The Ultimate Guide to Kaifu Temple in Changsha! Definitely worth a look
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Incense Burner-Dabei Hall-Daxiong Hall-Pilu Hall-Caishen Hall-Nine Dragons Guanyin Statue
✅Incense Burner: Just throw the incense in
✅Dabei Hall: Walk around clockwise for 3 or 7 circles, make a wish while walking, it's said to be very efficacious~
✅Daxiong Hall: Listen to the chanting on the left side, donations for incense oil are welcome💰.
✅Pilu Hall: Count the Arhats, it's all about fate. Drawing lots costs 10r💰, interpreting them costs another 10r💰, decide for yourself if you want to spend the money.
✅Nine Dragons Guanyin Statue: Toss a coin to make a wish, walking around it three times will bring good fortune.
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👀Vegetarian Noodles👀 (The pickled vegetables are delicious)
Address: Next to the incense burning area inside Kaifu Temple
Time: Available anytime
Price: 10 per serving, stir-fried dishes 20 per serving
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👀Vegetarian Meals👀
Address: Inside the dining hall past the Mani building
Time: 11:00-14:00; 16:20-17:00
Price: 10 yuan per serving, free refills available
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👀Others👀
Opening Hours:
May 1st - October 7th: 6:30-18:00
October 8th - April 30th: 6:30-15:30
Admission: 10 yuan, half price for students (no need to book in advance), three sticks of incense are given with the ticket, no need to purchase
Transportation: Exit 1 of Kaifu Temple Station on Subway Line 1
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📷Photo Spots
1⃣To the left of the Maitreya Hall: 'Guosheng Jiao Wang', a popular spot for taking photos; on the right side, the outer wall is very photogenic, and there are props like 'Luck' and 'Prosperity' available
2⃣In front of the Daxiong Hall: You can arrange for a photographer, it's a great spot for photos
ps: Hanfu looks amazing in photos!
⭕Important Notes:
❎Do not bring fireworks🔥 into the temple
❎Do not take photos📸 of the Buddha statues
✅Donations💰 are welcome but not mandatory
✅You can bring dry food to feed the pigeons🕊, and also feed the fish, there are a lot of pigeons in Kaifu Temple, it's a great place to bring kids!
An attraction that I accidentally saw by car, the transportation is convenient, the high-speed rail is directly accessible, the ticket is only ten yuan, an ancient temple in history, the only fly in the ointment is the ten yuan fast meal, obviously you can brush Alipay, you have to collect cash, the meal is small, hard, and the dishes are very oily. Even the one who cooks the food is oily, and the food is all oily and can't eat a few mouthfuls.
Very good, auspicious pigeons fly around, the mountain gate of Kaifu Temple is a Qing Dynasty building, simple and chic. There are three door holes, and there are two pairs of books by the calligrapher Han Yao on both sides of the middle door cave: "Ziwei Building Wind, Bibo Qianlong". The font is 2 feet square and strong. Above the main entrance is the seventeenth year of Guangxu (1891) Jiangnan Fushan Town General Bing Chen Haipeng titled "Gu Kaifu Temple" four gold characters horizontal forehead, simple and generous. The side doors on both sides are smaller than the main entrance, and the horizontal forehead above the door is "turn back" and "is the shore". There are many Buddha statues, flowers and trees carved on the mountain gate, which is very delicate. There is also a pair of stone lions and a pair of stone elephants in front of the door, which adds to the majesty and quietness of the temple. Praise 👍
The ancient temple Kaifu Temple, located in the north gate of Changsha City, Hunan Province, is located in the new river outside the north gate of the city, Linxiang River, built in the fifth generation and ten kingdoms after Tang Mingzong Tiancheng two years (927), is one of the key open monasteries of Chinese Buddhism, for the Buddhist Zen Linjizong Yangqi Temple. The mountain gate is a three-question four-post granite archway-style building, with three short layers of bamboo shoots, yellow glazed tiles, a treasure top, and a whole fish kiss. The columns on the door are relief paintings, or characters, or trees, flowers, colors, and the two sides of the door are Qing Jiaqing 11 years (1806) Hunan cloth history, famous calligrapher Han Yu book: Ziwei Qifeng, Bilang Qianlong. Kaifu Temple sits north and south, the Buddha Temple on the central axis is divided into three parts, the front is the three temples, the middle is the Daxiong Temple, the back is the Pilu Temple; the east wing room from the front to the back has a guest hall, Zhaitang, warehouse, abbot, Tibetan scripture building; The west wing has lecture hall, chan hall, camp old temple, etc., the monastery is the Ming and Qing palace-style buildings as the main body of buildings. In 2011, the Kaifu District Government of Changsha City expanded Kaifu Temple to restore the 16 scenes of the Northern Song Dynasty in its heyday, including Ziwei Mountain, Bichao, Bailianchi, Longquanjing, release pool, driving well, Fengzuizhou, Muyuling, Bayuting, Jiayan
The ten ancient Kaifu Temple was built in the fifth generation period, and the existing buildings were basically built during the Qing Qianlong period. You can see the Guanyin video and the bell tower and drum tower on the left and right sides when you enter the door. Going inside is the temple of other Bodhisattva emperor Luo Han. Tickets are ten yuan, students under the undergraduate can use half price of student tickets, and the elderly show their ID cards for free. Three incense will be given at the door, and they have to get it in the incense burning stove to burn it. There are many pigeons perched under trees and on dugouts in the center of the river, flying around in pieces “and there are plain noodles for tourists to eat in the temple.”
Kaifu Temple has pleasant scenery, beautiful scenery, constant incense, there are really many people praying for blessings, large traffic, strong fun, and super cost-effective. Kaifu Temple prays for blessings on the sixth day of the New Year. I wish everyone a smooth body! Career is smooth to the end! Yishun happy! Six or six big smooth!