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Lingyin Temple, Hangzhou 灵隐寺
The 4th-century Chan Buddhist temple complex in the western hills of Hangzhou where Lijie's parents — Ling Zhou and Xun Li — were photographed twice in front of the same gate, decades apart: once on their honeymoon just after their 18 September 1982 wedding in Qingdao, and again on a return visit on 29 May 2019. On that same 2019 visit Chuck and Lijie stood in the same pose at the same gate, completing a three-frame echo of one couple's honeymoon across the next generation.
Why this place matters
The Zhou side's first then-and-now place — analogous to the Wildermuth pilgrimages to the Württemberg villages. The 1982 honeymoon visit is the earliest surviving photograph in the family's keeping of Ling and Xun together as a married couple; the 2019 return frame is its 37-years-later match; and the 2019 Chuck-and-Lijie frame in the same pose is the generational echo. All three together turn the diptych into a triptych.
Then & now
The same gate, the same pose, across one wedding and the next generation.
中文：同一座山门，同一姿态，跨越一场婚礼与下一代。
中文：周玲与李恂蜜月时摄于灵隐寺山门前，时为1982年9月18日青岛婚礼之后。黑白照片，身后可见寺院牌匾。原扫描件已裁切，以与2019年两帧合影构图相近。
中文：周玲与李恂于同一座山门前，2019年5月29日 — 距蜜月合影37年后。彩色照片，左侧依稀可见同样的寺院牌匾。
中文：Chuck与Lijie于同一座山门前，2019年5月29日 — 与左侧合影摄于同次探访；下一代以女儿与女婿之姿重摄上一代之合影。
The same temple gate, three frames — Ling & Xun 1982, Ling & Xun 2019, Chuck & Lijie 2019
同一座山门，三帧合影 — 周玲与李恂 1982、周玲与李恂 2019、Chuck与Lijie 2019
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Lingyin Temple (灵隐寺) — “Temple of the Soul’s Retreat” — is one of the oldest and largest Chan Buddhist monasteries in China, founded in AD 328 in the western hills of Hangzhou. It is among the most-visited Buddhist sites in the country and the architectural anchor of the West Lake / Feilai Feng cultural landscape.
For this archive, Lingyin matters as the three-frame echo above: the same temple gate, three photographs across 37 years. The first is the 1982 honeymoon — Ling Zhou and Xun Li, Lijie 周丽婕’s parents, just after their wedding in Qingdao. The second is their return to the same gate on 29 May 2019. The third, taken on the same 2019 visit, is Chuck and Lijie in the same pose — the daughter and her husband standing where her parents had stood, deliberately reframing the honeymoon pose one generation on.
It is the Zhou-side equivalent of the Wildermuth pilgrimages to the Rielingshausen church and the Marbach / Wildermuthstraße street sign, with the additional grace note that the third frame was made by the next generation themselves, on the same trip as the second.
中文
灵隐寺位于杭州西部群山之间，始建于东晋咸和元年（公元328年），是中国最古老、规模最大的禅宗寺院之一，至今仍是杭州西湖文化景观的重要组成部分。
在本档案中，灵隐寺承载的是上面那组三帧跨代对照：同一座山门，前后37年间的三张照片。第一帧为1982年蜜月—周丽婕的父母周玲和李恂，1982年9月18日在青岛结婚后即赴杭州度蜜月，在灵隐寺山门前留下的一帧黑白合影。第二帧为同一对夫妻在2019年5月29日重访同一山门前的彩色合影。第三帧摄于同次2019年探访，Chuck与Lijie以同样姿态站在同一山门前—女儿与女婿，以下一代之姿，重摄上一代蜜月时的合影。
这是周氏一脉在本档案中的第一组”同地同人，跨代重摄”—与维尔德穆特家族在德国Rielingshausen教堂和Marbach维尔德穆特街牌的朝圣摄影形成跨大陆的呼应，且更进一层：第三帧由下一代亲手在同一次旅行中所摄。
Further reading
- Lingyin Temple (Wikipedia) — founding, the Feilai Feng grottoes, the temple’s history through the Tang, Song, and Cultural Revolution.
- Hangzhou (Wikipedia) — the city, the West Lake, the Song-dynasty capital.