Slideshow  Google Map  Timeline  Timemap  Comments (0)

This temple, Needle Grinding Well, has another name, 回心庵 Huíxīnān, Returning Mind Hut. The story behind the fist name has to do with grinding and iron pole until it becomes a needle, a task requiring endless determination. In the 1910's it resurfaces in a well known Heimu 黑幕, Black Curtain short story by Zhu Shouju. The protagonist Sanxin thinks; 'He might as well get home, have some dinner, and come back early tomorrow. With enough determination, a steel pole can be ground to a needle. He need not doubt that, in time, he would succeed.'

Related Items:

Wǔdāngshān 武當山

Húběi 湖北