Opens at 08:30-18:00(Tickets available until 17:30; admission ends at 17:40)Open
Recommended sightseeing time:
1-2 hours
Phone:
0359-4527977
Follow the footprints of ancient charm and explore the study tour of ancient buildings in Yuncheng
If the wind doesn't come 🌬, let's chase the wind! Embark on a journey to seek the wisdom and aesthetics of the ancients. Let's explore the ancient architectural heritage of Yuncheng together～✨
📅Day1: 📍Guangrenwang Temple🏛→ 📍Yongle Palace🏯
📍Guangrenwang Temple - A treasure of Tang Dynasty wooden architecture, a living fossil witnessing history. It is not only a miracle of architecture but also a place of cultural heritage.
📍Yongle Palace - Built to commemorate Lü Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals. The mural art is breathtaking, with every stroke filled with stories and vitality 🎨.
📅Day2: 📍Houtu Temple🏛→ 📍Wangrong Dongyue Temple - Feiyun Tower🏢→ 📍Wangrong Ji King Temple🏛
📍Houtu Temple - A place to worship the Earth Mother, feel the reverence for nature 🌱.
📍Feiyun Tower - The first wooden tower in China, every beam and column reveals the ingenuity and wisdom of craftsmen, the mortise and tenon structure is amazing 🧩.
📍Ji King Temple - A temple that carries farming culture, a holy place where people pray for a good harvest 🌾.
📅Day3: 📍Great Buddha Temple🏞→ 📍Xinjian County Jiangzhou Office Scenic Area🏛→ 📍Longxing Temple Longxing Tower-🏯
📍Great Buddha Temple - A Buddhist holy land in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, the "world's first clay sculpture Buddha" is shocking 🙏.
📍Jiangzhou Office - An ancient government building, as if you can hear the echoes of history.
📍Longxing Tower - A mysterious tower full of legends, its stories are waiting for you to explore 🌌.
📅Day4: 📍Sima Wengong Temple🏛→ Jiezhuo 📍Guan Di Temple🏯
📍Sima Wengong Temple - A place to commemorate the great politician and historian Sima Guang, feel his spirit of integrity and honesty.
📍Guan Di Temple - As the crown of martial temples, it is not only grand in scale but also carries people's respect for the spirit of loyalty and righteousness 🛡.
📅Day5: 📍Yuncheng Museum🏛
📍Yuncheng Museum - A national first-class museum, taking you into the historical scroll of "east of the great river" 📖.
🍜Of course, how can we miss the food on the journey? Jiezhuo lamb soup 🐑, Yuncheng big plate chicken 🍗, Jiangzhou copper hot pot 🍲... every dish is a feast for the taste buds! 🍽
Yuncheng, an ancient yet vibrant city, is waiting for you to discover more stories and secrets! 🌟
Clark_10 William
Wanrong Dongyue Temple - Stone Carvings and Steles
Dongyue Temple Stone Carvings and Steles: On the stone pillars around the incense pavilion in front of the Dongyue Hall in Wanrong Dongyue Temple, there are stone beasts mainly carved as stone lions, which are vivid and lifelike. Additionally, the supporting stone pillars in front of the Dongyue Hall are carved with dragons and phoenixes. These carvings are realistic, exquisitely crafted, and awe-inspiring!
Lewis_12 Alexander
Yuncheng Dongyue Temple is not only famous for having the 'Number One Tower in China'
After arriving in Yuncheng, the phrase that locals often say is that one must visit the Feiyun Tower, which is known as the 'Number One Wooden Tower in China'. It is as renowned as the Wooden Pagoda in Ying County, and people in the know refer to them as 'the Pagoda in the North and the Tower in the South'. It was only after I arrived that I realized Feiyun Tower is just one of the buildings within the Wanrong Dongyue Temple complex, which is a national heritage site. The temple is adorned with beautifully carved beams and painted rafters, and it is certainly not just 'any ordinary place'...
🏯 About Dongyue Temple
It was originally built during the Tang Dynasty, and the existing structures are from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Because of the great fame of Feiyun Tower, many people overlook the existence of Dongyue Temple.
📸 Highlights
✅ Wumen (Noon Gate): This is the entrance hall of Dongyue Temple, a Yuan Dynasty building with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof. Its brackets and beam frames are highlights.
✅ Xian Dian (Offering Hall): The place where offerings were placed in the past, with eaves above each central column, also seems to be an ancient Yuan Dynasty building.
✅ Xiang Ting (Incense Pavilion): The place for burning incense, with four dragon columns as highlights. However, it seems to have been damaged, and the stone lions on the surrounding column heads are of various shapes.
✅ Main Hall: The plaque was written by Emperor Kangxi, and it is a double-eave hip-and-gable roof building.
Personally, I think that in Dongyue Temple, aside from Feiyun Tower, the most beautiful parts are probably the glazed ridge beasts on the roofs of the Main Hall and the Incense Pavilion. It's like a grand play on the roof, especially the pair of dragons, which are particularly charming with their teeth bared and claws outstretched.
Although Feiyun Tower is beautiful,
Please do not overlook Dongyue Temple.
A national heritage site for only 10 yuan is a bargain‼️
Olivia_Hudson19
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📍Feiyun Tower is located within Dongyue Temple in Wanrong County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province. It is a pure wooden structure and is known as 'China's number one wooden building'.
📍Feiyun Tower stands 23.19 meters tall, densely packed with dougong brackets, and all joints are mortise and tenon connections, intricate and exquisite. It is known as 'the Southern Tower and the Northern Pagoda' together with the Wooden Pagoda of Ying County.
The exterior of Feiyun Tower has three stories, but inside it actually has five floors, with a total height of about 23 meters. The ground floor is square, the middle floor changes to a folded cross shape, surrounded by a corridor, and the roof profile is varied; the third floor returns to a square shape, but the roof resembles the middle floor, topped with a cross-ridge roof. The roofs of each floor make up the rich facade composition of Feiyun Tower.
📍Feiyun Tower is not large in volume, but it has four layers of eaves, 12 triangular roof sides, and 32 roof corners. The wood surfaces are not painted, showing the natural color of the wood.
The dougong bracket shapes and structures of Feiyun Tower are extremely varied, with almost every floor having a different form of upturned eaves and bracket sets.
📍The decorative elements include dragon heads, rolled clouds, grasshopper heads, and single floating clouds, with upturned mouths in the shapes of qin-face and ruyi heads. The angle brackets are decorated with elephant noses and dragon heads, adding a rich decorative interest.
📍Feiyun Tower is a representative building within Dongyue Temple in Jiedian Town, Wanrong County. There is a local saying: 'Wanrong has a Jiedian Tower, half-stuck into the sky'.
✨The exact founding date of Feiyun Tower is unknown, but records indicate that the tower already existed during the Tang Dynasty's Zhenguan period. The existing structure was rebuilt in the eleventh year of the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty, retaining the architectural style of the Yuan and Ming dynasties.
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Dongyue Temple in Wanrong, Shanxi
Dongyue Temple in Wanrong, also known as Dai Temple or Taishan Temple, is located on West Street in Wanrong County. The creation date is unknown, but the temple existed during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty (627~649) when Fenyang County was established. It covers an area of 15,800 square meters. Dongyue Temple in Wanrong faces north and south, and the main buildings on the central axis include Feiyun Tower, Wumen, Xianggu, Bagua Pavilion, Dongyue Hall, and Yanwang Hall. The architectural layout still retains the early building regulation of setting the tower in front of the central axis. The exterior of the tower is exquisite and varied. Feiyun Tower is the main building of Dongyue Temple, and it is known as the 'South Tower and North Pagoda' with the Wooden Pagoda in Ying County. It has five rooms wide and deep, square in plan, pure wooden structure, three bright and five dark floors, 23.19 meters high, cross-hipped roof, the bottom floor is full of wooden columns, the central four columns are 15.45 meters high and reach the top floor, and the 32 wooden columns around form a chessboard shape. There are 345 sets of bucket arches on the third and fourth floors, with various shapes. Feiyun Tower is a pure wooden building with a clever structure and exquisite shape. It is a masterpiece of Chinese tower-style architecture and has great tourism and cultural research value. The overall layout of Dongyue Temple is wide and orderly. Among them, Feiyun Tower is rich and varied, and its majestic momentum is the best in the whole temple, reflecting the superb level of ancient Chinese architectural skills.