Cui Fugong Temple in Shuidong

　　Address: Zezhou County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province

　　The main gate of the temple doesn’t look much different from the more elaborate residential gates in the area, which was also one of the reasons it was overlooked before. Inside, there is a mountain gate that also serves as a stage, east and west wing rooms that also function as viewing stands, an offering hall in front of the main hall, and three-room side halls on both the east and west sides.

　　The temple houses four stone tablets inscribed between the Ming Dynasty’s Wanli era and the Qing Dynasty’s Daoguang era. According to the “Reconstruction of Qisheng Guangyou King Temple” from the 23rd year of Wanli (1595), the Cui Fugong Temple was originally built in the 4th year of the Yuan Dynasty’s Dade era. Below the eaves columns of the main hall, there is a short remaining section of a column?#?that appears to have been inscribed with... The temple also features a rather distinctive pigeon-tail bracket style, and the beams and brackets on the roof ridges are also quite pronounced. However, the side corridors and the interior ceiling decorations exhibit a rather simple style.

　　Cui Fugong Temples have been found in other counties and districts of southeastern Shanxi, but this is the first discovery within Zezhou County.