Dianfeng

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Dianfeng ( Chinese  淀 峰村  /  淀 峰村 , Pinyin Diànfēng Cūn ) is a village in the southwest of the Zhujiajiao community in the Qingpu district of the Chinese city ​​of Shanghai . Dianfeng has an agricultural area of ​​34.6 hectares, of which 4 hectares are fish ponds. A little over 1000 inhabitants live in the village (September 2018). There are three manufacturing operations organized by the village government and a plant nursery.

Temple of Patriotic Love

Entrance to the Temple of Patriotic Love

Dianfeng is famous for its Buddhist temple on the shores of Dianshan Lake (淀山湖, Pinyin Diànshān Hú ), which was originally a temple for General Guan Yu (160–219) , who was appointed god of war by Emperor Zhu Yijun of the Ming dynasty in 1614. had been erected. A few years earlier, two smaller military bases with a budget of 300 militiamen in barracks, 20 men on patrol and 20 men specifically to combat salt smuggling had been set up in the area. The temple was very popular with these soldiers, and so it was greatly expanded in 1640.

This popularity lasted until the end of the imperial era, only after the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912 did the worship of Guan Yu ebb away. When a religious revival took place across China in the early 1980s, the original "Temple of Prince Guan" (Chinese 关 王庙, Pinyin Guān Wáng Miào ) was renovated, converted into a general Buddhist temple, and opened to the public. Although four additional temple halls were built, this was not enough to accommodate all of the believers. Therefore, Venerable Master Zhenchan, abbot of the Jade Buddha Monastery in Shanghai and Vice President of the Buddhist Association of Shanghai, applied in 1989 to expand the temple further and to rename it in "Temple of Patriotic Love " (Chinese 报 国寺, Pinyin Bàoguó Sì ); the spiritual care should be provided by monks of the Jade Buddha monastery. This request was granted. Today the temple grounds cover 2.6 hectares, of which more than 5000 m² are buildings. Although a statue of Shakyamuni Buddha made of white jade and a more than 4 m high statue of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara made from the wood of the camphor tree are officially venerated there, the complex is popularly known to this day as the "Temple of Prince Guan".

Transport links

Dianfeng is about 7 km west of Zhujiajiao city ​​center and can be reached in 10 minutes by car via State Road 318, also known as Huqingping Road. From the bus stop on Xiangningbang Street, a bus runs every 8 minutes, but it takes 45 minutes to get to the Dianfeng stop. From there it is another 500 m walk to the temple via Guanwangmiao Street (the street name from the Ming Dynasty was not changed when the temple was renamed).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://zhujj.shqp.gov.cn/gb/special/node_2806.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.shtong.gov.cn/Newsite/node2/node4/node2250/node4427/node5586/node11002/index.html . In the middle of the 19th century, the aforementioned salt smugglers developed into the Green Gang , a mafia-like organization that terrorized all of Shanghai until it was expelled to Hong Kong in 1949.
  3. ↑ http://zhujj.shqp.gov.cn/gb/content/2007-06/26/content_139913.htm

Coordinates: 31 ° 5 '  N , 120 ° 59'  E