Fuguo Temple
Rebuilt Ming-era monastery whose famed five-eave wooden tower was dismantled and moved across town.
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This guide to Fuguo Temple, on a steep hill above Baisha village near Lijiang, centers on the Five Phoenix Tower the Mu family chieftains raised here in 1601, and on the carpenters from four traditions whose styles went into its frame. Along the way you'll meet the wars and upheavals that struck the hill in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Best heard with Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in front of you.
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