Guanlin Temple
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Guanlin Temple is located about 7 kilometers south of Luoyang city; it is also called General Guan’s Tomb, where the head of General Guanyu was buried.
Guanyu is a house held figure in Chinese history, from the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdom Period, cornered by Taoist, Buddhist and Confucius with his braveness and royalties. He was killed in the year of 219 AD by Sun-quan, the emperor of the Wu Kingdom; Sun quan put Guan's head in the box and sent to Cao-cao in Luoyang, the king of Wei Kingdom. Cao cao looked through Sun's tricks and held a ceremonious burial for Guan; he put the head with a carved wooden body and buried them to the south of Luoyang.
Guanlin Temple was built in 1596 during Ming dynasty and was expanded in Qing dynasty. During the history, emperors highly praised Guanyu and set him as a model of morality. He was respected as "Wu Sheng". The restoration temple began from 1994, and believers from Taiwan, Shanghai, Singapore have been denoted for this.
The layout of Guanlin Temple is of traditional style of Chinese architecture and built in symmetrically. Inside the temple, there's an art gallery with about 2,000 ancient steles, epitaphs and stone inscriptions are displaying.
