Beiyue Temple

Beiyue Temple is a Daoist temple positioned in Quyang, Hebei Province, China. The temple changed into used to make sacrifices to Mount Heng through the emperors of the Song Dynasty while the mountain was occupied with the aid of the Liao Dynasty. The Dening Hall of the temple is the biggest, earliest and one of the maximum vital extant wooden buildings constructed inside the Yuan Dynasty. The temple additionally contains three gates, an octagonal pavilion and lots of ancient stelae.

The Beiyue Temple became first mounted both at some point of the Northern Wei Dynasty 386-584 or the Tang Dynasty 618-907, but the website online may additionally have been in use as early as the 2d century BCE of the Han Dynasty. The temple has been rebuilt two times, first in 991 after having been destroyed through the Khitan in the course of the 950s, after which in 1270. According to a surviving photo of the temple relationship from a nearby history of Quyang written in 1672, the temple had by this time completed its present format. During the Song Dynasty, Beiyue Temple changed into used as an trade web site to make sacrifices to the Northern Peak, Mount Heng, one of the sacred mountains of Daoism.