Nantong Tianning Temple is located at No. 11 Middle School Tang Street, Chongchuan District. It is the oldest temple in Nantong City. Nantong City also has a temple before it has a city. The entire building of the temple covers a small area. The temple tower behind the temple is worth seeing.

There are many temples in China called Tianning Temple. In Nantong, Tianning Temple is the oldest ancient building. This ancient temple built in the Tang Dynasty accompanied the historical growth of Nantong City, deeply engraved in the memory of every Nantong person.

Tianning Temple was built in Tang Xiantong four years (863 AD), the first name of Guangxiao Temple, now commonly known as Tianning Temple. The history of Tianning Temple "the temple of Hongli, the pavilion of the palace, the great view of the real state", Song Huizong Zhao Yu personally wrote the title "the palace of the great male", Ming Yingzong Yingtian Temple monks play "the temple of Tianning Temple", the temple two to the royal book of the order, so that other temple "difficult to glorify". The Daxiong Palace is the main building of Tianning Temple, with 20 main pillars, height of18.3 meters, width of 5 feet 5 feet, depth of 6 feet 1 foot, for the rare ancient wooden structure left by Song Yuan in the country.

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Tianning Temple is a thousand-year-old temple, quietly located in the middle of Nantong. Quiet in the bustling middle. The temple is not big, and the autumn of Tianning Temple is particularly beautiful. The ginkgo inside is more than 300 years old. The autumn wind blows, and the yellow pages are covered with the ground. Walking inside, it feels particularly quiet

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