Introduction to Yanqing Temple: Yanqing Temple is located in Shanwen Village, Yangbai Township, northwest of Wutai County, Shanxi Province, 30 miles away from Dongye Town, covering an area of ​​1,040 square meters. The Great Buddha Hall of Yanqing Temple is three rooms wide and six rafters deep. It has a single-eave gable-shaped roof. The eaves are made of five pavilions as brackets, and the beams are in the shape of moon beams with six rafters. The upper and lower parts are in the shape of four rafters, and the humps and brackets are used. It is padded to a flat beam, with forks on the flat beam, and long support legs spanning two rafters at both ends. This is a rare structural form in the history of ancient Chinese architecture.

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