Linfen City Dongyue Temple Scenic Spot Travel Guide

Scenic spot introduction:

The Dongyue Temple in Linfen City has a unique architectural shape, with seven features: a circular temple courtyard, a high-rise verandah, a double-story building, a shaped stage, three entrances and five doors, a combination of Buddhism and Taoism, and a kiln building. It is unique in design, with a prominent main body, left and right symmetry, dotted with pavilions and terraces, two floors of corridors, and four towering turrets in the palace courtyard. The mountains are covered with green pines and cypresses, and the towering black color makes Dongyue Temple extremely beautiful. After more than a thousand years of cultural accumulation, Dongyue Temple has well preserved cultural relics and art treasures from the Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. With its unique religious and cultural connotations, simple and elegant architectural art, and beautiful mountain and forest scenery, Dongyue Temple attracts domestic audiences. Foreign tourists.

Attractions distribution:

Dongyue Temple is located on the top of Baishan Mountain, 2 kilometers east of Pu County, Shanxi Province. The temple covers an area of ​​nearly 10,000 square meters and has more than 280 buildings of various types. With the palace hall as the center, it is a palace-style building with clear priorities and symmetry. There are the Mountain Gate, Tiantian Tower, Lingxiao Palace, Tianwang Palace, Le Tower, Meeting Hall, Xianting Pavilion, Xinggong Hall, Harem Palace, Changyan Palace, Qingxu Palace, Ksitigarbha Temple, Hell, and seventy-two divisions on the left and right. Ancillary buildings include Huachi Palace, Taiwei Temple, Guimen Pass, archway, etc. At the back, there are 18 levels of hell built in the Ming Dynasty. There are statues of the Five Sacred Emperors, the Ten Palaces of Hell, the Six Cao Judges and the Punishers of Hell. Their sizes are similar to real people. They are masterpieces of clay sculptures from the Ming Dynasty in my country. Others include iron statues, tablets, wood carvings, stone carvings, iron bells and iron lions, etc., which are basically intact.

Scenic spot qualifications:

National 4A-level scenic spot

Scenic spot features:

culture, architecture, religion