Guanghui Temple

Situated in Zhengding County, Guanghui Temple is also called Huata Temple because Hua Pagoda is there.

Zhengding County Annals in the first year of Emperor Guangxu's reign recorded that it was built in the Tang Dynasty and restored in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. It was ruined at the end of the Qing Dynasty, with the pagoda left.

The huge colored statues bedecked on the upper wall of Hua Pagoda are simple and unsophisticated, magnificent and strange, ornate and vivid, representing the most elegant one of all Chinese pagodas. It is also a unique, priceless treasure famous for its strangest appearance and the most splendid decoration in terms of China's brick pagodas. It is infered that the pagoda was probably constructed during the Liao or Jin Dynasties according to its structure and ink inscriptions on the inner wall of the first floor. Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty visited the temple for many times, enjoyed the beautiful scene at the top of it and wrote the inscription “Miaoguangyanjiao” for it.

Guanghui Temple is a key historic and cultural relics unit under state protection.

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