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Temple and Tomb of Cangjie 仓颉庙Cāngjié Miào
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Weinan, Shaanxi
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Weinan
- Region
- Shaanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Temple and Tomb of Cangjie
A temple and tomb honouring Cangjie, the legendary inventor of Chinese writing, laid out with the temple in front and his walled tomb mound behind. Along the axis stand a screen wall, gate, offering hall, main hall and a Yuan-style rear hall, flanked by an opera stage and bell and drum towers among dozens of ancient cypresses, and a stele carved with 28 'bird-track' characters attributed to Cangjie stands inside. A ceremony for Cangjie is held here every year at the Guyu solar term in April.
How to get to Temple and Tomb of Cangjie
At Shiguan, about 25 km north-east of Baishui county town, roughly 40 minutes by road.
Nearby
- Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor 黄帝陵 50 km
Ancient cypresses, an ancestral temple and the tomb mound of the legendary Yellow Emperor
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