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 Yueyang Tower Yueyang Tower stands in Yueyanglou District, Yueyang, Hunan Province. In the Tang dynasty it was already the gate tower of the city of Yuezhou overlooking Dongting Lake; in the Northern Song it was rebuilt by Teng Zongliang, for which Fan Zhongyan wrote the Record of the Yueyang Tower; the surviving main tower follows the form established by the rebuilding of the sixth year of the Guangxu era of the Qing. Drawing on the original texts of poems, records, stele inscriptions, and gazetteers from the Tang and Song through the Ming and Qing, this entry also preserves, in old photographs from around 1900 to the years of the Japanese occupation, the former appearance of its city walls, lakeshore, streets, and courtyards. Tang Dynasty Yueyanglou District, Yueyang, Hunan Province Yueyang Tower · Yuezhou · Baling →