Xianglu Temple

Xianglu Temple stands in Liulin County, in western Shanxi, a county of Lüliang on the east bank of the Yellow River, where the ground falls from east to west toward the water. Liulin covers 1,288 square kilometres, and was founded in 1971 with its seat at Liulin town, from which it takes its name. It sits in the heart of the Hedong coalfield and is one of Shanxi's main coking coal bases, and one of the country's five large date counties, with Sanjiao town named China's No. 1 Red Date Town in 1998. The county is the background this article works from; the shrine itself is not described in the references read for it.