The Main Hall of Tianqing Temple

　　   The Main Hall of Tianqing Temple is located in Cuilu Village, Wu’an City. It was built in the third year of the Tianshun era of the Ming Dynasty (1459). The only remaining structure, the main hall, is the principal building of the temple. It features a five-bay width and three-bay depth, with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof covered in grey tiles and trimmed with green glazed tiles. All columns are made of stone, with small octagonal cross-sections. The column bases beneath vary in shape—round, square, or octagonal—and are in the form of Sumeru pedestals. The interior columns employ techniques of column shifting and reduction. The eaves are adorned with bracket sets of the seven-puzuo-three-xia’ang type, with upturned ang heads styled in ruyi forms. The rear ends of the decorative brackets (shuaotou) extend via hanging pillars to be supported under the lower golden rafters. The beam-frame structure uses double-layered gongbei beams, which support the five-rafter beams. There are double-step corridors extending both front and back. The arrangement of purlins, beams, and penetrating members does not follow conventional layouts but is instead complex and orderly—locally referred to as the “chaotic beam hall.” This rare beam-frame structural style from the Ming Dynasty serves as an excellent example for the study of Ming architecture. It is now a key cultural relic protection unit of Hebei Province.