Guanghua Temple

Guanghua temple is located in Baicheng Town, seven kilometers southwest of Taigu County. The temple was built in 639, the 13th year of Zhenguan in Tang Dynasty. It was named Longxing Temple. Zhao Heng, Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, once lived here. He occasionally saw a Dragon Statue. In the second year of Weiping of the Song Dynasty (999), he ordered it to be rebuilt and renamed Guanghua holy temple. In the Yuan Dynasty, the temple was decadent and rebuilt in the third year of TAIDING (1326). In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was repaired and preserved several times. This temple is quite large in scale and complete in structure. In addition to the main hall, there are four heavenly kings hall, the second floor of bells and drums, the mountain gate and two couplets to protect the Dharma, the left and right Zen courtyard, and the gallery and stables walls. In terms of hump, Jiaobei, Shuzhu and LiangFang, song and Jin techniques are still retained, which is an important material for studying the development and changes of architecture from song and Jin Dynasties to Yuan Dynasty.

Guanghua Temple

Guanghua temple is located in the Yang of Lanxi River in jianlai mountain, in the middle of the depression. The left and right mountains embrace each other, and the south looks at all the mountains, like a green screen with overlapping peaks. Founded in the later Wei Dynasty, the temple has a mountain gate, a side hall and a Mahatma hall. The Mahatma hall is dedicated to the Buddha. Two layers of murals are painted in the hall in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. The colors are gorgeous and the characters are vivid, rendering the Buddhist stories vividly. There are one ancient pine and one ancient cypress in the temple, both of which are more than one thousand years old. The name of the cypress is "Sanyi cypress". It has three trees in one book. It's magnificent and its leaves are thick and green. It's as neat as the three brothers of Jieyi. The ancient pine is named Fengsong, which looks like Danfeng spreading its wings, dancing and dancing. It is covered with more than mu.

Guanghua temple was founded in the Northern Wei Dynasty, known as Guanghua temple in the Sui Dynasty and Chongqing temple in the Song Dynasty. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Shizhen, the governor of Yanzhou army, was rebuilt. The temple is located in Shanao, with double peaks on the left and right. In front of it, there are mountains like Cuiping, and behind it, there are springs flowing into the court. Today, the four walls of the main hall of the temple are murals of the story of journey to the west of the Qing Dynasty. The rooms in the temple are arranged separately, and the ancient cypresses stand upright. Inside the gate of dongshanmen is a stele rebuilt during the reign of Emperor Qianlong and Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. There is an ancient pine in the southwest of the courtyard, with a canopy like an umbrella covering more than mu of land. It is said that it was planted in the Tang Dynasty.

In the east of the road to the north gate of the temple, there is a huge stone, a famous general's stone, which is 1.9 meters high, 2.4 meters wide and 1.2 meters thick. It is engraved with "Da pan Ruo Jing" written by Prince Chun, the magistrate of Liangfu County in the first year of Wuping in the Northern Qi Dynasty (570), with a total of 89 characters and a diameter of 13 cm.

In the west of the southeast road of the temple, there is the tomb talin site. Today, there are dozens of pagoda stones, all of which are relics of the yuan and Ming Dynasties. On the east side of the pagoda is YingFo rock, which is steep and dangerous. There is a huge stone on the top of it. The southern wall is engraved with Prince Chun's official script Prajna paramita Sutra, which contains 85 words. Its characters are clumsy and vigorous, and are highly praised by calligraphers of all dynasties. Zhao Mingcheng's Jin Shi Lu in Song Dynasty and Feng Yunpeng's Jin Shi Suo in Qing Dynasty all contain his articles.

In the east of YingFo rock is Heishan, and in the East is Songshan, with Songyan cave; in the southeast is zhoumeng mountain, with zhoumeng cave, which can be connected.

Address: Baicheng Town, 7 km southwest of Taigu County, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province

Longitude: 112.510511

Latitude: 37.364905

Tel: 0354-2636528

Ticket information: 60 yuan

Opening hours: 30 yuan

Chinese PinYin : Guang Hua Si