Yongle Palace

Yongle Palace stands three kilometres north of Rucheng county town, east of Longquan village in Guwei town, and is the largest surviving Daoist palace of the Yuan dynasty. Its original name was Dachunyang Wanshou Palace; it belongs with the Chongyang Palace in Shaanxi and the White Cloud Temple in Beijing to the three ancestral temples of the Quanzhen school. It was built between 1247 and 1358 to honour Lu Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals, and it originally stood at Yongle town, sixty kilometres south-east of Yongji, under the Emei ridge, with the Zhongtiao mountains behind it and the Yellow River in front. In 1958 to 1966 the whole complex was taken down and rebuilt on its present site.