Ten Taoist temples in China

Taoism is a traditional religious culture originating in China, and its history can be traced back to 2000 BC. In the course of its thousands of years of development, there are many religious traces left in all parts of China, Taoist temple is one of the most important. Taoist temple is not only a place for Taoist worship and religious activities, but also a place that reflects the exquisite art of Chinese architecture. So do you know what are the famous Taoist temples in China? What are the Taoist temples that are revered as “Taoist holy places”? Today, Xiaobian will introduce the ten famous Taoist mountains and temples in China, including Luyi Taiqing Palace, Wa Palace, Kunming Golden Hall Taihe Palace, Quanzhou Yuanmiao Temple, Taihao Mausoleum, He Xiangu Home Temple, and so on. Let’s understand it together!

Ten famous Taoist temples in China

Luyi Taiqing Palace

When it comes to the famous Taoist temple in China, the Taiqing Palace in Luyi will surely occupy a place. Taiqing Palace, as the birthplace and hometown of Laozi, the founder of Taoist school, has built a temple for more than 1800 years, and reached its peak in the architectural scale during the period of Xuanzong Li Longji in the Tang Dynasty, covering an area of about eight hectares and 72 acres, around 40 li. However, due to historical reasons, Taiqing Palace was repeatedly destroyed, and then several markets were rebuilt, and most of the existing buildings were built in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Today, Taiqing Palace has five main buildings of Taiji Hall, one iron pillar, three ancient cypress, nine inscriptions, and a full moon well. The cave Xiao Palace only has five Qing Dynasty buildings, three Madonna halls, three doll halls, and one Song tablet. 【 Details >>】

Add: No.15, Taiqinggong Town, Luyi County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province

Wa Imperial Palace

According to legend, the Imperial Palace of Wa is a place where Nu Wa “kneaded the earth to make man and refined stone to mend the sky”, so it is regarded as one of the five holy places for ancestor worship in China. As a large building scale in China, built earlier to worship the ancient complex of human ancestor Nu Wa, Wa Palace is known as the “Chinese ancestral Temple”, which covers an area of about 5 square kilometers. There are many interesting attractions in the scenic area of Wa Royal Palace, including the Nuwa Museum, Wa Emperor Pavilion, Moya Carving Sutras, Wa Royal Palace, Butian Valley, Stone Carving Museum, and Nu Wa Festival. Xiao Bian thinks that such a place where natural and cultural landscapes complement each other is definitely a good place for you to travel and worship. 【 Details >>】

Add: Suobo Town, Shexian County, Handan City, Hebei Province

Kunming Golden Hall Taihe Palace

Kunming Taihe Palace is located in Mingfeng Mountain in Kunming, Yunnan Province. It was built in 1602 in the thirtieth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. Mingfeng Mountain is known as the “Mingfeng scenery” reputation, here the mountains are towering, the peaks are green, Taihe Palace is built here. At the beginning of its construction, the Palace of Supreme Harmony was modeled after Wudang, with three heavenly gates set up on a mountaineering path that eventually led to the Golden Hall of the Palace of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City. As a rare ancient Taoist Zhenwu temple with Zijin City and Golden Hall in China, the Golden Hall of Taihe Palace shows the historical facts of the development of Taoism in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and has precious historical value. It is a famous Taoist temple in China. 【 Details >>】

Address: Jindian, Panlong District, Kunming, Yunnan Province

Quanzhou Yuan Miao view

Quanzhou Yuanmiao Temple formerly known as “White Cloud Temple”, after renamed to Longxing Guan, Tianqing Guan, Xuanmiao Guan, until the Qing Dynasty Kangxi seven years, in order to avoid the sacred ancestor Xuanye taboo, changed its name to “Yuan Miao Guan”, has been used until now. Yuanmiao Temple, as the first Taoist temple built after the introduction of Taoism into Quanzhou, is also the first Taoist temple after the introduction of Taoism into Fujian. It has always been the center of Taoist activities in Quanzhou. Every national or Taoist festival and the birth of God, it will hold a grand activity ceremony and set up an altar to celebrate the Taoist festival. Every year, the grand palace temple will be held to the Yuan Miao View “Jin table”, “leading” ceremony

Add: No.56 Xinfukou, East Street, Licheng District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province

Jingchuan big cloud Temple, Queen Mother Palace scenic spot

Wangmu Palace scenic area is located in Pingliang City, Gansu Province on the “Hui mountain”, also known as Huishan Wangmu Palace, is the birthplace of the West Wangmu culture, the ancestral temple of the West Wangmu. The palace of the Queen Mother was built in the Yuan-feng period of the Western Han Dynasty, and later it was rebuilt many times, and it was destroyed by the war in the third year of Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty. In the 1990s, based on the promotion of culture and the development of tourism, the civil managers Association planned the construction and renovation for the third time, and successively completed the main buildings such as the West Queen Mother Hall and the East Prince Hall. Nowadays, the main buildings of the Royal Mother Palace include the main hall, the Hall of three Emperors, the Hall of five Emperors, and the hall of East Princes, among which there are more beautiful points such as Yaochi, Huiwu, Gongshan Xiao Bell, Huishan Wangmu Palace Ode tablet. 【 Details >>】

Address: Jingchuan County, Pingliang City, Gansu Province

Tai Haoling

Taihao Mausoleum Temple, located in Taihao Fu Xi Mausoleum Scenic area, is one of the eighteen famous mausoleums in China. It is a large mausoleum temple in memory of Taihao Fuxi, the first ancestor of Chinese culture. Taihao Mausoleum Temple covers an area of about 875 acres, 750 meters long in the north and south direction, and is divided into three “imperial cities” : outer city, inner city and the Forbidden City. The main attractions in the temple include the Wu Dynasty Gate, Daoyi Gate, Xiantian Gate, Taiji Gate, Tongtian Hall, Xianren Hall, Taishi Gate, eight trigram Altar, Taihao Fuxi Mausoleum, yarrow Garden, etc. Xiaobian believes that such a large scale, reasonable planning and layout, mausoleum temple integration, profound meaning of the mausoleum temple complex, in the country are extremely rare, will be a good place for cultural relics tourism. 【 Details >>】

Address: Huaiyang District, Zhoukou City, Henan Province

He Xian Gu Family Temple

He Xiangu Home Temple is located in the He Xiangu tourist scenic spot, which is one of the eight scenic spots in Zengcheng, also known as “small floor Xian source”. As a religious and cultural scenic spot, He Xiangu Family Temple is the hometown of He Xiangu, one of the “Eight immortals” of Chinese Taoism, with unique human resources and a long cultural history. He Xiangu Scenic spot consists of He Xiangu Family Temple, temple top Xiantao, Xiangu Well, Huangyan Xiangu Cave, He Xiangu Pagoda, He Xiangu statue, He Xiangu Bell Tower, Millennium Fairy Vine Garden, Jizhou Island, He Zi Li Village, Xian GUI Village and other scenic spots. Today, there are hundreds of ancestral halls throughout the country dedicated to the worship of His family’s aunt, but only one is used as a family temple. 【 Details >>】

Add: No.16 Taian Road, Xiaolou Town, Zengcheng District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province

Guangdong Yuan Xuan Taoist Temple

Yuanxuan Taoist Temple is one of the largest Taoist temples in Guangdong Province, and it is also the center of Taoist activities in Guangdong and a tourist attraction. The construction area of the temple is about 500 square meters, the shape of the temple is octagonal triple sky surface, the rotunda, the top is nearly 30 meters high, and the ceiling is painted with the Taiji diagram, implying that the earth is round and bright without condensation. The main buildings of the Taoist temple, including Sanqing Hall, Taihe Building, Sanqing Hall, Lingxiao Hall, Pure Yang Hall, Yuan Chen Hall, Guanyin Hall, Huang Da Xian Hall, etc., these buildings absorb the characteristics of classical palaces and temples, the built mountain gate archway as the center gate, tall and wide. 【 Details >>】

Add: Huadu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

Baiyun Temple in Beijing

Beijing Baiyun Temple is one of the three ancestral temples of Quanzhen Taoism, originally built in the Tang Dynasty, formerly known as Tianchang Temple, Taiji Palace and Changchun Palace. After the death of Qiu Chuji in the fourth year of Kim Jong UN’s college (1227), his disciple Yin Zhiping established a temple on the east side of Changchun Palace and named it Baiyun Temple. After the war, reconstruction, fire and other events, in the forty-fifth year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1706), the overall layout and main temple regulations of today’s Baiyun Temple were formed. Today, the White Cloud Temple covers a total area of about 1 hectare, including the mountain gate, Lingguan Hall, Jade Emperor Hall, Old Law Hall, Qiu Zu Hall, Sanqing Pavilion and other buildings, is a very famous Taoist temple scenic spot. 【 Details >>】

Address: No. 9 Baiyun Guan Street, Xicheng District, Beijing

Ruicheng County Yongle Palace

Yongle Palace, also known as Dachunyang Longevity Palace, because it is located in Yongle Town, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, is the worship of Lu Dongbin Taoist temple. Yongle Palace is famous for its murals, which are often comparable to Dunhuang murals, and have a high artistic value, and a large number of murals, which is a rare thing in the world. Yongle Palace attractions include Sanqing Hall, Chongyang Hall, Pure Yang Hall and Yongle Palace murals, of which Sanqing Hall is the main hall of Yongle Palace, dedicated to the Taoist Yuanshi Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun, Taishang Laojun, collectively known as Sanqing. At the same time, the temple mural “Chaoyuan Map” is world-famous, 4.26 meters high, 94.68 meters across, a total of 403.34 square meters, painted with 286 gods, showing the lineup of large-scale ceremonial worship.