China: Archaeologists discover the lost temple after 1000 years

Beijing archaeologists unearthed a temple in China's Chengdu city about 1,000 years after it was deemed to have disappeared.

Accordingly, this temple named Fugan Temple extends from the East Jin Dynasty (317-420 AD) to the Song Dynasty (1127-1279 AD), the news agency Xinhua reported.

It is said that Daoxuan, a famous monk named Tang Tang (618-907 AD), once performed a religious ritual to pray for rain to end a continuous drought in this temple, then it rained. - as if the prayers he had been superiors witnessed.

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The famous poet Yuxi of the Tang Dynasty also left a poem to commemorate the temple's renewal, depicting its beautiful appearance like paradise. In addition, the poem finds a clear note of the important role of this temple at that time.

However, this temple was damaged in the later stages of the Tang and Song dynasties, with all the traces of the temple disappearing during the long-lasting war and it was thought it had disappeared. Real loss.

Unexpectedly, scientists have discovered a series of traces of the temple, including 1,000 inscriptions of Buddhist scriptures, and more than 500 strange stone sculptures and inscription glazed tiles.

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" We have only excavated part of the temple area but have been able to understand somewhat of its glorious past ," said Yi Li, who led the excavation.

He also said that the archaeological group also began to find nails to worship, ruined ruins around, along wells, roads, ditches .

And most importantly, during the excavation process, archaeologists also found about 80 ancient tombs scattered near the temple, dating from the Shang and Zhou dynasties (1600-256 BC).