Taiping Temple Ruins

　　The Taiping Temple Ruins are located at Xiaodao Primary School in Shuangxi Village, Xiaodao Township, Langao County, dating back to the Qing Dynasty. The Taiping Temple was built in the 51st year of the Qianlong reign (1786). Covering an area of approximately 210 square meters, the temple faces south and consists of a front hall, rear hall, and east and west wing rooms, totaling over 10 rooms. Both the front and rear halls feature flush gable roofs covered with gray tiles and have post-and-lintel construction; beams and crossbeams are adorned with floral paintings, and doors and windows are carved with floral designs. During the Cultural Revolution, the front hall was destroyed. After 1990, the left and right wing rooms were also successively demolished. Only the rear hall and ten stone steles remain (six of which are heavily eroded). The rear hall is three bays wide, measuring 7.02 meters in width, 4.04 meters in depth, and covering an area of 29 square meters. It was used as a classroom for students in the 1990s, so the doors and windows have been replaced. One of the steles, known as the Xuzhong Stele, is made of sandstone with a gui-style head, an integrated body and head, and a missing base. The stele body measures 1 meter in length, 0.58 meters in width, and 0.05 meters in thickness, and features engraved clerical script in intaglio that records the birthplace and birth/death dates of the monk Xuzhong. The second stele, called the Land Deed Stele, is also made of sandstone with a square head, rectangular in shape, measuring 1.3 meters in length, 0.58 meters in width, and 0.05 meters in thickness. Its edges are decorated with intertwined floral patterns, and the text in clerical script records how the Taishan Society and Guan Di Society purchased land for the Taiping Temple. The third stele, the Boundary Marker, is a sandstone stele with a square head, rectangular shape, 1.25 meters long, 0.58 meters wide, and 0.05 meters thick, featuring decorative borders with intertwined floral motifs. Its engraved clerical script describes the boundary of the land surrounding the Taiping Temple. The fourth stele, the Merit Stele, is a sandstone rectangular stele with a square head, 1.26 meters long, 0.58 meters wide, and 0.05 meters thick, listing donors who contributed to the renovation of the Taiping Temple in engraved clerical script. The destroyed front hall and the left and right wing rooms were later repurposed by Xiaodao Primary School, where they were transformed into a playground and teaching buildings respectively, and their original platforms no longer exist.