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Huangliangmeng Lüxian Temple 黄粱梦吕仙祠Huángliángmèng Lǚxiān Cí

National heritage site · Handan, Hebei

Huangliangmeng Lüxian Temple (黄粱梦吕仙祠)
Photo: Fanghong, CC BY-SA 4.0
Time needed
1–2 hours
Days to budget
Half a day
City
Handan
Region
Hebei
Type
Heritage
Listed as
National heritage site

About Huangliangmeng Lüxian Temple

A Daoist temple complex north of Handan built around the Tang-dynasty tale of the Yellow Millet Dream, in which the scholar Lu Sheng naps on a pillow at an inn while millet steams and lives a whole career in his dream, only to wake before the meal is cooked. The main axis runs through a lotus pond, an octagonal pavilion and bell and drum towers to halls for the immortals Zhongli and Lü Dongbin and to a hall with a reclining figure of Lu Sheng, and more than thirty stone tablets record repairs, visitors' inscriptions and poems. Most surviving buildings date from the Ming and Qing periods.

How to get to Huangliangmeng Lüxian Temple

In Huangliangmeng town, about 7 km north of central Handan.

Nearby

Also within 20 km: Zhaoyuan Park 赵苑公园 (under 10 km), Congtai Park 丛台公园 (under 10 km), Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Martyrs' Cemetery 晋冀鲁豫烈士陵园 (under 10 km), Handan Garden Expo Park 邯郸园博园 (under 10 km), Zhushan Inscription 朱山石刻 (10 km), Zhao Royal City, Handan 赵邯郸故城 (10 km).

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