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 Dangyang, Hubei Province Yuquan Temple · Yuquan Iron Pagoda · Mount Yuquan →
002 Architecture Penglai Pavilion The Penglai Pavilion in Yantai, Shandong, was first built in the Northern Song and stands atop Danya Hill; the Song–Yuan harbor basin below the hill was expanded into the Dengzhou Water City in the Ming. A Yuan-dynasty gazetteer, excavated warships, Ming–Qing coastal-defense documents, and photographs from 1903 to 1928 record the vertical relationship between the pavilion and the naval harbor. Northern Song Dynasty Penglai District, Yantai, Shandong Penglai Pavilion · Penglai Water City · Penglai →
003 Architecture Tianyi Pavilion The Tianyi Pavilion stands west of Moon Lake in Ningbo, Zhejiang, a private library built by Fan Qin in the Jiajing era of the Ming and preserved to this day. Drawing on original texts by Huang Zongxi, Quan Zuwang, Ruan Yuan, and others, the entry recounts the Fan family's book collecting, its rules for guarding the collection, and the Qing court's requisition of books for the Siku Quanshu; together with the Historical Records of the Tianyi Pavilion Collection and old photographs of the modern era, it traces the loss of books in the wars of the late Qing, the thefts of the Republican period, the rebuilding of 1933, and the removal of the collection during the War of Resistance. Ming Dynasty Haishu District, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province Tianyi Pavilion · Fan Family's Tianyi Pavilion · Moon Lake →