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The beauty of the Scripture Repository Hall, one of the "Four Wonders of Nanyue." It is located below Xiangguang Peak in Nanyue. It was first built in the second year of Guangda of Emperor Fei of Chen in the Northern and Southern Dynasties (568 AD), originally named "Xiao Bore Chanlin," and later renamed Scripture Repository Hall because Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty bestowed a set of the Tripitaka to be stored in the temple. The present hall was rebuilt in 1933. It is an ancient building with glazed tiles, red walls, a single eave, and upturned corners. The temple is distinctive and rigorous, simple and elegant, like a beautiful pearl inlaid in emerald-green forest. In the 1980s it was repaired again. Inside the hall are painted decorations of exquisite craftsmanship, and the added carvings are vivid and lifelike. In particular, the gilt bronze Buddha statue presented in the autumn of 1980 by Mr. Huang Zhangren, an overseas Chinese from Thailand, and his wife Ms. Ouyang Hui, is placed in the hall. The Buddha is named "Vairocana," made of pure copper with gold plating, graceful in posture and dazzling to the eye, adding new luster to Nanyue's cultural relics.
Around the Scripture Repository Hall the soil is thick and the water deep, and the temperature does not get too low, so plants grow easily. There are precious trees such as Hunan linden, Elaeocarpus, monkey-happy, sweet castanopsis, and Torreya, and the original vegetation of subtropical mountain evergreen broad-leaved mixed forest is relatively completely preserved. Among the trees, what interests visitors most are the three strange trees beside the stream on the slope in front of the hall: the Money Tree, the Same-Root Growth, and the Interlocked Branches.
There are also many ancient legends about the Scripture Repository Hall. In front of the hall is the Spirit Field. On autumn nights, flying lights like candles can illuminate the outline of the old forest and ancient hall, seemingly like the "spirit light of Lu Hall," but in fact it is caused by swarms of fireflies dancing and glittering. People also call it "fireflies paying homage." In front of the Spirit Field is the Dressing Table, said to be where Consort Chen, mother of the Prince of Gui in the Ming Dynasty, applied her makeup. Nearby there is also a Fishing Terrace, said to be where Zhang Lihua, consort of the last ruler of the Six Dynasties, fished.
