Guandi Temple in Xiaxian County (the fifth batch of provincial insurance)
Time: Ming
Address:No.1KLOC-0/Jiefang South Road, Xia County.
The Guandi Temple in Xiaxian County was built in Yuan Dynasty and added in Ming Dynasty. Successive county decrees have been repaired and supplemented. There is an inscription on the ridge of the main hall: "Lin Wenlang learned about Xia County on the second day of September in the thirty-second year of Qianlong, added three levels of records, made eight meritorious deeds, made a history twice, and rebuilt Zhu's records"; There is an inscription "Ten Years of Shunzhi" on the spine of Xian Dianliang's book. The whole temple covers an area of 9,000 square meters from west to east. There are mountain gates, memorial archways, memorial halls and main halls on the central axis in turn. There is an existing annex in the second yard, and a wing on the east and west sides of the memorial hall in the third yard. Notre Dame Hall behind the main hall was destroyed by a fire in the Republic of China. The existing buildings are all Ming Dynasty buildings, which were renovated in Qing Dynasty.
The archway is a two-column single-story wooden archway with a single eaves resting on the top of the mountain and a glazed ridge. Under the eaves, there are 7 stilts in Stigma and Pinshenko, 2 stilts in Stigma 1, 2 stilts in Pinshenko and 45 stilts in Stigma.
The main hall is three rooms wide and six rafters deep, surrounded by cloisters, resting on the top of the mountain and double eaves. The main hall has exquisite plane color paintings and rich painting contents.
There are four Qing Dynasty stone tablets in the temple.
Source of information: Shanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau