During the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, I met Youxian in a temple.

In a quiet place east of Zaili Village, Hexi Town, Gaoping, Jincheng, there is a hidden treasure A temple that is a masterpiece of Song and Jin Dynasty wooden architecture_Youxian Temple. In 2001, Youxian Temple was listed as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units. It spirals along the road. At the end of the road, Youxian Temple is quietly located in In the mountain col. The Poetry of Immortals is not big. It only contains an old man who is looking after the temple. The old man looks very kind and does not speak too much. 1⃣️In the Tang Dynasty, there was a man named Li Tongmin, also known as Youxian, whose ancestral home was Gaoping Xianjing. He was a member of the Li clan of the Tang Dynasty. When he was young, he failed in the Jinshi examination many times and lived in seclusion in the Immortal Mountains to learn the art of Bigu. He never traveled to the city and sat on a futon every day. He died at the age of more than 100 years old. The strange thing is that someone saw him again in Wangwu Mountain later. He looked like an immortal. So it was said that Li Tongmin had turned into an immortal and left. Therefore, the mountain was named Youxian Mountain, the inside was Youxianfang, and the temple was named Youxian Temple. According to a stone tablet in the temple, it is exactly the same as the legend. Youxian Temple was probably founded during the Dali Period of the Tang Dynasty, and a new temple was built on the original site during the Chunhua Period of the Song Dynasty. 2⃣️As soon as you enter the third courtyard of Youxian Temple, there is a grand and magnificent palace in the middle of the front courtyard. It has thick walls, strong beams, and majestic brackets under the eaves. This is Pilu Hall, commonly known as the front hall. On the top of the mountain with a single eaves, Pilu Hall was built in the Song Dynasty and was built in the first year of Chunhua in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is three rooms deep, with gentle lifting and folding, and far-reaching eaves. Under the eaves, there are five pavilions with pillars and dougongs, and they are made with double copies. The tweening dougong is made in the form of single copying and lowering, and the high position is in the bamboo batching style. The main head is almost the same as the high one. This form can be seen in the Manjusri Hall of Foguang Temple in Wutai Mountain and the Notre Dame Hall of Jinci Temple. However, it is more than a hundred years later than the front hall of Youxian Temple, so it can be seen that it is the precedent of this form. 3⃣️From both sides of Pilu Hall to the middle courtyard, on the front is the Hall of Three Buddhas, commonly known as the Middle Hall. The gable-shaped roof, the front eaves and the corridors, and the dougong are all carefully designed for the five-storey building. The beams in the nave are regular. The beam frame structure has four rafters and three columns, retaining the style of the Jin Dynasty. In addition, up the stairs from the back door of the Three Buddhas Hall, there are seven arched cave dwellings built on the Buddhist platform in a row of the Seven Buddhas Hall of the Yuan Dynasty. Traditional Chinese wooden structures are "based on load-bearing beams and columns and brackets and eaves. They first emerged in the Qin and Han Dynasties, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and stagnated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties." The wooden structures of the Song Dynasty that remain in Youxian Temple undoubtedly provide the best information for the study of ancient Chinese architecture. Intuitive information. Youxian Temple Free and self-driving required Address: The foothills of Youxian Mountain, 10 kilometers south of Gaoping City, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province