Open hour
8: 30- 16: 00
Ticket
5 yuan
Traffic
No. of public transit 66, 11, 23, 24, 43, 782
Introduce
Town God s Temple of Shanghai, it may well be world-famous, is adjoined with Yu Garden, is also called old Town God s Temple, it is Taoism main Taoist temple of a group of Shanghai. Lie in square Bang Middle Road, to Ann s benevolence street in the east, the open good fortune of the north helps the way, to the way of field of old school in the west. Go to Shanghai but not to go to Town God s Temple, is equal to not been to large Shanghai ing. Can be seen in old position and influence in Shanghai of Town God s Temple. City god is a patron saint of the city in Taoism, the Yongle Year of Ming Dynasty (the beginning of the 15th century) according to legend Piece, county magistrate of Shanghai, follow treaty temple of Kingsoft at the square the intersection of Bang and Luis Have another name called and only do in the shrine suddenly) Have reconstructed into today our Town God s Temple being seen. Rebuild 1926, hall 16 meter high, 21.1 meter deep, the intersection of reinforced concrete and structure, and colorful rafter draw, green the intersection of tile and eaves Zhu, the scale is heightened. After the war of resistance, in order that with new Town God s Temple (former address is connected with the cloud crossing in Nanjing West Road) Distinguish, so called old Town God s Temple. The past Old Town God s Temple That is often there are bird s market, book that taste the teahouse, restaurant and department store etc. in the Yu Garden trade of today, deal in various articles of daily use and Shanghai local delicacies: Fermented glutinous rice dumpling, small enveloping the steamed bun, spiced bean, eight precious soup,etc.. The scenery here is graceful, the market is flourishing, one of the favorite excursion centers of the people in Shanghai.
Old Town God s Temple is artistic to race in the hall, there are a special skill of China such as cockfighting performance, acrobatics and thunderbolt calligraphy inside Folk custom art. Sea Town God s Temple of more than 10,000 square meters is Taoism palace and temple of straight a group of Taoist priests management, also call the temple of city of Shanghai, including the audience hall, nave, imperial sleeping palace, constellation hall, the Palace of Hell, the God of Wealth halling, Wenchang halling, letting to make up in a lot of palaces such as the real monarch s hall, palace of Qing Dynasty of jade, the area is up to Taoism palace and temple of more than 10,000 square meters, in these more than 10,000 square meters, also include two gardens of Town God s Temple, West Garden (namely present Yu Garden) With the east garden.