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White Cloud Temple (Xuanmiaoguan)
As a temple of the Complete Perfection Tradition, Shanghai White Cloud Temple is located on the Back Xinlin Street at the former Western Gate of Shanghai, the present seat of Shanghai Daoist Association.
The temple was so named in honor of Qiu Chuji (whose literary name was Changchunzi), the patriarch of the Dragon Gate Sect 3 of the Complete Perfection Tradition. In the 19th Guangxu year (1893), funded by Chen Runfu, President of Shanghai Chamber of Commerce and the like, Daoists of the White Cloud Temple enlarged the Hall of the Three Pristine Ones, the Hall of Patriarch Lu and the Hall of Patriarch Qiu, and expanded the area of the temple into a considerable dimension of 14 mu. The hall is divided into the front and the back parts. The middle line of the front part consists of the Hall of the Thunder Patriarch and the library; the eastern line consists of the guest rooms and the Hall of Patriarch Qiu; the western line consists of the dining room, the Hall of the Big Dipper, etc.
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