Dule Temple, Tianjin | A thousand-year-old temple worth visiting.

Dule Temple, also known as Dafo Temple, is located in Jizhou District, Tianjin, China. It is one of the three remaining Liao Dynasty temples in China and one of the existing famous ancient buildings.

Dule Temple is a thousand-year-old temple, the earliest history can be traced back to the tenth year of Zhen Guan
The two oldest existing buildings in the temple, the Shanmen and the Guanyin Pavilion, were both rebuilt in the second year of the reign of Liao Shengzong.
In the 19th year of the Republic of China, Dule Temple became famous at home and abroad because it was successively investigated and published by Japanese scholar Guan Ye Zhen and Chinese scholar Liang Sicheng.
Dule Temple is divided into three parts: east, middle and west;
The east and west parts are the monks' rooms and the palace, and the middle part is the main body of the temple, consisting of the Shanmen, the Guanyin Pavilion and the Shanmen.
Shanmen is the earliest existing Wudian top Shanmen in China. Shanmen is three rooms wide and two rooms deep. The middle part is a hall. The two ends of the ridge are original objects of the Liao Dynasty. The two slightly spaced rooms in front of Shanmen are two Liao Dynasty colored clay sculptures of Vajra, commonly known as "Heng" and "Ha" generals. The two slightly spaced rooms behind are colored murals of the "Four Heavenly Kings" painted in the Qing Dynasty.
Now as one of the locations of Black Myth: Wukong, it is too popular
🎫Ticket combo 50 yuan (Baita Temple, Dule Temple, Confucius Temple, Luban Temple, Drum Tower) can be checked in together

Post by CraftyCreations | Sep 25, 2024