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Longshan Grottoes and Tongzi Temple Site 龙山石窟·童子寺遗址Lóngshān Shíkū · Tóngzǐ Sì Yízhǐ
National heritage site · Taiyuan, Shanxi
- Time needed
- 2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Taiyuan
- Region
- Shanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Longshan Grottoes and Tongzi Temple Site
A small group of nine Taoist cave shrines on the summit of Mount Long, most of them cut from 1234 under the Quanzhen priest Song Defang, with Yuan-dynasty figures of the Three Pure Ones and the Seven Perfected. Many of the statues have lost their heads to theft. Close by are the remains of Tongzi Temple, founded in 556 under the Northern Qi, with a worn cliff-side Buddha relief and a six-sided stone lamp tower about 4 m high, in hills known for lilac in spring and red leaves in autumn.
How to get to Longshan Grottoes and Tongzi Temple Site
On Mount Long, about 3 km north of Jinci and about 18 km south-west of central Taiyuan, on a tourist road that also leads to the Tianlongshan area.
Nearby
- Jinci Temple 晋祠 under 10 km
Song-dynasty halls, painted clay maidservants and a cross-shaped bridge at the Jin springs - Shanxi Museum 山西博物院 20 km
Bronzes of the ancient state of Jin, Buddhist statues and tomb treasures on the Fen River - Qiao Family Compound 乔家大院 40 km
Walled courtyards of a Qing merchant-banking family, the set for Raise the Red Lantern
Also within 20 km: Longquan Temple, Taishan 太山龙泉寺 (under 10 km), Taiyuan Botanical Garden 太原植物园 (under 10 km), Tianlongshan Grottoes 天龙山石窟 (under 10 km), Jinyang Ancient City Site 晋阳古城遗址 (under 10 km), Jinyuan Confucian Temple 晋源文庙 (under 10 km), Ashoka Pagoda, Jinyuan 晋源阿育王塔 (under 10 km).
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