Where is Nanchang Wanshou Palace?

Nanchang Wanshou Palace (Miaoji Wanshou Palace or Tiezhu Wanshou Palace) is a famous Taoist palace with a long history and is famous at home and abroad. It was built to commemorate the local protector of Jiangxi, commonly known as the "blessed Lord" bodhisattva Xu Zhenjun. The original site is located in Cui Hua Street of the city. Moved to Hu Xiang in early 2000, completed in May 2004 and officially opened to the outside world.

Nanchang Wanshou Palace is located in Hu Xiang Scenic Area in the southwest corner of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. Hu Xiang Scenic Area is a new scenic spot developed along the Nanchang section of the Yigan River in recent years, with an area of about 7.8 1 km2. Here, the long banks on both sides of the river are hidden, and lakes and islands are dotted. Wide waters and beautiful scenery. The water waves in the north and south rivers are soaring, and the high-rise buildings on the east and west banks are opposite.

The Ganjiang River is picturesque, like a beautiful lake. Elephant Lake is formed by the confluence of water from Nanjiang, Beijiang, Dongjiang, Xijiang and Qingshan Lake. Its plan looks like an elephant, so it is named elephant lake. The site of Wanshou Palace is a small island in Xianghu Lake, with a total area of about 60 mu. It is called "Blessing Island". The building complex with a building area of about 4,600 square meters on the island is Nanchang Wanshou Palace, which is the orthodox Dojo of the Taoist holy land. It is as eye-catching as a pearl, embedded in the whole Hu Xiang Scenic Area, and is known as "a saint in the landscape". Wanshou Palace, along the east and northwest banks of Elephant Lake, has a five-meter-wide long-dike stone bridge leading to the palace. The eastern part has convenient transportation and is the main channel for believers and tourists.

There are stone archways higher than 10 meters in the east and northwest. The official book Tiezhu Immortal on the east side endorsed "Yongzheng City" (with Wang Xizhi as the title); The northwest official book Changda South Xinjiang (inscribed by Su Dongpo) and the endorsement of Xijiang Blessed Land (inscribed by Huang Tingjian) are magnificent.

From the lake to the square in front of the palace, the Wanshou Palace is as deep as150m. From south to north, there are Gongmen and Yimen in turn, with the word "Wanshou Palace" on it. The entrance is the stage, the Zhenjun Hall, the iron column mirror and the Jade Emperor Hall, with the bell tower and drum tower on both sides, the mothering hall on the east, the Doumu Hall on the west and the Jade Book Pavilion on the back. Reasonable layout, generous design, exquisite carving and painting, with the characteristics of the times, green forests and bamboo complement each other with the lake, which can be called a fairyland on earth. Zhenjun Hall's double-eaved, mountain-leaning roofs are tall and majestic, and the statues are solemn and respectful. The Jade Emperor Hall is resplendent and magnificent, with "Infinite Heaven" and "Infinite Universe" hanging on the lintel, and "Immortals offering incense" hanging on the east and west walls. On the back of the Jade Emperor statue, there are large-scale reliefs of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea and colorful murals, giving people a feeling of flying high. Laojun Temple, also known as Yuce Pavilion, has a white marble statue (full stone, weighing 5 tons) in the center of the hall dedicated to the Taoist priest and Taoist founder Taishang Laojun, and two stone carvings of "De" and "Yin Fu" are embedded in the walls on both sides. Yuce Pavilion is not only the place where Taoist classics are collected and imperial edicts are awarded, but also the place where Taoist priests in Wanshou Palace give lectures and study classics. Above the lintel, there is a big plaque of "All Dharma-to-Sect", where you can enter practice, open your wisdom and gain insight into the spirit of the Chinese nation.

On the left front side of laojunmiao, there is a magic weapon of Taoist Temple Town Palace, which is about 2 meters long and 60 centimeters in diameter, and was specially shipped from Xinjiang. It has experienced the vicissitudes of the world and is a very spiritual wonder of silicified wood in Cretaceous-dinosaur era. On the back of laojunmiao, architects and gardeners are ingenious, piling up stones with ingenuity into a grand "big backer". On the back of the mountain, it is carefully shaped and carved into a "flowing water", a natural cave landscape, and a real statue, forming another beautiful scenic line for pilgrims and tourists to enjoy. Hu Xiang Scenic Area will also build a 60-meter-high Wanshou Pagoda on Miaoji Mountain in the southeast, which echoes the Wanshou Palace from a distance and is elegant.

Jiangxi Taoist Association is now located in Nanchang Wanshou Palace.

entrance ticket

10 yuan

Location of scenic spots

At the foot of Xiaoyao Mountain, 30 kilometers southwest of Nanchang.