Baoguang Temple travel guide.

🕗 Opening hours: 08:00-17:30 all year round 🎫 Tickets: Regular ticket: 5 RMB (Monday to Sunday, January 1st - December 31st) 🆓 Free Ticket Policy: [One] Elderly persons aged 70 and above with the city’s senior citizen discount card [Two] Children aged 6 years and below or under 1.3 meters in height [Three] Disabled persons with disability certificates [Four] Active duty military personnel with officer ID [Five] Retired cadres with retirement certificates 🚌 Transportation: [Bus] Public transportation: Take Bus No. 651, 661a, 661b, 664, 666, 668, 671a, 671b, 671, 682, 683, Xindu Bus No. 10, Xindu Bus No. 3, Xindu Bus No. 4, Xindu Bus No. 8 to Baoguang Temple Station. [Car] Self-driving: Drive along the Ring Road, turn left in front to enter Chuanshan Road, drive 1.2 kilometers along Chuanshan Road, go straight into the middle section of Baoguang Avenue, and drive along Baoguang Avenue to Baoguang Temple. 🌟Attractions Highlights: 🏯 Baoguang Temple: It preserves the typical layout structure of early Buddhist temples. The stupa in the temple was built in the Tang Dynasty. It is a 30-meter-high, 13-story, dense-eaves square brick tower. 🗿 Luohan Hall: It houses the largest clay sculpture Luohan Hall in my country with a long history. Each statue is 2 meters high, painted in gold, with exquisite shapes and different expressions. 📜 Cultural Relics: The temple also preserves the stone Thousand Buddha Stele from the second year of Liang Datong in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the stupa carved during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and the "Three Treasures" praised by the monks: the sarira, the Udumbara flower, and the palm leaf sutras. 🍃 🗓Itinerary: 🕒 Visiting time: 1-3 hours recommended 🙏 Pray for blessings: During the Lunar New Year, Baoguang Temple will hold a New Year's Eve party to worship Buddha. There will be activities such as "Visiting Baoguang, tasting vegetarian food" and "burning incense at midnight" in the temple. 👣 Experience activity: Touch the word "Fu" and count the Arhats. Start from the first step of the Arhat Hall, count the Arhats of the same age as your own age, and make a New Year's wish. 📝Note tips: 🌬️ Best season: Spring and summer 🚾 Toilet: Please refer to the on-site instructions 🌈 Nearby attractions: 🏞️ Xinfan Donghu Park: The essence of Tang Dynasty gardens, with a history of more than a thousand years. 🌺 Wulongshan Baihua Valley: Suitable for afternoon visits, you can enjoy the lights at night, very beautiful. 📖 Historical background: Baoguang Temple was first built in the Eastern Han Dynasty and was named Dashi Temple in the Sui Dynasty. In 881 AD, Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty fled to Sichuan and built a temporary palace behind the temple. He ordered the reconstruction of the temple and the pagoda and renamed it Baoguang Temple. During the Song Dynasty, there were 3,000 monks, and it was at its peak. It was destroyed by war in the Ming Dynasty and renovated and expanded in the Qing Dynasty to its current size. 🌟 Baoguang Temple is a place full of history and culture. Whether it is to appreciate the ancient architecture or experience religious culture, it is a destination worth visiting. 🌈