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Qingxu Temple, Pingyao 清虚观Qīngxū Guàn
National heritage site · Jinzhong, Shanxi
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Jinzhong
- Region
- Shanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Qingxu Temple, Pingyao
A Taoist temple complex just inside the east gate of Pingyao's town wall, traditionally founded in 657 in the Tang dynasty and given its present name in 1064. The Dragon-and-Tiger Hall at the entrance is Yuan-dynasty, while the Hall of the Three Pure Ones and the other buildings are Ming and Qing. No Taoist priests live here now, and the buildings house Pingyao County Museum, whose collection includes Buddhist and Taoist carvings; the Hall of the Three Pure Ones keeps a Yuan-dynasty decree stele in Phags-pa script.
How to get to Qingxu Temple, Pingyao
On East Street inside the walled old town of Pingyao, about 100 m from the Lower East Gate.
Nearby
- Pingyao Ancient City 平遥古城 under 10 km
An intact Ming walled town of courtyard inns, where China's first draft banks were born - Shuanglin Temple 双林寺 under 10 km
Some 2,000 painted clay Buddhas, saints and guardians crowded into ten temple halls - Qiao Family Compound 乔家大院 30 km
Walled courtyards of a Qing merchant-banking family, the set for Raise the Red Lantern - Mount Mian 绵山 40 km
Cliff temples, plank walkways and gorges on the mountain of the Cold Food legend - Wang Family Compound 王家大院 40 km
Fortified courtyard 'castles' of a Qing merchant and official clan on a loess hillside
Also within 20 km: City God Temple, Pingyao 平遥城隍庙 (under 10 km), Pingyao Market Tower (Shilou) 平遥市楼 (under 10 km), Huiji Bridge, Pingyao 平遥惠济桥 (under 10 km), Pingyao Confucian Temple 平遥文庙 (under 10 km), Rishengchang 日升昌票号旧址 (under 10 km), Former Residence of Lei Lütai 雷履泰旧居 (under 10 km).
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