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Changping Guandi Temple 常平关帝庙Chángpíng Guāndìmiào
National heritage site · Yuncheng, Shanxi
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Yuncheng
- Region
- Shanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Changping Guandi Temple
The Guan family temple stands in Changping village, the village held to be Guan Yu's birthplace, on the site of his former home. Beyond a Ming stone arch of 1523 inscribed 'Home Village of King Guan' the path passes the eight-sided, seven-storey brick Ancestral House Pagoda, about 10 m high and repaired in 1177, and reaches the Qing-dynasty Chongning Hall, flanked by separate halls for Guan Yu's wife, his sons and his ancestors, a layout that is rare among temples to him. It is a separate site from the larger Guandi temple at Xiezhou, with its own entrance.
How to get to Changping Guandi Temple
It is in Changping village, Xiezhou town, about 12 km south of central Yuncheng and about 10 km east of the Xiezhou Guandi Temple.
Nearby
- Yuncheng Salt Lake 运城盐湖 under 10 km
Brine ponds that turn red, pink and green in summer, below the Zhongtiao Mountains - Xiezhou Guandi Temple 解州关帝庙 10 km
Gateways, halls and towers honouring the deified general Guan Yu in his home district - Yongle Palace 永乐宫 30 km
Yuan-dynasty Taoist murals in a temple moved piece by piece to make way for a reservoir
Also within 20 km: Fenghuang Valley Forest Park 凤凰谷 (under 10 km), Tongshan Charitable Granary, Xiezhou 解州同善义仓 (under 10 km), Pagoda of Master Fanzhou 泛舟禅师塔 (10 km), Guanwang Temple, Yuncheng 运城关王庙 (10 km), Taipingxingguo Temple Pagoda (Anyi Pagoda) 太平兴国寺塔 (20 km).
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