Beiyue Temple

Beiyue Temple
The Dening Hall (Chinese: 殿; pinyin: Déníng Diàn) of the Beiyue Temple
Religion
AffiliationTaoism
ProvinceHebei
Location
LocationQuyang
Geographic coordinates38°37′19.20″N 114°41′28.14″E / 38.6220000°N 114.6911500°E / 38.6220000; 114.6911500
Architecture
Completed1270
Yuan dynasty
Beiyue Temple
Traditional Chinese北嶽廟
Simplified Chinese北岳庙
Literal meaning"Northern Peak Temple"
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBěiyuè miào
Wade–GilesPei3-yüeh4 miao4
IPA[pèɪ ɥê mjâʊ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationBāk-ngohk miuh
JyutpingBak1-ngok6 miu6
Southern Min
Tâi-lôPak-ga̍k biō

Beiyue Temple (Chinese: 北岳庙) is a Taoist temple located in Quyang, Hebei Province, China. The temple was used to make sacrifices to Mount Heng by the emperors of the Song dynasty while the mountain was occupied by the Liao dynasty. The Dening Hall of the temple is the largest, earliest and one of the most important extant wooden buildings built in the Yuan dynasty.[1][2] The temple also contains three gates, an octagonal pavilion and many ancient stelae.

  1. ^ Steinhardt (1998), 69.
  2. ^ Zhao and Liang (2008), 114.