The Jinshan (golden hill) Temple I had a trip to the Jinshan Temple last month, and I took some pictures by my phone. Thanks to the new technology, I can carry a camera without addition equipment. Jinshan in Chinese means a golden hill. Jinshan Temple is well-known in China, because of the wide spread of a tale. As for the tale, there are some backgrounds that one shall understand. Firstly, ancient Chinese people did believe everything could become a mankind when it got enough magic. Even rocks, did someone know where the Money King came from? Secondly, Buddhism in China believe that individual's soul is continually existing even after death, and the soul is reborn in a new born baby without memories after a few years of one's death. The tale is talking about a snake was saved by a scholar when it was in its weakest status after its evolution to a mankind for almost one thousand years, so the snake wont to repay the scholar. A hundred years pasted, the snake transformed into a beautiful girl, she found the scholar who was reborn and they fell in love with each other soon. So they got married and a normal boy was born ( Yes, normal. :D ). However a monk came from Jinshan Temple whose name was Fahai, tried to split them, for some reason like "Monsters must not live in a human society, let alone marriage!". Of cause, they could not get to an agreement. So Fahai kidnapped the scholar to Jinshan Temple. So the snake had a terrible fight with Fahai, and many citizens died. Finally, Monk Fahai won, and locked the snake in Leifeng Tower which was beside the Xihu (the famous beautiful West Lake). But the story had a happy ending, the son grew up, he past the exams hold by the government and finally won the Number One Scholar, he freed his mother. Then they lived together happily ever since....... Then something perhaps true is, there was really a monk whose name was Fahai lived in Jinshan Temple. But Jinshan Temple was named by another story related with Fahai. The temple wasn't existed when Fahai arrived a hill to temper himself, so he lived in a cave. But Fahai was a quite devoted one, he cut one of his fingers to show his determination to build a temple on this hill. By luck or god was touched by his determination, he found gold under the hill, and finally build this temple. Another thing about the tower shows in the picture is that it was once burned by accident, and this is a rebuilt one.