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Cao'e Temple 曹娥庙Cáo'é Miào
National heritage site · Shaoxing, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shaoxing
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Cao'e Temple
A temple on the west bank of the Cao'e River honouring Cao E, an Eastern Han girl who drowned in the river trying to save her father and became a model of filial piety; she was reburied here with a memorial stele in 151, and a shrine grew up around her grave. The present buildings, set out on three parallel axes with an opera stage, date from a rebuilding of 1931–36 after a fire in 1929 and are known for the dense carving of their columns, beams, brackets and doors. The temple also keeps a Song copy of the Cao E stele from 1093 and more than 30 couplets and plaques by noted calligraphers.
How to get to Cao'e Temple
In Cao'e subdistrict on the edge of central Shangyu, about 28 km east of Shaoxing's old city and 7 km south of Shaoxing East high-speed station, by road.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Chunhui Middle School Old Campus, Baima Lake 春晖中学旧址 (under 10 km), Fenghuangshan Kiln Sites 凤凰山窑址群 (10 km), Jianchu Land-Purchase Inscription 汉建初元年买地刻石 (10 km).
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