Come to Kaifeng to see the first royal temple👀

Daxiangguo Temple is a large religious temple among the existing ancient buildings in Kaifeng. It has a very long history. The blogger will not talk much about its origin here. So what is worth seeing in Daxiangguo Temple? It won’t take too much time to come here, and there won’t be so many pilgrims that the road is filled. ✨I have missed the performance time of Sanskrit music when I visited, which seems like I have missed the national intangible cultural heritage. Friends who are interested can pay attention to the performance time: if there is no change, it will be when the mountain gate opens every day, during Buddhist festivals and ceremonies. ✨When the blogger went there, the Sutra Repository was closed for construction, but it was still possible to go to the Zisheng Pavilion. It was obviously a modern antique building built later. It was tall and magnificent. There was a road next to it that led to the building. From the second floor, you can overlook the Drum Tower from the Zisheng Pavilion platform. ✨The stone-carved six-tusked elephant, the blogger liked it at first sight, seeing that the six tusks and the top of the head were polished to a shine by pilgrims. Later I found out that the six-tusked elephant is the mount of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva and is also the zodiac Buddha of the blogger’s zodiac sign. ✨Octagonal Glazed Hall: Also known as the Arhat Hall, a thousand-armed and thousand-eyed Buddha is enshrined in the courtyard, which is the "treasure of the temple" of Daxiangguo Temple. It is 5.2 meters high and weighs 2,000 tons, with a total of 1,048 hands and 1,048 eyes. It looks so solemn and majestic that the blogger might offend the god by taking photos. Pilgrims are requested to see it for themselves. The walls of the glazed hall are covered with golden arhat guards, which look very majestic. ✨Lu Zhishen, people who know Water Margin may know why there is a Lu Zhishen here. The blogger also came back to study hard and learned the allusion. If we have to point out some shortcomings, the aesthetics of the Buddha sculptures here is definitely not in line with modern times. #religious attractions #ancient buildings #historical monuments #Buddhist holy sites #Chinese architecture