Hiding building of Buddhism temple in ancient times of China. In the north of lying in the ditch of lion of Chengde of Hebei, cover an area of 220,000 square meters, for the largest one in Outer Eight Temples of Chengde. Built in the 36th year of Qianlong (1771) ,It is Qianlong, in order to celebrate the eightieth birthday of the empress dowager of him himself s 60 birthdays and his mother and build.
The hall makes use of momentum near the mountain, the overall arrangement is full of variety naturally, it is basically the architectural style of Tibetan Buddhist. The subject building lies in the mountain peak, more than 60 (store more than 40 now) The room type white platform of the pillbox and white platform of tower of Hanoi of flat top are up to the free overall arrangement in the form of depth of the mountain lie, there is no obvious axis. The overall arrangement of the whole temple, imposing manner imitate Potala Palace of Lhasa, is commonly called as Potala Palace .
, the last three parts before, in the whole temple is divided according to building arrangement. The beginning of five hole stone bridge in front of the temple of front part, there are mountain door, stone-tablet pavilion, five towers of doors; There are coloured glaze memorial archways, white towers institutes in the middle part; The bright red platform behind is the group of subject building group of this temple.
The mountain doors and stone-tablet pavilions are Chinese type palace type methods of Qing Dynasty of building in China. Manchus in pavilion, Chinese, last characters Putuo cases of temple tablet inscription that be taken , whether soil if you can t come over and pledge allegiance to, write Hu all specially , it is excellent to sympathize soil write parts special Hu allly stone inscription, have precious historical value.
It is flat to carry the city to build black, white, yellow, green, red five colors in succession on desk-top five towers of doors in the north of the pavilion Tower.
The memorial archway is also Chinese type palace type method of Qing Dynasty, the seventh floor of three four columns, the surface was inlaid with the yellowish green colored coloured glaze as the homophony, very magnificent. There are more than 20 tower of Hanoi in the patio type white platform, level, the layer is counted, the height, shaping are different. The white wall, the red blind window of trapezoid, there is yellow coloured glaze that builds the parapet carried, the styles and features of building of the structure of the Han nationality, Tibetan s form appear.