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The Historical Evolution of Wen Sheng Temple
In the 28th year of Guangxu (1902), the French priest Bou Shi Jia (former Minister of China) proposed to set up a guild hall and a Shenzhe Hall in China at the Paris Ministers' Meeting. The Ministers' Meeting sent Bou Shi Jia and seven French trainees to Shanghai, but failed to find a place. Later, the infantry division practiced medicine and preached to Jiaxing for development. Taking advantage of a dispute between a landlord named Fu and the customs, he bought 100 mu of land at the north gate of Jiaxing, and built Wen Sheng Temple in Jiaxing, France, which was completed one year later.

From 1903 to 1908, Jiaxing Wen Sheng Temple is the only monastery in China's diplomatic mission and general hospital. Later, because the northern students were dissatisfied with the water and soil in the south of the Yangtze River, an embassy monastery was built in Dashilan, Beijing on 1909. There are 40 or 50 Chinese and foreign monks living in Wen Sheng Temple, studying teachings and being promoted to priests after passing the examination. From 1909 to 194 1 year, Wen Sheng Temple trained 12 priests and sent them to churches all over the country. Wen Sheng Temple was closed on 1949. 1960 became a sanatorium in Jiaxing area. During the Cultural Revolution, all the religious books and materials kept in monasteries were lost. Jiaxing Shipping Company started to use it from 1969. (No.Guangming Street 153, Jiahang Freight Branch). 1999, Guangming Street Central Primary School (now bright primary school, Jiaxing) was temporarily moved here for classes due to the expansion and reconstruction of the original site.