When it comes to Hanshan Temple, everyone should be familiar with it! Many people know that this place may be because of a poem from school, 'Hanshan Temple outside Suzhou City, bell goes to the passenger boat at midnight', which is a famous sentence written by Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji in the poem "Night Mooring at Fengqiao". This poem was written by Zhang Ji when he fled to the south of the Yangtze River to avoid the rebellion after the rebellion of an Shi. It is called the famous poem in the Tang Dynasty because of its extreme description of aestheticism and the sharp touch of the soul. It has also become a poem that has to be included in any selected poems of the Tang Dynasty. However, many people may have questions about the clock in Hanshan Temple. Is there still one?
Hanshan Temple is famous for this poem. It is famous at home and abroad from a small temple. Over the years, there has been an endless stream of individuals, organizations and even countries willing to donate bells to it. There are more than 200 big bells in Hanshan Temple. Unfortunately, Zhang Jishi's bell is no longer there.
It was once acknowledged that in the Ming Dynasty, this bell was looted because of the invasion of Japanese invaders, and then it was exiled to Japan and its whereabouts were unknown. However, according to the travels to Weihang written by Kono, the Japanese, Tang Zhong didn't fall into the hands of the Japanese at that time, but because of the damage of the old age, a big bell was cast to replace it in Jiajing. The old bells of the Tang Dynasty were collected by temples.
However, the disappearance of Tang Zhong is still inseparable from the Japanese. That is, during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in the late Qing Dynasty, local bandits stole Tang Zhong and sold it to Shanghai antique dealers, and then sold it to a temple in Mount Fuji, Japan. However, the abbot of the temple did not know the goods. He melted the big clock and made a new one himself.
As a Japanese sinologist and former director of the imperial chamber Museum in Japan, Kono's statement, though not the exact answer, is still valuable.
Another way of saying is that during the Meiji period, a Japanese monk named Yamada run Xidu visited Hanshan Temple, and when he learned that Tang Zhong had been stolen and exiled to Japan, he vowed to retrieve the bell for Hanshan Temple. He even changed his name to Shantian Hanshan, but after hard work, he never got anything.
Yamada Hanshan, according to his conclusion, believed that it was stolen by Kuma, the Japanese National People's Congress, but he was unable to recover. He later raised funds to recast two smaller clocks, one to stay in Japan and the other to compensate China. This view has been widely spread. Even then Japanese Prime Minister Hiroshi ITO wrote:
Hanshan Temple in Gusu has a long history. In Tang Dynasty, the sound of bells was heard in Zhang Jishi's poems. When I heard that the temple bell had been transferred to our country, I lost my place. The mountain was very hard to search, so I couldn't get it. I just cast a new one and hung it. Please come to Yu Ming.
After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Peiyuan, the abbot of Hanshan Temple, once asked the government to investigate the theft of Tang Zhong by okumab. However, Gui Yu, the consultant of the international military court, made it clear at that time that there was no clue about the whereabouts of the bell after the investigation of okumab's descendants.
The second bell that used to be a bell tower was made in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. However, the fate of this bell is more tragic. Only 30 years after it was made, it was destroyed by Japanese invaders. This is clearly recorded in the local literature of Suzhou, Yanshui of Baicheng, compiled by Xu Song and Zhang Dachun in the Qing Dynasty
In the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the monk originally cast a bell to build a building. When a clock changes, it is sold as a cannon.
So is the chime of Hanshan Temple in Japan now? No, the bell from Japan is not hanging in the bell tower, but on the right side of the hall. In 1906, Chen Linglong, governor of Jiangsu Province, rebuilt Hanshan Temple. In the face of the Bell sent by the Japanese at that time, all walks of life expressed that they could not accept it. Instead, they gave generously and forged an iron bell. Now the bell is still hanging. It always rings at the beginning of the new year.
Although the history of big bell is complicated, it is because of the weakness of national power. The bell that reverberates forever in our hearts will tell us that we will be beaten if we fall behind. We must strive to build our motherland and let the tragedy not repeat itself.