Travel, Study, and Fun in China - south screen late clock

Perhaps south the screen Wan Zhong, is in the Xihu ten scenery is published earliest scenery item. At the end of Northern Song Dynasty namely hertz famous painter Zhang Zhaiduan has drawn "South Screen Wan Zhong Chart". Although this chart was inferior far he "In Pure Brightness River Chart" that becomes famous the painting world, but is recorded actually in the sighted person "Tianshui Iceberg Record". South Pingshan, is continuous lies in the Xihu Nanan, the mountain high hundred meters, the mountain massif extends long amounts to thousand meters actually. On the mountain strange Shi Song Xiu, the greenery is satisfied the eye. Under the clear date, the full mountain mist green jade serves as contrast in the blue sky white clouds beautiful enough to eat, is caught in the rain the foggy day, the mist covers up, the mountain range dances probably lightly, faintly recognizable elusive, is neither friendly nor aloof. The later zhou dynasty appears the first year (954), Wu and Yue kingdoms king monarch sovereign Uncle Qian Hong will construct the Buddhist temple bright date in the south screen piedmont forever to be bright the courtyard, afterwards became with Lingyin Temple and zhi in north and south Xihu of a Jingci Temple two Buddhism Buddhist temples.
South the screen piedmont another famous buddhist temple is popular teaches the temple beginning to construct in the Northern Song Dynasty plays an ace for five years (972), it once was the supreme headquarters which the Buddhism tiantai sect mountain dwellers send. Jingci Temple, is popular teaches the temple to add on nearby small temple, after forms continues works hidden, India in lake a Buddhist temple community, morning bell curtain drum, burns the shell Buddha number, the cigarette candlelight, south Pingshan has henceforth added the `India Shan' alternate name, south screen Wan Zhong interest, ease formation. South area Pingshan the mountain ridge by the limestone constitution, the mountain massif multi-holes, performs the mountain peak crag to rise steeply if barrier, whenever the Buddhist temple Wan Zhong sounds, the ding oscilation frequency passes to on the mountain, the rock, the cavern and so on for its compelled, accelerate the sound wave vibration, after the oscillation amplitude have increased hurriedly form resonating. Rock, cavern
Then has the sound box effect along with it, strengthened the sympathetic chord. At the same time, the ding also flies by the same frequency to the Xihu sky, goes directly to the Xihu other shore, bumps into the opposite shore by the igneous rock constitution Ge range, the echo occurs repeatedly.
In particular hands over the sound mix in the weather, resonating sounds together, long-drawn-out melodious, prolonged. After Northern Song Dynasty, as soon as Jingci Temple with is popular teaches a temple arrangement to fade, the years are already long, south the screen Wan Zhong high reputation and the victory situation belong to under specially the Jingci Temple name, Jingci Temple built up has drawn plays the part of the magnificent bell tower, gradually for millennium ancient temple most enchanting attraction. The Jingci Temple bell tower has been through repeatedly destroys constructs, but bell also waste dual casting, largest scale bamboo basket casts, one time is cuts off for 11 years in Ming Hong, the letter holds yi the Jan Zen master to solicit rests gathers the copper 20,000 catties, casts great clock one, the impact noise broadcasts the far gully, the residual sound winds around. Also some one time is in 1986, new cast copper clock height three meters, caliber 2.3 meters, above heavy noisy ten tons. Outside clock in vivo, carves casts "Ingenious method Lotus China after" seven volumes and the engraved inscription total 67,000 characters; It uses [cattail jail to carve dragon] to be Zhong Niu, take eight petal lotus flowers as the clock lip, each petal casts has a kind of game spot, in six hours cast have Sanskrit. On the clock keel stands salutes adjoins husband's mother corpse Buddha and salutes Buddha Buddha and so on seven niches for a statue of Buddha. In recent years, whenever the New Year's Eve, the Hangzhou people from all walks of life and the foreign guest, the fellow countryman living abroad, the tourist gathered inside and outside the Jingci Temple bell tower, the hold new year the kind of game eliminated welcomes a newcomer old the activity. When the 108th ding sound, happen to is when the new place beginning. This is symbolizing auspiciously, happy, stable, the unity activity, has poured into the new implication and the charm for the ancient south screen Wan Zhong.