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Jintai Taoist Temple 金台观Jīntái Guàn
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Baoji, Shaanxi
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Baoji
- Region
- Shaanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Jintai Taoist Temple
A Taoist temple complex founded in the late Yuan or early Ming dynasty on the loess terrace above central Baoji, known through the tradition that Zhang Sanfeng, legendary founder of the Wudang school and of taijiquan, practised here. Its buildings rise up the slope along a central axis, among them the two-storey Jade Emperor Pavilion, an octagonal pavilion and Sanfeng Cave, and the temple is the core of the Taiji Source Cultural Area.
How to get to Jintai Taoist Temple
On the hillside about 0.5 km north of Baoji railway station, within walking distance.
Nearby
- Baoji Bronze Ware Museum 宝鸡青铜器博物院 under 10 km
Zhou dynasty bronzes, led by the He zun and the earliest known written 'Zhongguo'
Also within 20 km: Beishouling Neolithic Site 北首岭遗址 (under 10 km), Tomb of Li Maozhen, Prince of Qin 大唐秦王陵 (under 10 km), Changleyuan Wartime Industrial Site (Shenxin Cotton Mill) 长乐塬抗战工业遗址 (under 10 km).
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