Guandi Temple, Taoist temple in Tianqiao district, Jinan, China.
Guandi Temple stands in Jinan's Tianqiao district, west of the south gate of Wulongtan Park and beside Gongqingtuan Road. The complex has two parts: the Mizhi Hall in the south, with its gate and two side halls, and the three-bay Guandi hall in the north, about 5 m wide and 10 m deep, holding a Guan Yu statue and Ming- and Qing-era murals of his life on the east, west and north walls. A narrow courtyard with the Ximizhi Spring lies in front.
The temple was first built before the Yuan dynasty and has been repaired more than ten times. The present buildings date from the 2001 reconstruction during the widening of Guyishi Street, now Gongqingtuan Road. In the Qing dynasty the complex belonged to the Jiyun Guild Hall, funded by Jinan's second-hand clothes merchants, with Mizhi Hall as its front hall and the Guandi hall as its main hall.
The temple is dedicated to Guan Yu, the 3rd-century general honoured as Emperor Guan. Its three-bay hall holds a statue of him, and the east, west and north walls carry Ming- and Qing-era murals of his life; a painted statue stands west of the hall. The complex was the front and main halls of the Qing Jiyun Guild Hall, funded by Jinan's second-hand clothes traders.
The temple stands in Tianqiao district on the west side of the south gate of Wulongtan Park, next to Gongqingtuan Road. The complex runs north to south: Mizhi Hall with its gate in the south, the Guandi hall in the north, and the Ximizhi Spring pools in the narrow courtyard between them, crossed by a stone bridge. The halls are small, so allow a short stop.
The Ximizhi Spring in the temple's small front courtyard is fed from a stone cave in its north wall; its water flows underground to join the Li Spring before entering the Five Dragon Pool. It is listed among Jinan's 72 famous springs in the Jin-dynasty Mingquan Bei, Yan Bi's Ming-dynasty poems and Hao Zhigong's Qing-dynasty record, and again in the 2004 list.
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