Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple
Taoist temple in Shanxi Province, China
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Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple[3] (simplified Chinese: 解州关帝庙; traditional Chinese: 解州關帝廟), or Haizhou Guandi Temple,[4] is a temple located in Haizhou Town, Yanhu District, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province.[5] It is hailed as "the grand ancestor of temples dedicated to Guan Yu" (关庙之祖).[6] The Temple is the largest extant palace-style Taoist complex and martial temple in China.[7]
Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple is the largest Emperor Guan Temple (关帝庙) in China.[8] It has a total area of 220,000 square meters, with more than 200 rooms.[9]
History
Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple was established in the ninth year of Kaihuang (开皇) during the Sui dynasty (589), expanded and rebuilt during the Song dynasty and Ming dynasty.[10]
Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple was destroyed by fire in the forty-first year of Kangxi (1702) during the Qing dynasty and was restored after more than ten years.[11]
Conservations
In 1957, Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple was designated by the Shanxi Provincial People's Government as the first batch of provincial-level key cultural relics protection units in Shanxi Province.[12]
In 1988,[13] Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple was listed as a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level in China.[14]
