Chiwan Tianhou Temple
★★★★Historical Architectures
9 Chiwan 6th Rd, Nanshan Qu, Shenzhen Shi, Guangdong Sheng, China
Description
Chiwan Tianhou Temple, also known as Tianhou Museum, is located at the foot of Xiaonan Mountain next to Chiwan Village, Nanshan District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. One of the more important temples of Tianhou, all the court envoys to Southeast Asian countries, when passing through here, must stop the boat to put in incense, and pray to the gods with great ceremony. In the early years of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, was ordered by Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, to lead the sailors to go to the Western Ocean and create the "Silk Road" on the sea. The Tianhou Palace in Chiwan was an important stop. There are dozens of buildings such as mountain gate, archway, sun and moon pool, stone bridge, bell tower, front hall, main hall, apse, left and right side halls, wing rooms, living room, corridor, corner pavilion, tablet pavilion and so on. It has more than 120 houses and covers an area of more than 900 acres. Its temples are majestic and magnificent, and the temples are beautiful. It is the largest Tianhou Temple with 99 gates in the coastal areas of China. Prestigious human landscape.