1. In a temple with a history of thousands of years, a mysterious underground palace was discovered, with an eminent monk sitting inside. What do the experts say? 2. Why do many Chinese people like Shaolin Temple? The thousand-year-old temple has been destroyed by Feng Yuxiang. I

1. In a temple with a history of thousands of years, a mysterious underground palace was discovered, with an eminent monk sitting inside. What do the experts say?

2. Why do many Chinese people like Shaolin Temple? The thousand-year-old temple has been destroyed by Feng Yuxiang. Is it true or false?

3. What is the oldest building in the thousand-year-old Shaolin Temple?

The tomb tower is the oldest building in Shaolin Temple.

Shaolin Temple is located at the southern foot of Songshan Mountain in Dengfeng City, Henan Province. Songshan is divided into two parts: Taishi Mountain and Shaoshi Mountain. This temple is located in the dense forest of Shaoshi Mountain, hence the name "Shaolin Temple".

Shaolin Temple is not only the birthplace of Shaolin martial arts, but also the ancestral home of Zen Buddhism in the Han Dynasty. It is an ancient temple that has been famous for thousands of years. This thousand-year-old temple was built in the 19th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Thirty years later, the Indian monk Bodhidharma came to Shaolin Temple and founded a branch of Zen Buddhism in the Han Dynasty. Since then, the number of monks in Shaolin Temple has increased day by day, and the scale of the temple has gradually expanded. At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Shaolin Temple monks were awarded for helping Tang Taizong Li Shimin to perform meritorious services.

In the Tang Dynasty, Shaolin Temple continued to expand and become larger and larger. At the turn of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Shaolin Temple covered an area of ​​several acres, with a temple base, many buildings, halls, pavilions, and many monks. It became one of the few large-scale temples in the Central Plains.

There is a large pagoda forest on the west side of the Shaolin Temple, which is the largest Shaolin Temple in the past dynasties. The resting place of the monks preserves the remaining masonry tombs from ancient and modern times.

The oldest tomb tower in Tallinn was built in the Tang Dynasty, even earlier than the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, compared with the buildings in the temple, these simple tomb towers are strictly speaking the oldest buildings in the Shaolin Temple. From them, we can get a glimpse of the original appearance of this thousand-year-old temple.

Pagoda Forest Shaolin Temple is the largest, most numerous and most valuable group of ancient pagodas in China. Most of these tomb towers are brick, stone and brick mixed structures, and come in various forms such as single-story single-eaves towers, single-story dense-eaves towers, pavilion-style towers, Indian pagodas, Lama pagodas, etc. They come in different shapes, including quadrilateral, hexagon, octagon, , cylinder, cone, rectilinear and parabola. These pagodas not only witness and record the long history of Shaolin Temple, but are also a treasure trove for studying Buddhist culture, architecture and sculpture art in various historical periods.