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Zhangzhou Puxian Temple

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Puxian Temple is located in the dense forest just above the left side of Chen Zheng’s Mausoleum. The temple was funded by a general from the ancient maritime trading power Srivijaya (located in what is now the Sumatra region of Southeast Asia), and was built in the third year of the Taiping Xingguo era of the Song Dynasty (978 AD). It originally had a foreign-language plaque. Srivijaya, which existed from the 7th to the 13th century—corresponding to the early Tang through the Southern Song periods in China—had...

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Zhangzhou Puxian Temple is a cultural tourism attraction.

Puxian Temple, located in the dense forest just above the left side of Chen Zheng’s Mausoleum, was funded by a general from the ancient maritime trading power Srivijaya (located in what is now the Sumatra region of Southeast Asia) and built in the third year of the Taiping Xingguo era of the Song Dynasty (978 AD). It originally had a foreign-language plaque. Srivijaya, which thrived from the 7th to the 13th century (covering the early Tang through the Southern Song periods in China), once engaged in friendly cultural and trade exchanges with China. Puxian Temple has a long history and stands as an important historical site marking Zhangzhou’s earliest maritime trade and cultural interactions with Southeast Asia.