In recent years, the Jingyuan Temple in Zhenhai, Ningbo, has taken it as its duty to build a demonstration place for religious China, digging its own red history in depth, holding a monument-unveiling ceremony at the activity site of the anti-Japanese base area in eastern Zhejiang, creating a revolutionary history showroom “Hong En Hall”, publicizing the deeds of Zhenhai Buddhist community in War of Resistance against Japan, creating a strong atmosphere of red culture, and making every effort to build a patriotic education base in religious circles.
First, “My Kindergarten” helps orphans and needy children.
In 1935, there was no place for children to study in Xiaodong Aoshan Village, Zhenhai. The monks of Jingyuan Temple specially hired teachers from other places to set up “Jingyuan Compulsory Primary School” in Shizhou Temple, which absorbed local children’s free admission until the school was merged into Wenxi Primary School after the establishment of People’s Republic of China (PRC). To help the people in mountainous areas to cure diseases, we have hired western doctors such as Zhang Bi and Wei Jinshi to treat the diseases of poor farmers on a voluntary basis, and set up a “clinic” in Wenxi Street to dispense medicines. When the Japanese invaders invaded China and Ningbo fell, many children lived on the streets with hunger and cold. In 1942, Jingyuan Temple set up a almsgiving house in Longwangtang. Adhering to the concept of “old and old, young and young, and young”, the almsgiving house was named “My Young House”. More than 20 children aged 7-12 were collected from the streets of Ningbo and other places, and more than 20 children aged 11-17 were collected from the streets of Shanghai. They were educated and raised in two places. In 1946, the “Home for the Aged and Children” was founded. In addition to 50 children suffering from disasters in our kindergarten, 50 poor girls were enrolled, and hundreds of poor old and poor people were raised.
Second, “double-faced monks” rescue their soldiers
Wenjingyuan Temple is located at the edge of Cibei, Zhenbei and Yaobei. On a sunny day in June of the lunar calendar in 1945, farmers in twos and threes in the fields were swinging hoes and weeding. Suddenly, three guerrilla comrades came running from three-north direction, Cixi. Later, it was verified that they were subordinate soldiers of Chief Tan Qilong in the anti-Japanese base area in eastern Zhejiang, and were being madly pursued by several Japanese troops. In order to get rid of the Japanese pursuit, they ran all the way over the mountains, unwilling to get into trouble with the masses, and did not flee into the homes of ordinary people to hide. At the critical moment, they saw a temple, and they helped each other and hurried towards it. After the three comrades explained their intentions, Hao Ming, the monk in charge of Jingyuan Temple, was very enthusiastic about the revolutionary comrades, so he quickly took them into the temple and sent his disciples to the nearby people’s homes to ask for three sets of common people’s clothes, so that the soldiers could quickly put them on. In order to keep the soldiers safe and at ease, the master also made room for them to stay. At that time, a comrade was seriously injured and badly in need of nutrition. The master sent a monk to the farmer’s wife’s house with a baby to buy milk for the seriously injured. After drinking for ten days in a row, the wounded look better. When comrades lived in the temple, they often met the Kuomintang Song Department to harass them. The monk always said, “It’s my relatives from my hometown who come to the temple to work as odd jobs.” In this way, the safety of the comrades was covered again and again. The soldiers had a safe and quiet life in the temple, recovered quickly and better, and returned to the team after recovery.
Three “Red Activity Points” were unveiled 80 years later.
In that special era, Jingyuan Temple was a special activity point in the anti-Japanese struggle. It received many revolutionary comrades and groups of wounded and sick people, among whom a soldier spent seven months in the temple recuperating before returning to the team. Comrade Ruan Bo (female), who is engaged in the pro-democracy movement of the March 5th detachment, lives in the temple, doing mass work nearby and developing the party member of the Communist Party of China. Comrade Li Xuemin, a former liaison adjutant of the guerrillas in eastern Zhejiang (after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, a former deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission), used to stop at the temple when traveling to and from Ningbo, Cicheng and Siming Mountain because of his work. In 1987, when Comrade Li Xuemin came to Zhenhai to visit the old town, and later wrote a letter to the Bureau of Religious Affairs of zhenhai district, he mentioned the situation of Jingyuan Temple that year and praised its monks for their useful work for the revolution during their stay in War of Resistance against Japan. On August 18, 2022, a monument-unveiling ceremony was held at the activity point of Jingyuan Temple in East Zhejiang Anti-Japanese Base Area. Chen Weigao, vice president of the zhenhai district New Fourth Army History Research Association, said at the monument-opening ceremony that the United front united temples, treated the wounded of the New Fourth Army, set up our kindergarten to adopt children with difficulties, and became the contact link between the local people and the anti-Japanese armed forces … There are many anti-Japanese red stories in Jingyuan Temple, which remind people of the glorious anti-Japanese history carried out by Zhenhai religious circles under the leadership of the Party during that difficult period.
Fourth, remember the revolutionary history in “Hong En Tang”
On July 1, 2021, the “Hong En Tang” of Jingyuan Temple was officially opened to the public. This is a beneficial attempt to combine the study and education of the history of the party in zhenhai district, excavate the history and culture of Buddhism, and inherit the revolutionary spirit. The “Red Grace Hall” mainly displays the historical data of Jingyuan Temple’s active participation in War of Resistance against Japan, focusing on the stories of the temple’s treatment of the soldiers of the March 5th detachment of the anti-Japanese armed forces in eastern Zhejiang, keeping the underground party member for work, and adopting orphans, and displays related pictures, newspapers, memoirs and other physical objects, as well as red-themed calligraphy and paintings. Master Zheng Jue, the person in charge of the temple, said that when the whole country celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party, the temple “Hong En Tang” was officially opened to the outside world, hoping to express the deep friendship of the Buddhist community for the party and the country. For more than a year, Master Zheng Jue talked about the history of the Party and the red history of Jingyuan Temple in the “Hong En Tang”. By the end of September this year, nearly 3,000 people from religious personnel and believers had visited it.
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