The temple is a place that gathers faith and promotes virtues. People always like to go to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha at certain times. It is a place of spiritual sustenance for people. It is usually called a "holy place" or "holy place" by monks and believers.

A temple is a place that gathers faith and promotes virtues. People always like to go to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha at certain times. It is a place for people's spiritual sustenance. Monks and believers usually call it a "holy place" or "holy place". "Pure Land". It is precisely because temples can provide people with spiritual sustenance that they have the meaning of existence.

There are many large and small temples in our country. In each ancient temple, there will be various buildings. These buildings are made of stone carvings, brick carvings, and wood carvings. Among them, There are many buildings made of stone and stone carvings, and it is also one of the more prominent ones. Each type of stone carving building is carved through traditional stone carving techniques, which also adds an antique temple cultural atmosphere to the ancient temple building. In temples, there is such a building - the temple gate. So why is this kind of archway building in the temple called the mountain gate?

Shanmen means the tower gate on the front of the temple, which is the general name of the temple. In the past, most temples lived in mountains and forests, hence the name "Mountain Gate". Usually temples are built in the mountains and forests to avoid the dust and customs of the city, so they are called mountain names and have mountain gates. The temples built in the plains and in the marketplace in later generations are also generally called mountain gates. Generally there are three doors, so it is also called "three doors". It symbolizes the "Three Doors of Liberation", namely the "empty door", "no phase door" and "no action door". Today's temples may have only one gate, or they may be called three gates. In some relatively large temples, such a mountain gate is usually built at the entrance of the temple, so that more tourists can quickly know their destination. It is also a landmark building of the temple.

It can be seen that the temple gate stone archway has become a representative temple architecture in our country. It can also convey more classics and is a cultural feature that needs to be inherited and spread. The most distinctive feature of the Shanmen Archway of Buddhist temples is its beautiful carvings, which allow it to inherit more Chinese cultural characteristics. Nowadays, many Buddhist mountain gate stone archways in China will add many carvings with Chinese characteristics to the image design. The most representative ones are the dragons and phoenixes and the cranes and auspicious clouds. In addition, in fact, the content of the stone carvings on the mountain gate is still diverse, which can be simple or complex. Each mountain gate is a landmark building of the temple.