Tiantai Nunnery

Shanxi Pingshun Tiantai Nunnery was built in the fourth year of Tianyou in the Tang Dynasty (907 AD). It is a northern Tiantai sect nunnery with an area of 970 square meters. The main hall is one of the four existing Tang Dynasty (618~907 AD) wooden ancient buildings in China. The building has the characteristics of Tang Dynasty architecture, such as simple structure, strict intersection, and no sense of complicated decoration.
However, during the major repair of Tiantai Nunnery in 2014, a text record about its founding year was found on the rafters, confirming that it was actually a building of the Later Tang Dynasty of the Five Dynasties, so it was removed from the Tang Dynasty buildings. Although Tiantai Nunnery was built in the Later Tang Dynasty of the Five Dynasties, the time interval with the end of the Tang Dynasty is very small, and the overall style continues the architectural features of the late Tang Dynasty. Its eaves scale is very large (the outer support column is added in later generations), and the eaves lines are more changeable than the Tang Dynasty buildings such as Nanchan Temple, which is very ornamental.
On January 13, 1988, Tiantai Nunnery was announced by the State Council as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
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Wangqu Village, Danchexiang, Pingshun County, ticket: 20 yuan
Tiantai Nunnery

Post by Evans Christopher Chris | Sep 21, 2024