Buyucun Jade Emperor Temple

　　No accurately datable inscriptions or steles have been found at Buyucun Jade Emperor Temple. The construction dates of all buildings can only be inferred from their architectural styles. The rear hall is from the Jin Dynasty, its eastern side hall is a Yuan Dynasty structure, while the offering hall, dance pavilion, and wing rooms date to the Qing Dynasty and later. The entire temple’s oldest structure is the front hall. In 2012, “Aita Legend” speculated that the front hall is a Tang Dynasty building, likely constructed in the mid-Tang period or even earlier.

　　The front hall of Buyucun Jade Emperor Temple is a single-eave, nine-ridge roof structure with three bays in width and four rafters in depth. Its front eaves use four octagonal inner-column stone pillars with sharply tapered capitals. There are no pu-pai fangs (crossbeams), and the lintels were sawn off in later periods.