How did Miaoliping Pagoda eventually evolve into Hanshan Temple? Was it after the poet Zhang Ji in the Tang Dynasty wrote the poem a night-mooring near maple bridge that people named Hanshan Temple, or was it known to all women and children before that?
According to historical records, the name of Hanshan Temple was not recorded before the Tang Dynasty. But at that time, because the temple was built between mountains and rivers, it was not very quiet, and people came to play in an endless stream. In the early years of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan, a poet, Hanshanzi, once "came here to serve". During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, a famous Zen master, a monk who moved westward, built a temple here and named it Hanshan Temple. The most famous thing happened in this period. According to legend, during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty, the poet Zhang Ji hurried to his hometown by boat, passed through Suzhou and stayed in Qiao Feng overnight, and wrote a beautiful and lyrical swan song-"a night-mooring near maple bridge". The poem says: "On a frosty night, the river winds, fishing and fire worry about sleeping. The midnight bell of Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City arrives at the passenger ship. "
Since then, the melodious bell has touched the hearts of many poets, and the meaningful rhyme has rendered the bell of the famous temple. For thousands of years, the reputation of Hanshan Temple has spread everywhere with the poetic bells. Hanshan Temple is well-known and has become a famous tourist attraction at home and abroad.
However, according to Suzhou local chronicles, there are many books of the Tang Dynasty in Tian Ping Temple, and there is a seal on the back of the books. Janice, a local official, wrote a poem, one of which was "Excuse me, ask the person by the bridge". According to textual research, Hanshan Temple was renamed Qiao Feng Temple at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and Wang Jue, Duke of Renzong in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote this poem, so it was easy to name this bridge Fengqiao.
In Jiayou, Song Renzong, the court renamed the Temple Pingta Fumyoji. Shaoxing, the Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, is still called Qiao Feng Temple. Most of the poems of poets in the Southern Song Dynasty are about temples, and only Zhang occasionally uses the old name of Hanshan Temple. Hanshan Temple was renamed in Yuan Dynasty, and poets in Yuan Dynasty and poems of Tang Dynasty all took "Hanshan Temple" as the title. Later Ming, Qing, Republic of China and the establishment of people's political power all followed the name of "Hanshan Temple".