Huaxiaozi Temple

Huaxiaozi Temple

Hua Xiao Zi Ci, located in the inner side of ancient Huishan temple in Wuxi Xihui Park, worships Hua Bao, the filial son of Wuxi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In 481, the third year of Jianyuan period of the Southern Qi Dynasty, Emperor Gao of the Qi Dynasty granted the amount of "filial son" to Huabao's former residence, which was recorded in the book of the Southern Qi Dynasty.

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In the Tang Dynasty, a special ancestral temple was built, with a child bun and a long beard. The temple has been abandoned and revived for many times. The present building started in the Ming Dynasty and was completed in the Qing Dynasty. The ancestral hall faces to the East, and there are four archways in front of the gate. It is commonly known as the roofless Pavilion. It is a single room, square, wood and stone structure, with exquisite alginate decoration. It is a memorial building of the Fahrenheit clan to show loyalty, filial piety, righteousness and Kedi. It was built in the 13th year of Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty (1748). Ancestral hall gate arch type. On the top of the veranda hall, there are bamboo leaf agate and Tuoshi. The Chengze pool, which has a tracing bridge, has an octagonal stone turtle pool in the West. The walls of the pool are decorated with stone oyster heads in the north and south, and the two springs of water are taken in. Therefore, it is also called Shuanglong pool. Xiangtang, the main building in the west of the pool, was built in 1485, the 21st year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, and was renovated in 1762, the 27th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. It still maintains the style of the Ming Dynasty. It is of three rooms and eight frames, Xieshan and nanmu structure, but the square columns and column bases are all stone, with simple and elegant decoration. Its inner wall is inlaid with 35 Ming and Qing inscriptions, most of which were copied in 1984.

On November 21, 1983, it was announced by Wuxi Municipal People's government as a municipal cultural relics protection unit.

Address: no.53-1, huishanzhi street, Wuxi (in Xihui Park)

Longitude: 120.272634

Latitude: 31.579936

Tel: 0510-83333833

Ticket information: no ticket required. The ticket price of Xihui scenic area is 70 yuan.

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