Photos of Jiexiu Houtu Temple

Jiexiu Houtu Temple is a Taoist temple located in the northwest corner of Jiexiu County. It is one of the key cultural relics protection units in Shanxi Province. Jiexiu Houtu Temple is a huge building complex with five courtyards and pavilions. In this building complex, there are shadow walls, mountain gates, crossing halls, east and west corridor rooms, Sanqing Building, Bell and Drum Tower, and the rear hall. The main building in the Houtu Temple is a building with a triple eaves cross Xieshan and a roof structure. On the top of the building, the dragon's kiss is towering; the lion decoration, the glazed pavilion, the lotus ridge tube, and the beast's head and horns reflect each other, forming a vivid and spectacular picture of glazed products. In the Houtu Temple, there are nearly a thousand painted sculptures on the hanging wall reflecting the content of Taoism. These statues, with extremely high shaping techniques, have reached a considerable artistic realm. These painted sculptures have vivid images, different postures, smooth clothing lines, plump images and natural expressions. They are rare masterpieces of painted sculpture art. According to the records of the golden statues in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, these painted sculptures may be the works of the early Ming Dynasty.