Quanzhou Dongyue Palace Travel Guide

Scenic spot introduction:

Quanzhou Dongyue Temple is a Taoist temple dedicated to the Taoist mountain god Dongyue Emperor, also known as Dongyue Palace. Dongyue Temple is located in Fengshan outside the east gate of Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. It was founded by Zhang Ruxi, the minister of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty in 1153, and rebuilt by Jiang Zhili, the prefect of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty in 1607. According to Li Xingjin's "Records of the Qingdi Palace on the First Mountain" of the Ming Dynasty, during the expansion of the Ming Dynasty, the original one hall was expanded into three halls, and left and right corridors were added; the statues of Emperor Dongyue and other gods were enshrined in the main hall. The east hall was called Hongwen Mansion, and the west hall was called Hongwen Mansion. The name is Yin Zhisi. The rear part and the building were destroyed, leaving only the main hall.

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The Dongyue Palace in Quanzhou is dedicated to Emperor Dongyue and has many gods. The building was large in scale and quite unique in history. In the late Qing Dynasty, Dongyue Palace was managed by a nearby Taoist priest surnamed Chen, who managed the incense and performed religious services for believers. There was also a "Jiali Opera" (puppet troupe) specially set up to perform for believers to worship gods. During the Republic of China, Quanzhou City carried out three anti-superstitious campaigns, and temples were repeatedly destroyed. By the 1930s, there was still a third main hall, a second stone temple, a stone pavilion, and a stone incense burner, which were used by various temples in Quan County to knock stones to make fire (commonly known as "begging for fire"), and it was called "famous mountain to make fire"; The first entrance contains the "No. 1" stone archway in the mountains; the east chamber contains the Lady's Temple. In the 31st year of the Republic of China (1942), the temple was destroyed again, and all the statues and cultural relics were destroyed. Today, only the third main hall remains, and the stone plaque "No. 1 in Ten Thousand Mountains" is collected in Kaiyuan Temple, but various temples still come here to "beg for fire" and offer incense.

Scenic spot features:

Cultural tours, prayers, folk customs, temples, Taoist temples