Qinglian Temple

Qinglian Temple, once called Xiashi Temple, stands at Jincun town in Zezhou county, Jincheng, in an upper and a lower court. Each dynasty left something: Tang clay figures, Song timber and Song figures, steles of several periods, and a Ming pagoda east of the halls. In 867 the Tang court granted the name Qinglian, and in the third year of the Taiping Xingguo era the Song gave the upper court the name Fuyan Temple. The lower court is now called Old Qinglian Temple. The pagoda was built in 1596, the twenty-fourth year of the Wanli era, and is described as the only Tibetan-style pagoda in the Jincheng area.