The Wuyi Palace Scenic Area
Nestled at the foot of the Dawang Mountain and beside the Yiqu Creek, the Wuyi palace is the oldest of its kind at the Mt. Wuyi. Covering an area of 3.5 square kilometers, it is also called the Tianbao Palace or the Chongyou Temple or the Ten-Millennia Palace. With its construction initiated in Tang dynasty ( 742-755 AD), the palace boasts a history of more than 1000 years. The first emperor of Han dynasty had send emissary here to build temples to consecrate the Saint Wuyi. During Tang Dynasty , a Tian Bao palace was built here and later was transformed into Huixian Temple , a Taoism temple.
It was expanded on its basis in Song Dynasty to include 300 rooms. Its scale and grandeur reached a climax then. The later Song Dynasty saw further additions to the palace and its renaming to be the Chongyou Temple, which was one of the nine biggest temples in Later Song Dynasty.
Main scenic spots are the Mt. Wuyi Museum, the Sanqing Hall, the Dawang Peak, the Manting Peak, the Lion Peak, the Bone-changing Stone, the Sangu Stone , the Song-Dynasty style street, the memorial for the great Chinese intellectual Zhuxi , the memorial for the great literary figure Liuyong. This spot is well endowed with natural landscape and historical spots.
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