Among them, Wannian Temple, located at the foot of Shiziling at an altitude of 1.020 meters, is one of the oldest and largest temples in Emei Mountain and a must-see attraction in Emei Mountain.
According to records, Wannian Temple was built in Long 'an in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (40 1) for five years. Because Emei Mountain is the Dojo of Bodhisattva, it is also called Daming Mountain, so the temple was originally named Fukenji.
The "Daming Mountain" plaque above the mountain gate and the couplets on both sides: "The wonderful phase is solemn, and the flowers and rain are orange; Emei is green, fragrant and precious, and fragrant and kind, all of which were inscribed by Sichuan monks, the abbot of Baoguang Temple in Xindu.
In the following hundreds of years, the temple was destroyed by fire many times. Folk rumors say that the five elements of Emei Mountain belong to fire. In the third year of Tang Ganfu (876), he rebuilt Fukenji with the mage and renamed it Baishui Temple. A white pool was specially built in the temple. Chi Pan Mountain Shadow is oblique, and frogs are sweet. Scholars, including Li Bai, wrote poems here, and "White Water and Autumn Wind" was also rated as one of the "Ten Scenes of Emei".
The ancient trees in the temple are towering, and the scale of the temple is huge. In the 29th Wanli period of Ming Dynasty (160 1), Zhu Yijun, Ming Shenzong, built a flat brick temple in Baishui Temple-"Pu Xian Baishui Temple" to celebrate his mother's seventieth birthday. He not only wrote a gold plaque for Wuliang Temple, but also offered ten thousand magic lamps in front of the temple to pray for Yong 'an Mountain and River. Baishui Temple was renamed as "Wannian Temple" from now on.
This flat brick hall shaped like a yurt is17.12m high,15.79m wide and16.06m deep. There are also five white pagodas and four auspicious animals built on the top of the semicircular hollow vault.
It is worth mentioning that the temple has no beams, columns or trees, but it survived the 18 earthquake in the past 400 years, which is regarded as a miracle in the history of ancient architecture in China.
This bronze statue of Pu Xian, which is enshrined in the beamless brick hall, is wearing a five-Buddha gold crown and a cassock, sitting on the back of a six-toothed white elephant, with a kind eye and dignity. According to research, the bronze statue is 7.35 meters high and weighs 62 tons. It was cast in the fifth year of Taiping and Xingguo in the Northern Song Dynasty (980). It is the largest ancient statue in Emei Mountain, and was listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit as early as 196 1.
In the history of Wannian Temple, there are many eminent monks, and Buddhist cultural relics are also very rich and of high grade. In addition to the bronze statue of Pu Xian riding an elephant in the Song Dynasty, Mount Emei also has three treasures of Zhenshan: rare ancient Buddha teeth, the Bayeux Sutra given by the King of Siam in the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial seal given by Zhu Yijun in Ming Shenzong, all of which are treasures that tourists can't miss.
This "ancient Buddha tooth" with a length of 42.66 cm and a weight of 6.5 kg was presented by a friend of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Its appearance is moist as jade, its color is golden, and its purple stripes are exposed, which is an eye-opener.
Appraised by Professor Yang, a scientist in vertebrate paleontology, China, this "ancient tooth of Buddha" is actually a tooth fossil of Saber-toothed elephant 200,000 years ago, so it is called "tooth of Buddha" because it comes from Sri Lanka, a Buddhist country.
Before the invention of papermaking, monks usually wrote Buddhist scriptures on the dry leaves of Bedolo with mud, which was called "Bayleaf Sutra" in Sanskrit. In the 19th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (159 1), Empress Dowager Ming Shenzong, the mother of Zhu Yijun, presented this Siamese tribute to Wannian Temple.