Explore the fahua temple in Beijing

A fahua temple have long heard of the city, when the wuxu reform movement, guangxu emperor MiZhao tan sitong palace, dense Tan Feng council for yuan shikai, the night is the fahua temple.The fahua temple was built in the Ming dynasty, the qing emperor kangxi and stagnation and reconstruction respectively.In the history of the city, once the monastery rulin, it is said that most have more than one thousand, has been "ten step a temple, five steps a temple", the number of the crown in the nation.The fahua temple is built around the size onlytempleMore than.According to "shun tianfu volunteers, on-the-job zi lu now happiness had hidden temple, east just fire fire temple temple street now happy street, as well as the afterglow of guang qu men sleeping temple and temple, three turn bridge enshrine and JingFu temple, south ridge and free life pond, a Midas touch.Among them, the fahua temple was the number of is one of the great temple.

Summer day, I followed the name of the fahua temple in south, ready to find out.

Along the way, I asked a lot of local residents, actuality, this familiar land refers to where exactly?However the resulting reply more and more confusing.Someone asks so a place?Also someone told have long gone.Turn left, turn right, front, more forward in the mind more nervous, perhaps the "tan sitong secret visit to yuan shikai" anecdote is just a legend, perhaps once had the ancient temples have collapsed.

When looked up to see the ancient plaque of "fahua temple", my heart suddenly relieved a lot.Turned out to have a place, after experienced the war and demolition tide sweeping, the temple had survived, despite the busy the existence of the world really has been too busy to pay attention to it, even if living in the streets named after it.

Next to the gate of the street while a depressed and dilapidated spectacle, but the original skeleton is still in good condition, through a kind of solemn.Hung on the gate with a "Beijing municipal cultural relics protection unit" plaques, you have a look at carefully, there are two words "temporarily", it's never seen before.Don't know how long will this "temporarily" deposit.

I carefully stepped into the gate, and are the three major studio, jehiel mountain roof, eaves tiles ash, wood, wooden door has been admitted to the number of households already packed.Eaves before the door, air basks in the design and color of clothing, to the kitchen smoke curled up in the kitchen, a community life picture hiding in ash brick gray tiles to the gate.Since has been warded residential buildings, farther in the windings, seem to have misplaced.I angrily after leaving this sat old temple.

After back to home or wanting more, go and looked up some information.Don't check, a check is startled, originally the fahua temple in Beijing more than that, in addition to the fahua temple in the street outside the temple, south of the city and the north to room hutong fahua temple, fair village fahua temple within the university for nationalities and sweet after shandong Wan Anshan fa hai temple and a fahua temple!

So, in which the fahua temple tan sitong "secret visit to yuan shikai"?In yuan shikai in the reform movement of Chronicles, record this paragraph: "guangxu twenty-four years July 29, be called by the first train in Beijing, tianjin fahua temple rent".In the Summer Palace, namely the friend Ann folding board brand agents, is scheduled for August new inquire.To get up early the next day, sort clothes each piece, first sent people to haidian find rent the apartment, the afternoon to yulin ShengXuan, hence lodge.The next day shane summoned..., at the door waiting to see house, in a hurry several language, namely to combine.Will rain at noon back to the fahua temple."

Had a sedan chair, "rain" from the Summer Palace, the "beginning to noon back to the fahua temple".In a two hour in but, impossible "beginning to" three or four miles away south, says "began to" fair village is sensible.Then "tan sitong secret visit to yuan shikai" should happen in this university for nationalities "fahua temple".

National university is said to be the "fahua temple", has already been listed as "haidian district key cultural relics protection unit", is now used as a kindergarten school.Gate of the temple and the temple construction, repair w already, better preserved, it seems more lucky than the south side the fahua temple.