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Chunyang Palace, Taiyuan 纯阳宫Chúnyáng Gōng
National heritage site · Taiyuan, Shanxi
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Taiyuan
- Region
- Shanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Chunyang Palace, Taiyuan
A Taoist temple dedicated to Lü Dongbin (Chunyang), called the largest and best preserved in Taiyuan by the city government, founded in the late Song or early Yuan and greatly enlarged in 1597 by the Princes of Jin. Five courtyards climb from a wooden pailou and the Daode Gate to the Ming Lüzu Hall and a Jiugong Bagua courtyard laid out on the eight-trigrams plan, with caves and pavilions in the upper courtyards. It now houses the Shanxi Ancient Architecture Museum, whose collection includes steles, statues, painted sculpture and murals.
How to get to Chunyang Palace, Taiyuan
At the north-west corner of Wuyi Square in the centre of Taiyuan; closed on Mondays.
Nearby
- Shanxi Museum 山西博物院 under 10 km
Bronzes of the ancient state of Jin, Buddhist statues and tomb treasures on the Fen River - Jinci Temple 晋祠 20 km
Song-dynasty halls, painted clay maidservants and a cross-shaped bridge at the Jin springs - Qiao Family Compound 乔家大院 50 km
Walled courtyards of a Qing merchant-banking family, the set for Raise the Red Lantern
Also within 20 km: Peng Zhen Memorial Hall and Former CCP Taiyuan Branch Site 中共太原支部旧址 (under 10 km), Former Shanxi Daxuetang (Shanxi University Hall) 山西大学堂旧址 (under 10 km), Taiyuan Confucian Temple 太原文庙 (under 10 km), Chongshan Temple 崇善寺 (under 10 km), Taiyuan Ancient Mosque 太原清真古寺 (under 10 km), Changjing Tower 唱经楼 (under 10 km).
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