Introduction to the ruins of Youqi Temple: Youqi Temple is located on the south side of Taoshan. The main building of the original temple, the Main Hall, was built in the 17th year of Dading of Jin Dynasty (1178). Puxian Zhenren, Eighteen Arhats, etc. The building was demolished in 1971, and now only the west room, bell tower, etc. and the Fan Gong Temple built in the 21st year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty were originally built by Li Huanshi, Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty (1881). There is a Dharani sutra building on the top of the Buddha's head, which is now in the inscription exhibition room in the east corridor of Dai Temple. Behind the ruins of Xiyou Temple, there are several pillar foundation stones, which are buried in the original foundation position. Among them, a group of buildings in the west has an eight-sided stone pillar, half a meter in diameter, thin at the top and thick at the bottom, with a height of four meters three and seven meters. , engraved with phoenix and peony patterns, and lightly engraved lines. There is a vague text on it, signed in the third year of Xuanhe of Song Dynasty (1122). A group of buildings in the east have lotus-shaped column bases, which are well preserved. The pillars are 80 centimeters square. Judging from the ruins, the scale of the original building was huge, and there is no historical record of its construction age.

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