Mianyang Qiqu Mountain Grand Temple—The Birthplace of Wen Chang Emperor and Wen Chang Culture | You're really having a blast!

Address, Mianyang City, Zitong County, Sichuan Province Qiqu Mountain Grand Temple is the ancestral temple of Wen Chang Emperor, the god of literature in the native Chinese religion Taoism, originally built during the Jin dynasty for the worship of Zhang Yazhi by the people of Shu. The Qiqu Mountain Grand Temple was initially established at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (around 390 AD). In the fourth year of Xianping in the Northern Song Dynasty (1001 AD), the lunar July, Zhao Heng conferred the title 'Yingxian Wang' on Zhang Yazhi. In the sixteenth year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1146 AD), the Grand Temple was expanded, and thereafter, from the end of the Southern Song Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, a period of 600 years, it was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Hundred-Foot Tower was destroyed by fire. In the tenth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1732 AD), it was rebuilt. The statue of Wen Chang Emperor riding a white mule in the Wen Chang Main Hall was cast in the first year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1628 AD). To the south of the Wen Chang Hall is the 'Bai Te Hall,' built during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty (1368—1398 AD). In the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China (1935 AD), during the construction of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway, the Qiqu Mountain Grand Temple was divided in two.