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Conquered by peacock blue, Jiexiu Taiheyan Glazed Archway,

💯 A national treasure because of an archway 🎡 🏯 Known as the most beautiful glazed archway in China 🎊 Jiexiu Taiheyan Glazed Archway, Shanxi 🌈 Has become popular with the help of netizens 🚶 When we stand in front of the real thing 🦚 We are completely conquered by the peacock blue 🏯 Taiheyan Archway Introduction ✅ Taiheyan Archway was originally the archway in front of Lizhenwu Temple, but the temple was destroyed, and only the archway remains. The archway has an inscription from the 23rd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1897). In 2006, it became the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and it is one of the few fine products among the existing glazed archways of the Qing Dynasty in northern China. ✅ The archway faces north and south, with four pillars, three doors, and three floors, with a total height of about 4.5 meters, and a hip roof. Below is a stone-built Xumi seat, with seven steps and three eaves in the Ming Dynasty, and five steps and one eave in the next room. ✅ The archway's eaves, door plaques, tile ridges, beast ridge decorations, and various floral patterns are all made of yellow, green, and blue glazed components. ✅ The Taiheyan Archway is rich in content, from dragon patterns, auspicious beasts, flowers, birds, fish, insects, figures, landscapes, to couplets and plaques, especially the wording, which has both Taoist metaphors and the beautiful wishes of traditional Chinese culture for good luck, happiness, and peace, fully reflecting the wisdom and talents of the ancients, and is a typical masterpiece of the development of Chinese glazed art to the peak of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. 📍 Specific Address 🏯 The archway is located in the east of Beixinwu Village, Yian Town, Jiexiu City, in an abandoned factory in a residential area. Follow the navigation, and if you can't find it, ask a passerby! 🚃 About Transportation 🚖 Taiheyan Archway is not far from Jiexiu East Station. After leaving Jiexiu Station, take a taxi directly (you can try a ride-sharing service or carpool with others, and let the driver wait for a while before taking the car back. The round trip is not particularly expensive) 🚖 You can also take a ride-sharing service from Lingshi East Station to Taiheyan Archway, and then let the driver take you back to the Jiexiu hotel, which costs only sixty or seventy yuan in total! 🚃 Public transportation: Take bus 202 to Beixinwu Village, get off and walk nearly 1 km to reach, but bus 202 runs once an hour, and it takes too much time on the road, so it is not recommended to take public transportation 🎫 Tickets There are local villagers guarding the entrance, 5 yuan per person! Super cost-effective
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Posted: Feb 9, 2025
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