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{{heritageName}} : The Finding of the Foguang Temple

On July 7, 1937, a telegraph was sent from Mount Wutai in Shanxi to Beiping. On July 9, Beiping Morning Post disclosed the telegraph in an article titled A Tang Temple Found; Liang Sicheng Reported from Mount Wutai; They Will Soon Survey and Make a Model of the Forbidden City. This is the report on a wooden building from the Tang dynasty ever found in China. The building is the east main hall of the Foguang Temple on Mount Wutai in Shanxi, found by Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin, Mo Zongjiang and Ji Yutang, members of the investigation team from the Society for the Study of Chinese Architecture. This finding refuted the argument of Japanese architectural historian Tadashi Sekino that China has no wooden building from the Tang dynasty. Mr. Liang Sicheng highly praised the Foguang Temple, saying: “The Buddhist hall itself is a building from the Tang dynasty. However, the hall also houses statues, paintings and calligraphic works from the Tang dynasty, rarely gathering four forms of art.”