Ching Chung Koon青松观
- Type
- Temples and Abbeys (Gongguan)
- Location
- Hong Kong, China · Hong Kong · Tuen Mun, New Territories · 28 Ching Chung Koon Road, Kei Lun Wai, Tuen Mun
- Coordinates
- 22.4062, 113.9734 Map ↗
- School
- Daoist Temples and Altars of Hong Kong and Macau, Longmen (Dragon Gate) Lineage of Quanzhen, Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism
- First built
- 1950 (altar established at Wai Ching Street, Kowloon) / 1960 (Tuen Mun temple site acquired) · Founded by He Qizhong and seventeen other founders who established the altar; traces its lineage to the Zhibao Tai in Guangzhou, within the Longmen branch of Quanzhen
- Heritage status
- Hong Kong Grade II Historic Building (Chun Yeung Hall and Yik Fa Kung, 2009)
Overview
Ching Chung Koon is one of the three great Daoist halls (daotang) of Hong Kong, belonging to the Longmen (Dragon Gate) Lineage of Quanzhen Daoism, tracing its origin to the Zhibao Tai in Guangzhou. In 1950, He Qizhong and seventeen fellow Daoists established an altar on Wai Ching Street in Kowloon, and in 1960 they purchased a permanent site in Tuen Mun, New Territories, covering some 200,000 square feet. The Chunyang Bao Dian (Hall of Patriarch Lü) was completed in 1961, enshrining the three patriarchs Lü Chunyang, Wang Chongyang, and Qiu Changchun, alongside a Doumu Hall, scripture hall, ancestral hall, and a Chinese-style garden. The name "Ching Chung" (Green Pine) symbolizes the constancy of the Daoist heart. Ching Chung Koon began with scripture recitation, spirit writing (fuji), free medical clinics and dispensaries, and educational work, and today runs the Ching Chung Secondary School and the Ching Chung Hau Po Woon Secondary School, a clinic, and a home for the aged, while also long providing sustained funding for Daoist scholarship and the publication of scriptures. From the 1960s onward it established branch temples in Australia, Canada, the United States, and Southeast Asia, making it a representative example of the overseas spread of Hong Kong's Daoist halls. The temple is renowned for its bonsai gardening, and holds an annual bonsai exhibition every April. The Chunyang Hall and the Yihua Gong were graded as Grade II historic buildings of Hong Kong in 2009.
Highlights
- Chunyang Bao Dian (1961)
- Chinese-style garden and bonsai exhibition
- Network of overseas branch temples
- Ching Chung Hau Po Woon Secondary School