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Tourism in Xingtang County

Xiang Lian Temple: Built in the reign of Song Xuanhe, it has a history of more than 600 years. Located in the south of the middle section of Longzhou Street in the county seat, facing south, covering an area of 6,000 square meters. The restored Xiang Lian Temple is an antique reinforced concrete building with brown tile roof, red walls, red columns and red doors and windows, which is dignified and elegant. The entrance is a hard mountain building with one arch, two arches and three arches, all of which are made of wood red paint. The middle arch is inlaid with three golden characters of "Xiang Lian Temple", and the couplets in the pillars on both sides of the gate have the words "fragrant Buddha country, ten dharma realms, lotus flowers open pure land to welcome six sentient beings". Daxiong Hall is a double-eaved building built on the mountain. Above the main entrance is a four-character gold plaque inscribed by Zhao Puchu, former chairman of the Chinese Buddhist Association. All the Buddha statues in the hall are made of copper and gold.

Chenghuang Temple: Built in the sixth year of Tianshun in Ming Dynasty (AD 1462), it is a large-scale ancient building in China. Liuli Temple was built in the third year of the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1623), and it was named after the exterior decoration was all made of glazed components.

Sage Bridge: Located on the moat outside the west gate of the old county, it was built in the Tang Dynasty. Rebuilt in the fifth year of Yuan You in the Northern Song Dynasty (1090), it is a single-hole arc open-shouldered stone arch bridge built side by side. From the bridge deck to the river bottom, it is15.3m long, 6m wide and 4.7m high. The main arch is arranged with 20 single arches side by side, with an existing span of 1 1.3m and a middle height of 2.7m There are 8 single beams at both ends of the main arch, with a span of 2.45m and an arch vector of 0.5m.. On the stone on the right, there are carvings of the faces of Da Chan and Xiao Chan. Shengxian Bridge is basically similar to Anji Bridge and Yongtong Bridge in Zhaozhou, and is called the sister bridge of Anji Bridge. It is a provincial key protected cultural relic.

Feng Chong Temple: Located in the courtyard of Longquan Middle School in Xingtang County, it was built in the seventh year of Tianbao in the Northern Qi Dynasty (556). Sui, Song and Ming dynasties have all been rebuilt, and its two wooden buildings, the Tianwang Hall and the Daxiong Hall, are well preserved. The main hall is about 9 meters high, with an area of 169.5 square meters, three rooms wide and three rooms deep. The top of Xieshan Mountain with single eaves glazed tile is made of brick and wood. The temple, formerly known as Dao Ji Academy, is a precious ancient building in China and a provincial key cultural relic protection unit.

Cliff Stone Carving in Lianglingkou Village: There are 54 stone niches and 56 Buddha statues on a boulder 4.5 meters long and 2.5 meters high in the northeast of A Mu Courtyard Site, and the words "Xin Mao in the 11th year of Dading (A.D. 1 17)" are engraved on the left, which is the first stone carving of the Jin Dynasty with a specific date found in Hebei Province.