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Yuquan Taoist Temple 玉泉观Yùquán Guàn
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Tianshui, Gansu
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Tianshui
- Region
- Gansu
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Yuquan Taoist Temple
A Taoist temple complex climbing the foot of Tianjing Mountain on the north side of Tianshui's old city, founded in the Tang dynasty and rebuilt by Quanzhen Taoists from the Yuan onwards. Its Ming and Qing halls rise in terraces up the slope, among them a Ming Jade Emperor Hall, and it keeps more than fifty inscribed steles, including a four-sided Yuan stele. A temple fair, known locally as chaoguan, is held on the ninth day of the first lunar month.
How to get to Yuquan Taoist Temple
On Yuquan Road on the north edge of central Tianshui, about 1 km from the city's central square.
Nearby
- Maijishan Grottoes 麦积山石窟 40 km
Painted clay Buddhas in caves hung high on a haystack-shaped cliff
Also within 20 km: Houjie Mosque 后街清真寺 (under 10 km), Fuxi Temple, Tianshui 伏羲庙 (under 10 km), Hu Family Residences (Tianshui Folk Museum) 胡氏古民居 (under 10 km), Ji Xin Temple, Tianshui 纪信祠 (under 10 km), Nanguo Temple (Nanshan Scenic Area) 南郭寺 (under 10 km).
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