#Baoxiang Temple Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Temples
Address:
Baoxiangsi Rd, Wenshang Xian, Jining Shi, Shandong Sheng, China
Opening times:
Opens at 08:00-17:00
Recommended sightseeing time:
1-2 hour
Phone:
0537-7227779,0537-7234106,0537-7234103
Explore the Surroundings of Liaocheng! The Grand and Majestic Baoxiang Palace
📍Location: Shangshu Road, Wenshang County, Jining City, Shandong Province
⏰Time: About an hour
🚗Transportation: Accessible by both bus and self-driving, less than an hour from the city center by bus.
📸Travel Photography Tips:
✔The exterior of Baoxiang Palace is grand and has a foreign flair, and from a high vantage point, you can overlook the entire Baoxiang Temple and Wenshang city.
✔Baoxiang Temple is bustling, but this place is quiet, so be mindful of heights, especially the elderly and children when climbing high.
✔Half a day is enough for a visit to Wenshang, with the itinerary: Baoxiang Palace👉Baoxiang Temple👉Zhongdu Museum (take a break at noon, closed on Mondays).
✔Viewed from the opposite bridge, it feels like a golden pagoda on the water, and the scenery is even better in summer~
✔The red wall outside Baoxiang Palace frames the tower, giving off a Xi'an vibe!
INDIE MANN
Jining Wenshang, truly an underrated treasure of a tourist city
👉 Wenshang County, formerly known as Zhongdu, is located in the northernmost part of Jining, bordering Liangshan County, Yanzhou District, Rencheng District, and Dongping County and Ningyang County of Tai'an City.
👉 This place is really a severely underrated treasure of a tourist city!
📝 If you come to Wenshang for tourism, it is recommended to check in at the following five places!
▪️ Zhongdu Museum
Located south of Baoxiang Temple scenic area and west of Lotus Square, the exhibition hall is divided into two floors, with the first floor for historical relics exhibition and the second floor for Buddhist relics exhibition, covering an exhibition area of 800 square meters. The exhibition hall uses comprehensive exhibition means to show the cultural development of Wenshang in all aspects and from multiple angles. Currently, the museum has a collection of over 50,000 cultural relics, making it one of the museums with the largest number of cultural relics in Shandong Province at the county level, which is well worth a visit.
▪️ Baoxiang Temple
A Buddhist cultural theme scenic area and experience site that integrates the display and worship of holy objects, religious study and practice, and tourism and leisure.
⚠️ The main attractions include: Baoxiang Temple Pagoda Yard, Baoxiang Temple Building Complex, Zhongdu Museum, Buddha Worship Square, and Buddha Worship Avenue.
▪️ Wenshang Confucian Temple
Wenshang Confucian Temple is a national 3A level scenic spot, dedicated to the worship of the great thinker and educator Confucius. The existing main buildings include the Ji Gate, Dacheng Hall, and Minglun Hall, with newly built Confucius Zhaizhongdu Cultural Exhibition Area and Imperial Examination Cultural Exhibition Area on the east and west sides.
▪️ Zhongdu Folk Museum
Located at the northeast corner of the Lotus Lake Wetland Scenic Area in Wenshang County, the main building is a Ming and Qing folk-style antique building with an elegant and unique architectural style. It is the largest folk culture theme museum in southwestern Shandong with the most exhibits and the most distinctive features. It displays the folk culture of southwestern Shandong, especially the local marriage customs, childbirth customs, birthday customs, folk crafts, theatrical arts, quyi (traditional Chinese performing arts), and folk production and living customs of Jining and Wenshang.
▪️ Lotus Lake
👣 Tour route: Lotus Square—Lotus Bridge—Welcome Avenue—Viewing Platform—Yongji Bridge—Li Bai Square—Wetland Exhibition Area—Zhongdu Folk Museum
📍 Address: 2 kilometers north of the Binhu Boulevard in Wenshang Street, Wenshang County
💰 Ticket price: Free admission for the first entry ticket
MATTHEW GONZALES
Jining | Baoxiang Temple ~ Guide
Jining Baoxiang Temple Guide
I mean, I chose to worship between work and progress!
See the God of Wealth kneel and kowtow!
Baoxiang Temple is in Wen Shang County, Jining, about 40 minutes by taxi from Jining city center. It is a very worthwhile 4A scenic spot hidden in the county. It is divided into two parts, one is the ancient temple where you can pray, and the other is the viewing platform. These two places need to buy tickets separately. The play time depends on the individual, and it feels that 1-2 hours is enough. Please guide 100 yuan, the progress will be faster.
Location: No. 78 Shangshu Road, Wenshang County
Ticket: 50 yuan (free for locals)
Time: 8:00 am-17:30 pm
"The first scenic spot in the Northern Dynasty, the first Taoist field in the East" covers more than 600 acres. Here are the golden Buddha of Sakyamuni and the eighteen Arhats of bluestone color sculpture. In the underground palace deep in the pagoda, there are the real Buddha teeth of Sakyamuni, relics, which are very worth seeing.
This ancient temple is full of incense, and the people who go to worship are also endless. It is recommended that you go in the morning and do not take pictures of the Buddha when taking pictures.
The main check-in places:
Prince Lingzong Tower → Daxiong Hall → Offering Hall → Xiangshui Sea → Underground Palace. It is very worth coming to worship and pray.
Baoxiang Palace:
At the back of Baoxiang Temple, you need to come out of Baoxiang Temple and walk a distance. The separate ticket is 20 yuan. It was built later, but there is a unfinished inside. Buying a ticket to go in is just to climb the stairs to the lotus seat. If you want to take pictures, you can go in. If you don’t take pictures, there is nothing worth seeing inside, and there are not many people.
From the outside, it looks a bit exotic. It is designed according to the characteristics of the Ashoka Tower, combined with some ancient architectural elements and totems, and the characteristics of Wenshang Buddhist cultural relics, to create a viewing platform.
TrekkingTreasures
Jining Baoxiang Temple | The first Taoist temple in the east
Baoxiang Temple
Baoxiang Temple is located in the northwest corner of Wenshang County, Jining City, and was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty. It is known as the 'first famous place in the Northern Dynasty, the first Taoist temple in the east.'
The Baoxiang Temple scenic area covers more than 600 acres, and the worship hall currently worships the Sakyamuni Tanmu gilded Buddha and the eighteen Arhats made of colored stone.
The tower palace covers an area of 80 square meters, and the deep part of the tower palace worships more than a hundred Buddhist relics such as the real tooth and relics of Sakyamuni.
It takes about 1 hour to drive from Jining city to this place.