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Liyinghou Temple 利应侯庙Lìyìnghóu Miào
National heritage site · Jinzhong, Shanxi
- Time needed
- 30 minutes
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Jinzhong
- Region
- Shanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Liyinghou Temple
A small Yuan-dynasty temple beside Zhenguo Temple in Haodong village, dedicated to Hu Tu, a Jin state official of the Spring and Autumn period. Only the main hall survives, three bays wide on a one-metre platform with an overhanging gable roof, and it holds nine painted clay figures of the Yuan period. It pairs naturally with Zhenguo Temple about 150 m to the east.
How to get to Liyinghou Temple
In Haodong village, about 13 km north-east of Pingyao and about 150 m west of Zhenguo Temple. Like many village temples in Shanxi it is often locked, so ask in the village for the caretaker.
Nearby
- Pingyao Ancient City 平遥古城 10 km
An intact Ming walled town of courtyard inns, where China's first draft banks were born - Shuanglin Temple 双林寺 20 km
Some 2,000 painted clay Buddhas, saints and guardians crowded into ten temple halls - Qiao Family Compound 乔家大院 20 km
Walled courtyards of a Qing merchant-banking family, the set for Raise the Red Lantern - Jinci Temple 晋祠 50 km
Song-dynasty halls, painted clay maidservants and a cross-shaped bridge at the Jin springs - Mount Mian 绵山 50 km
Cliff temples, plank walkways and gorges on the mountain of the Cold Food legend
Also within 20 km: Zhenguo Temple 镇国寺 (under 10 km), Cisheng Temple, Xiangyuan 襄垣慈胜寺 (under 10 km), Cixiang Temple 慈相寺 (under 10 km), Puming Temple, Changze 长则普明寺 (under 10 km), Yongfu Temple, Beiyijian 北依涧永福寺 (under 10 km), Zhaoyu Ancient City 昭馀古城 (under 10 km).
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