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Message: <blockquote data-quote="akilar25" data-source="post: 9126453" data-attributes="member: 167921"> Hanshan Temple                                                                                                                    <img src="http://www.absolutechinatours.com/UploadFiles/ImageBase/1147599958.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />It  is quite strange to hear that a Buddhist temple called Cold Mountain.  During the reign of Zhenguan Emperor (627 - 648) of China's Tang  Dynasty, two young men, Hanshan (literally cold mountain) and Shide, had  been very good friends since they were small. One day when Hanshan was  grown up, his parents arranged him to marry a girl. However, the girl  had fallen in love with Shide.   Accidentally, Hanshan knew the  reality about this matter. He was in deep and painful thought for a few  days. Eventually, he wrote a letter to Shide, stating that he wanted him  to marry the girl as soon as possible. Hanshan then went to Suzhou to  cultivate himself in Buddhism.   Shide hadn't seen Hanshan for a  fortnight. He felt upset of that, so went to his home. There he saw a  letter that Hanshan had left for him. Hanshan wrote "You should marry  the girl now and have a happy life forever together". Shide felt very  sad at that moment and he knew that he shouldn't take his friend's  woman. So he left the girl too, and he set out to Suzhou to visit  Hanshan. Shide was on the road during summer, he found a field of lotus  flowers in a pond. He was very glad to see this scenery so he picked a  flower in his hand and brought it with him all the way in order to have a  good luck.   Finally, Shide has arrived at Suzhou  to see his long time friend Hanshan. The flower in his hand was still  brilliantly blossoming with charming fragrance. They are monks in the  Hanshan Temple during the rest of their life. The present name of the  temple has been used since then.   <img src="http://www.absolutechinatours.com/UploadFiles/ImageBase/247da.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The  Hanshan Temple was built between 502 and 519 AD, located at 5km outside  the Changmen City Gate of Suzhou, China. Between the late Yuan and late  Qing Dynasties, the temple was heavily looted and seriously damaged  five times, but it was then repaired and renovated. This was due to its  strong influence in people's hearts and the peaceful spirits of Hanshan  and Shide have been deep in Chinese minds.   It is said that Monk Shide went to  Japan to teach Buddhism and founded the Shide Temple there. So that the  Chinese culture enthusiasts in Japan are like to tour the Hanshan Temple  in Suzhou nowadays.   The most notable scene in the temple  is the majestic pagoda called Pumingbaota, during your tour, you can  climb up, though not to the top of it (because it is not allow to be  reached !), and command the good view of the Suzhou city.   It is interesting to see the giant  old bell in the Hanshan Temple. The monks here will strike the bell 108  times in the Lunar New Year. The action represents the 12 months, 24  solar terms and 72 climatic phenomena (numbered 108 in total) in  traditional Chinese meteorology. It is said that man has 108 times of  fretting over something annually, so the listening to the 108-strike can  expel all the worries in your mind.</blockquote>

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