Faxing Temple and the Painted Figures of the Song
One hall of 1080 holds nineteen Song clay figures on a hill in Changzi county; the article reads the room, its figures and the stone pagoda that keeps the temple's oldest dated gift.
Changzhi is a prefecture-level city in the south-east of Shanxi, where the province meets Hebei and Henan. It has four urban districts and eight counties. The Taihang mountains close it on the east and the Taiyue on the west, and the middle is the Shangdang basin, the floor of an old lake; the three headwaters of the Zhuozhang River join inside the prefecture before the river leaves it eastward, and the Qin River rises in the west of the city. The old names were Shangdang and Luzhou, and a commandery was set up here in the fourth century BC. In 578 the Northern Zhou divided the commandery to create Luzhou. The city's protected buildings sit mostly in its counties rather than in its streets.
One hall of 1080 holds nineteen Song clay figures on a hill in Changzi county; the article reads the room, its figures and the stone pagoda that keeps the temple's oldest dated gift.
A Song hall on a hill in Changzi county, moved whole from a site that mining was undermining, with nineteen clay figures inside and a stone pagoda in the courtyard.
A Song temple on the middle slope of a hill in Changzi county, watched over by three ridges, with Song figures on its altar and two hundred small Buddhas left on one wall.
A Ming hall on the western edge of Changzhi whose walls, roof frame and window frames are covered with more than five hundred painted clay figures under a yellow and green glazed roof.