Yangtai Palace阳台宫
- Type
- Temples and Abbeys (Gongguan)
- Location
- China · Henan · Jiyuan · North of Yugong Village, Wangwu Town, Jiyuan City, at the southern foot of Huagai Peak, Mount Wangwu
- Coordinates
- 35.124, 112.274 Map ↗
- School
- Shangqing (Highest Clarity) School, Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism
- First built
- Tang, fifteenth year of Kaiyuan (727) · Founded by Sima Chengzhen by imperial order; Emperor Xuanzong personally inscribed 'Liaoyang Hall'; rebuilt in the Jin and Yuan; the surviving structures date from reconstruction during the Zhengde era of the Ming
- Heritage status
- Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level (2006)
Overview
The Yangtai Palace was built in the fifteenth year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang (727) at a site selected by Sima Chengzhen on Mount Wangwu at the order of Emperor Xuanzong, who personally wrote the inscription 'Liaoyang Hall' for it; it became a major stronghold of the Shangqing school in the Central Plains during the Tang. It was destroyed by warfare during the Zhenyou era of the Jin and rebuilt in the Yuan; the surviving Sanqing Hall and Yuhuang Pavilion are Ming-dynasty reconstructions from the eighth year of the Zhengde era (1513). The Sanqing Hall is five bays wide with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof; its stone and eave columns are carved with cloud dragons, cranes and Daoist tales, and painted decoration on the roof frame survives; the Yuhuang Pavilion is a triple-eaved tower-style structure and a landmark building of Mount Wangwu. The palace preserves more than twenty steles from the Yuan, Ming and Qing, including a stele bearing an imperial edict of Kublai Khan (Shizu of Yuan). It was restored after the 1990s and is today the center of Daoist activity on Mount Wangwu.
Highlights
- Carved dragon stone columns of the Sanqing Hall
- Yuhuang Pavilion
- Yuan-dynasty imperial edict stele
- Remains associated with Sima Chengzhen