Tiezhu Wanshou Palace, Nanchang南昌铁柱万寿宫
- Type
- Temples and Abbeys (Gongguan)
- Location
- China · Jiangxi · Nanchang · Wanshou Palace Historic and Cultural District (Cuihua Street), Xihu District
- Coordinates
- 28.676, 115.883 Map ↗
- School
- Jingming (Pure and Bright) Daoism
- First built
- Eastern Jin (according to tradition, Xu Xun cast the iron pillar to subdue the flood dragon) · Tiezhu Temple built in the Tang; renamed Tiezhu Yanzhen Palace by the Song; called Wanshou Palace in the Ming and Qing; demolished in the 1960s; rebuilt on its original site in the 2010s
- Heritage status
- Historic and Cultural District of Nanchang
Overview
Tiezhu Wanshou Palace is the central temple within the city of Nanchang for the worship of Xu Xun; tradition holds that Xu Xun cast an iron pillar here to chain a flood dragon and control flooding. Tiezhu Temple was built in the Tang, renamed Tiezhu Yanzhen Palace by the Song court, and called Wanshou Palace in the Ming and Qing; together with Wanshou Palace of Xishan, it is one of the two great sacred sites of Xu Zhenjun in Nanchang, and it is also the ancestral temple after which the Ming–Qing "Jiangyou merchant guild" named the Wanshou Palace assembly halls they built wherever they traveled — with more than a thousand such Wanshou Palace assembly halls across the country, it became an emblem of the Jiangxi merchant guild. The palace was demolished in the 1960s and rebuilt on its original site on Cuihua Street in the 2010s, forming the Wanshou Palace Historic and Cultural District, with the Iron Pillar Well and Xu Zhenjun Hall reconstructed within it.
Highlights
- Iron Pillar Well
- Xu Zhenjun Hall
- Source of the Wanshou Palace Assembly Halls
- Historic and Cultural District