Huangpi Temple

Huangpi Temple

Huangpi Temple is a cultural tourism attraction.

Huangpi Temple is located in Huangpi Village, Xixia Township. Originally built during the Northern Song Dynasty, the existing structures date back to the late Qing Dynasty, covering a construction area of 4,000 square meters. The temple complex consists of the Vajra Hall, the Mahavira Hall, and 36 side rooms forming a courtyard. In 1992, it was listed as part of the county’s third batch of cultural heritage protection units.

On November 19, 1929, the 0 Yongjia County Central Committee led farmers in establishing a revolutionary committee and a Red Army guerrilla unit in Xixia. Impoverished villagers from Huangpi enthusiastically joined the army. On February 3 of the following year, with the support of the revolutionary masses in Huangpi, the Red Army guerrillas defeated the local militia of the 18th District in Xianju. In early March, the 0 dispatched Hu Gongmian to southern Zhejiang to lead armed struggle. He gathered peasant militias from Yongjia, Xianju, and other areas at Huangpi Temple for reorganization, establishing the Southern Zhejiang Red Army Guerrilla General Headquarters. Hu served as the commander-in-chief, Liu Feixiong as chief of staff, commanding three battalions and 41 squads, totaling over 400 men and weapons.

According to the "Guangxu Xianju County Annals," Huangpi Temple was originally built in the third year of the Xianping era of the Northern Song Dynasty (1000 AD) and was renovated in the eighth year of the Xianfeng era of the Qing Dynasty (1858 AD). At that time, the temple flourished once again, featuring a front hall, middle hall, Mahavira Hall, and 36 monk rooms and dormitories, with a total construction area of 4,200 square meters. Fifty Buddha statues were erected, and two five-meter-tall Vajra statues stood imposingly on either side of the front hall. The site also included several gardens and fish ponds, covering a total area of 6,700 square meters. The temple housed over 80 monks, dozens of farm laborers, more than 800 acres of farmland, and over 4,000 acres of mountain land, yielding 200,000 jin of grain annually, earning it the nickname “Thousand-Stone Granary.” After 1931, Huangpi Temple gradually declined, with fertile fields rented out and mountain lands sold off. In 1943, Jingquan, the abbot of Tiantai Guoqing Temple and a native of Xixia, later served as the vice president of the first and second National Buddhist Associations of China after the founding of the People’s Republic. Unwilling to see the temple fall into disrepair, he specially dispatched eight capable monks from Guoqing Temple, including “Dangqi,” to Huangpi Temple to revive its fortunes.

In March 1930, the 0 dispatched Hu Gongmian to southern Zhejiang to lead armed struggle. On the 9th, he assembled peasant militias from eight counties—Xianju, Huangyan, Pingyang, Yueqing, Qingtian, Jinyun, Yongkang, and Yongjia—at Huangpi Temple for reorganization, establishing the “Southern Zhejiang Red Army Guerrilla General Headquarters.” Hu Gongmian served as commander-in-chief, Liu Feixiong as chief of staff, leading three battalions and 41 squads, totaling over 400 men and weapons. As a result, Huangpi Temple became one of the bases of the 13th Red Army in southern Zhejiang.

Yantan Town: A town under the jurisdiction of Yongjia County. It was established as Yantan Township in 1949, restructured as a commune in 1961, reinstated as a township in 1984, and upgraded to a town in 1986. Located in the northern part of the county, along both banks of the upper reaches of the Nanxi River, it covers an area of 46 square kilometers with a population of 11,000. The town administers the Yantan Street Neighborhood Committee and 12 village committees: Yantan, Tan Yi, Xi?xi, Muwu, Si’erjian, Cifu, Liangzi, Yiniu, Gubei, Renzhu, Liu’e, and Shuangyu. It has road access to the Xian (Ju) Qing (Shuibei) waterway. The area produces citrus fruits and has industries such as weaving and bamboo/wood processing. ... Detailed information about Yantan Town++