001 Architecture Yunyan Temple, Jiangyou Yunyan Temple stands on Mount Douchuan in Wudu, Jiangyou, Sichuan. The county gazetteer dates its imperial foundation to the Tang Qianfu era; its eastern precinct was Buddhist and its western precinct Daoist. The Feitian Repository was built in 1181 under the Southern Song, repaired under the Yuan and survived the wars at the end of the Ming. This entry includes foundation records, Zhu Zhang’s poem and accounts of summit repairs, alongside historical photographs. Listed in 1988 in the third group of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level as Yunyan Temple, with the designated period Song–Qing. Tang dynasty Mount Douchuan, Wudu, Jiangyou, Mianyang, Sichuan, China Yunyan Temple in Jiangyou · Mount Douchuan · Feitian Repository →
002 Architecture Yunyan Temple Pagoda The Yunyan Temple Pagoda sits atop Tiger Hill in Suzhou, commonly known as the Tiger Hill Pagoda. The temple was founded in the second year of Xianhe of the Eastern Jin (334 CE) when the brothers Wang Xun and Wang Min donated their residence, yet the surviving pagoda dates from between the sixth year of Xiande of the Later Zhou (959) and the second year of Jianlong of the Northern Song (961)—temple and pagoda are separated by over six hundred years and share no common origin. An octagonal, seven-story brick pagoda in the timber-imitation pavilion style, its brickwork simulates columns, lintels, bracket sets, and diamond-tooth eaves projections; the tower leans toward the northeast. Later Zhou Suzhou, Jiangsu Province Yunyan Temple Pagoda · Tiger Hill Pagoda · Suzhou →