Ai 'an Temple faces south, facing Hengshan Mountain and backing on muddy water. The main buildings are clearly defined along the central axis and symmetrical left and right. The temple gate is built in the middle, magnificent, with three doors in the middle, covered with glass, two small doors on both sides, a total of five doors, and glass walls on both sides. There are a pair of stone lions in front of the mountain gate, and there is a magnificent archway. After entering the mountain gate, there are two plastic generals, who are mighty and strict.
The temple is divided into three courtyards: front, middle and back. Entering the front yard, the bell and drum towers face each other, with the hall of dharma protection in the middle and the four great French kings in it, and the abbot hall and Yuntang on the two wings respectively. In the middle of the front yard is the hall of the protector, in which there are four kings of the protector: the East King, the South King, the West King and the North King.
The east and west halls are the abbot's room and Yuntang, the east and west wing rooms are warehouses, and the center of the wing room is the main hall of the whole temple. There are 7 affiliated halls in the east and west, namely Guanyin Hall, THE TEMPLE OF JIALAN Hall, Fatang Hall, Frost Hall and Guandi Hall. The southern end of the attached hall, facing the second floor of the bell and drum tower, has high architectural art, and the southeast side of the hall is the bell and drum tower respectively.
You can enter the intermediate people's court along both sides of the Dharma Hall. The Intermediate People's Court is the main part of the whole temple, with the main hall in the middle. Under the eaves in front of the temple, there is a plaque hanging in the middle, which is engraved with the six characters of "True Biography and Fatherhood Hall", which is vigorous and elegant and inscribed by the famous calligrapher An Xue and the eminent monk in the Yuan Dynasty.
The brick walls on both sides of your highness's door are engraved with the word "solemn" more than 3 meters high, and the back door of the house is engraved with the words "roaring tigers and singing dragons". The font is solemn and generous, from the hand of Taiyuan celebrity Duan Shida.
The whole hall adopts the traditional architectural technique of China combining wooden bone with bucket arch, which is steady and solemn with simple style. The pillars in the temple are arranged in a special way, and the bright rooms are wide. Following the practice of the Jin Dynasty, subtracting the front groove gold column can maximize the internal space of the building while maintaining a reasonable load-bearing, which not only meets the needs of religious activities, but also saves wood. This design is very scientific and reasonable.
Her Royal Highness's fighting arch style is simple, free from the disadvantages of complexity and fragmentation, with moderate scale, harmonious with the whole building, clear primary and secondary, gorgeous and beautiful; The beam frame of the main hall is well-made and rigorous, and it also shows superb technology.
In the center of the True Sect Hall of Buddhism, there is a sumeru, on which are carved the Golden Buddha III, Ananda and Ye Jia, and four bodhisattvas and two heavenly kings on the east and west sides. The Buddha statue is tall, majestic and lifelike.
There are exquisite niches and square algae wells at the top of the temple. There are thousands of close-fitting golden buddhas in the niche, surrounded by the pavilions of the Heavenly Palace, with exquisite structure and exquisite appearance.