Liye Guan Di Temple

Liye Guan Di Temple

The Guan Di Temple was built during the Xianfeng reign of the Qing Dynasty. It is located on Liye He Street, facing the Dongliu River. The temple’s surrounding wall spans forty meters in width, extends one hundred meters in depth, and stands twenty meters tall. At the rear of the temple, there is a shrine housing the sacred statue of Guan Yu, featuring a nine-foot-long red beard. Inside the main hall, there is a triangular tripod cauldron inscribed with the characters “Xianfeng First Year.” The middle part of the temple is a courtyard paved entirely with stone slabs, where vibrant flowers bloom along both sides of the walls. The front part features a large theater courtyard with a two-zhang square stage, and the pavilion above the stage, with its upturned eaves towering high above the walls, is adorned with pillars wrapped by carved dragons. The wings on either side of the stage serve as dressing rooms. Dozens of meters outside the temple, there are stone slabs with pairs of male and female stone lions standing in rows, and cubs leaning against their mothers, looking upward. In front of the stone slab platform, the characters “Xianfeng First Year” are engraved. The temple gate pillars, reaching nine feet in height, face the river. On the vertical frame above the gate, the inscription “Heaven and Earth Share the Same Flow” is carved, while the horizontal plaques on both sides bear the characters “Literary Classics” and “Martial Arts,” along with carvings depicting ancient literary tales that pay tribute to the righteousness and loyalty of figures from the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Poetic Tribute:

Rivers and mountains of north and south flow with heaven and earth;

The world floats day and night under heaven and earth.