Guisheng Temple

Guisheng Temple

Guisheng temple is located in the West lion mountain of Xiaolongtan Township, Kaiyuan city, Yunnan Province.

Guisheng temple was built in 1667, and rebuilt in 1751. The existing front hall, main hall and two chambers are the main Buddhist temples in Shishan. Guisheng temple is surrounded by towering green cypresses and circulating streams, attracting countless visitors. It was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Kaiyuan city in 1983. On the wall of the chamber in the temple, there is a famous stele named "Shi Shan travel notes poem" by Yin Zhuang. The stone tablet of "Shi Shan travel notes poem" was carved in 1797. It is 94 cm long and 60 cm wide. It is made of blue stone. There are four seven character poems written by Yin zhuangtu, a Bachelor of the Qianlong cabinet of the Qing Dynasty, who went back to his hometown to visit Shishan. The poems are beautiful, neat in rhyme and easy in calligraphy. They describe the beautiful scenery of Shishan. Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture is located in Yunnan Guizhou Plateau in South Yunnan. There are limestone mountains, plateaus, valleys, dam areas, hills and other landforms in the prefecture. The altitude drop is large and the terrain is extremely complex. The region has abundant precipitation, sufficient light, small annual temperature difference, humid climate and monsoon climate, which mainly belongs to subtropical plateau monsoon climate.

As the Tropic of cancer crosses the state, the temperature and humidity in the state increase with the decrease of latitude from north to south, showing the characteristics of hot and humid. The rainy season in Honghe Prefecture is mainly from May to October, and the frost period is from late November to January and February of the next year. Therefore, to travel in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, we should avoid the summer and autumn when it is hot and rainy, and the best time is from March to April and from September to November when the light is mild and the rainfall is less.

Address: West lion mountain, Xiaolongtan Township, Kaiyuan city, Yunnan Province

Longitude: 103.1461795139

Latitude: 23.7700631413

Chinese PinYin : Gui Sheng Si