Surrounding Xi'an, one glance takes you back to the Ming Dynasty - the foremost temple of Huaxia

➡️Date of photography: 2024.5.1 ➡️Navigation: Chenghuang Temple, Sanyuan County, Xianyang City ➡️Ticket: Adult 40 ➡️History: Sanyuan Chenghuang Temple was originally built at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. In the second year of Hongwu (1369), Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the construction of the Sanyuan Chenghuang Temple. The existing Great Ming Haoming Stele in the temple states 'Sanyuan Chenghuang, wise and upright, holy and unfathomable,' and conferred the title 'Inspector of the People's Chenghuang, Prominent Helper Earl' to the Sanyuan Chenghuang Temple. Under his will, it was supervised and built by his second son, Prince Qin Zhu Su. In the eighth year of Hongwu (1375), the construction of Sanyuan Chenghuang Temple began. Over the Ming Chenghua, Jiajing, Wanli, and the Qing Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong, Daoguang periods, it took more than 500 years to reach its current scale. ➡️Features: Sanyuan Chenghuang Temple arranges more than forty individual buildings such as towers, halls, corridors, and pavilions (wo) in a balanced and symmetrical orthodox manner along the vertical and horizontal axes. All buildings are topped with glazed tiles, with intricately carved beams and painted rafters, a rigorous structure, and a solemn and magnificent appearance. It has the reputation of 'exhausting the skill of carpentry and the ingenuity of construction shapes.'