Zhanghua Temple of Shashi City

Zhanghua Temple is located in the northeast of Shashi City, and it is a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. Yuzhangtai - the name of the place is said to be the relic of Chu, and the temple was named after it. Zhanghua Temple was built in Taiding Period of Yuan Dynasty according to the record. Once, Emperor Jianwen visited the temple and sighed over the passage of time.

To the Emperor Daoguang Period (1821), the monks in the temple found that the mediation hall here is too narrow. Then they started the expansion work. The temple was much larger after their expansion. The existing construction of the temple has a lot of traces of the reparation in Qing Dynasty. There are Tianwang Hall, Weituo Hall, Grand Hall, the Store Tower and the Abbot's Hall. The Grand Hall is the main building of the temple, which presents the architecture characteristics of south China.

There are some precious cultural relics in the temple such as the complete set (8000 volumes) of Tibetan Buddhism Scripture conferred by the Emperor Yongzheng and two jade Buddha presented by the king of Burma. There is a tuft of plums in front of the Grand Hall. It is said that it is a plum of Tang Dynasty, but nobody knows its exact age. There is an ancient well named Chenxiang Well (also named Watering Flower Well) in the east of the Grand Hall. The well is very deep and the water in it is very clean. The water in the well is still pretty clean and you can see the words- Chenxiang Ancient Well carved in the edge of the well by people in Qing Dynasty.