial highway 338 in Tangqiao town. It is the successful sailing place of master Jianzhen's sixth eastward voyage to Japan in 753. It was called huangsipu in ancient times. "Shazhou county annals" contains: "after five successive failures of Tang Monk Jianzhen's eastward voyage to Japan, he successfully set sail at huangsipukou for the sixth time." In 1963, the 1200th anniversary Committee of master Jianzhen's death set up a stone Scripture building in huangsipukou to commemorate his death. Japanese friends often come to pay their respects. Dongdu garden consists of Dongdu memorial hall, Dongdu bridge, stele Pavilion and Jingchuang. The whole garden highlights the waterscape and reflects the pastoral scenery of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

The main building "Jianzhen Dongdu Memorial Hall" in the garden covers an area of 2400 square meters, with a construction area of 1070 square meters. The plaque is inscribed by Zhao Puchu, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and President of the Chinese Buddhist Association. In the hall of the main hall, there is a bronze statue of master Jianzhen, 2.06 meters high and 380 kg in weight. There are seven murals in the hall, which record the difficult journey of master Jianzhen's sixth successful eastward journey to Japan, the brief introduction of Jianzhen's life and the eastward route. There are six woodcut screens on the wall behind the main hall. The content is an excerpt from the biography of the eastern expedition, with a total of 1342 words. It records Jianzhen's experience of his sixth eastward journey to Japan. On both sides of the main hall are displayed stone tools, pottery, red burnt earth and other objects unearthed from the Neolithic sites in Luyuan, xujiawan and Xuzhuang. At the same time, some materials, books, photos and souvenirs presented by Japanese friends about Jianzhen are also displayed.

Culture

Jianzhen, originally named Chunyu, was born in Guangling (now Yangzhou). At the age of 14, he became a monk and received the "great commandment" at the age of 22. Later, he became the abbot of Daming Temple and specialized in the commandment. In the first year of Tang Tianbao, at the invitation of Rong Rui, Puzhao and other Japanese monks studying abroad, Jianzhen sailed eastward. Because of the underdeveloped means of transportation and various social excuses at that time, five eastward expeditions ended in failure.

In the early autumn of the 12th year of Tianbao, Jianzhen, who was 66 years old at that time, regardless of his blindness and the hardships of the journey, resolutely led his disciples to set sail in huangsipu in the west wind, and began his sixth eastward voyage. The emperor finally succeeded in his sixth eastward voyage. Jianzhen and his party landed in the south of Kyushu, Japan. The next year, Jianzhen built the altar and taught the precepts in Tokyo's Dongda temple, During the ten years from his death, Jianzhen lived in Nara, the founder of Japanese law school, and his actions had far-reaching influence. He not only planned to build the Tang zhaoti Temple (later respected as a national treasure in Japan), but also introduced Chinese architecture, sculpture skills, Chinese phonology, printing, medicine and so on to Japan, He has made outstanding contributions to the cultural exchanges between China and Japan, thus being respected by the Japanese government and the people of China and Japan from generation to generation.

Practical information

The whole scenic area is mainly composed of archway, Dongdu temple area, Dongdu memorial hall, Dongdu bridge, stele Pavilion and Jingchuang, covering an area of about 100 mu. At the entrance of Dongdu garden is an ancient Pai Rao with three big characters "Dongdu garden", which is written by XingKong abbot of Hanshan Temple in Suzhou. Jianzhen Dongdu memorial hall, covering an area of more than 1700 square meters, imitates Tang style and has the same shape as Jianzhen Memorial Hall in Daming Temple in Yangzhou. On the top of the front is a plaque inscribed by Zhao Puchu, former vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and President of the Chinese Buddhist Association. Walking into the hall is a screen engraved with "Dongdu Memorial Hall" inscribed by sun Pinghua, President of the China Japan Friendship Association "Go through the vicissitudes". The architectural style of the main hall imitates the Golden Hall of Japan's Tang zhaoti temple. In the center of the hall is an altar, on which a bronze statue of Jianzhen, 2.16 meters high and 380 kg in weight, is worshipped. Master Jianzhen closed his eyes and looked dignified. There are seven murals in the hall, which record master Jianzhen's difficult journey to Japan six times, brief introduction of Jianzhen's life and route map. There are six woodcut screens on the wall behind the main hall. The content is an excerpt from the biography of the eastern expedition, with a total of 1342 words, which records Jianzhen's experience of his sixth eastward journey to Japan. Many cultural relics are displayed below the screen, including stone tools, pottery, braised clay and other objects unearthed from Luyuan xujiawan and Xuzhuang Neolithic sites. At the same time, some materials, books, photos of Jianzhen monk and souvenirs from Japanese friends are also displayed. At the back door of the main hall, "Dongdu bridge" spans both sides of huangsipu, with a length of 18 meters, a width of 4.8 meters, a height of 5.2 meters, a single hole diameter of 6 meters, and 21 steps from east to west. There are two stele pavilions on both sides of the bridge. On the South stele pavilions, a poem written by Japanese friend Abe zhongmalu of the Tang Dynasty when he set sail in huangsipu is engraved: "the sky is blue for thousands of miles. When you raise your head, you can see the nostalgia far away and the bright moon rises on the mountain of Sanli in the old days.". In the North Pavilion, there is a poem inscribed by Comrade Guo Moruo for the commemoration of monk Jianzhen's passing away for 1200 years: "Jianzhen sails blindly in the East China Sea, showing the sincerity of Taiqing, sacrificing himself to preach, and the wind of Tang Dynasty overflows Nara City.". On the west side of Dongdu bridge, there is a pavilion with eight pillars and a stone Sutra building. It was built in the 1960s. On the front side of the pavilion, there are four characters "guhuang Sipu" inscribed by Zhao Puchu, the former president of China Buddhist Association. On the right side, there is "the place where monk Jianzhen of Tang set sail for the sixth eastward crossing". On the left side, it is inscribed "the commemorative Committee of the 1200 year anniversary of monk Jianzhen's death in 1963". The garden is planted with cedar forest, Osmanthus fragrans forest, red maple forest, cherry forest, green bamboo forest, and more than 50 varieties, such as Longbai, etc., which make Dongdu garden full of vitality. Dongdu garden has become a scenic spot in the south of the Yangtze River connecting China and Japan.

Address: guhuangsipu bank, Luyuan Town, Zhangjiagang, Suzhou

Longitude: 120.628933

Latitude: 31.857575

Tel: 0512-58112400

Ticket information: free. The charge for scenic spots in the scenic spot is 5 yuan for Dongdu temple.