Guangsheng Temple.

Guangsheng Temple is a national 4A scenic spot in Hongtong County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province, including the Upper Temple, the Lower Temple and the Water God Temple. Guangsheng Temple has a long history. It was built in the first year of Jianhe in the Eastern Han Dynasty (147 AD), originally named Julu She Temple, also known as Yuwang Tower Courtyard, and Guangsheng Temple was named in the Tang Dynasty. In history, Guangsheng Temple has been repaired and rebuilt many times, and the existing buildings are mostly in the style of the Yuan Dynasty. When the architectural scholar Liang Sicheng and his wife investigated the ancient buildings in 1934, they highly praised Guangsheng Temple and planted a locust tree in the temple. The Feihong Tower, "Zhaocheng Golden Collection" (also known as "Golden Collection of Buddhist Scriptures") and the Yuan Dynasty murals of the Water God Temple are known as the "Three Uniques" of Guangsheng Temple, which are extremely valuable. Feihong Tower is the largest existing glazed tower in China. The "Zhaocheng Golden Collection" is one of the four treasures of the National Library, along with the "Yongle Encyclopedia", "Siku Quanshu" and "Dunhuang Manuscripts", and is now collected in Linfen Museum. The murals of the Yuan Dynasty in the Water God Temple artistically show the process of praying for rain, rain and rewarding gods. There has been a long-standing Huo Spring in front of the Water God Temple, which is an important water source for Hongtong and Zhaocheng counties. In history, the people of the two counties often fought for the spring water, became enemies, and did not marry each other. In the third year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1725), Liu Dengyong, the prefect of Pingyang, presided over the construction of the Huo Spring Diversion Pavilion, which resolved the disputes between the two counties. The diversion pavilion uses a ten-hole iron fence to divide the water, three for Hong and seven for Zhao. The "Pingzheng Bridge" is built on the iron fence, and a pavilion with a roll shed and a rest mountain top is built on the bridge. There is a pair of couplets on the brick-carved gate building on the north and south sides, which explains the three-seven water division. One of them is "Divide three and seven, divide the iron pillars, the water is clear and beautiful, the water is like a silver wave, the plum blossoms are inferior to the snow". The Huo Spring Diversion Pavilion has the functions of water diversion, passage, and rest, and also embodies the way of benefiting the people.