Changxindian Niangniang Temple, Religious temple in Changxindian Subdistrict, China.
Changxindian Niangniang Temple is a religious building in western Beijing featuring traditional Chinese architecture with multiple interconnected halls. The structure displays carved wooden beams and elaborate roof designs characteristic of temples in this area.
Built in the Qing dynasty and once tended by Taoist priests, the temple kept its gate tower and main hall until both collapsed and were demolished after 1949; the south side hall was removed in 1988, leaving five rooms of the north side hall. After the May Fourth Movement of 1919, Changxindian railway workers ran a night school here, where Deng Zhongxia's Peking University popular education lecture group spoke, and assemblies met here during the August 1922 strike and the February 7 strike of 1923. In 2013 it was listed among the seventh batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level as the former site of the Workers' Night School, part of the Changxindian February 7 strike sites.
The name Niangniang Gong refers to the goddess worshipped here, and the temple fair was held from the 9th to the 11th day of the fourth lunar month, when believers came to pray for children and donated money for opera performances. The temple was watched over by Taoist priests in its early years.
The temple stands at 145 Changxindian Street, inside the campus of Changxindian No. 1 Primary School, on the west side of the street. Because it is on school grounds, access depends on the school; the temple fair ran from the 9th to the 11th day of the fourth lunar month. Only the five-room north side hall survives, so look for it rather than a gate tower.
The temple is listed as a national key cultural relic not under its religious name but as the former site of the Workers' Night School, part of the Changxindian February 7th Strike sites. Of the original complex only five rooms of the northern side hall remain, standing inside the grounds of Changxindian No.1 Primary School.
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