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Yanqing Temple (Jade Emperor Pavilion) 延庆观Yánqìng Guàn
National heritage site · Kaifeng, Henan
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Kaifeng
- Region
- Henan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Yanqing Temple (Jade Emperor Pavilion)
A Taoist temple of the Quanzhen school founded in 1233 where its founder Wang Chongyang died in 1170, renamed Yanqing Guan in 1373 and repeatedly destroyed by floods and war. Its one old building is the Jade Emperor Pavilion, an 18 m brick tower imitating timber in Yuan style, square below with a domed, yurt-like chamber holding a bronze statue of Zhenwu, and an eight-sided pavilion on top sheltering a white-marble Jade Emperor. Sunk in a waterlogged pit after it was dug out of flood silt in 1984, the pavilion was jacked up by more than 3 m in 2010, and an exhibition hall beneath it explains the temple's history and the lifting.
How to get to Yanqing Temple (Jade Emperor Pavilion)
On Guanqian Street near the north-east shore of Baogong Lake in central Kaifeng, about 500 m west of the Zhouqiao site and a short walk from the Kaifeng Prefecture Office.
Nearby
- Iron Pagoda 开封铁塔 under 10 km
A 56-metre glazed-brick pagoda of 1049 that has outlasted floods and earthquakes
Also within 20 km: Kaifeng Prefecture Office (Kaifeng Fu) 开封府 (under 10 km), Site of Dongjing, the Northern Song Capital 北宋东京城遗址 (under 10 km), Lord Bao Memorial Temple, Kaifeng 开封包公祠 (under 10 km), Daxiangguo Temple 大相国寺 (under 10 km), Shanshangan Guild Hall 山陕甘会馆 (under 10 km), Kaifeng City Wall 开封城墙 (under 10 km).
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