One day in April 1978, several naughty children suddenly arrived at Ruiguang Temple Pagoda in Suzhou. As these children were playing, they discovered that there were many birds chirping on the tower mountain. The leading child asked a few friends to go to the tower to dig out bir

One day in April 1978, Suzhou Ruiguang Temple Pagoda suddenly welcomed several naughty children. As these children were playing, they discovered that there were many birds chirping on the tower mountain. The leading child asked a few friends to go to the tower to dig out bird eggs.

responded instantly. In those days, there was really nothing interesting in children's spare time. I remember when I was a kid, we often followed a group of children around the village. We also climbed up and down the attic of the ancestral hall in the village. The wall tiles of the ancestral hall were double-layered with red soil in the middle. These were also found when we dug out bird eggs. of.

That’s too far! Back to business. The group of naughty children climbed up the tower. On the third floor, one of the children felt that the wall tiles of the tower were loose. Curiosity drove him to remove the movable wall tiles. When he poked his head in to look, he found that it was dark inside and it felt like a huge space.

The children did not dare to move and ran down the tower one after another.

This matter was soon known by the local cultural relics department. They soon came to Ruiguang Tower , and a shocking discovery was presented to the world.

From this hidden space, cultural relics workers found a batch of precious cultural relics from the fifth generation and early Northern Song Dynasty. First, a wooden letter more than 1 meter high was carried out, and then there were two gilded copper pagodas, nine statues of Ksitigarbha , Guanyin, Tathagata Bodhisattva, hand-written scriptures from the Five Dynasties, and the woodcut "Miaofa" from the Northern Song Dynasty. Treasures such as the Lotus Sutra and the lacquer box of the Inlaid Sutra were rediscovered.

There is also a wooden envelope hidden in the wooden envelope, a painted ginkgo wooden envelope, which contains a "zhenzong relic treasure building" from the Zhenzong period of the Northern Song Dynasty. This exquisite cultural relic is 1.22 meters high. It integrates jade carving, gold and silver crafts, wood carving, gold painting, lacquer carving and other arts. It can be called a rare treasure.

The entire building is made of pure gold and sandalwood, with more than 40,000 pearls inlaid inside. It is also decorated with crystal, agate, amber, sandalwood, gold, silver, etc.

What is even more shocking is the Buddhist palace in the building, which contains a beautiful light cyan gourd-shaped vial, which actually contains 9 relics, which is simply a priceless treasure.

Ruiguang Temple in Suzhou, formerly known as Puji Zen Temple. It was first built by Sun Quan of the Three Kingdoms to welcome the monks of Kangju Kingdom in the Western Regions. Later, Sun Quan's mother died of illness, and Sun Quan built a thirteen-story stupa in the temple.

Ruiguang Temple has been destroyed and repaired several times. The existing pagoda was built from the first year of Jingde (1004) to the eighth year of Tiansheng (1030) in the Northern Song Dynasty.

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The statues of the Four Heavenly Kings painted on the ginkgo wood letter have extremely high research value and are praised by later generations as the inheritance and development of Wu Daozi's painting style in the Tang Dynasty. It is a precious material for studying Wu Daozi’s painting style. .

The characters painted on the letter have flexible and changeable lines, flowing clothes and belts, delicate brushstrokes, and unpredictable changes, which highlight the characteristics of Wu Daozi's painting style.

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