Stop crowding Yu Garden, Longhua Temple's light show with butterfly lanterns is super beautiful and brings good luck
🌟Recently, the New Year light show in Yu Garden is super popular, but at the same time, it's really crowded! These days I found out that Longhua Temple also has a light show! From a distance, it looks like a beautiful butterfly lantern! Almost no one! Come and get good luck!
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🏮Lighting location:
Near the Martyrs' Cemetery, not inside the Longhua Temple! Personally tested, the lights start around 17:00!
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📸Best shooting location:
In front of the pool, the sparkling water reflection, it seems that Longhua Temple has turned into a beautiful butterfly in the night sky, and there are red and yellow lanterns.
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🚄Transportation:
✨Exit 2 of Longhua Station on Lines 11 and 12, turn left after exiting, cross the zebra crossing to the opposite square to see it.
🙏Of course, the best way to open it is to go to Longhua Temple during the day to pray for blessings. It is one of the three temples with the most incense in Shanghai and one of the oldest temples in Jiangnan.
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🐉New Year's blessing strategy of not going back in a clockwise direction:
1⃣️Longhua Pagoda: Octagonal seven-story, brick and wood structure, each floor hangs 8 bronze bells, a total of 56 bronze bells, the existing structure retains the style of the Northern Song Dynasty.
2⃣️Mountain gate: The big red door head, the golden edge inlaid with a large plaque in the middle, written in official script "Longhua".
3⃣️Maitreya Hall: Two three-king lions squat in front of the door, the male lion steps on a ball on the left, and the female lion steps on a small lion on the right.
4⃣️Bell tower & drum tower: Two drum towers face each other, both have a very long history.
5⃣️Heavenly King Hall: It has a statue of Maitreya Buddha and the Four Heavenly Kings.
6⃣️Daxiong Treasure Hall: The main building of the Buddhist temple, also the main hall of the Buddhist temple.
7⃣️Longhua Vegetarian Restaurant: Longhua's vegetarian noodles are a bowl of intangible cultural heritage noodles, and they are also a "net red" that everyone has been chasing. There are Arhat noodles, Fuyuan noodles, etc. If you go late, they will be sold out. You can also take some vegetarian duck and mung bean cake home!
You Longhua has a cat with a broken front leg and no one cares. If you don't treat it, it will be scrapped. I heard from tourists that it has been several days. The key is that this cat is pregnant! According to the staff, it fell from the upper floor. I hope the temple will be saved. I will come to see 👀 for a few days.
Longhua Temple in Xuhui District, Shanghai, the incense here is very strong, it is said that the son of Xiangguo during the Three Kingdoms period built a temple for filial parents, people here pray for their parents' health and longevity. Entering the temple cigarettes lingering, praying for incense people immersed in chanting, there is vegetarian noodles to eat, to the Mid-Autumn Festival baked moon cakes lined up patiently waiting. Outside the big temple, there is an underground tower film viewing exhibition room, you can drink coffee, read books, take pictures, and personal works exhibition, very suitable for leisure and careful to see.
Today I went to Longhua Temple again and wish the children all the best! Longhua Temple is the oldest and largest ancient temple in Shanghai. The name of the temple is derived from the allusion of the Buddha in the Buddha Sutra Maitreya Bodhisattva under the Longhua tree. It is the place where Maitreya practiced on earth.
The plan of the year is in spring, traditional Chinese culture, always pay attention to spring this season of sowing hope, in ancient times there is also the habit of Lichun as a new year, and now there is still a tradition of Lichun to worship Buddha and pray for blessings. Many people go to the temple every year to worship Buddha incense and pray for the wind and rain. Spring planting and autumn harvest. 🏯 Longhua Temple is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Shanghai. It is rumored to have been built in the Three Kingdoms period. It has a reliable history that began in the two years of Xingguo in the Northern Song Dynasty (977 AD). For thousands of years, Longhua Temple has been incense and this year Lichun is no exception. Just after 8:30 in the morning, the pilgrims have been endless. People pray that the wind and rain will be smooth, safe and happy. 🏯 Longhua Temple is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Shanghai. It is rumored to have been built in the Three Kingdoms period. The history of reliable records began in the two years of Xingguo in the Northern Song Dynasty (977 AD), which was rebuilt in the year of the Longhua Temple tower destroyed in the war. Due to the soft soil in Shanghai, the Longhua Temple Tower is slightly tilted. Last year, it was overhauled and more and more upright. For thousands of years, Longhua Temple has been incense and fire, and this year Lichun is no exception. Just after 8:30 in the morning, the pilgrims have been incessant. ☀️ The fine weather, the vigorous incense, the peaceful and peaceful atmosphere, all make people believe that this year will be full of hope...🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
In March, when the time was amazing, the huge Magnolia bloomed, the flowers were clustered and the flowers were fragrant. Shanghai, the city flower Magnolia, is the main scene of spring flower appreciation. Longhua Martyrs Cemetery, a good place to watch the flowers with few people and beautiful scenery. Deep in the Longhua Martyrs' Cemetery, in front of the memorial hall, more than 40 magnolias are arranged in a circle of large lawns. Looking from afar, under the warm blue sky, flowers are clustered, like snow; Look carefully, dried bamboo shoots, clean and elegant, charming... Tips: Longhua Martyrs Cemetery, close to Longhua Temple, can arrange a tour together.
Close to Longhua Temple, the Longhua Martyrs Cemetery, the national key cultural relics protection unit, the national key martyrs memorial building protection unit, the national patriotic education base. The cemetery covers an area of 210,000 square meters, with excellent landscape design, solemn mausoleum area, wide lawn, dense green plants, elegant flower environment... It is not to be said that the sculptures scattered in the park are also a highlight. More than 10 sculptures, magnificent shape, meticulous depiction, image recreated more than 100 years of major historical events in Shanghai, panoramic display of magnificent historical paintings.