The Qingtan Temple is composed of the main hall, ancillary rooms, and a long pavilion. Inside the main hall, there are three generations of Buddhas with copper faces and golden bodies, looking kind and benevolent. There is a more than one-thousand-year-old ginkgo tree in the temple. It is a dioecious tree but with both male and female on the same plant. Up to now, its branches and leaves are luxuriant and it bears abundant fruits.
Under the tree, there is a ‘Longku Spring’. The water quality is clear, cool, sweet and mellow, and it is an excellent choice for making tea. Qingtan Temple is famous for dozens of thousand-year-old wingceltis trees in the temple. The temple was originally named Yunfeng Temple and was built in the Kaiyuan period of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. It is located in the canyon between Chushan and Hanshan. Later, it was renamed Qingtan Temple because the valley is full of wingceltis trees. Nowadays, the restored and improved Qingtan Temple is a famous Buddhist sacred place for developing Buddhist cultural tourism in southern Shandong. When visiting Qingtan Temple, one can enjoy the thousand-year-old wingceltis trees. Second, worship the Buddha and experience the tranquility and serenity far from the hustle and bustle. Dozens of thousand-year-old wingceltis trees growing in the Qingtan Valley have been sculpted by the uncanny workmanship of nature and the vicissitudes of time into amazing artworks after weathering countless hardships. And the thousand-year-old ginkgo tree in the temple courtyard, with male and female connected, shades the temple, full of ancient charm, adding a wisp of human fireworks and cultural tension to this Buddhist temple. Opening hours: Open all year round from 08:00 to 17:00.Qingtan Temple
The Qingtan Temple is composed of the main hall, ancillary rooms, and a long pavilion. Inside the ma[...]
