Rudong County, a beautiful and rich city, is located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province and the north wing of the Yangtze River Delta. It is located at east longitude120 42'-12122', north latitude 3212'-32 36', bordering the South Yellow Sea in the east and north, Rugao City in the west, Hai 'an County in the northwest and Tongzhou City in the south. Rudong county has a total area of 1872 square kilometers. By the end of 2004, the total population was184,600. Rudong County governs 15 towns: Bencha Town, Yangkou Town, Ju Town, Changsha Town, Dayu Town, Digang Town, Fang Bing Town, Matang Town, Fengli Town, Caobu Town, Chahe Town, Shuangdian Town, Xindian Town, Hekou Town and Zhuangyuan Town, with Digang Town as the county seat. The county's land starts from the western end of lizhuang village in Zhuangyuan Town in the west and ends at the east embankment of Rudong Salt Field in the east, with a total length of 68 kilometers. It starts from Nanhejie, Zhujiayuan Village, Digang Town in the south and reaches Zhangcha New Reclamation Area in the north, with a width of 46 kilometers. County area 1872 km2 (excluding sea area) and population1/kloc-0.110,000 (end of 2002). Overlooking Rudong County from the air, it looks like a "giant palm", blocking the huge waves of the Yellow Sea and lying across the vast river-sea plain. The radial sand ridges extending from the beach to the sea are the "fingers" of the "giant palm". The deep trough between sand ridges can be used by ships, and its deepest part is located in the rotten sand ocean outside the west sun sand, with a water depth of 16-25m. It is an excellent deep-water port resource and can be used to build a150,000-200,000-ton deep-water wharf. [Edit this paragraph] Historical evolution, such as the ancient ocean, gradually turned into land in the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty stationed Xue here. This is the origin of the name of Matang Town. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were two towns: Bencha and Fengli. Fan Zhongyan's "Gong Fan levee" ran through the whole territory and gradually flourished in the Ming Dynasty. Digging port is known as "a small Yangzhou in ten miles", Buddhism flourished and there were many temples, which were abandoned in Qing Dynasty. In the seventh year of Yixi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 4 1 1), Rugao County was established in history, which once included some areas of Rudong County and Hai 'an County today (the ancient Rudong area originally belonged to Dongxiang, Rugao County, Taizhou). According to the records of Rugao County in Ming and Qing Dynasties, Guangling County was divided into five counties: Jianling County, Ninghai County, Linjiang County and Putao County in the seven years of Yixi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Northern Zhou Dynasty waste grape county, Linjiang county into Ninghai county. Rugao County belongs to Hailing County. In the ninth year of Sui Dynasty (AD 589), Rugao County was merged into Ninghai County, which was under the General Political Department of Yangzhou (changed to Jiangdu County in AD 605). In the fifth year of the Tang Dynasty (83 1), Rugao Field was established, belonging to Taizhou. At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, Rugao County was subordinate to Taizhou Army on Huainan East Road. Rugao County in Yuan Dynasty was subordinate to Taizhou Prefecture of Yangzhou Road. In the Ming Dynasty, Rugao belonged to Taizhou, Yangzhou. By the second year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1724), Rugao County belonged to Tongzhou. [Edit this paragraph] Xu Shukui, a well-known cultural celebrity, a native of Bencha Town, and a well-known anti-Qing scholar, once remembered the Ming Dynasty with poems such as "The breeze can't read, why bother to turn over the books", "See you after drinking tomorrow, and put the pot aside" and "Destroy my clothes as rats, the wolf's den is in the Ming Dynasty". Tourism resources are like the beginning of population in Rudong, that is, the beginning of salt fishing. Rudong is born of the sea and stands by it, and the local people are also blessed by the sea. There are two folk songs in Rudong since ancient times: "There are treasures everywhere on the yellow beach, and Taurus comes out every day." Wen Tianxiang, a generation famous soldier, once wrote here: "There are thousands of waves, and the tide produces thousands of hectares of sand. In the poem "Crabs pile up in spring, and salt blooms in the evening", A Qing Dynasty poet She Yi once said: "The sound of the sea river is biased, the flat sand is crowded with people, the east wind is full of peach blossoms in the morning and evening, and salmon dishes are like mud boats. "This shows the attractive charm of Rudong seafood. Rudong's vast beaches also provide rich tourism resources. The vast South Yellow Sea, endless beaches, charming seaside scenery and quaint fishing village customs make Chinese and foreign tourists linger. Yangkou Port, a developing oriental port, will end Nantong's history of "having a sea without a port" and realize a historic leap from the river age to the river-sea age. Rudong has a long history, so many cultural relics have been discovered, and there are many ancient wells in Chahe Town. It's worth a visit when traveling. Digang National Temple There is a magnificent temple in the southeast of Digang Town Development Zone in Rudong County, which is the first Buddhist temple in Rudong-Guosi Temple. According to historical records, Buddhism in Rudong originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Xiaoguo Temple, which digs Hong Kong, and Xiaoguo Temple, one of the eight famous Buddhist mountains in China, belong to Tiantai Sect. The Congress Temple in Zhejiang was built by Zhiyi (also known as the wise man), the founder of Tiantai Sect of Buddhism, in the eighteenth year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (AD 598). Master Man, the tenth ancestor of the Zhili legal system, came to Rudong in the Tang Dynasty and the first year (806-820 AD), and according to the architectural style of Tiantai Mountain National Temple, it took 14 years to establish a national temple for digging ports. In the third year of Tang Kaicheng (AD 838), in July, Master Ren Yuan, a senior monk of Tiantai Sect in Japan (note: Master Chengzu, Japan's most sincere disciple, worked as a master in the Tang Dynasty and later returned to China to establish Tiantai Sect in Japan), accompanied by the thirteenth Japanese envoy to Tang Dynasty, Fujiwara came to China to seek dharma, travel, visit the National Assembly Temple, pay homage to the Dojo and worship his ancestors in the temple. After returning to China, he wrote "A Record of Seeking Dharma in Datang", in which Obuchi Keizo was mentioned in many places, which shows that his association with Tiantai Sect in Japan has a long history. During the Five Dynasties, the Song Dynasty and the first year, Guoshou Temple was repeatedly damaged by soldiers. Until the ninth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 158 1), the monks Shao Yin and Ke Liang raised funds to rebuild and set up a monument to prove it. After many reconstructions and additions in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the ancient temple has begun to take shape, solemn and majestic, with exquisite structure and unique style. 1July, 960, kokuseiji Digging Port was listed as a provincial cultural relics protection unit, but the good times did not last long. 1968 At the end of the year, both the Hall of the Great Hero and the Hall of the Heavenly King were demolished during the Cultural Revolution (note: the Buddhist scripture building was demolished during the War of Liberation), and the Millennium Temple disappeared in this way. In the early 1990s, at the height of prosperity, kokuseiji was excavated and rebuilt in a different place. The name of the temple was inscribed by the late President of the Chinese Buddhist Association, Mr. Zhao Puchu. After more than ten years of hard work, today's Xiaoguo Temple has regained its former glory. Turn north from the archway facing provincial highway 223, and you will see a wall facing you, which reads "There is no Guanyin Bodhisattva in the south". After entering from the side door, it is the temple of the king. A potbellied Maitreya sat face to face, smiling at all the guests in the world. On the back of Maitreya, standing in the north is Wei Tuo Bodhisattva, with an eyebrow raised and a pestle held, which is very imposing. On both sides of the hall are the four great kings who are tall and mighty. Out of the back door of the king's hall, the hall of great heroes came into view. This is a single-story building, with double eaves resting on the top of the mountain, yellow glazed tiles on the top, upturned cornices and elegant decoration. Climbing the ninth step and entering the temple, there are three giant buddhas in the middle, solemn and kind, with crescent eyebrows. In the middle is Sakyamuni Buddha, in the east is Oriental Pure Glass World Pharmacist Buddha, and in the west is Amitabha Buddha, which are collectively called "Tripod Buddha". There are eighteen arhats on both sides along the wall, which are different in expression and lifelike. In the East Corridor, there is also a living Buddha who Jigong is very familiar with. It is said that Jigong is the reincarnation of Lohan, because he was late to report to Lohan Hall and his qualifications were not high, so he had to stand in the corridor. Behind the main hall is a three-dimensional group sculpture statue of 53 ginseng islands. The whole statue takes the boy as the main body and tells the story of a good boy who worships 53 famous teachers in the process of making a positive result. To the north of Daxiong Hall is the Buddhist Scripture Building, which is a two-story building leaning against a mountain. The ground floor hall is dedicated to a thousand-handed Guanyin Jade Buddha, which was presented by Kannongji of Myanmar to Xiaoguo Temple, which dug a harbor. The Buddha statue is 3.8 meters high and weighs nearly 4 tons. It is carved from a whole piece of white marble. This kind of Guanyin statue is rare in all the temples in China. Upstairs is the Tripitaka presented by Professor Yang, a Japanese-born China. In addition to the three main halls, there are also the Sakyamuni Hall, the four famous mountain halls, the Thousand Buddha Hall, the Zhunti Hall, the Great Temple, the Dongyue Hall, the Dragon King Hall, the Bell and Drum Tower, the Monument Pavilion and the Tianxiang Furnace in the National Assembly Temple. The layout of the whole temple is rigorous and the structure is ingenious. At present, during the three Guanyin incense parties (namely, Guanyin Christmas Day on February 19, Guanyin Daocheng Day on June 19, and Guanyin Monk Day on September 19), the temple is full of believers, and the incense is flourishing and it is very lively, commonly known as "Guanyin Festival". After thousands of years of ups and downs, today's small country temples are prosperous, the ancient temples are brightly lit and the incense is growing. It is not only an activity place for Sambo disciples, but also a new landscape in Rudong! Note: The word "Yisansheng" after "Zhi" is written as follows: the word "mountain" is at the top left, the word "bean" is at the bottom left, and the word "page" is at the right.