There is such a couplet in Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou: "How can life be complete? Everything is only half satisfactory. " The language is simple, but full of philosophy. This kind of "semi-contented" life and carefree mentality is called "the most perfect life ideal discovered by China people" by Mr. Lin Yutang. Mr. Lin Yutang summed it up as follows: since ancient times, life has been the most taboo to be half-poor, half-rich and half-stable; Life is half mine, and the other half depends on nature.

"Semi-contentment" is not helplessness and negativity, but an open-mindedness and wisdom. Mr. Lin Yutang summed it up as follows: since ancient times, life has been the most taboo to be half-poor, half-rich and half-stable; Half-life, half-day and half-meeting, half-taking, half-giving and half-doing; Half deaf, half dumb and half confused, half smart, half stupid and half wise; Half man, half me, half comfortable, half awake, half drunk and half immortal; Half-pro, half-love, half-bitter, half-vulgar, half-Zen and half-life; Life is half mine, and the other half depends on nature.

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Lingyin Temple was restored and rebuilt on the basis of reconstruction in the late Qing Dynasty. The temple covers an area of about 87,000 square meters, and Lingyin Scenic Area covers an area of about 2.577 million square meters. The layout of Lingyin Temple is similar to that of Jiangnan Temple. The central axis of the whole temple building is divided into three main halls: Tianwang Hall, Daxiong Hall and Pharmacist Hall.

The overall planning of Lingyin Temple is to form a five-layer pattern along the central axis: Tianwang Hall-Daxiong Hall-Pharmacist Hall-Tibetan Scripture Building (under the Dharma Hall)-Huayan Hall. At the same time, it was laid out to the two wings, and 500 Luohan Hall, Dao Ji Hall (now called Jigong Hall), Guest Hall (Liuhe Hall), Ancestral Hall, Great Compassion Pavilion and Dragon Palace Sea Collection (collection display) were built successively; The 500 Luohantang was rebuilt in the former Luohantang site, displaying 500 pieces of bronze arhats with an average height of 1.7 meters. There are four famous bronze halls with a height of 12.6 meters in the center of the hall.

Large-scale heart sutra walls and sculptures of hundreds of lions have been built one after another, and there is a cold spring in the northwest of the Five Hundred Arhats Hall. Rockery and rocks formed a natural waterfall, and a "Youde Pavilion" was built next to the pool to commemorate the rejuvenation of the spirit in the early Qing Dynasty.