Gansu C position | Jinchang Yunzhuang Temple, exploring the grottoes of the Wei and Jin Dynasties

Climbing along the mountain road, we arrived at Yunzhuang Temple. In the Qilian Mountains, the grottoes of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the temple built along the mountain, the hermit practicing in the mountains, and the stone Buddha cliff that has not been seen. Yunzhuang Temple has been built to the present, it has experienced several ups and downs, and has been rebuilt or repaired several times. All the buildings of the temple were destroyed in the earthquake in 1927, and a large number of cultural relics such as grotto statues and murals have also been lost in history. The current temple was built by three monks at the original site in recent years, accompanied by the empty grottoes. Yunzhuang Temple is located in the Qilian Mountains about 10 kilometers away from Nanba Township, Yongchang County, Jinchang City. It is the place where Liu Sahe, a high monk of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, practiced Zen. According to expert scholars, the temple was built in the early Jin Dynasty, first carved grottoes and then built the temple, rebuilt in the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty Zhengtong, it is a famous Buddhist holy place in Yongchang history. The high monk Liu Sahe of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, who participated in the construction of the world-famous Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and accurately predicted the Shengrong Ruxiang Temple, carved the magical Yunzhuang Grottoes here and built the famous Yunzhuang Zen Temple. Yunzhuang Grottoes, there are 21 large and small grottoes existing today, distributed on the sunny side of a whole rock wall about 180 meters long and about 60 meters high under the main peak of Yunzhuang Mountain. On the Stone Buddha Cliff 2.5 kilometers southeast of Yunzhuang Grottoes, there are 9 large and small grottoes existing today. Yunzhuang Temple 📮Address: About 10 kilometers away from Nanba Township, Yongchang County, Jinchang City, Gansu 🗞️Ticket: Free