Tiantan Garden, Shantou, Chinese temple in Haojiang District, Shantou, China.
Tiantan Garden spreads across the east foot of Queshi Mountain in Shantou's Haojiang District, facing the city across the sea. Its grounds hold the Jiutian Chan Buddhist monastery, the Baihuajian Great Temple, the nine-storey Jiutian Xuannü Pagoda, four boat-shaped pavilions called Longchuanfang, and a memorial hall. A circular pool with a white statue stands at the centre of a paved area, and a red-brick temple hall with a double-tiered orange-tiled roof faces a courtyard.
The Baihuajian Great Temple, also called the Jiutian Niangniang Temple, had its foundation stone laid on 21 September 1991 and was completed on 3 October 1993. The Jiutian Chanyuan was completed on 29 September 2007. The Jiutian Xuannü Wanfo Pagoda rises nine storeys to 56.5 m with a diameter of 28 m. The Longchuan Fang boat buildings were finished in December 1996, and the garden has been free to enter since 16 June 2012.
The name Baihuajian Great Temple honours the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden (Jiutian Xuannü), whose statue stands inside; the temple is also called Jiutian Niangniang Miao. Its foundation stone was laid on 21 September 1991 and the building was completed on 3 October 1993. Worshippers come to burn incense before her image.
The garden sits on the eastern slope of Queshi Mountain in Queshi Subdistrict, facing Shantou's urban area across the sea. Entry has been free since 16 June 2012. The pagoda has a lift to its upper floors, and its top level looks out over the whole of Shantou.
The pagoda's first floor has an elevator to the upper levels, and its roof offers a panorama of Shantou across the water. Outside the pagoda stand twelve small monk sculptures representing the Chinese zodiac, beside a Guanyin pond fed by dripping water.
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