Hexi Corridor D3: Dajing Qingshan Temple
When I came here, I encountered a little setback: all the locations marked by several navigation maps were wrong, leading me to a barren earth platform. After flying the drone back and forth a few times and confirming that there was nothing around, I was a bit disappointed, thinking that this temple might have been demolished.
I returned to the town to inquire, and found out that the Qingshan Temple I was looking for was actually on the main road here, and I even saw the yellow wall when I drove by. When I arrived at the mountain gate again, it was already dim, and the gate was locked. When I used the drone to observe the interior from the air again, two laymen who were preparing to return to the city passed by, saying that they could enter from the small door on the side. We hurriedly thanked them, hurried up the slope on the side, and indeed saw a wide small iron gate.
The temple was built in the Yuan Dynasty and is a Tibetan temple. But everything here is all traces of renovation: square and regular layout, strictly planned layout, brand new buildings and objects, just like the initial construction.
Looking from the temple, I saw a mound surrounded by iron railings on the distant mountain, so I asked a passing layman, and she didn't know what it was. I said it seems to be really devout and hardworking, all staying in the courtyard, and the layman smiled and said yes.
I took a picture of the mound with a telephoto lens, and saw a sign next to it that said "Cultural Relics Protection Unit: Ming Great Wall-Gulang Section". Not far from the city wall, there is also a small courtyard with the same yellow wall. The layman said that it was a Taoist palace, and she had never been there.
It's about to get dark. Because I still have to hurry, I quickly left after walking around the temple. Before leaving, an old man of very old age sat at the iron gate, opened the door lock for us, watched us go out and locked the door, and then walked back to the depths.