[2025 Yiyang Attraction] Travel Guide for Lingshan Temple (Updated Mar)

Luoshui Changgu Kite Festival Guide, Some Honest Advice|||🎈Kite Festival The "Luoshui Kite Festival" starts on March 5. Presale price: Book through the official Luoshui Changgu WeChat account before March 20 for only 9.9. Enter with the QR code. Pets are allowed. Parking is 10 yuan inside the park, and free on the roadside outside. ✨ After entering the park, there are several ways to reach the core area: 1️⃣Walk: 5 km, about 60 minutes. 2️⃣Electric sightseeing bus: 10 yuan/person. 3️⃣Steam train: 20 yuan/person. 4️⃣Boat: 2 yuan/minute/boat, about 40 minutes for the whole trip. 5️⃣Rent an electric minibus: Suitable for large groups! Charged by the hour, quite expensive. ✨ I took the sightseeing bus at the entrance, as 5 km is quite a distance. The core area has elf houses, a large lawn, a fairy tale town, a few sika deer. The lawn is still yellowish-brown in March. It will turn green after May, but it will also be very sunny. ✨ I chose to walk back. Lingshan Temple is opposite the park, where you can see the Goddess of Mercy and the pagoda. The 5 km walk offers pristine scenery, but there's not much to photograph besides the reeds. ✨ Overall, the park feels large but empty. The buildings are vacant, and only three or four elf houses are open. There isn't much to see. ✨ The strong wind in winter can knock you over, and the scorching sun in summer can make you dizzy. There's almost no shade. ✨ Perhaps because I've lived in Nanjing for a long time and have seen many parks with flowers and plants, as well as Jiangnan gardens, I couldn't find a single flowering tree in Luoshui Changgu in March. Just bare lawns and trees. The river is clear, and the sky is blue. ✨ However, for a small county town attraction, expectations shouldn't be too high. Although it's large but empty, rough, and lacking in depth, with various small transportation fees, it's still a good place for taking photos, camping, bringing kids, walking dogs, and spring outings. ✨ Although the county is small, it's nestled between mountains and rivers, like a cornucopia. I sincerely hope that the environment in my hometown will continue to improve, and the historical and cultural landscape will be better protected.

Lingshan Temple, formerly known as Baozhong Temple, also known as Baoen Temple and Fenghuang Temple, is a national key cultural relic protection unit and a national AAA-level tourist attraction. It is located in Jinping Town, Yiyang County, Luoyang City, Henan Province, 7.5 kilometers away from Yiyang County Government. It covers an area of ​​18,667.6 square meters and a total construction area of ​​1,933.3 square meters. It was built in the early Tang Dynasty. The main buildings of Lingshan Temple face south to north, and in order of front to back are the Mountain Gate, Heavenly King Hall, Great Compassion Pavilion, Main Hall, and Sutra Library. There are 22 rooms on each of the east and west wings, and monks' quarters and Zen temples are built on both sides of the temple, with a total of nearly a hundred buildings. The mountain gate of Lingshan Temple is unique, and the overall architecture has a certain history. There is a welcoming wall in front of the gate of Lingshan Temple with the three characters "Lingshan Temple" written on it. The temple is a five-story building with four courtyards and pavilions with red walls and green tiles. The first courtyard inside the temple gate is the Heavenly King Hall, in front of which there is an ancient ginkgo tree. The second courtyard is the Great Compassion Hall with flying eaves and hip roofs, which belongs to the Jin Dynasty. The third courtyard is the Main Hall with a five-ridged hip roof. In the middle of the hall, "Shakyamuni" is enshrined, "Medicine Master" on the right, and "Amitabha" on the left, all of which are statues from the Ming Dynasty. In front of the hall stands a seven-story stone pagoda, on which are carved 30 great arhats and stone Buddha statues. In front of the hall stands a row of stone steles, with inscriptions of the reconstruction of the temple from the Jin and Ming dynasties to the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. There is a Sutra Library in the backyard of the temple, with the Dharma Hall downstairs and two corridors in the east and west, facing each other. A gatehouse was built in the middle, with walls on both sides. On both sides of the wall, there are steles with poems inscribed by famous people from past dynasties. Outside the east wall of the temple, there is a spring pool, which was renamed "Phoenix Spring" because of the mountain. The water is about three meters deep. The main stream of the spring water flows into the swimming pool on the east side of the temple, and the tributaries flow into the fish pond in the temple. Finally, they merge and flow down the hillside. There are 15 towers in the southeast of the spring, forming an orderly forest of towers.

Image 2️⃣ Wuhua Temple Pagoda, Luoyang/Yiyang, presumed to be from the Song dynasty, National Level 7; the temple was destroyed, which is a pity Image 3️⃣ Lingshan Temple Square Stone Pagoda, Luoyang/Yiyang, dated to the Northern Wei or Ming dynasty, National Level 7; the stone-carved Buddha statues are well-preserved Image 4️⃣-5️⃣ Lingshan Temple Pagoda Forest, Luoyang/Yiyang, with more than 20 tomb pagodas of monks from the Ming and Qing dynasties and modern times, with relatively simple styles Image 6️⃣ Xiwocaves Stone Carved Pagoda, Luoyang/Xin'an, in the Qiantang Stele Pavilion, Northern Wei, Provincial Level; four stone pagodas, two with three stories, one with five stories, and one with seven stories, each story has Buddha statues, with exquisite carvings Image 7️⃣ Fazang Zen Temple Monk Chenggong Xingtian Pagoda, Luoyang/Old Town, Ming dynasty, now placed outside the Xiaqing Palace Image 8️⃣ Abbot Jingben Zhi Brick Pagoda of Anguo Temple, Luoyang/Old Town, Ming dynasty, now placed outside the Xiaqing Palace Image 9️⃣ Zhang Qinglin Pagoda, Luoyang/Old Town, Ming dynasty, a relatively rare Taoist pagoda, now located in the east courtyard of the Xiaqing Palace, not open to the public Image 🔟 Qiyun Pagoda of White Horse Temple, Luoyang/Chanhe, Jin dynasty, National Level 1; a typical Jin imitation Tang pagoda, with several examples in Henan Image 1️⃣1️⃣ Wenfeng Pagoda, Luoyang/Old Town, early Qing dynasty, Provincial Level; a very peculiar style, a sight in Luoyang Ancient City Image 1️⃣2️⃣ Longmen Grottoes Square Stone Pagoda, on top of the Chen Tuan Stele, Tang dynasty Image 1️⃣3️⃣ Pagoda in the courtyard on the right after entering Longmen Grottoes, asked the staff, they assembled it from some scattered Tang dynasty stone pieces, quite beautiful Image 1️⃣4️⃣ Longmen Grottoes also have several stone-carved pagodas, with various styles, helpful for understanding the evolution of pagodas Image 1️⃣5️⃣ Robe and Bowl Pagoda of Xiangshan Temple, Guangxu period of the Qing dynasty, not easy to preserve Image 1️⃣6️⃣ Three-story Golden Phoebe Pagoda, a gift from Qianlong to his mother for her 70th birthday, now housed in Luoyang Museum, one of the museum's treasures Image 1️⃣7️⃣ Da Qin Jingjiao Stone Sutra Pillar, Tang dynasty, extremely rare cross and flying apsaras mixed decoration, located in the Treasure Hall of Luoyang Museum Image 1️⃣8️⃣ Luoyang Museum also houses several pagodas and sutra pillars from various periods, each with its own beauty 🔻 These are not all the ancient pagodas in Luoyang, at least three pagodas in Song County have not been visited, can only look forward to the future