Wu’an Chenghuang Temple

　　   Chenghuang Temple The Chenghuang Temple is located in Wu’an City. It was first built in the second year of the Hongwu reign during the Ming Dynasty (1369). The surviving buildings include the worship hall, middle hall, and rear hall. The worship hall is three bays wide and one bay deep, with a single-eave hipped roof covered in clay tiles; the rear hall is three bays wide and deep, with a flush-gable roof also covered in clay tiles, and was rebuilt during the Qing Dynasty; the middle hall is the main hall of the temple, three bays wide and deep, with a flush-gable roof covered in glazed tiles, and features single-bracket-and-transverse-brace sets with “interlaced hemp-leaf” patterns on both front and rear eaves. The walls feature murals painted by Hu Xiang during the Ming Dynasty. The eastern wall depicts the “Procession of the City God,” while the other walls portray “Mountain Spirits and Water Monsters.” The landscapes, flowers, dragons, tigers, bamboo, rocks, ghosts, and deities are all exquisitely rendered, making these murals treasured works of Ming Dynasty art. It is now a provincial-level key cultural relics protection unit in Hebei Province.