Fengxue Temple

Eight kilometres northeast of Ruzhou, inside the Fengxue Temple National Forest Park, a Buddhist monastery follows the shape of the hill rather than a central axis, which the provincial heritage portal notes is unusual for a northern temple. The same page records more than 140 surviving buildings from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing, with the Tang seven-ancestor pagoda, the Song hanging-bell pavilion and the Jin dynasty middle Buddha hall singled out as the monastery's three treasures. A companion page from the Pingdingshan tourism bureau gives the address as Huangzhuang village, Qiling township, Ruzhou, and notes that the temple and its pagoda forest have been protected at national level since 1988.