There is a famous ancient temple in Wangchu Village, Doudian Town, called Hongen Temple. This temple was built during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and was rebuilt in the 57th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1719 AD. This is not only a Buddhist holy place where Buddhist disciples chant scriptures and worship, but also a place where princes and ministers must dismount and burn incense when passing through. Hongen Temple faces south and has five halls in front and back. It is large in scale and magnificent. There are many steles and cypresses, and tall gray tiles and red walls are built around it. From a distance, it looks like the outer city of the Forbidden City in Beijing, which makes people feel particularly solemn, majestic and spectacular. What is the relationship between such an ancient temple and the civil and military officials of the court? This is a long time ago. According to the elderly local people, it is said that this was the place where the third son of Emperor Chongzhen of the late Ming Dynasty, known as "Prince Zhu San", became a monk. When Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant uprising army, overthrew the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen fled from the north gate of the old official to Jingshan and hanged himself. The third prince Zhu fled the capital on Wang Chengen's back, and later fled to Hong'en Temple in the suburbs of Beijing, where he shaved his head and became a monk and converted to Buddhism. After Li Zicheng became emperor, he found Chongzhen's suicide note in the Golden Palace, which read: "If you can kill my three palaces and six courtyards, don't kill a single civilian." Li Zicheng thought Chongzhen was a wise ruler after reading it. Later, he heard that the emperor's third prince was in a foreign land, so he sent officers and soldiers to search everywhere. After that, the officers and soldiers finally found the third prince in Hong'en Temple. So they persuaded the third prince Zhu to return to Beijing. However, no matter how they persuaded him, the prince would rather be a monk and would not respond. Li Zicheng had no choice, so he gave Hong'en Temple half of the imperial carriage and ceded 360 hectares of land as temple property for Hong'en Temple. In addition, a "dismounting stone" was set up in front of the Hong'en Temple, with the inscription "Civil officials get off the sedan chair here, and military officials get off the horse here." This is good, and Hong'en Temple has become more prosperous since then. Earlier, the gate of Hong'en Temple opened to the west instead of the south. In fact, this gate was not changed casually. There is an interesting folk legend about it. It is said that Li Hongzhang, the governor-general of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang in the late Qing Dynasty, had to pass through Hong'en Temple when he went from Baoding to Beijing. It is said that Governor Li had to get off the sedan chair in front of the mountain gate every time he went to Beijing. It was very inconvenient. Therefore, he sent his men to open another new road beside Hong'en Temple, so that he could bypass Hong'en Temple when he went to Beijing again, so as not to get off the sedan chair. After that, many years later, Li Hongzhang bribed someone to lobby Hong'en Temple, saying that the mountain gate was not in the right direction, and if Hong'en Temple wanted to prosper, it must change the gate to open to the south. After hearing this, the abbot of the temple thought about it and felt that it made sense. So, he changed the south gate. This story has been passed down for many years, and people still talk about it with relish. Information source: District Culture and Tourism Bureau (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) Information source: District Culture and Tourism Bureau (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)