But Zhang died before the work started.
His disciple Wu Quanjie continued to promote the construction of the temple after he succeeded as a great master. Finally, construction started in Zhi Zhi in the second year (1322) and was completed in the second year (1323). It was named "Dongyue Rensheng Palace" by the court.
At that time, the main buildings in the temple were the gate, the main hall, the temple of four sons and the east and west corridors. Later, in the second year of Taiding (1325), Lu princess royal donated a living room, and the scale was further expanded.
However, the good times did not last long. In the war at the end of Yuan Dynasty, temples were also severely damaged.
From the Ming Dynasty, Jiao Xuan was merged into Zhengyi Road, and Dongyue Rensheng Palace was renamed Dongyue Temple.
In the 12th year of the Ming Dynasty (1447), the temple was completely rebuilt on the basis of the original site, and was partially renovated during Jiajing and Qin Long years.
In the third year of Wanli (1575), according to the will of Empress Dowager Cixi, Ming Shenzong carried out a large-scale expansion of Dongyue Temple.
However, in the thirty-seventh year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1698), a fire broke out in the temple, and most of the buildings were burned down, only the left and right Taoist temples survived.
In the second year after the disaster (1700), Emperor Kangxi issued a decree to rebuild the temple, so it took about three years to basically restore the original appearance of Dongyue Temple.
In the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong (176 1), the whole temple was rebuilt.
During the Daoguang period, Ma Yilin, the director of this temple, raised money everywhere, built two courtyards, built more than 100 houses, and founded a compulsory school to accommodate children from poor families.
After 1900, with the turmoil of the current situation, Dongyue Temple gradually declined, relying only on renting houses to maintain daily expenses.
The temple was harassed by the Boxers and the army.
1947, another group of exiled students from Shanxi and Northeast China lived in the temple, and they carried out large-scale looting in the name of breaking superstition, which further aggravated the destruction of Dongyue Temple.
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), many statues of Dongyue Temple were shattered by the explosion of a nearby fire factory, and then the whole temple was occupied by the Beijing Municipal Security Bureau, thus announcing its closure.
Until 1995, Beijing * * * decided to restore Dongyue Temple, and all the institutions in the temple were vacated. Subsequently, the Beijing Folk Museum was established and officially opened to the public on 1999.
1996, Beijing Dongyue Temple was announced by China people and the State Council as one of the fourth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
On May 3, 2008, the state reaffirmed the relevant policies for the protection of intangible cultural heritage and returned Beijing Dongyue Temple to Taoism. At this point, the Dongyue Temple in Beijing, which was interrupted for more than 70 years, once again had a mysterious maoshan taoist.