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A It was in 2021 that monks of Hanshan Temple warmly celebrated the 1500th anniversary of the founding of the very temple. The event indicated that temple was established in 502 AD in the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties with its earliest name being the Wonderful Beneficial Universal Illumination Pagoda Temple. I Also in the Tang Dynasty did a well-known poet, Zhang Ji by name, arrive at Suzhou with his boat mooring near the MapleBridge in the Maple Bridge Town. A slight being so touching, he composed on the spur of moment a poet to describe both the scenery and the bell echoing around the temple. The poem was entitled “ The temple’s long history and culture make it be the admiration of visitors and Buddhists from all over China. And it is a must for sightseers from Japan because legend has it that once the monk Shide landed in Japan and spread both Buddhism and Chinese culture there. The ancient temple faces the world-renowned Grand Canal with both the MapleBridge and the Jiangcun Bridge flying over the tributary of it. Numerous classical buildings inside the temple are imposing and trees growing luxuriantly. It is worth mentioning that in the center of the Mahavira Hall sits Buddha Sakyamuni with two attendant Bodhisattvas standing piously at the both sides, who are Sakyamuni’s first generation disciples. The younger one is named Ananha and the elder one is called Kasyapa. And the gilt Eighteen Arhats are installed alongside the side walls. Shown in the right rear corner of the hall is a bronze bell hung on a wooden stand. This is a Japanese bell which Yamada Kanzang, a friendly Japanese personage, cast and sent to Suzhou’sHanshanTemple in 1905, symbolizing the cultural exchange between ChinaandJapan Near the bell ate two stelae, or stone tablets, set in the white walls, one displays the monk Hanshan and the other portrays both Hanshan and Shide who are vivid and full of fun, clapping and laughing like real persons. Located behind the Mahavira Hall is th