Located at No.3 Fengle Street, Hanjiang District, Yangzhou City, it is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. According to legend, it used to be Xie 'an's villa, and later it was built into a temple by its son, also known as Xie's temple. In the second year of Song Zhenghe (1 1 12), Hui Zong was given the name "Tianning Temple". At the end of Yuan Dynasty, the temple was destroyed. Rebuilt in the 15th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1382), it is still called Tianning Temple, ranking first among the eight ancient temples in Yangzhou in Qing Dynasty. Tianning Temple reached its peak in Kanggan period of Qing Dynasty. Kangxi wrote inscriptions for Tianning Temple, such as Little Fairy, Hao Yue Zen Heart, Love for Zhu Lan, Prajna Wonderful Source, Pure karma, and wrote poems and couplets such as Tianning Temple, Lucky Tianning Temple, Remembering the Bamboo in Tianning Temple in Yangzhou, Zhu Ri Chun Ri Yong, and the green trees are so abundant. In the 22nd year of Qianlong (1757), there were palaces, royal gardens and royal docks in the hall. Qianlong has successively written more than ten inscriptions for Tianning Temple, such as Scenery in Huainan, Flowers on Floating Mountains, Offering by Divine Power, Teaching the Provincial Party, Flower Rain South, Wonderful Culture, and Famous Area of Old House in Xiangyun Bookstore. In the forty-fourth year of Kangxi (1705), the grandfather of Cao Xueqin, the author of A Dream of Red Mansions, and then Cao Yin, the weaver girl in Jiangning and the supervisor of salt in two Huai Dynasties, published the whole Tang poetry in Yangzhou at the order of Kangxi, set up the Yangzhou Poetry Bureau in the temple, and later published Pei Fu at this moment. Ganlong went to Jiangnan six times and stayed in the temple five times.
The exhibition hall of Yangzhou Buddhist Culture Museum is located in Huayan Pavilion. Yangzhou is one of the earliest areas where Buddhist culture spread in China. Historically, Buddhism was introduced to Yangzhou in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the earliest Buddhist temple in the south of the Yangtze River was built in Yangzhou by Danyang people at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. There were more than 40 monasteries in Yangzhou in Tang Dynasty, which became one of the most active places of Buddhism in China. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yangzhou has been famous for carving scriptures and has made important contributions to the spread of Buddhism. Yangzhou culture has a unique Buddhist connotation, among which "integrating Buddhist temples", "Yang Guang being ordained", "Jian Zhen's eastward crossing" and "Tianning Temple's story" are the key points of the exhibition hall.
April 20 14, the exhibition hall of Sikuquanshu was settled in the Wanfo Building of Tianning Temple. This whole book was presented to Yangzhou Municipal Government by Hengtong Group. It is the first copy in China based on the original color of Sikuquanshu (Jinwen Pavilion Edition), which was produced by Yangzhou Guoshu Culture Communication Co., Ltd. A total of 36,000 copies of Sikuquanshu were stored in 128 bookshelves and 6 144 wooden letters. Bookshelves and wooden letters are imported nanmu. The covers of Sikuquanshu are green, red, blue and gray respectively, which correspond to the four parts of Jing, Shi, Zi and Ji respectively, and are placed on their respective bookshelves.
Sikuquanshu was compiled by more than 360 senior officials and scholars, including Ji Yun, under the auspices of Emperor Qianlong, and copied by more than 3,800 people. It took 13 years to compile. The book series is divided into four parts: classics, history, books and collections, hence the name "Four Treasures". There are more than 3,500 kinds of books, 79,000 volumes and 36,000 volumes respectively, with about 800 million words, which basically cover all the books in ancient China, so it is called "encyclopedia". At that time, Emperor Qianlong ordered seven copies of Sikuquanshu, the first four of which were stored in Wen Yuan Pavilion in the Forbidden City, Wenshui Pavilion in Shenyang, Liaoning, Wen Yuan Pavilion in Yuanmingyuan and Jinwen Pavilion in Chengde, Hebei, which was called "North Four Pavilion". These three copied parts are kept in Wen Hui Pavilion in Yangzhou, Wenzong Pavilion in Zhenjiang and Wen Lan Pavilion in Hangzhou, which is the so-called "South Three Pavilions".
Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics Art Square is located on both sides of Tianning Temple Tianwang Hall and Daxiong Hall, on a lawn of about 300 square meters, and was completed in the autumn of 20 15. In order to reproduce the historical origin of Tianning Temple and Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics, a new bronze statue of Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics was carved in the Art Square, which looks like a real person, according to Li Yu's "A Survey of Painting and Calligraphy in Ou's Room" in the late Qing Dynasty. They are, Jin Nong, Wang, Huang Shen, Li and Gao Xiang. At the age of 35, Zheng Banqiao studied at Tianning Temple in Yangzhou. Jinnong also stayed in Tianning Temple to do some work of copying scriptures. At the same time, friends of the Eight Eccentrics often gather in Tianning Temple to talk about classics and Taoism, practice Zen and exhibit art, and have formed an indissoluble bond with Tianning Temple. At the foot of each bronze statue of the Eight Eccentrics, there is a party's own seal, and there are supporting stones and stone cases next to it. Stone matching is a representative poem of the Eight Eccentrics, such as Luo Pin's Flying Crane in the Bamboo Forest and Jin Nong's Title, while Zheng Banqiao said, "I am listening to the rustling bamboo in the yamen, and I suspect it is the voice of the people's sufferings. Some small officials in Caozhou County always care about their feelings. " The square shows the artistic talent of Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics.