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Chinese ancient architecture and grottoes in Hubei: 2 entries, including Yuquan Temple, Zixiao Palace, and more.

001 Architecture Yuquan Temple During the Kaihuang era of the Sui, Yang Guang, Prince of Jin, built a monastic center on Mount Yuquan in Dangyang for the Tiantai master Zhiyi. In the sixth year of the Jiayou era of the Northern Song, Hao Yan and his maternal aunt of the Han family donated iron, and craftsmen of the Two Zhe circuits cast it into a thirteen-story pagoda for the Buddha's tooth relic. After the wars at the end of the Song, the temple fell for a time into “daily deepening decay,” and under the Yuan the monk Guangzhu rebuilt its halls and pavilions. In the thirtieth year of the Wanli era, the monk Zhenghui vowed to rebuild the main hall, and the layman Ren Chengzhou joined in aiding the work; the extant main hall still retains a Yuan-dynasty lower sill and Ming-dynasty bracket sets. Sui Dynasty · Hubei · Dangyang, Hubei Province
002 Architecture Zixiao Palace Zixiao Palace is a Taoist palace complex on the south side of Zhanqi Peak on Mount Wudang in Danjiangkou, Hubei. The Yuan-dynasty Wudang Fudi Zongzhen Ji records that it was founded during the Xuanhe era of the Northern Song; the palaces were destroyed by war at the end of the Yuan, and Emperor Chengzu of Ming built the Taixuan Zixiao Palace at the old site in the tenth year of Yongle; during the Tongzhi era of the Qing, the Taoist Yang Laiwang led his disciples in restoring the Shifang Hall, the Eastern and Western Taoist Courtyards, and the residential rooms of the Dragon-Tiger Hall. This entry includes the Wudang Fudi Zongzhen Ji, the Record of the Shangshan Pool, Ming imperial steles, and a 1934 photograph of the Zixiao Hall. Northern Song Dynasty · Hubei · Danjiangkou, Shiyan, Hubei Province

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