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Places of interest in Shiyang town
Starting from Dayao County, you can reach Shiyang Ancient Town, also known as "Bai Jing", a famous historical and cultural town in Yunnan under Baicaoling, after 35km of Panshan Highway. Here, mountains and peaks, ancient pagodas, clean markets and simple folk customs are integrated, giving people a feeling of ancient elegance and etiquette. But the most striking thing here is the magnificent Confucius Temple building and the bronze statue of Confucius sitting in the temple for hundreds of years.
Shiyang Confucius Temple is a provincial-level key cultural relics protection unit, which was built in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty (AD 1368). After more than 600 years of wind and rain, the main hall is Zhuzi Pavilion, chanting Pavilion, Xiangxian Temple, Moon Bridge, marble murals and stone carvings, covering an area of nearly 1,000 square meters. The building is simple and sophisticated, and the whole temple floor is covered with yellow, red and green colored glass. Carved grass on the door, exquisite and unique, dragon and phoenix, liger, flowers and birds, fish and insects, pine, cypress, rattan, kudzu vine, colorful paintings are neat and lifelike.
The bronze statue of Confucius in the temple was cast in the Kangxi era and took nine years to cast. It is 2.3 meters high and has a net weight of 2.5 tons. It sits in the center of Dacheng Hall with a glass jade crown and ivory in its hand. This is the largest bronze statue of Confucius in China. Its huge size, lifelike modeling and exquisite casting are unique today.
At the foot of Xiangling Mountain, where the Confucius Temple is located, there is an ancient salt well that began in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, eight scenic spots, such as the rooftop overlooking Yangcheng, Manjusri Sunset Red, Baoxiu Chaoyang, Xianghe jathyapple, Xiangling Yanfang, Liu Yin Chunbo, Xigu Zaomei and Ludong Tianqing, can feast your eyes on tourists. The splendid history and culture of Shiyang not only attracted celebrities and scholars from all directions, but also cultivated China heroes from generation to generation.
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