![]() And along the axis are placed the three gateways Duanmen, Zhimen and Wumen, and the Yushu Tower, Chongning Hall and the Spring and Autumn Tower, flanking with memorial archways made of wood or stone, stone tablet pavilion, bell pavilion, the east-to-west corridors and old towering cypresses, which all suggest an air of royal palace. Its layout resembles China’s traditional “front court and back chambers” and the axisymmetric palace. Covering a total area of 220,000 square meters, Guandi Temple is a well-preserved and large-scale ancient construction group. Temples, pavilions, lakes and mountains enhance each other’s beauty. It is located in Haizhou Town, 20 kilometers away from Yuncheng City, with magnificent Zhongtiao Mountain to the south and vase expanse of Salt Lake to the north. Most of the structures and buildings were restored or reconstructed during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Guandi Temple in Haizhou was first built in 589 AD at the beginning of the Sui Dynasty and was extended in the following dynasties. After years of careful building, Guandi Temple in Haizhou has developed into a worldwide famous cultural relic tourism brand and become a holy land for tourists and pilgrims at home and abroad to look around and trace their families’ roots. ![]() As the sign of Guan Gong culture exchange between Shanxi and Fujian, Shanxi and Taiwan, the statue of Emperor Guandi has travelled to Fujian for three times, and has once visited Taiwan since the year 2009, which has caused a sensation and has laid a solid foundation for carrying forward Guan Gong culture, expanding Guan Gong brand effect, and enhancing the friendship between both sides of the exchange. Three annually held cultural activities “Gaudi’s Patrol (a traditional ancient temple fair on the 8 th day of the fourth lunar month)”, “Guandi’s Birthday on the 24 th day of sixth lunar month”, and “Guan Gong cultural tourism festival in Yuncheng Shanxi Province” which has been held in the continuous 26 years have drawn the attention of the world. Guandi Temple in Haizhou was granted the title of “Cross-strait exchange base” by the State Council in 2013, and in June of 2015, it was endowed “International cultural exchange base of overseas Chinese”. In 2012, the “Guan Sheng Cultural Architectural Complex” was included in the preliminary list of China’s world cultural heritage. And the “International Guan Gong Cultural Festival” has been rated national top-ten people festival activity and been given the “Project Award” among the “Galaxy Awards” in the continuous two years since 2010. In 2008, “Guan Gong Belief and Custom” was rated as the national non-material cultural heritage by the State Council. The scenic spot has been awarded the honorary titles of “Top-ten tourism brand of Shanxi Province”, “Top-ten excellent tourism attraction of Shanxi Province”, “Chinese tourism culture contribution unit”, “Cross-strait exchange base” and “2009 annual international leisure tourism brand unit”, etc. Until now, three relevant tourist attractions “Guandi Temple in Haizhou, Guandi Family Temple in Changping, and Guandi Ancestral Mausoleum in Changping” have been initially formed. It earned the name “Father of Guandi Temple” and “Chief of Martial Temple” because of its earliest founding, largest scale, highest standard and most complete preservation. It belongs to the important heritage sites under state protection and is one of the national 4A-level tourist attractions. In 2010, the southern city of Zhaoqing in Guangdong province tore down a 38-meter Guan Yu statue worth 30 million Chinese yuan ($4.6 million) after it, too, was condemned as an illegal construction.Guandi Temple is located in Haizhou Town, Yuncheng, Shanxi Province. It was not the first short-lived Guan Yu statue under China’s construction spree. Local bureaucrats told Beijing News last week that the demolition would take two months, and parts of the statue would be stored somewhere temporarily until a new location is approved. It’s unclear where the statue would be moved to. The ministry later named the Guan Yu statue as a violation of the rule. Last year, China’s Ministry of Housing and Urban‑Rural Development issued a directive warning against the construction of gargantuan, out-of-touch statues in the name of promoting tourism or traditional culture. But its hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual revenues could barely cover operational costs, according to reports by news outlet Shangyou. Its original entry fee of 120 Chinese yuan ($17) was lowered to 40 yuan ($6) in 2019, while local residents could enter for free. It was designed by Chinese artist Han Meilin, widely known as the creator of the mascots of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.īut the park did not become popular as the officials had hoped. ![]() The statue, a central piece of the park, was unveiled in 2016 to much fanfare.
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