Guanyin Pavilion

Dousha Guanyin Pavilion is next to Doushaguan five feet road, the entire ancient temple is under a prominent cliff, in the top floor of the temple Guanyin attic, but also in a recessed cliff inside, looking at a special feeling.

Guanyin Pavilion is located at the Qinglian Cave in the north cliff of Shimenguan, Yanjin Dousha, Zhaotong. The original temple has a long history and only remains the site. There are several statues of refined statues in the Pavilion, which are magnificent. On the rock wall is also engraved with "Guan Shiyin Cihang Pudu All beings" relief, unique shape and exquisite skills. Every year, the 19th Guanyin meeting on the second, sixth and September of the lunar calendar, pilgrims are shoulder-to-shoulder, endless.

The Guanyin Pavilion of Dule Temple, like the mountain gate, was built in Liao Tong and two years (984 AD). From the perspective of the monastery layout, Guanyin Pavilion is likely to be the main building of Dule Temple. The space location of the mountain gate and the Guanyin Pavilion is also very interesting. Standing in the mountain gate, through the door of the Ming room, you can just see the whole picture of the Guanyin Pavilion behind you. It is obviously carefully designed. The appearance of the Guanyin Pavilion is as its name suggests, a multi-storey building, the appearance is two floors, in fact three floors, there is a dark layer in the middle. There are buildings and pavilions in ancient buildings. At the time of Tang and Song, the building is generally built on a high platform without flat sitting (can be understood as a walkway with railings, similar to a balcony); The pavilion has flat seats, usually only a relatively low base. The pavilion has two flat seats, one inside (the dark layer in the middle) and one outside (the upper aisle). The pavilion stands on the top of the platform, and the roof is the top of the hill, tiles, kisses, spines and other things, which may be matched for the Ming Dynasty refurbishment. The eight small square pillars at four corners were added during the Qianlong period. Like the mountain gate, the roof curves are relaxed and far-reaching, and extremely beautiful under the support of the majestic bucket. When the first inspection of the construction society in 1932, Liang Sicheng, who had not seen the Tang Dynasty architecture, saw this attic, and was amazed. I was used to seeing the temples and pavilions of the Tang Dynasty in the Dunhuang mural atlas. I finally saw the real thing of this Tang style. How can I not be excited? The murals see the palace, or single or heavy floors, as wings, and the doubling is large. The phenomenon of the pavilion and door is very different from the Qing architecture, and the Song style is also very similar to the Tang style. Those familiar with the pure land map in Dunhuang murals, if they see this pavilion suddenly, they must suspect that they have entered the Western Bliss World.[2] The base of Guanyin Pavilion is not high today. Liang Sicheng thought it was too short, and it was unscientific in proportion and needed to wait for exploration and verification. In recent years, the cultural relics management department found that the floor of the Tang Liao period was indeed about 2m or more below the current ground, which shows Liang Sicheng's keenness.[3] There is a platform in front of the base, there are two flower ponds, and now only one pool has ancient cypress. Space design and statue mural loft five wide, into four deep. From the layout of the layout, the distribution of the columns is very neat, the outer 18, the inner 10. Leave the middle area to place the Sumi Tan and Guanyin. This layout is the gold box bottom slot in the "Building French", that is, the interior space is divided into two parts (that is, the inner slot and the outer slot) with two circles of columns. There are stairs inside to climb the middle floor (now not open to climbing). This design is to put up to 16 meters of clay 11-face viewing images, the entire Guanyin Pavilion is a hollow house, cleverly accommodated the giant statue. This statue is the highest mud sculpture in the country, and it is verified that it is no later than the Liao Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty has undergone makeup repairs, which can be described as a rare treasure in the world. Around the Guanyin and video, the design of the whole building in space is also very particular. From the gate, you can see the lower body of the Sumi Tan and Guanyin directly in front of you at first sight. It can faintly perceive the scale of it, but there is room for imagination, which makes people unable to help but continue forward. Go to the inner slot, look up, and be shocked by its height. The viewing image leans slightly forward, and the sun shines through the upper layer to illuminate its face, chest and right hand, and contrasts with the lower body. The viewer's eyes are immediately attracted by the viewing image's face, and the sacred atmosphere is also displayed. In the vertical space that houses the viewing image, there are changes. The hollow mouth of the middle floor is quadrilateral, the empty mouth of the upper floor is hexagonal, and the top is the algae well of the octagonal, three shapes, shrinking layer by layer. This bundle of changes from the bottom up makes the whole space no longer monotonous, but also with a clear rhythm, around the viewing and video, highlighting its grandeur and eternity. The interior mural was renovated in 1972 and found that the content was 16 Luohan and Erming Wang statues, the original murals on the inner layer should be painted in the Yuan Dynasty, and the outer layer is redrawn in the Ming Dynasty, and there are changes in some places.[4] The top of the two layers of the beam structure has smallpox, which is flat and dark in a small square format, and the top of the viewing video is Douba algae well. The beam structure of the upper roof is hidden above the ceiling, and the inner and outer columns are framed between the nipples (under the ceiling is Mingxuan, the ceiling is grass), and the inner columns are framed four times, and the upper is flat beam, pillar and forkhand. The inner columns of the three floors are in the same position, and the upper columns are above the bucket at the top of the lower columns. But the outer columns of the middle are not aligned with the outer columns of the first layer, but are slightly closed inward and stand on the beams. This approach creates a floor-to-floor trend, which is more aesthetically pleasing in appearance. In order to make the structure more stable, there is a diagonal support between the inner and outer columns of the middle layer. Douyu[2] The most existing types of Douyu in Liao Dynasty are Yingxian wooden towers, and the second most is Guanyin Pavilion (really the height determines everything). The three floors of Guanyin Pavilion, a total of 24 kinds of buckets, a wide variety, but unfortunately can not go upstairs, can only focus on the outer bucket and the inner bucket on the first floor.