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Heming Mountain Taoist Carvings, Jiange 鹤鸣山道教造像Hèmíng Shān Dàojiào Zàoxiàng
National heritage site · Guangyuan, Sichuan
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Guangyuan
- Region
- Sichuan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Heming Mountain Taoist Carvings, Jiange
A hill about 1 km east of Pu'an, the old county town of Jiange, with 21 niches and 88 carved figures, mainly Taoist, made between the Northern Wei and the Republican era. Its best-known pieces are a figure of the deity Changsheng Baoming Tianzun, described as unique among Taoist carvings in China, a stele reproducing Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy of the 'Hymn to the Restoration of the Tang', and an inscription with a text by the Tang poet Li Shangyin.
How to get to Heming Mountain Taoist Carvings, Jiange
About 1 km east of Pu'an, Jiange's old county town, roughly 30 minutes by road south-west of Jianmen Pass.
Nearby
- Jianmen Pass 剑门关 20 km
The cliff-walled gate on the old road to Shu that Li Bai said one man could hold
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