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Pujiu Temple 普救寺Pǔjiù Sì
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Yuncheng, Shanxi
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Yuncheng
- Region
- Shanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Pujiu Temple
Pujiu Temple is the setting of the love story in The Story of the Western Wing, in which the scholar Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying meet, and its brick pagoda is nicknamed the Yingying Pagoda after the heroine. The temple is recorded from the Sui dynasty at the latest, was destroyed by fire in 1920 and left only the Ming-dynasty pagoda and three cave shrines, and its main buildings were restored from 1986. The Yongji culture and tourism bureau counts the pagoda among China's four famous ancient echo structures, with a toad-like croak heard from around its base.
How to get to Pujiu Temple
It is in Puzhou town on the old Yellow River crossing, about 10 km west of Yongji and about 70 km by road west-south-west of central Yuncheng, close to the Stork Tower and the Tang-dynasty iron oxen.
Nearby
- Yongle Palace 永乐宫 40 km
Yuan-dynasty Taoist murals in a temple moved piece by piece to make way for a reservoir - Mount Hua 华山 50 km
Sheer granite peaks, stairways cut into cliffs and a notorious plank walk - Xiezhou Guandi Temple 解州关帝庙 50 km
Gateways, halls and towers honouring the deified general Guan Yu in his home district
Also within 20 km: Pujin Ferry and Puzhou Ancient City 蒲津渡与蒲州故城 (under 10 km), Dongyaowen Memorial Archways 东姚温牌坊 (under 10 km), Wangu Temple, Yongji 万固寺 (under 10 km), Stork Tower 鹳雀楼 (under 10 km), Qiyan Temple Pagoda Forest 栖岩寺塔林 (under 10 km), Shentan Grand Canyon, Yongji 神潭大峡谷 (under 10 km).
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