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🏯【Shanghai City God Temple|A sacred place with a long Taoist charm】

#AprilGoodDestinations2025 📍 **Address**: No. 249, Fangbang Middle Road, Huangpu District ⏰ **Opening hours**: 8:00-21:00 (Temple area until 17:00) 🎫 **Ticket**: ¥10 (with three free incense sticks) ✨ **Six Hundred Years of Guardian**: 1️⃣ **Three-entry palace complex** - Construction began during the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty (1403-1424) - Huoguang Hall/Chenghuang Hall/Niangniang Hall are arranged in layers 2️⃣ **Treasure of the Temple** • The Qing Dynasty's "Abacus Couplets" contain warnings • "Shanghai County City God Appearing" during the Republic of China period 3️⃣ **Folk wonders**: ▸ Fortune-telling with gold bricks in the God of Wealth Temple (patina has been revealed) ▸ Red Rope Wishing Wall at Yue Lao Temple ▸ Lantern Festival “City Tour” Guard of Honor 🔥 **Incense code**: ▸ On the fifth day of the first lunar month, over 10,000 people came to welcome the God of Wealth ▸ The City God’s Birthday Ceremony on the 29th day of the seventh lunar month ▸ The custom of eating "Chenghuang Paste" to cure diseases during the winter solstice "From the county government office in the Ming Dynasty to the modern business district, the soul of Shanghai has always flowed through this golden lacquer carved door." #ShanghaiChenghuangMiao #TaoistTemple #FolkCulture #IntangibleHeritage #HistoricalArchitecture
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Posted: May 3, 2025
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