http://www.blogigo.co.uk/TanzheTemple2 .We are so lucky be guided by a monk of our temple tour in Beijing. It is still used as its before. Tanzhe Temple is a typical buddhism temple was built in Jin Dynasty (AD265-420),with more than 1600 years and located to the western mountain area outskirts of Beijing.--with popular saying goes: "First there was the Tanzhe Temple, then there was Beijing." once the home of a large nuumber of monks and nuns, the temple is now a peaceful and esoteric venue with its simple and elegant buildings and natural surroundings. en TanzheTemple TanzheTemple Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:42:33 +0100 daily 1      On Monday , the temple was so quite peacefull, much fewer tourist than compare to the holidays or weekend days. Even the air of the temple was filling smell perfectly with all kind of trees. At a corner of a terrace beside of the stair steps leading to the main hall, there is a kind of two trees growing together, they are twist each other and mate each other growing from young to old for over hundred years. one of its trees named bai and the other is called shi trees in Chinese. actually, they are two different type of trees,bai is a kind of cypress and shi is persimmon and the other reason that two trees name 's pronunciation with a auspicious words is same-that is "baishiruyi" which means " As your own wishes in order to management." or baishi means all type of things on you to manged as your wihes.  so that the tree is attracted so many couple visitors specially to write  their wishes on a piece of red paper and then hang up on the tree. " it's interesting,... Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:42:33 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/TanzheTemple2/The-story-of-our-Tanzhe-Si-tour-in-Beijing-page2/1/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/TanzheTemple2/The-story-of-our-Tanzhe-Si-tour-in-Beijing-page2/1/