Where is the Yuanshan Temple in Xuanwu Mountain?

Yuanshan Temple in Xuanwu Mountain is a national key cultural relic protection unit.

Yuanshan Temple, located at the foot of Xuanwu Mountain in jieshi town, covers an area of 15 hectares, with pleasant scenery and rich cultural relics. It is the center of Minnan family belief at home and abroad. Yuanshan Temple, a famous Buddhist temple, is now the seat of Lu Fengxian Buddhist Association.

The temple was built in the first year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 127). In the twenty-seventh year of Ming Hongwu, it was rebuilt into Xuanwu Temple, and in the fifth year of Ming Wanli, it was expanded into Yuanshan Temple. After several renovations in Ming, Qing and Republic of China, it is now quite large. The Yuanshan Temple is magnificent and the building is extraordinary. Built on the mountain, it is a group of symmetrical palace-style quadrangles. The three halls lead directly to the main hall along many steps. The temple pattern design is accurate, and the shading winding path extends in all directions. There are 99 buildings such as mountain gate, front hall, middle hall, attached hall, hall, monk's room and porch. Its overall architecture combines religious architecture, palace architecture, residential architecture and garden architecture, which has distinctive local architectural characteristics. Its architectural structure is rigorous, with overlapping arches, high ridges and cornices, carved beams and painted buildings, and traditional porcelain stickers, which fully embodies the wisdom and superb architectural technology of our working people. The temple is resplendent and magnificent; Carving dragons and painting phoenixes at the main entrance, beautifully decorated; The two stone lions on both sides of the gate are mighty and lively, just like two conscientious guards guarding the Yuanshan Temple day and night.

As soon as you enter the temple gate, you can see many precious historical relics on display, including the bronze statue of "Arctic Zhenwu" in the Song Dynasty, the wooden statue of "Sakyamuni" and the incense burner of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty, the tablet of "Wei Xuanling Biao" given by the Tongzhi Emperor in the Qing Dynasty, the tablet of "Shui De Ling Chang" given by the national hero Lin Zexu in the Qing Dynasty and the tablet inscribed by Liu Yongfu, the leader of the Black Flag Army. Yuanshan Temple is one of the largest and most well-preserved religious temples in eastern Guangdong, and it is also a key cultural relic protection unit and a key scenic spot in Guangdong Province.

Address: Xuanwu Mountain, Lufeng jieshi town, Shanwei, Guangdong

Type: Daoguan Mountain Monument

Play time: suggested 1-2 hours.

Tel: 0660-869 1952

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Opening hours:

8:30- 17:00

Jieshi town: jieshi town has a long history and has always been an important coastal defense city. Since the Song Dynasty, it has been strengthened and protected. Jieshiwei was founded in the 22nd year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1389), and it is one of the 36 guards in China, with the same name as the famous Tianjinwei and Shenyang Wei. Because of its coastal geomorphological characteristics, it is called Jieshi, which is one of the three towns in Lufeng City. Jieshi town is located in the south of Lufeng City, bordering Jieshi Bay in the east and facing Jinxiang Town across the sea. The total area of the town is 1.20 square kilometers, the coastline is 40.3 kilometers, the total population is 1.7 million, and there are 4 1 village (neighborhood) committees. In 2000, the town's GDP was 8.