Baodu Fortress & Shifang Yuan, Luquan (appendix)河北鹿泉抱犊寨与十方院（附）
- Type
- Temples and Abbeys (Gongguan)
- Location
- China · Hebei · Luquan, Shijiazhuang · The summit of Baodu Fortress and the Shifang Yuan at its foot, Luquan district.
- Coordinates
- 38.08, 114.27 Map ↗
- School
- Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism
- First built
- Yuan–Ming · Tradition holds that Zhang Sanfeng once cultivated the Dao here; the Sanfeng Shrine and Jinque Palace were built in the Ming; the Shifang Yuan at the foot of the mountain was a Quanzhen public monastery of the Qing.
- Heritage status
- Hebei Provincial heritage protection
Overview
Baodu Fortress is a noted mountain on the western outskirts of Shijiazhuang, its summit broad and level; tradition holds it to be the site of Han Xin, Marquis of Huaiyin's, celebrated tactic of 'fighting with one's back to the river,' and also the site where Zhang Sanfeng is said to have cultivated the Dao. In the Ming a Sanfeng Shrine and the Jinque Palace were built on the mountain, dedicated to Zhenwu and Zhang Sanfeng. The Shifang Yuan at the foot of the mountain was founded during the Shunzhi reign of the Qing as a public monastery (shifang conglin) of the Quanzhen order, and the Hebei Provincial Taoist Association was once based there. Baodu Fortress was developed as a scenic area in the 1990s, with the Jinque Palace and the Southern Heavenly Gate restored. This entry serves as an appendix to Daoism in Hebei.
Highlights
- The Jinque Palace
- The Sanfeng Shrine
- The Shifang Yuan