# Five Dragons Temple

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**The Five Dragons Temple** (traditional Chinese: [五](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BA%94)[龍](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%BE%8D)[庙](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%BA%99); simplified Chinese: [五](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BA%94)[龙](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%BE%99)[庙](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%BA%99); pinyin: *Wǔ Lóng Miào*) is a [Taoist](/source/Taoist) temple in [Ruicheng, Shanxi Province](/source/Ruicheng), China. It is also known as King Guangren's Temple (广仁王庙).

The temple contains China's second oldest dated timber building, the Main Hall. It was built in 833 and is of the [Tang dynasty](/source/Tang_dynasty). It measures five bays across and has a hip-gable roof.[1]

## Notes

1. Steinhardt (1997), 70.

## References

- Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman. *Liao Architecture*. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1997. ISBN 0-8248-1843-1

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