Jinci Tour

Jinci, located in Jinci Town, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, originally named Jinwangci, initially named Tang Shuyu Temple, was built to commemorate the founding lord of the Jin State, Tang Shuyu (later posthumously titled as King Jin) and his mother, Queen Jianghou. The Nannao Spring, the maid statue, and the Zhou Cypress are hailed as the 'Three Uniques of Jinci'. Jinci is the earliest existing royal sacrificial garden in China, the ancestral temple of the Jin State; it is an intensive carrier of ancient Chinese architectural art, a unique case in China with complete types and chronological sequence of buildings from the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing to the Republic of China, and its affiliated colored sculptures, murals, steles and tablets are all national treasures; it is a comprehensive carrier of the historical context of Sanjin, and the empirical evidence of the cultural system of Jin culture tracing back to the establishment of Jin in the Western Zhou Dynasty to the creation of cultural heritage in the Tang Dynasty; it is the birthplace of the world's Wang and Zhang families.