Quyang Beiyue Temple

Quyang Beiyue Temple is located in Quyang County, Hebei Province. Full name of Beiyue An Tian Wang Sheng Di Temple, referred to as Beiyue Zhenjun Temple, Beiyue Temple. Built in the Northern Wei Dynasty Xuanwu Emperor period, after the successive generations have varying degrees of repair and expansion.

Existing buildings are mostly built after the Song and Yuan Dynasties, there are mainly God’s door, the Royal Pavilion of incense, the sky door, the three mountain gate, flying stone Hall, the Hall of De Ning, a grand scale, the plan layout into a field-shaped, north-south length of 300 meters, east-west width of 139 meters; the main building of the Hall of De Ning, a heavy-eaved glazed tile roof, about 30 meters high, the face of the seven, four deep, surrounded by the corridor, structural rigor, majestic; the Hall of the east and west of the two walls above the painting of the giant “Palace of Heaven”, 6.5 m high, the Palace of Heaven, the Palace of Heaven, the Palace of Heaven, the Palace of Heaven. Figure”, its height 6.5 meters, 17.6 meters wide, the largest figure as high as 3.3 meters, the figure was painted with a variety of characters seventy-three, different demeanor, lifelike, rumored to be the Tang Dynasty Wu Daozi authentic, has a high artistic and historical value.

Inside the temple, there are one hundred and thirty-seven tablets and inscriptions from the Northern Qi, Tang, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, among which there are the famous Wei Wangfujun Tablet, Zhao Mengfu Tablet of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang Tablet of the Ming Dynasty, etc.

The temple was originally dedicated to the worship of Beiyue Mountain. This temple was originally worship Beiyue Da Di, to the Qing Dynasty Shunzhi seventeen years (1660) is still here in the remote worship of Beiyue Da Di, later changed to sacrifice in Shanxi Province Hunyuan.