Houtu Temple - China Travel

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Jiexiu Houtu Temple is a Taoist temple located in the northwest corner of Jiexiu County. It is one of the key cultural relics protection units in Shanxi Province. Jiexiu Houtu Temple is a huge building complex including five courtyards and equipped with towers and pavilions. In this building complex, there are screen walls, mountain gates, passing halls, east and west corridors, Sanqing Tower, bell and drum towers, and rear halls.

The main building in the Houtu Temple is a building with triple eaves, a cross, a hill and a top structure. On the top of the building, there is a towering dragon's kiss; lion decorations, glazed pavilions, lotus ridges, animal heads and horns reflect each other, forming a vivid and spectacular picture of glazed products. Inside the Houtu Temple, there are nearly a thousand painted sculptures on the hanging wall reflecting the content of Taoism. These statues have extremely high shaping techniques and have reached a considerable artistic level. These painted sculptures have lifelike images, different postures, smooth clothing lines, plump images and natural expressions. They are rare masterpieces of painted sculpture art. According to the records of the stele of golden makeup and sacred statues in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, these painted sculptures may be works of the early Ming Dynasty.

opening hours

08:30-17:30 all year round (last admission 17:00)

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Mediator's logo place, reasonable layout and compact structure

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&放肆的青春&

With a long history and good protection of culture, it provides good reference materials for future generations to understand and learn. It will be better and better to provide other cultural environments in the surrounding area, and I believe it will get better and better as time changes.

xiangduoduo

Houtu culture is an important part of Yanhuang culture

小鹿晗的爸比

Nothing special, just an ordinary place! Not recommended

古藤幽兰

Houtu Temple, a group of ancient Taoist buildings of the Quanzhen School, is huge in scale and is the best preserved imperial temple in China. It was built in the Southern and Northern Dynasties or even earlier 1,500 years ago. Destroyed by the earthquake, it was rebuilt in the fifth year of Yanyou. It is now in the shape of the expansion in the 16th year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty. The main hall is called the Taining Palace in Taoism. The roof structure, the Zhenwu Hall and the Sanguan Temple with three hanging mountains and corridors on the east and west sides are juxtaposed with it. The appearance presents the main and secondary halls with eleven bays, which is magnificent. The top of the hall is decorated with yellow colored glaze, which is resplendent and resplendent. The shape of the main ridge is particularly strange. The front is a double phoenix playing peony, and the back is a double dragon playing a pearl, which is rare in China. The hall enshrines one of the four emperors of Taoism---Chengtian imitates the law of great virtues and empresses the earth emperor, commonly known as "Houtu empress", "the one who is a yin land, multiplied by five directions, condensed by five qi, and loaded with rivers, seas, mountains, forests and houses. Therefore, it is said that the sky is yang and the earth is yin, and the sky is male and the earth is mother." There is also a treasure in this Taoist Earth Mother Supreme Ancestral Temple, the "Ming Dynasty Wansheng Chaoyuan Hanging Sculpture", which is an absolutely exclusive colored sculpture. Unfortunately, it has been sealed up for the protection of cultural relics, so it is impossible to see it. In the end, it is also the beginning, "The earth can produce all things, like a mother nourishes a group of people", "I will grow five grains and six meters, I will grow all things and plants, people will eat and use me when they are alive, and they will still be in my arms after death", Houtu's kindness, blessings for all people, and blessings are boundless, thank you so much...

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Houtu Temple is located at the north end of Miaodi Street in Jiexiu City. You must visit here when you go to Jiexiu. The glazed tile roof here is magnificent. The key point is that there are no tickets here, and the inside is very clean.