Fujian Travel

The Sanqing Palace of Putian is the best-preserved Taoist architecture of Tang Dynasty in Fujian province. Sanqing Palace consider as a cultural relic under state protection, this building was established in 628 AD during the reign of Tang Dynasty.

The Sanqing palace has been renamed several time after the fell of Tang Dynasty, including as Tianqing Temple in Song Dynasty, called as Xuanmiao Temple in Yuan Dynasty, and later renamed as Yuanmiao Temple in Qing Dynasty for avoiding the same name with emperor Kangxi’s other name Xuanye.

The Sanqing Palace was built against the mountain. There are five major halls along the width, and enlarged to seven rooms in Ming Dynasty. The depth of the temple is six rooms. Inside the temple stand twenty stone columns connected to the beam in the style of Song Dynasty’s architecture. There are four statues of Heavenly King inside the temple, also numerous valuable carved stone inscriptions of different dynasties.

There is another palace called Dongyue Palace in the east of Sanqing Palace. Dongyue Palace still boasts dragon columns of Song Dynasty and beam structure of Ming Dynasty, which was painted the colorful pictures of Taoism. It is a rare ancient building in southern China. The court between Sanqing Palace and Dongyue Palace is used as a Stele Park, where all the steles of the city are collected and protected. Besides, there are carvings of characters of Shushi, Wen Tainxiang and Zhouying, etc in different style such as Zhen, Cao, Zhuan and Li, which are rare cultural relics. Nowadays Dongyue Palace has been set as preparatory department of Cultural Relics Park of Putian city.