Introduction to Shanmen Hall: Shanmen Hall is the newly built mountain gate of the temple. It is the outer gate of the temple and consists of three doors side by side, so it is also called Sanmen. Directly above the door is the plaque "Jiezhuanglu Temple", with couplets on both sides, which are the ink of the late Liu Bingsen, vice chairman of the Buddhist Association of China and a famous contemporary calligrapher. In the upper middle of the back is the imperial pen of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty - "Zongfeng Zhengmai". The couplets on both sides are verses from the "Huayan Sutra" written in blood by monk Jishan of the Yuan Dynasty. In the upper middle of the back of the mountain gate is a plaque inscribed by Gu Tinglong, the former director of the Shanghai Museum and a famous calligrapher, "Pure Domain Tongdeng", and the couplet below is a collection of verses from the Huayan Sutra written by Master Hongyi.

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