PuDu Zhen Temple

The PuDu Zhen Temple, built in 24 th Guangxu year (1898) in the Qing Dynasty, is located in Tea Pavilion Road of the city.

At that time, a Taoist of Qianyu cavity called Wu Jingquan gathered Beihai charity circle Lian Qizhen, Huang Rizhang, Chen Jueyu etc. to collect contributions from compatriots of Hongkong and Macao to build the temple.

Zhongtian palace, Golden Mother palace and Land Mother palace are the main buildings of the temple in which Zhongtian palace was pulled down for broadening Tea Pavilion road in 1987.

The temple sacrifice deity and Buddhist statues and it's an unity of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. Structures of the two existing palaces are roughly the same. Sideroom stands at either side of the main hall in which there are main rooms and subordinate rooms.

On the top of the ridge two lazurite dragons are playing with pearl. In the main hall there is carve decoration of flowers, plants and birds. And there is mural set in the front wall of the gallery. A poet named Liang Hongmao of Qing Dynasty described the temple as topping the rest of its kind in Beihai.

Publishes at : 07-11-11 16:32

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