Shijia Temple, National cultural site in Yu County, China

Shijia Temple, commonly called the Great Temple, is a Ming dynasty Buddhist monastery in Yu County, Hebei. Its nearly 5,000-square-metre walled compound holds eleven buildings on a north-south axis, including a front hall, a central hall and a rear hall. The central hall, the oldest and largest, is a Yuan structure raised on a brick platform, with a single-eave hip roof and painted coffered ceilings.

Shijia Temple began as an abbey that already existed in the Yuan dynasty. During the Hongwu era of the Ming, when Zhou Fang, first commander of the Yu Zhou guard, expanded the city wall, the abbey was enlarged and converted into a temple. Its first abbot was Shijian, and by 1832 more than several dozen steles recorded repairs and additions. In 1951 it became a school, and from 1998 to 2016 it housed the Yu County museum.

The temple's name comes from Shakyamuni, and locals call it the "Great Temple" (Dasi) as it was the largest Buddhist monastery in Yu Prefecture after the Ming city expansion. It belonged to the Caodong school of the Qingyuan lineage. Since 2024 its Laba porridge distribution has resumed: on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, monks hand out congee to the poor, as recorded in the temple's stele inscriptions.

The original south gate was demolished when the temple became a school, so entry is now through a new gate on the southeast side. The three main halls stand on one north-south axis, with the central hall raised on a brick platform nearly 1 metre high and a square terrace in front of it. The east and west side halls are linked by covered corridors.

The temple's original gate, demolished when the site became a school in 1951, bore a plaque reading "Nengren Gucha" on the front and "Shijia Lanzuo" on the back; a brick-carved screen wall and a pair of stone lions once stood outside it, and two locust trees inside. The new entrance is on the southeast side.