[2024 Wugong Attraction] Travel Guide for City God Temple (Updated Oct)
Taoist Temples
Address:
City God's Mansion, East Street, Wugong County, Xianyang City
Recommended sightseeing time:
1-2 hours
Wugong Chenghuang Temple｜The Premier Chenghuang Temple in the Country
Wugong Chenghuang Temple is located in the middle section of East Street, Wugong Town, Wugong County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province. It covers an area of 5000 square meters, with a building area of 1656 square meters.
❤Recommended Reason: The deity of Wugong Chenghuang Temple is the only one in the country conferred the title of 'Fude King' by Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin. Therefore, Wugong Chenghuang Temple is also known as the Capital Chenghuang Mansion, holding the highest status among Chenghuang Temples nationwide. The temple's architectural structure is unique, grand, and tall, forming a complete Ming Dynasty architectural complex.
🌟Highlight Features: Wugong Chenghuang Temple faces south, with the central axis from south to north consisting of the archway, mountain gate, offering hall, main hall, and sleeping hall. There are side halls on the east and west sides. The archway is 12 meters high and 15 meters wide, making it the first archway in the Guanzhong area. The middle hall has a single-eave hip roof, with five layers of eaves brackets and prominent corner columns. The entire decoration is made of glazed components, shining in various colors, luxurious and magnificent. The hip roof is adorned with a glazed 'Two Dragons Playing with a Pearl' relief, with the pearl rolling and the dragons leaping, vividly lifelike, which is rare in ordinary temples.
✅Must Experience: Wugong Chenghuang Temple is built on the scale of a royal mansion, with the offering hall, main hall, and sleeping hall all having five bays, using dragon motifs and yellow as the main color. The roof ridges and surfaces are all covered with yellow glazed tiles.
👍Highly Recommended: Wugong Chenghuang Temple preserves the 'Reconstruction of Chenghuang Temple Stele' from the 30th year of the Wanli period (1602) and the 'Reconstruction of Chenghuang Temple Stele Record' from the Gui Chou year of the Wanli period (1613). It is a seventh batch national key cultural relic protection unit.
📍Detailed Address: Middle section of East Street, Wugong Town, Wugong County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province
🚉Transportation Guide: Drive and navigate to the Wugong exit on the Xibao Expressway, follow the Xibao North Line to Wugong Town, and drive straight to the Chenghuang Temple entrance following the signs.
🕙Opening Hours: 9:00—17:00
💰Ticket Price: Free
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Wugong City God Temple in Shaanxi
The Wugong City God Temple covers an area of 4500 square meters, and the date of its initial construction is unknown. According to the remaining inscriptions, it was rebuilt in the 41st year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1613). The existing buildings include the archway, mountain gate, east and west side halls, bell and drum tower, offering hall, main hall, and sleeping hall, and the overall architecture still retains the style of the Ming Dynasty. The offering hall is in the form of a scroll shed, and the main hall and sleeping hall are in the form of a resting mountain, all of which are five bays wide, with yellow glazed tiles covering the roof, and the ridge is in the form of a diamond flower dragon, with fine woodwork brackets. The brick carvings, stone carvings, wood carvings, glazed reliefs and colored paintings are all exquisite in craftsmanship, highly appreciable and of research value, and can be called the treasures of ancient Chinese architecture. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in China.