Located in the Grand Guandi Temple at the God Fire Temple Street in North Bozhou City, the Flower Theatrical Building, with another name of Playing Platform, is a platform for theatrical performance. It gets its name because the building is decorated with theatrical stories and magnificent paintings. It is an independent building, and is also one part of the Grand Guandi Temple.
Being a three-story woodwork-like building constructed by bricks with a shape of an archway, it covers an area of 1,000 square meters. The buildings are decorated with three-dimensional penetrating carvings of figures, vehicles and horses, cites, mountains and woods, flowers, animals.
There are six integrated theatrical stories and more than 70 other stories, designs and decorative patterns sculpted on the building. The colorful paintings and skillful carvings on this building represent the prosperous period of the Qing Dynasty. |