Guangzhou Taoist architecture - Five Immortals Temple

    The Five Immortals Temple is built on the mountain. There are the front gate, the back hall, the East Room and the West Room. The Five Immortals Temple is green glazed tile with double eaves resting on the top of the mountain. The wooden framework is well preserved and exquisite. A piece of red sandstone exposed on the east side of the back hall has a huge footprint hole. The ancients always thought it was a "immortal hallmark", and protected it.

    During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the scale of the Five Immortals Temple was quite magnificent, with more than ten halls. The original screen wall, memorial archway, mountain gate, central hall, back hall, and east and west rooms, Sanyuan Hall, veranda and so on are on both sides. The screen wall, archway, nave, Sanyuan Hall and veranda have disappeared, and only a part of the old buildings are available for visitors to visit.
    The facade of the Five Immortals Temple is three cubits wide and two cubits deep, with green glazed tiles on the top of the mountain and blue brick and stone feet. There is also a pair of stone unicorns carved from volcanic rocks in Yimen, which is a rare cultural relic in China.

    The back hall is 12 meters long and three rooms wide, and the depth is 10 meters wide. The hall is 7 meters high. It is covered with green glazed tiles on the top of the double eaves. The two ends of the front ridge are decorated with back patterns. In the middle are two opposite inverted Aozi. The middle ridge brake is a treasure decoration. The inner eaves are exquisitely closed, and the four walls are used for spacing. They are originally square doors and windows, which are flexible and transparent. The whole back hall has the characteristics of the ancient buildings of the Ming Dynasty in Guangdong, and is also the most complete existing buildings of the Ming Dynasty in Guangzhou.

      There is also an ancient building in the form of a city tower behind the back hall - the first floor of Lingnan, whose foundation is built with red sandstone. The building is 7 meters high, and it is connected with each other in the middle. It is like a city gate, and the huge eaves of the pillars are built on it, forming a spacious tower, which looks solemn and magnificent, simple and generous.