Qingyin Pavilion is considered as an extraodinary monastery on the mountain.It falls into the foreyard and the backyard.The two yards are separated by 2.5km in distance.The foreyard id called Qingyin Pavilion,and the backyard Yanfu Temple.Because Niuxin Ridge separated the two yards,they are commoly called the Fore and Back Niuxin Temples.During the Tang Dynasty the Fore Niuxin Temple was also called Woyun temple. At the begining of Ming Dynasty Monk Guang Ji rebuilt the temple,which was then renamed Qingyin Pavilion.The name of Qingyin,which means “pure sound” in English ,was originally drawnfrom a line in Zhaoyin,composed by Zuosi of the Jin Dynasty.The lines ,“No need to play stringed instruments or bamboo flutes ;nature herself creates pure sound”.
The pavilion's layout looks extraordinary.The mountain is the backdrop to the pavilion and streams flow nearby; the buildings are terraced up from the low to the high level is Xixin Terrace by Baoxian Stream. On each side of the terrance is a bridge,and on the terrance stands a small pavilion called the Glass and Water Pavilion where the Black and the White Dragons' Streams merge.A couple hangs on the pavilion,written by Liu Guang di. Liu Guangdi was a well_known scholar of Qing Dynasty and also one of the six noble men involved in the Reform Movement of 1898. A black basalt boulder,rising like a huge comlumn,dominates the middle of the stream.The turbulent waters rushing against the stone play it like an instrument and create pure sound.The bridges on the either side of the pavilion are traditionally called Sanhuang Bridges. Legend says that here Xuanyuan Emperor met an immortal caled Sanhuang.
During the Song dynasty a great poet and monk by the name of Wei Zheng from the Jingtu Monastery in Hangzhou arrived here.He produced his fast running calligraphy,which said “Double Flying Dragons Bridge”. An example of his calligraph can still be seen on the stone near the bridge .Behind the pavilion is a hundred_step stairway leading to Back_Niuxin Yard,which is noe named Guanghu Temple.There is a sacred statu and a jade Buddha from Burma ,presented by monks from Jizushan area in Yunnan .Staring from the temple, you have to climb 2.5km upward before arriving at Yanfu Temple. Behind the temple is Yaowang Cavern in which Sun Simiao is said to have stayed making bills of immortality.
Qingyin Pavilion and the Dragon_Gate Cavern are traditionally considered as the two wonders along the streamscenery.A oem written by Tan Zhongyue of the Qing Dynasty says,“The main pavilion produces pure sound ; like an immortal desending ,playing the zither. I stand on the double bridge straining to hear ; the sound ,the Ox_heart boulder being washed by the two streams.”