Jiangyou Yueai Temple

Jiangyou Yueai Temple

Yueai Temple is a cultural heritage site protected by Jiangyou City.

Yueai Temple is located in Taiping Town, facing east with its back to the west. The existing structures include the Guanyin Hall and side chambers on both sides, covering a total area of 2,000 square meters. The Guanyin Hall features a single-eave suspended hip roof, with a front eave corridor. It is nine bays wide, totaling 40.9 meters, and 6.8 meters deep, built on a stone and rammed earth platform. The main wooden framework combines through-tenon and post-and-lintel construction. The two central bays have three-step beams, with camel humps and bucket arches forming a three-purlin beam structure; the side bays and gable walls have a five-column, three-through timber framework; wooden through-tenons extend beyond the golden columns at the front, creating a front eave corridor, with interconnecting lintels between the corridor bays. The rear eave, gable walls, and earthen plaster walls enclose the space, while the wooden partitions between the golden columns at the front feature six-panel doors in the central bay, wooden aprons in the side bays, and latticed windows. The roof is covered with gray tiles, featuring a central brick-and-tile ridge (now partially damaged), with end caps molded at the valleys, and right-angle drip tiles along the eaves. The side chambers are five bays wide, totaling 27.5 meters, and 8.05 meters deep, with a single-eave suspended hip roof and front eave corridor. They are constructed with a through-tenon timber structure, tiled roofs, and a central tile ridge. The layout of Yueai Temple remains well-preserved, providing important physical evidence for the study of local Qing Dynasty temple architecture and cultural customs.