The Filming Location of Black Myth: Wukong - Longxing Temple's Thousand-Year-Old Pagoda

Shanxi is home to countless historical relics, with national key cultural heritage sites found almost everywhere.
In Xinjiang County, Shanxi, stands a magnificent ancient pagoda located within Longxing Temple, one of the filming locations for the game *Black Myth: Wukong*.
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Longxing Temple in Xinjiang holds immense cultural preservation value due to its unique architectural layout, scientific structural design, and the artistic quality of its stone carvings and statues.
The temple faces south, with Guan Gong Hall and Niangniang Hall flanking the main hall. To the left is the mountain gate, preceded by the Weituo Tower and three western side rooms. Behind the hall stands the 13-story Longxing Pagoda. The main hall, a Yuan Dynasty structure, features five bays in width and three bays in depth, with a single-eave overhanging gable roof and double-tier bracket sets.
Inside the hall, a Buddhist altar houses nine colorful statues of the Three Ages Buddhas and attendant bodhisattvas.
The Longxing Pagoda, built during the Tang Dynasty, originally stood eight stories tall. After collapsing in 1784 during the Qianlong era, it was rebuilt with an outer layer of blue bricks and expanded to 13 stories, now standing 42.4 meters tall. The octagonal pagoda has sides measuring 4.3 meters each and is a pavilion-style brick structure.
The temple preserves three stele inscriptions from the 1708 Kangxi restoration and the Republican era, along with one sutra pillar.
Longxing Pagoda is a landmark of Jiangzhou.
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The pagoda's fame stems largely from the enigmatic phenomenon of "smoke rising from the pagoda," which remains unexplained to this day.
According to Xinjiang County records, the pagoda emitted smoke six times: in 1875, 1937, 1971, 1976, and 1993.
During the 1971 Mid-Autumn Festival, wisps of smoke appeared near dusk daily, swirling around the pagoda's peak for about half an hour before vanishing. Visible from 300–400 meters away, this phenomenon repeated for over ten days, drawing crowds of thousands daily. Records from the Xinjiang County Museum note that from August 21–28, 1993, the pagoda emitted smoke again at dusk for varying durations. The cause remains a subject for scientific investigation.
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Location: No. 2, Longxing Road, Xinjiang County.
Admission: 10 RMB.

Post by OliverWalker | Jul 2, 2025