Mati Temple Review

Horseshoe Temple, also known as Puguang Temple, is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction integrating grotto art, Qilian Mountain scenery and Yugur ethnic customs. The surroundings of the temple are beautiful, enjoying a reputation of green mountains, beautiful waters, strange peaks and unusual caves. The legendary Horseshoe Temple is the sky horse passing through here, see here the water and grass is rich, beautiful scenery, can not help but toss and turn, feed, but in the earth down the mark of horseshoe. The local people were surprised to see Tianma descend into the world and felt that this place was no ordinary place. They built temples and sculptures of Buddhas in caves near Tianma, which gradually expanded into a tourist attraction. The actual version of the Horseshoe Temple was actually built in Beiliang during the Sixteen Kingdoms Period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, more than 1600 years ago. There are seven Buddhist temples including Shengguo Temple, Puguang Temple, Thousand Buddha Cave, Jinta Temple, Upper, Middle and Lower Guanyin Cave, and more than 70 caves. Among them, there are more than 500 large-scale pet cliff pagoda caves. Jinta Temple has the only large meat sculpture flying in the sky in China. Its image is simple and elegant, which is amazing. The 33-day Scripture caves in Puguang Temple have 21 caves on the upper and lower five floors, arranged in pagoda shape, with Buddhist halls inside and corridors outside. There are 49 holes in both inside and outside caves with strange shapes. The legendary mark of horseshoe exists in the Horseshoe Hall of Puguang Temple, which is the treasure of Zhensi. Horseshoe Temple in Beiliang period, the earliest Han Buddhist temple, and later gradually became a Tibetan Buddhist temple, belonging to the Tibetan Buddhist Gelug East Kor Temple in Qinghai. Since the founding of the temple, incense has been extremely prosperous. At its peak, there were more than 1000 monks. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic, there were still more than 50 monks. This shows the splendor of the Horseshoe Temple in history. However, it is a pity that because of the Northern Warlords'separatist regime, chaos and successive dynasties' succession, the war continued, the original large-scale buildings of Horseshoe Temple were mostly destroyed in the war, including Jinta Temple, Thousand Buddhas Cave, North and South Horseshoe Temple, Guanyin Cave and many other caves. No wonder we saw a lot of sculptures weathered off the semi-circular cliff near here, and more of them seem to have traces of human destruction. Legends say that the Red Guards of "Fenghua Jingdao", "Wentao Wuluo" invaded the temple, smashed, burned and plundered, destroyed many caves and stone statues that had survived the years of sandstorms. That's not enough. They destroyed the statue ladders beyond the cliff walls by artillery bombardment and destruction. Natural sand and historical smoke have not destroyed the remnants of cultural relics, in the powerful artillery ash of the Cultural Revolution have fallen, thousands of years of glorious prosperity, exquisite historical relics will leave only a few caves, a few sculptures...