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Yanqing Daoist Temple is situated on Shengli
Street to the northeast of Bao Gong Lake. It was formerly called Chongyang
Temple because it was built to commemorate the originator of Quanzhen
Daoism in the Northern Song Dynasty and was renamed as Yanqing Temple
in the early days of the Ming Dynasty. Later dynasties found the temple
rebuilt and destroyed many times. Yuhuang tower, the only extant structure,
built in the Yuan Dynasty, thirteen meters tall, has three stories with
the upper part round in shape and the lower part square in shape. On the
side facing the south, there is a door with two iron windows on both sides.
The entire tower was built with blue bricks and has a crown roof inlayed
with colored glazed tiles. On top of the tower is an octagonal pavilion
covered by glazed-tiles and on the lofty point there is a copper ball.
Inside the Yuhuang tower, the statue of the Jade Emperor is enshrined.
The statue is made of white marble and is very exquisite and delicate.
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