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What are the interesting places in Quanzhou?
The scenic spots in Quanzhou are: West Street Bell Tower, Confucian Temple, Jing Qing Temple and Guandi Temple.

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Quanzhou Bell Tower is a standard bell tower built in 1934 when the East-West Street Cross Road was built, and it was completed the following year. The bell tower is13.8m high, designed by designers studying in Britain, with European style. Quanzhou Bell Tower, East West Pagoda and Pagoda have become the unique scenery of the ancient city, attracting tourists from home and abroad. At present, the clock in the bell tower has been changed from a mechanical clock to a quartz clock, and holiday lights have been installed on the bell tower. At night, the bell tower radiates new brilliance and is even more dazzling.

Confucian temple

Quanzhou Wenfu Temple is a national key cultural relic protection unit and one of the key cultural relics in Quanzhou. Quanzhou Confucian Temple was built in the late Tang Kaiyuan, and moved here in the early years of Taiping and Xingguo in the Northern Song Dynasty. In 982 (the seventh year of Taiping and Xingguo), it was established as a state school, and then moved. 1 109 (the third year of Daguan in the Northern Song Dynasty) was moved back, and 1 137 (the seventh year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty) was rebuilt.

Its building scale is grand, and it is a Confucius Temple complex integrating the architectural forms of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. With a long history, complete regulations, grand momentum and rich cultural connotations, it is the largest Confucian temple complex in the southeast of China. Symmetrical layout, beautiful architecture and unique modeling are the organic combination of Central Plains culture and ancient architecture art in southern Fujian in the Song Dynasty.

Jing Qing Temple

Quanzhou Jing Qing Temple is the earliest Islamic building in China, and it is one of the first national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council. China has the earliest and oldest Islamic temple with Arabic architectural style. Located in the middle of Tumen Street in Licheng District, it is a national key cultural relics protection unit.

guandi temple

In Quanzhou, Fujian, there is a large-scale Guandi Temple, which is located in Tumen Street, adjacent to Jing Qing Temple (another Guandi Temple in Tongling, Dongshan). Hundreds of thousands of people make pilgrimages to the two places every year, many of whom are compatriots from Taiwan Province Province and overseas Chinese. As an important branch of Minnan culture and even Fujian-Taiwan literature, Quanzhou Guandi culture has played an important role in promoting cross-strait civil exchanges.