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Longxing Temple 隆兴寺Lóngxīng Sì
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Shijiazhuang, Hebei
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shijiazhuang
- Region
- Hebei
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Longxing Temple
A Buddhist temple founded in 586 under the Sui dynasty and enlarged by order of the first Northern Song emperor, laid out along a long north–south axis and counted among the earliest, largest and best-preserved temple complexes in China. Its highlights are the Mani Hall of 1052, cross-shaped in plan with a gabled porch on each side and a hanging-sculpture Guanyin inside, the revolving sutra cabinet, and the Great Compassion Pavilion with its very large bronze thousand-armed Guanyin of the Song period. The architect Liang Sicheng surveyed the complex in 1933 and rated it the finest temple outside Beijing.
How to get to Longxing Temple
In the old town of Zhengding, about 13 km north-north-east of central Shijiazhuang; the Great Compassion Pavilion reopened over the National Day holiday in October 2026 after about two years of structural repairs.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Rongguo Mansion, Zhengding 荣国府 (under 10 km), Lingxiao Pagoda 凌霄塔 (under 10 km), Zhengding Prefectural Confucian Temple 正定府文庙 (under 10 km), Stele of the Prince of Qinghe (Li Baochen Stele) 大唐清河郡王纪功载政之颂碑 (under 10 km), Kaiyuan Temple, Zhengding 开元寺 (under 10 km), Liang Ancestral Hall, Zhengding 正定梁氏宗祠 (under 10 km).
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