Mount Fei () is a
mountain
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in the northwest of
Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County,
Hunan
Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...
, China. Its peak elevation is .
History
During the
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (), from 907 to 979, was an era of political upheaval and division in 10th-century Imperial China. Five dynastic states quickly succeeded one another in the Central Plain, and more than a dozen conc ...
(907–979), King Wumu of Chu,
Ma Yin, sent troops to attack Chengzhou (now Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County), local chiefs Pan Jinsheng () and Yang Chenglei () resisted the attack by favourable terrain. Now the trenches on the mount are still there. After the death of
Yang Zaisi, local people built a temple on the top to commemorate him and called him "Grandpa Mount Fei" ().
Temples
There are four
Buddhist temple
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s and one
Taoist temple
A Taoist temple (, also called ''dàoguàn'' and , is a place where the Tao is observed and cultivated it is a place of worship in Taoism.
Structure and function can vary according to the Taoist school the temple belongs to. For example, ''guàn ...
on the mount, namely Toubaoding (), Erbaoding (), Sanbaoding (), Chan Temple of Mount Fei () and Fangguang Temple ().
The Toubaoding is situated on the top of the mount. It was originally built in the Yuanfeng period (1078–1085) of the
Song dynasty
The Song dynasty (; ; 960–1279) was an imperial dynasty of China that began in 960 and lasted until 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song following his usurpation of the throne of the Later Zhou. The Song conquered the rest ...
(960–1279) but turned to ashes by a devastating fire in 1899 in the reign of
Guangxu Emperor of the
Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...
(1644–1911). The present version was completed in 1903.
The Sanbaoding was built in 1693 in the 32nd year of
Kangxi period
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in the Qing dynasty, and it is still intact.
The Chan Temple of Mount Fei was built on the site of former Songyun Chan Temple () in 2005. The entire temple faces south with the
Shanmen,
Four Heavenly Kings Hall, Hall of Yuantong (), and the
Mahavira Hall
A Mahavira Hall, usually simply known as a Main Hall, is the main hall or building in a traditional Chinese Buddhist temple, enshrining representations of Gautama Buddha and various other buddhas and bodhisattvas. It is encountered throughout ...
along the central axis of the complex.
The Fangguang Temple is located at the foot of the mount, the existing main buildings include the Main Hall, Sanqing Hall (), Lingguan Hall () and Wangxu Pavilion (). Some pieces of stone tablet are displayed in the temple. The Main Hall underwent two renovations, respectively in 1993 and 2001.
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Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County