钱氏家族与吴越佛教文化

The Qian Family and Wuyue Buddhism Culture

五代十国时期的吴越国,是伴随着钱氏家族的苦心经营走过来的。钱氏家族的功绩在于:一是重视农业,治理钱塘,发展水利,创造了我国水利发展史上的奇迹。二是对佛教文化的推崇。从开国者钱镠到末代钱俶,他们都与禅僧来往密切,尤其是创建寺院、刻印佛经、延请高僧,形成了以杭州为中心的宗教文化活动中心,为佛教文化在吴越地区的发展和传播做出了重要贡献,对后世宗教文化发展影响深远。三是纳土归宋,主张国家一统。

Wuyue Kingdom in the period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was ruled and managed painstakingly by the Qian Family. Its merits and achievements lied in three aspects. Firstly, the Qian Family attached great importance to agricultural development, including Qiantang River harnessing and water conservancy development. Those efforts created a miracle in Chinese history in terms of water conservancy development. Secondly, the Qian Family highly valued Buddhism culture. From Qian Liu, the founding father of Wuyue Kindom, to Qian Chu, the last reign of Wuyue Kingdom, a close connection with Buddhist monks had been kept. Because of the approaches such as building temples and monasteries, lettering and printing Sutra, and entertaining eminent monks, a religious culture activity center with Hangzhou as the center came into being. These measures made tremendous contributions to the development and communication of Buddhism culture in Wuyue region, and exerted profound impacts on posterity religious culture development. Thirdly, the Qian Family dedicated land to Song Dynasty and advocated national unity.