Introduction to Yuquan Temple: Dangyang Yuquan Temple was built in the 24th year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (219). During the Tang Dynasty, Dangyang Yuquan Temple, together with Zhejiang Guoqing Temple, Shandong Lingyan Temple, and Jiangsu Qixia Temple, were known as "the four wonders in the world" , was one of the "four major jungles" of Chinese Buddhist temples at that time. During the Jingde and Tianxi years of the Song Dynasty (1004-1020), Empress Mingsu of Song Zhenzong expanded the Yuquan Temple and renamed it "Jingde Zen Temple". The size of the temple reached "an area of ​​five miles on the left, five miles on the right, and ten miles in front and back." There are eight towers, eighteen temples, and three thousand seven hundred monks' houses. It is known as the "Crown of Jingchu Jungle". In the early Ming Dynasty, the name "Yuquan Temple" was restored. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty awarded the plaque "The First Forest in Jingchu". It was one of the first batch of key temples opened to the outside world in the country in 1983.

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