Spirit Valley Temple without beam
Without Beam Hall in Spirit Valley Park, was founded in Hongwu fourteen years (1381 years). The hall was originally dedicated to Amitayus Buddha, so called immeasurable hall. Owing to the building is not a beam, they do not-inch wood-inch nail from base to top, all with the giant brick Lei Qi into the top-name coupons hole vault without beam hall.
Fifty-seven years, according to the Qing Emperor Kangxi (1718) "Hall of mind sweep thatch-free beam" contains the Temple was founded in Hongwu years. Orthodox (1436 ~ 1449), the three major Buddhist temple worship, the two heavens as Emperor Li-24, and Buddhist scriptures in the hall. Jiaqing (1796 ~ 1820), the Tao-kuang eleven years (1831) EPR repair. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Spirit Valley is the location of Qing Jiangnan, temple building were destroyed by Bing Huo. The only brick structure without beam Hall preserved. In 1928, the Nationalist government on the construction site of Spirit Valley Memorial Cemetery of the National Revolutionary Army, "to comfort Zhonghun." No Liang Xiang Dian Dian as a tomb, one day "righteousness Church." Front of palace building is also the door, Shihfang, bring up the rear provision of a cemetery, built Memorial Hall (now the wind in the pines House) and the monument, this most well-preserved. Spirit Valley Park has been opened up.
No beam Spirit Valley Temple in the Ming dynasty, one of the main temples, but also the Ming Dynasty retained Spirit Valley so far the only buildings. Temple faces south, the former has a spacious platform, Miankuo five east-west length 53.8 meters, into the deep 3, North-South 37.85 meters, 22 meters high. Shop Wakayama Dianding double eaves and gray tiles, ridge decorated with being kissed, angular beast, and immortal, main ridge of the Central Purchase three white glass La Mata, the greatest, Tazuo for octagonal hollow and with the hall caisson interlinked, this approach the existing ancient buildings in China is still the first time. Dian eaves brackets in the Republic of maintenance, instead of cement production. Hall of large brick wall with built in Ming Dynasty. 2 eaves front of palace walls to open three windows, the back wall set up three, four windows on each side (the middle of the next one each), all mining arch form of externally bonded brick water mill to make pot-shaped gate. Hall in East and West tied for three horizontal arch-length composition of the coupons the largest span 11.5 meters, clear height 14 meters, before and after the span of two tickets each for 5 meters, 7.4 meters higher. Arch under vigorous wall, front wall structure of five coupons hole in the back wall only slightly between the two sides will each have a coupon hole. The coupon out just above the caisson at the top left between the angular hole 18, exactly interlinked with the main ridge of the La Mata and leaked. As the level of the lateral thrust out coupons great, so that the hall has walls all around the eaves nearly 4 meters thick. Although the structure of non-beam Temple simple, but very strong, which lasted more than 600 years, the wind and rain smoke, still stand rock-firm action.
At present, a number of other places such as Wutai Mountain in Shanxi Province, Mount Emei, Sichuan and other places of the temple has the same structure without beam Palace, while the Spirit Valley Temple is a non-beam existing the earliest times, the largest one. Whenever the salutary influence of the time, hidden deep in the show in the Yu Cong-free beam is even more forceful Guzhuo Hall; and the late autumn season, leaves fiery, colorful, sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance, scenery even more enchanting.
