Taiyuan Twin Pagoda Temple | Complete Travel Guide

🔔Introduction: The Twin Pagoda Temple, also known as Yongzuo Temple, features two pagodas 60 meters apart, each with 13 stories, making them the tallest ancient buildings in Taiyuan and a symbol of the city. ---- 📷Tour Guide: ✅Ticket price is 30 yuan, no reservation needed. ✅Only the north gate is open, navigate to "Twin Pagoda Temple North Gate". ✅Opening hours: 8:30-17:30. ✅Recommended visiting time: 1-2 hours. ✅Suggested tour route: North Gate➡️Peony Garden➡️Broken Arm Lion➡️Mahavira Hall➡️Xuanwen Pagoda (climbable)➡️Wenfeng Pagoda (not climbable)➡️Baoxian Hall➡️Stele Corridor➡️North Gate. ✅Mahavira Hall: Five bays wide, with a double-eaved pavilion style, the columns, eaves, dougong, pendant flowers, and decorations are all carved from blue bricks. The hall has an arch ceiling and was built without a single nail or piece of wood, a typical Ming Dynasty beamless structure. ✅Lingxiao Twin Pagodas: The east pagoda is Wenfeng Pagoda, and the west is Xuanwen Pagoda, both are octagonal thirteen-story hollow brick towers with brick carved dougong decorations and glazed ridge beasts on the eaves. Xuanwen Pagoda is open for climbing. The staircase is very narrow, spiraling upwards, and the same staircase is used for both ascending and descending, so be mindful of giving way to others. The lighting inside the pagoda is not very good, and there are small windows on all four sides at the top. One must crawl to the window to see outside; one side offers a view of Wenfeng Pagoda, while the other three sides have no particular view. ✅Stele Corridor: About 260 stone inscriptions, among which Su Shi's 'Chibi Nostalgia' is the most famous. ---- 📍Address: Haozhuang Village, Haozhuang Town, Yingze District, Taiyuan City. ---- 🚗Transportation: Take bus No. 23, get off at the intersection of Shuangta North Road and Yongzuo West Street.