Wuhou Temple and Grounds, Chengdu, China

This is the entry to the Wuhou Temple complex in Chengdu, China. Most of the city of Chengdu is quite built up and striving towards modernity, but this is one of the welcome exceptions, containing several temples to ancestors inside, as well as a few gardens.



This temple, more than many others I saw, put a lot of emphasis on written things. This was only one of several extensive panels.


Temple interior above, complete with tourists, photographing and walking. Somehow this picture appealed to me more than the one I took with no one in it.






This was only one of the wall decorations; there were several different animals.



This gate I found particularly interesting. The gate itself caught my eye, but also the area that it entered onto was odd to me. It was a circular walkway, one loop, that went around a small hill in the middle of the garden. The wall around it was rather high, so the emphasis seemed to be on the path itself (hmm, how Buddhist!). The hill was also rather inaccessible. There was actually no other way in or out of this circular path except for this gate. I believe circles in traditional Chinese culture refer to luck or positive things, so I assume this is the idea behind this kind of garden pathway.