Zhejiang Haining Yanguan Temple of the Sea

The Tanah Lot Temple is located at the east end of Chunxi Road, Yanguan Town, Haining City, Zhejiang Province. In September of the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (AD 1729), Zhejiang Governor Li Wei was ordered to build the Tanah Lot Temple inside the Chunxi Gate (today's Yanguan Town). No. 150 Chunxi Road) with an area of ​​40 acres. It was completed in November of the ninth year of Yongzheng's reign. It covers an area of ​​about 2.7 hectares and cost one hundred thousand taels of silver. Its structure is modeled after the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City, so it is known as the "Yinluan Hall". This temple was built to worship the God of Zhejiang Sea. During the Xianfeng period, most of the buildings were destroyed by war. It was rebuilt in the eleventh year of Guangxu (1885). The remaining stone squares, stone lions, stone squares, Qingcheng Bridge, gates, main halls, and imperial stele pavilions still show the magnanimity of the royal supervision. When the Tanah Lot Temple was first built, the main hall worshiped the main gods Wusu King Qian Liu and Wu Yingwei Gong Wu Zixu. The main hall has a construction area of ​​546 square meters and a height of 20 meters. There are seven levels out of the building, and the pillars, steps, and stone railings are all made of white marble. The stone railings are also carved with patterns of dragons, tigers, flowers, birds, clouds and water. There is no other palace as tall and exquisite as this, with so much white marble as building materials, at least in Zhejiang. National key cultural relics protection unit.