There is a famous Jin Temple in Taiyuan, which is very close to the urban area, and you usually pass by here when you go to Shanxi.

As mentioned earlier, the earliest Tang Hou was Yao, and Yao was originally Tao Hou. Emperor Ku granted his son Yao the Marquis of Tang when he was 14 years old. King Wu of Zhou founded the Western Zhou Dynasty, and his son King Cheng of Zhou granted the land of Tang to Yudi Shuyu in 1046 BC, and Shuyu crossed his legs there and became Marquis of Tang, so it was called Tang Shuyu. After Shuyu's son Xie came to the throne, he changed Tang to Jin and built Tang Shuyu Temple to worship his father. This Tang Shuyu Temple is the eight generations of ancestors of the present Jin Temple. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a king named Jin Zhaogong in the state of Jin, and under him was a doctor named Zhao Jianzi. Zhao Jianzi built Jinyang City, and the Jin Temple is located in Jinyang City. In the 6th century AD, after the Northern Wei Dynasty split into the Eastern and Western Wei, Shanxi belonged to the Eastern Wei. Gao Huan, the prime minister of the Eastern Wei, imprisoned Emperor Xiaojing in Yecheng. During the rest of the fight, Gao Huan took his son Gao Yang to visit Jinci Temple. After Gao Huan's death, Gao Yang forced Emperor Xiaojing to abdicate the throne of the Eastern Wei Dynasty to himself and established the Northern Qi Dynasty. After that, Gao Yang also ran on both sides of Yecheng and Jinyang. When he was fighting and resting, he expanded the Jinci Temple and built some ancillary facilities, including the Nanlaoquan Pavilion and the Jinci Temple. In the 13th year of Sui Daye, 617 A.D., Li Yuan swore an oath as a teacher in Jinci Temple, sent troops to Chang'an, and established the Tang Dynasty. Because he made his fortune from Tang Shuyu's fiefdom, he was called Tang after he won the world. In the 5th year of Tang Wude, 622 A.D., Yu Chigong donated his Jinci villa to Buddhism in order to atone for the crime of killing too many lives. Li Yuan named it "Shifang Fengsheng Temple". At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in chaos. In 951 AD, Liu Chong proclaimed himself emperor in Jinyang, and he was named Han, which is what we call the Northern Han Dynasty. In the 9th year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty and 976 AD, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin led the Song army to attack Jinyang, but he died without being caught. In the 4th year of Taiping Xingguo, AD 979, Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi made a comeback under Jinyang City, besieged the city, stormed until the city ran out of food, and the guard surrendered. Although the city was won, the Song army lost a lot of troops, horses, food and grass, and Zhao Guangyi only won miserably. After the Song army entered the city, they were blocked by the people in the city. Taizong was furious and ordered the people to be driven out of the city and then burned the city. In the second year, Emperor Taizong ordered people to release the waters of Fen and Jin into the ruins of Jinyang. Then Jinyang disappeared, and there is no trace so far, and the Jinci Temple was also destroyed accordingly. What a pity! At this point, the Jinci Temple was wiped out.

The Jinci Temple we see now is not the earliest original version, but was rebuilt later. Take a look at the mountain gate below, which was rebuilt in 1647 in the 4th year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty. This is a Ming-style mountain gate with three arched gates. On the granite arches are quite strong cloud pattern reliefs; eaves. The "Jin Temple" plaque on the main entrance was inscribed by Chen Yi.


In the fifth year of Taiping Xingguo, in AD 984, Zhao Guangyi ordered the rebuilding of Tang Shuyu Temple. After Song Renzong came to the throne, he began to build the Notre Dame Hall in the first year of Tiansheng, and named Tang Shuyu the king of Fendong. The Hall of the Holy Mother was built on the site of the original Tang Shuyu Temple, which is the conclusion drawn by some people after researching "Shui Jing Zhu-Jin Shui". Since Tang Shuyu Temple was being rebuilt, why did Tang Shuyu be moved out of the main hall, and his mother, Jiang Taigong's daughter Yi Jiang, was enshrined in the main hall? There is no record, the reason is unknown, very strange. In other words, the earliest building in the Jinci Temple is the Notre Dame Hall below.


The stone bridge that sanitation workers are cleaning is called Fish Marsh Flying Bridge. It is a cross-shaped stone bridge erected on a square fish pond. The circle is the pool and the square is the marsh. The east-west direction we walk is flat, and the bridge decks on the north and south sides slope downward, like wings, so it is called flying beams. This fish marsh flying beam has been recorded in the "Shui Jing Zhu" in the Northern Wei Dynasty, which shows that the flying beam already existed before the reconstruction of Tang Shuyu Temple in the Northern Song Dynasty. This kind of flying beam exists in ancient paintings, but the real thing is only here. very valuable.

One step closer.


The roof of the hall with double eaves and colorful glazed tiles is the highest-level hall since the Song Dynasty. Qilin camel, vase ridge brake, double dragon pattern tile, glazed ridge beast, glazed end beast, these are the configurations of imperial palaces. It is five rooms wide and three rooms deep, with eaves corridors on all sides, the front eaves corridor is two rooms deep, and a row of golden dragon pillars in front. The Panlongzhu was presented by Taiyuan wealthy in 1087, the second year of Song Zhezong Zhaoxu Yuanyou. In the beam frame of the bucket arch structure, only the horizontal beams left under the eaves of the upper floor are painted, and the lower floors are gone, and there is no replacement between the columns. What we see now is the first year of Song Huizong Zhaoji Chongning, 1102, the rebuilt Notre Dame Hall, which allows us to see an original palace building in the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, in order to unify the architectural design and construction, the court general supervisor equivalent to the Ministry of Construction formulated architectural specifications. The first edition was the "Yuanyou French Style" issued in 1091, the sixth year of Song Zhezong Yuanyou. In the second year of Song Huizong Chongning, 1103, it was republished as "Zao Fa Shi", which has been passed down to this day. In the "Zao Fa Shi" of the Song Dynasty, this hall has a typical style, but I forgot the specific name.

Hanging under the gate of the hall is a plaque of "The Virgin of Zhaoji".


Standing in the distance, look inside the hall, there is a granite altar, and there is a colorful glazed altar in front of it. The statue of the Virgin in the exquisite wood-carved shrine was made in the first year of Tiansheng. The base of the statue and the fan screen behind it were all presented by Taiyuan in the second year of Yuanyou. There are rows of statues of maids on both sides of the shrine, and on the other side of the entrance of the hall, a eunuch listening to drinks stands in a wooden watchtower. Although the portraits of ladies in the Song Dynasty are not as plump as those in the Tang Dynasty, their faces are still very similar, which shows that the change in the Chinese beauty concept over the past few hundred years is only in the figure.


Look at the wide front porch.


in front of the temple.


There are painted woodcuts on the beams, and they are covered with plaques.


There is a statue of a general guarding the hall on both sides under the front eaves corridor, which was built in the first year of Tianyou. Below is Zheng Lun holding the demon pestle on the east side, and the stele next to it is an article written by Xu Chun, the magistrate of Taiyuan County in the Ming Dynasty. The general guarding the palace on the west side is Chen Qi. Chen Qi and Zheng Lun are the two generals of Hengha who were appointed by Jiang Ziya when he was appointed as the god. They guard the western mountain gate and protect the magic weapon.


There is an ancient tree outside the hall behind the statue of Zheng Lun, which is the ancient tree with a big split at the bottom. It is said that it is one of the two barley cypresses planted when Tang Shuyu Temple was built in the early Zhou Dynasty. After testing, experts say the tree is 2,600 years old.


There is an altar in front of the Notre Dame Hall, and on the altar is a glazed shrine. This altar was built in the first year of Tiansheng, but the pavilion outside the shrine looks like it was in the Qing Dynasty.


There are four cast iron statues of generals in the four corners of the shrine, and the one in the southwest corner is the original one from the Song Dynasty, dated 4th year of Song Zhezong Shaosheng, 1097. In fact, the earliest one is in the southeast corner. Song Zhezong Yuanyou 4th year, 1089, was destroyed. The current one was recast during the Republic of China. Because of these cast iron general statues, this altar is called the Jin Rentai.


Behind the Jinren Terrace is a very beautiful archway, with four pillars and three floors, the middle two pillars do not fall to the ground, colored glazed tiles with a single eaves resting on the top of the mountain, a Jin-style roof, Ming-style owl kisses, and five-step Ming-style bucket arches under the eaves. The inscription "Duiyue" on the forehead is majestic and powerful, with magnificent bones, and its strength penetrates the back of the paper. It was inscribed by Gao Yingyuan, a calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty. According to the official legend of the Jinci Temple, at that time, Gao's mother's old illness relapsed, and Lao Gao went to the Jinci Temple in a hurry to seek medical treatment. He hired people to build this workshop on the open space behind Jinrentai, but his mother recovered from the illness the next day, and the root cause of the disease was eliminated. When the archway was built, Lao Gao tried his best to solve the problem of the word "Diaoyue". "Due" means to repay, and "Yue" in Shanxi dialect means to spread and publicize. This plaque is the meaning of thanking the gods and promoting the gods. This is the Thanksgiving Square. The plaque "Dueyue" is also one of the three plaques in Jinci, and the other two can be seen behind.


There is a pair of iron lions in front of the archway, which were cast in 1118, the eighth year of Zhenghe reign of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty. Behind the Duiyue archway is another old hall, the Xiandian Hall, which is the hall for offering sacrifices to the Holy Mother Yijiang.


This dedicated hall was built in 1168, the eighth year of King Sejong's reign. The main hall is three rooms wide and two rooms deep, with glazed tiles in the Song Dynasty and a single eaves resting on the top of the mountain. In the 22nd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, in 1594, it was rebuilt according to the original style. The temple is a fully open frame, with no walls between the pillars and no doors, only a fence representing the walls. The above is also Luming, without smallpox.


Above the column is a ring of column top beams, on which bucket arches are installed, and the bucket arches support the roof beam spine imitating the purlin-rafter structure. All the wooden frame components of the main hall are complete, including the wind-fighting boards and hanging fish at the mountain flowers, and follow the Song Dynasty's "Building French Style", where you can see a complete example of the wooden frame of the Song Dynasty bucket arch structure. I have seen the strong style of the Tang Dynasty in the Guanyin Pavilion of Dule Temple in Jizhou, which is the thick beams and columns and the majestic brackets mentioned by Liang Sicheng. The beams, columns and brackets built in the Song Dynasty in this dedicated hall are obviously thinner than those in the Tang Dynasty, and the same is true for the Notre Dame Hall.

After Ji Xie built Tang Shuyu Temple, another tall building was built here. During the Western Wei Dynasty, Wei Wendi Yuan Baoju was the 7th year of Datong, and in 541 AD, the wife of Yang Zhong, the governor of Luozhou, went to a nun temple of Prajna Temple to give birth for no reason. After the child was born, the temple immediately became full of brilliance Xia, the abbot nun said that this baby should not be raised by ordinary people, so you should leave it to me to take care of it. This is the birth record of Sui Wendi Yang Jian. Yang Zhong settled down the nuns in the annex next to the house, and Yang Jian lived in the annex until he was 30 years old. Legend has it that when parting, the nun gave Yang Jian hundreds of relics to benefit the common people. This means that Yang Jian received a batch of relics, and another said that Western monks brought the relics owned by King Ashoka to Yang Jian. At the end of the Western Wei Dynasty, Yu Wentai, an important minister, took control of the government. After his death, his son Yu Wenjue seized power and established the Northern Zhou Dynasty. In the first year of Dading in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, in 581, Emperor Yang Jian and Zhou Jing abdicated the throne to him. Yang Jian proclaimed himself Emperor Sui, and his reign was Kaihuang. During Yang Jian's reign, the power of the Sui Dynasty flourished, and it was called the rule of the first emperor. In the 9th year of Emperor Kaihuang, in 589, the Sui army invaded Jiankang City, fished out the Empress Chen who could sing "Flower in the Backyard" from a dry well, and escorted him back to Luoyang, thus unifying China. After Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty unified China, he remembered the kindness of the nuns in his early years, so he built pagodas in various parts of the country to enshrine the relics given by the nuns. One of these pagodas was built next to the Jinci Temple, and it is called the Relic Shengsheng Pagoda.


Where there is a tower, there will be a temple. At that time, there was a small temple here, which was later used as a villa by Yuchi Jingde. In the 5th year of Wude in the early Tang Dynasty, 622 A.D., Yu Chigong dedicated this villa garden to the Buddhist family and expanded it a bit. Then there is the aforementioned "Ten Fang Fengsheng Temple" bestowed by Tang Gaozu Li Yuan. Shi Fang still talks about the south, east, northwest, life and death of heaven and earth, the past and the future.


The plaque on the door is definitely not inscribed by Tang Gaozu, don't even think about it. Fengsheng Temple was destroyed in the Yuan Dynasty. After several reconstructions and destructions, the gate of the current temple does not look like a mountain gate at all. Go under the door and see another plaque. Jingqingmen used to be the main entrance of Tang Shuyu Temple, but now it is gone. This plaque is also from the period of the Republic of China. It turns out that the current gate was relocated from the Jingqing Gate in the past, a project in the 1980s.


Other buildings in the temple are also ancient buildings relocated from various places. The Guodian below was relocated from an Erlang Temple.


The Daxiong Palace in the back must have been moved from elsewhere, so don’t go to see it, let’s go to the Futuyuan to see the pagoda.


This pagoda sits on a five-foot pagoda base, with seven-level pagodas, exquisite in eight sides, multi-layered colored glazed squares and brackets, cornices and ridges. On the top of the pagoda is the eight-sided glass embossed pagoda base, and then there is a water chestnut and a pumpkin on the pagoda, and the top is the diamond point. There are arches on the southeast, northwest and four sides of each floor of the tower body, and arch windows on the other four sides. This pagoda is the Sui Pagoda, which is older than the Tang Pagoda. There are still some relics of the stupas built by Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, but this pagoda has been repaired several times later, the most recent one being the 16th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, 1751. There is a plaque of "Xieming Donghua" hanging on the main entrance. "Ming" is the king of Ming, the angry Buddha. This plaque said that Yu Chigong murdered and set fire in his previous life, and later became a Buddha immediately. Look at the inscription on the plaque is "Liunan Eryou" inscribed on the dog days of Bingxu in Qianlong, that is, 1766, the 31st year of Qianlong. Together with the other plaques on the tower, they were inscribed by Liu Nan Eryou. Liu Nan Eryou and Yang Eryou were promoted by Qianlong because of their beautiful handwriting. Later, they lost their official positions and returned to their hometown in Taiyuan to find work because of the crime of dereliction of duty. He was very active in the maintenance of Jinci Temple, and he also wrote a lot of plaques, all of which are excellent. Although this pagoda is not original, its appearance has not changed. Let’s take it as Sui Pagoda. It is the second oldest building in the local area after Uonuma Feiliang.


According to historical records, the Yumao Feiliang in front was indeed built before the Northern Wei Dynasty, specifically during the Tianbao period of Emperor Wenxuan of the Northern Qi Dynasty Gaoyang, that is, from 550 to 559 AD. At that time, the following octagonal pavilion was built together.


This pavilion is called Nanlaoquan Pavilion. What I see now is the Jiajing 27th year of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty, in 1548, it was rebuilt, basically in the original style, with a very high spire. Fifteen years later, the jellyfish building was built behind the Nanlaoquan Pavilion.


Nanlaoquan is known as the first spring in Jinyang.


There is another plaque on the top of the "Jinyang No. 1 Spring" plaque. On it is one of the six masters in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties and a martial arts master Fu Shan wrote the word "difficult to be old". It's two yuan. By the way, Fu Shan is also from Taiyuan, working in Taiyuan. According to the "Ode to Lu Song" in the Book of Songs, it is said that "drinking the wine, it is difficult to grow old forever", which means that this spring water is like fine wine, and you can live forever if you drink it. This spring water is one of the three sources of Jinshui, and the rice fields irrigated by the springs produce the famous Jinci rice.


Where did the water from the Nanlaoquan go? It seems to be flowing this way.


This is the Zhenqu Pavilion, which is very new and was created in the period of the Republic of China. The steps in front of the door were uncharacteristically, not going up, but going down.


After going down the steps, I got into the ear washing hole, and when I got out of the hole, I could see where the spring water went.


After the spring water flows out of the dragon's mouth, it must first be poured on the head of an old gentleman. Who is this old gentleman? In the "Shan Hai Jing", there is "the valley of the rising sun, the god is called Tian Wu, and it is the Lord of Water". This old gentleman should be Suicune.


The spring water then flows into a pool, and there is a pavilion in the pool, called "Untied Boat", which was also built during the Republic of China, and it can be regarded as a stone boat. There is also a tower in the pool, called Zhanglang Tower, also known as the mainstay.


The spring water in the pool enters Beidu from seven holes on one side, and enters Nandu from three holes on the other side; there are two canals in the north and south. Why seven holes on one side and three holes on the other? There is no record, so later generations made up a story about Zhang Lang, so a Zhang Lang tower was erected in front of the drainage hole.

Look at the bow of the unmoored boat.


Because of the spring water, the leaves here are still green.


Jin Temple is an ancestral temple. It was first dedicated to Tang Shuyu, the ancestor of the Jin Kingdom, and then changed to Yijiang, the mother of Tang Shuyu. In addition to offering sacrifices to the ancestors of Jin, there are other ancestral halls here. There is a small building next to the Notre Dame Temple called Gongshuzi Temple. Gongshuzi is Lu Ban. It is very reasonable to be worshiped here. In ancient times, all the construction workers here came to worship their ancestors. The scale of this ancestral hall is not large, and the specifications are not high.


There is also a Taitai Temple next to it, which was built in the 12th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, 1533; it was rebuilt in 1956. Taitai God is the god of Fenhe River and the ancestor of the Zhang family. According to historical records, the Zhang family comes from the Ji surname, the fifth son of Huangdi's son Shaohao Qingyang wields a bow and arrow, and his descendants give the surname Zhang. Huigong is the first ancestor of the surname Zhang; Huigongzi Xuanming Shimei is the second ancestor, who can control the water; Meigongzi Taidai is the third ancestor, inheriting his father's business to govern the Fen and Tao waters. Long before Yu the Great, Tai Tai was consecrated by Shen, Si, Lao, and Huang of descendants. After Jin destroyed these four small countries, the sacrifices stopped. During the Spring and Autumn Period, around 550 B.C., Duke Ping of Jin once had a wobble and there was no cure, so he went to ask for divination. Master Ma said that Tai Tai was harming you, because your ancestors wiped out the descendants of Tai Tai's family, so you can only build a temple to worship and beg him to let you go. Since then, Taiyuan and the Fentao River Basin have begun to offer sacrifices to Taidai, which has been passed down to this day. The plaque below was hung in 1553, the 32nd year of Jiajing, when it was rebuilt, and it was inscribed by Gao Ruxing. Gao Ruxing was a high-ranking official who left Taiyuan, a Jinshi in the first year of Jiajing, served as the magistrate of Guangping Prefecture and deputy envoy of the Zhejiang Provincial Inspection Division, and was given eye drops and dismissed from office to return to his hometown. This should be a handwriting after returning to his hometown. Guangping Mansion is now the ancient city of Yong'an near Handan. It is a very well-preserved ancient city of the Ming Dynasty. I have visited it once.


After Tang Shuyu, the most famous person in Shanxi was Guan Gong, a man from ancient times. There must be Guangong Temple here, and the front yard of Haotian Temple in Jinci Temple is Guandi Temple. The Guandi Temple was built in an ominous year. It was expanded once in the Ming Dynasty. What we see now is the result of another expansion in 1795 in the 60th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. There are three open halls in front of the gate of the ancestral temple, and one of the open halls leads out of the building, which has a strong sense of rhythm.


This area seems to be all ancestral halls that were built in an ominous age. The Dongyue Temple below is also such a temple. What we see now is the rebuilt appearance during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. Dongyue is the head of the five mountains, and Dongyue Emperor is the god of Mount Tai, who is in charge of the birth power of all living things in the world. "Taihao is the emperor of Qing, governing Dongdai, and controlling the birth of all things." The God of Mount Tai is responsible for the communication between heaven and man and the sending and receiving of letters. The emperors of all dynasties have to worship Dongyue Emperor in order to claim to be ordered by heaven. The God of Mount Tai is deeply loved by the Chinese people, so Dongyue Temples have been built in many places, and many people come to worship.


The following one is still unknown when it was first built. It was expanded during the Qianlong period and became Wenchang Palace. Because there is a Wenchang Pavilion inside, it is called Wenchang Palace. In fact, there is also Jinshui Qixian Shrine, which was built to commemorate seven sages related to Jinshui, including Yurang in Zhou Dynasty, Li Bai and Bai Juyi in Tang Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu in Song Dynasty, Yu Qian and Wang Qiong in Ming Dynasty. These sages have visited Jinci Temple because of their excellent articles, and they have also written posts, blogs, and headlines for Jinci Temple, so they are established as records.


Wang Qiong of the Ming Dynasty mentioned above also contributed a shrine to the Jinci Temple. At first, this was Wang Qiong's own house, Jinxi Garden. At that time, he used the main house as an ancestral hall to commemorate his ancestors.


Take a closer look at the main hall.


It was originally called Ziqiao Temple. Ji Jin, the eldest son of King Ling of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, was called Taizi Jin, and his style name was Ziqiao, which is the Ziqiao that this temple remembers. Since the crown prince Jin Benji's surname, how come the theory of Wang Qiong's family ancestor? It turned out that Zhou Lingwang listened to the slander and deposed the prince as a common man, and died young at the age of 18. His son Zong Jing moved to Taiyuan, where he lived behind closed doors and started his own business. People at that time called it "Wang's family", so he took Wang as his surname. It is said that there is still Wang Qiong’s family tree compiled by Wang Qiong. I didn’t go in and look at it. One of our Wang associates went in and looked at it. When he came out, he didn’t see a happy face. Make it clear that Ji Jin turned into Prince Qiao. Ziqiao Temple is the place where the statue of Prince Jin is placed, and the place where the real sacrifice, that is, the place where the tablet is placed, is the Taiyuan Hall in front.


After the death of Wang Qiong in the 11th year of Jiajing, this Jinxi Garden was changed to Jinxi Academy. In 1993, with the financial support of Wang Qiong's overseas descendants, Jinxi Academy was able to rebuild its old appearance. I thought this academy would have something to do with Wang Yangming, for example, Wang Yangming rented it to teach psychology courses, but it turned out that it was not, but just a private school. The "Jinxi Academy" plaque on the archway of the vertical flower gate was inscribed in 1937 by Wang Xian, the 14th grandson of Wang Qiong.


At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, a building was added to the Jinci Temple, which is the Shengying Building below. Ying: Yingzhou. According to "Historical Records of the First Emperor", there are three sacred mountains in the sea, named Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou.


This is a typical Ming-style two-story pavilion with a three-foot bluestone platform underneath and a vertical belt on the front. On the top of the mountain with single eaves, the first floor is three rooms wide, and there are eaves corridors around it. The glass windows on the second floor were added later, and it was originally a spacious hall. Under the ridge of the cornice on the second floor, there are eaves columns that do not fall to the ground. I am afraid that the structural calculation is a bit overhanging, so a strengthening column is added. The pair of stone lions in front of the gate should not be the original ones here, but the Xumizuo below is a supplement at first glance. The earliest stone lion statues in China are from the Eastern Han Dynasty and can be seen in Luoyang. This pair of stone lions looks like the northern style of the Qing Dynasty, majestic and majestic, with bells hanging around their necks.

The latest building in Jinci should be the one below.


This is a stage, and the plaque under the eaves at the back reads "Famous Springs of the Three Jin Dynasties", written by Yang Tinghan in his later years during the Kangxi period. Look at the front of the stage.


The painted horizontal beams and vertical beams of the Jin School, woodcut sparrows and hanging flowers are colorful and varied. When Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang visited Jinci Temple in 1958, he wanted to sing a big play on this stage, but failed in the end. The most important thing in the above picture is the "Water Mirror Platform" plaque under the inner square, which is also one of the three famous plaques of Jinci Temple, inscribed by Yang Eryou during the Qianlong period. Earlier, we also saw the "difficult old" inscribed by Fu Shan in the late Ming Dynasty and the "dialogue" inscribed by Gao Yingyuan in Wanli of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the three famous plaques, Jin Temple also has three wonders, namely Zhou Bai outside the Notre Dame Hall, the painted statues of Song Dynasty figures in the Notre Dame Hall and the Nanlaoquan. We took a look at all the most important places in Jinci, and also saw the most famous three plaques and three must-sees. It was a worthwhile trip.