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What is the oldest surviving wooden structure in China

The main hall of Nanchan Temple.

Nanchan Temple is located on the north bank of the small Milky Way of Yangbaigou near Lijiazhuang in Yangbai Township, southwest of Wutai County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province, 35 kilometers from Dongye Town. More than 1200 years ago. The temple sits north to south and covers an area of 3078 square meters.

The main construction of the temple has a mountain gate (Guanyin Hall). East and West supporting halls (Bodhisattva Hall and Dragon King Hall) and the main hall. Composed of a four whole courtyard type of construction. It is the earliest existing wooden structure building in China. National key cultural relics protection units.

The Great Hall is one of the oldest surviving wooden structure buildings of the Tang Dynasty in China, and the Tang sculptures in the temple are superb, which can be regarded as the treasures of Tang sculpture art, and have important historical status and artistic value.

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. p>The existing ancient wooden structure building and the Buddha Light Temple Hall:

Shanxi Wutai Mountain Buddha Light Temple belongs to the national key cultural relics protection units, Wutai County, Buddha Light New Village, thirty kilometers away from the county town. Because of the long history of this temple, the temple Buddhist cultural relics are precious, so there is the "Asian Buddha light" of the name.

The main hall of the temple is the East Hall, built in 857 AD. From the construction time, it is second only to the Tang Jianzhong three years (782 AD) in Wutai County Nanchansi Temple Hall, in the country's existing wooden buildings in the second.

The Tang Dynasty buildings, Tang Dynasty sculptures, Tang Dynasty murals and Tang Dynasty inscriptions of the Buddha's Light Temple are of high historical and artistic value, and are known as the "Four Greats".

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