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Longhua Temple
Must Sees The Bund Huangpu River Yu Yuan Garden Jade Buddha Temple Shanghai Museum Jin Mao Building The Oriental Pearl TV Tower Children's Palace Optional Attractions Shanghai Grand View Garden Shanghai Grand Theatre The Former Residence of Dr Sun Yat-sen Soong Ching Ling's Former Residence and Mausoleum Longhua Temple Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall Site of the 1st National Congress of the Communist Party City God Temple Jing'an Temple People's Square The New Shanghai Oriental Arts Center White Cloud Temple (Xuanmiaoguan) Ancient Water Town: Zhujiajiao Located at No.2853 Longhua Road in Xuhui District, the Longhua Temple is a famous thousand-year-old ancient temple at the south end of the Yangtze River. It is said that Longhua Temple and Longhua Pagoda were builtin 5th Chiwu year of King Sun Quan of the Wu State during the Three Kingdoms Period (242 A.D.). There are four adjoining halls in the temple: the Grand Hall, The Three Sages Hall, Hall of Maitreya and the Abbot Chamber. On the sides are the bell tower and the drum tower, arhat's hall and preaching hall. Longhua Pagoda is situated by the side of the temple and is regarded as the largest one among the 16 pagodas in Shanghai. It is 40-m tall with 7 stories in octagonal shape, with brick and wood structure. There are eaves on every story and bells hanging on the corners and corridors around the body. Gui Mao of the Qing Dynasty praised the bell chimes in Longhua Temple as 'better than the bell chimes heard at midnight in Hanshan Temple' (The Longhua evening bell chimes on New Year's Day ring in the new and ring out the old.)

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