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Huxin Temple

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       Former Site of Huxin Temple. The Temple is a Qing-style building, and is now a cultural site under municipal protection. Now named Moon Lake Nunnery, it is the remains of Huxin Temple and was renovated in the 12th year of Emperor Tongzhi’s reign (1873). The Huxin Temple, which was first built during the period from 1064 to 1067, was granted the name of Shoushengyuan by Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty in 1068. Later in 1162, Emperor Gaozong bestowed the plague with the Chinese characters of “Huxin Guangfu Temple” on it in the year of 1162. And later in the 1553 during the reign of Emperor Jiajing, when Zhang Shiche, then Minister of Defense, retired, he bought the Huxin Temple and transformed it into an academy and a nunnery. Sesshū, a Japanese Buddhist priest labeled the Huxin Temple on the map of Ningbo, and spread it to Japan. The existing building has two rows of constructions, with five rooms, covering about 500 m2.