Anning Confucian Temple 安宁文庙Ānníng Wénmiào

About Anning Confucian Temple

Also called the Lianran Confucian Temple, it was founded in 1302 under the Yuan dynasty in what is now the old centre of Anning, and after Ming and Qing rebuilding it grew to 22 buildings arranged in seven successive sections. Only the main Dacheng Hall and the Chongsheng Shrine survive from the old complex, and the Anning City Museum has been built around them.

How to get to Anning Confucian Temple

In central Anning, about 35 km west of Kunming, roughly an hour by road.

Nearby

• Western Hills & Dragon Gate 西山龙门 20 km
  Taoist grottoes and a single-file ledge path cut into a cliff high above Dianchi Lake
• Green Lake Park 翠湖公园 30 km
  Kunming's favourite park, where wintering gulls wheel over willow-lined causeways
• Chengjiang Fossil Site & Fuxian Lake 澄江化石地与抚仙湖 60 km
  Half-billion-year-old fossils of early animals beside one of China's deepest lakes

Also within 20 km: Caoxi Temple, Anning 曹溪寺 (under 10 km), Wenquan Cliff Inscriptions, Anning 温泉摩崖石刻群 (under 10 km), Yulong Bay 玉龙湾 (under 10 km), Shilongba Hydropower Station 石龙坝水电站 (under 10 km), Yunnan Ethnic Village 云南民族村 (20 km), Qinglong Gorge, Anning 青龙峡 (20 km).

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