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Zhenguo Temple 镇国寺Zhènguó Sì
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Jinzhong, Shanxi
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Jinzhong
- Region
- Shanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Zhenguo Temple
A Buddhist temple in Haodong village, listed with Pingyao Ancient City and Shuanglin Temple as part of the 1997 World Heritage site. Its Ten Thousand Buddha Hall, dated by an inscription to 963 under the Northern Han, is one of the oldest surviving timber halls in China and is known for its large bracket sets, and it holds eleven painted clay figures of the same period. The walled complex has two courtyards, with the Tianwang Hall as its gate and a Qing-dynasty Sanfo Hall at the back.
How to get to Zhenguo Temple
In Haodong village, about 13 km north-east of Pingyao.
Nearby
- Pingyao Ancient City 平遥古城 10 km
An intact Ming walled town of courtyard inns, where China's first draft banks were born - Shuanglin Temple 双林寺 20 km
Some 2,000 painted clay Buddhas, saints and guardians crowded into ten temple halls - Qiao Family Compound 乔家大院 20 km
Walled courtyards of a Qing merchant-banking family, the set for Raise the Red Lantern - Jinci Temple 晋祠 50 km
Song-dynasty halls, painted clay maidservants and a cross-shaped bridge at the Jin springs - Mount Mian 绵山 50 km
Cliff temples, plank walkways and gorges on the mountain of the Cold Food legend
Also within 20 km: Liyinghou Temple 利应侯庙 (under 10 km), Cisheng Temple, Xiangyuan 襄垣慈胜寺 (under 10 km), Cixiang Temple 慈相寺 (under 10 km), Puming Temple, Changze 长则普明寺 (under 10 km), Yongfu Temple, Beiyijian 北依涧永福寺 (under 10 km), Zhaoyu Ancient City 昭馀古城 (under 10 km).
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