上海城隍庙
Ming-era mansion turned Taoist shrine, incense halls and folk festivals in an old-town courtyard.
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This guide to the Chenghuang Temple in Shanghai opens with a Yuan dynasty official named Qin Yubo, who built his mother a palace with a throne room copied from the emperor's own, a gesture that could easily have cost him his head. It traces how he escaped that danger and what happened after his death, when a warlord's spared city and an emperor's decree gave him an entirely new identity. You'll also hear how the temple survived being closed for decades and repurposed under Communist rule before its incense was lit again.
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