Open hour
8: 30 17: 00, Open normally on Saturdays and Sundays
Ticket
Free
Traffic
Take tourist bus No. 4, No. 10, 12, 16, 18, 21, 39, 53, 54, 307 can be reached.
Introduce
It borders on Lion Rock in the north, is adjacent to princess palace on day in the east, borders on the moat in the west, cover an area of about 20,000 square meters; Have Mahavira Temple, king and straight Buddha, Goddess of Mercy, the intersection of gal and blue, the intersection of wheel and the intersection of hide, Maitreya, founder,etc. and hall, and the building of tide sound pavilioning, the tight floor of bell tower, well pavilion, China, playing with the salty pavilion etc. amounts to more than 80 principal columns of a hall. Large-scale, one may well say the name of Nanjing is stopped. Zhen He has been in this life in old age.
History: 1842 year, the intersection of Great Britain and army capture the intersection of Wusong and the intersection of mouth and fort, watch over, fight died Chen Huacheng. Later, the army of Great Britain occupied Shanghai for a time, intruded upon the Changjiang River again, captured Zhenjiang, cut off the traffic of north and south of Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, then arrive in the important strategic place in the South directly Under Nanjing. The Qing Government has been forced to sign treaty of Nanjing of humiliating the nation and forfeiting its sovereignty under the gun muzzle of the army of Great Britain. Jinghai temple becomes China and Britain treaty of Nanjing Discuss and invite Ground, both sides discuss for about four times in the temple altogether.
Record according to Kang Xi will of peaceful office of river : Lu Longshan s hillfoot outside appearance phoenix s door of Jinghai temple. In Yongle Year of Ming Dynasty, the life is enabled abroad, the disturbance is not alert, because build up a temple, grant the volume Jinghai. Ancient Jinghai temple is great and wide in scale, takes up an area of 2 hectares. Once several destroyed several to repair in history. Rebuild the intersection of Jinghai and temple in the period of the bright straight Germany, after first the Opium War (1840-1842) fail smooth 22 years, namely sign Sino-British Nanjing treaties in this temple. During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom s war, Jinghai temple is destroyed, is raises and repairs again by the Buddhist monk of Jing an afterwards once again. In winter of 1937, the Japanese aggressor troop attacked Nanjing, it was destroyed then this temple was more than half on annual December 10
August 29, the first unequal treaty in China s history -China and Britain treaty of Nanjing , are berthing a British gunship Chinese beautiful China near Jinghai temple Number is had and signed formally. Jinghai temple is a modern historical eye-witness fallen victim to imperialist aggressions and insulted by foreign country in China.
After liberation, Jinghai temple of Nanjing has used as school building for a time. In 1982, Nanjing launched the census operations of the large-scale historical relic, the site of Jinghai temple was found. Only had 6 for 2 principal columns of a hall incomplete east side halls in a palace or temple left at that time, 3 among them were the building more than 100 years ago, 3 are the building more than 200 years ago. Jinghai temple was determined as the municipality protected historic site in 1985. 480,000 yuan of capital infusion removed and rebuilt the site of Jinghai temple in 1988. Jinghai temple after rebuilding, in order to imitate the bright temple building, but the non- original building recovers, cover an area of 628 square meters.