Longxing Temple

The Longxing Monastery or Longxing Temple is an old Buddhist cloister situated close to the town of Zhengding in Hebei Province, China, roughly 15 kilometers north of the common capital of Shijiazhuang. It has been alluded to as the "Principal Temple south of Beijing". The cloister was first worked in 586 AD, amid the Sui Dynasty. Its unique name was Longcang religious community. One of the most established stelae on the grounds of the cloister, the "Longcangsi Stele" dates from the year the religious community's establishment.

Quite a bit of it was recreated amid the Song Dynasty 960-1279 AD. A special bit of wood engineering from the Song Dynasty in the Longxing Monastery is the Pavilion of the Rotating Library, which was reestablished in the twentieth century. The structure houses a pivoting bookshelf which was some time ago used to store sacred writings and Buddhist sutras. This turning bookshelf chronicle goes back to the twelfth century, and is the most established existent pivoting storehouse of its kind allude to the article Technology of the Song Dynasty.