Qingyun Temple is located in the Tianxi Valley of the Dinghu Mountain Scenic Area and has a history of nearly 400 years. Compared with the famous Famen Temple and Lingyin Temple in China, there is no prominent lineage. However, Qingyun Temple is a very special temple.
We go to the temple and usually visit it on the flat land. For example, famen temple, which has a history of 1900 years. The 1700-year-old Lingyin Temple, located in the West Lake of Hangzhou, is built on the edge of the West Lake. You can easily visit their panoramas. Qingyun Temple is different, you must first climb to the top of the mountain, and then visit from the top of the mountain to the next level. Therefore, people say that Qingyun Temple is a very special temple.
Qingyun Temple has a total of 5 floors, a total of 100 large and small halls, with a construction area of more than 10,000 square meters, and the scale is rare in China. Qingyun Temple has a large number of cultural relics and monuments, including the "Moraine Sand Tibetan Scripture", the plum blossom inscription, the relic, the Pingnan Wang Dafa Seat, the Baimei Poetry Stele and so on. Qingyun Temple has three scenic spots that are very beautiful, one is a thousand people wok, built during the Qianlong period; one is a large bronze bell, and the other is a 300-year-old white tea tree.
Qingyun Temple is far from Beijing, but was once rewarded by Empress Dowager Cixi, who gave Qingyun Temple the "Wanshou Qingyun Temple" plaque and the Dragon Tibetan Scripture. Qingyun Temple is located in the famous Buddhist mountain Dinghu Mountain, which has always been incense and is very famous in Guangdong Province. There are four famous temples in Lingnan, in addition to Chaozhou Kaiyuan Temple, Shaoguan Nanhua Temple, Guangzhou Guangxiao Temple, the last one is Qingyun Temple.
As one of the four famous temples in Lingnan, Qingyun Temple also has a special feature - there are many delicacies, such as Qingyun Yipin Pot, Vegetarian Sanxian, and Dinghu Shangsu. Dinghu Shangsu is the most famous. It is all made of vegetables, such as shiitake mushrooms, winter ru, yellow cauliflower, rotten bamboo and dozens of other ingredients, washed with the water of Dinghu Mountain and simmered. After serving with the ingredients, it is then simmered over a fierce fire, and a large amount of water is added while simmering, and it is refined.
Dinghu Shangsu this dish is fragrant, sweet and refreshing, bright in color, and mouth-watering. The vegetarian dishes of other temples are not as good as this Dinghu vegetarian dish. This, of course, is due to the sweet and sweet mountain spring water of Dinghu Mountain. The highest peak of Dinghu Mountain is more than 1,000 meters, the forest coverage rate of Dinghu Mountain is extremely high, the mountain springs are very rich, and the water quality is clean and sweet, so it has created an incomparable quality of Dinghu Shangsu and other temples.
There is a charge for dining at Gyeongunji Temple. This is very different from the famous temple in Guangdong - Nanshan Temple. I have been to Nanshan Temple in Huazhou City, Guangdong Province, and eating at Nanshan Temple is free, no matter how many people come, the meal is enough. Although There is a place to eat at Gyeongunji Temple, it is not free.
Qingyun Temple's cuisine - Dinghu Shangsu although delicious, fragrant, but do not pay you can not taste at all, and the price is not generally expensive, to dozens of yuan a piece, let people a little heartache. Outside the temple, there is a cottage version of Dinghu Shangsu, which is cheap, but the taste is very poor. Therefore, many people will buy Dinghu Shangsu this dish to taste, so as not to leave regrets for themselves.