Quyuan Temple

Huangling Temple, under the Nine-Dragon Mountain of Ox Crag, is originally called "the ox the ancestral hall" and "the ox temple". It is handed down that it was located at Guizhou Town, Zigui County, 1.5 kilometers to the east of Xiangjiaping. In the 15th year (A.D. 820 years) of Emperor Li Chun's reign in Tang Dynasty, Wang Maoyuan, the regional inspector of Guizhou, firstly constructed Quyuan Temple at Qutuo which was 5 miles to the east of Zhoucheng and composed "Mr. Qu of Chu Sanlv Ancestral Temple Inscription and Foreword". In the third year of Emperor Zhao Xu's reign in Song Dynasty, ancestral hall was constructed at Qu Tuo.

The ancestral hall was built with hard roofs and in the type of courtyard with building on four sides which were composed by the entrance, the side room, the main hall, and the back hall. It was 350 square meters large. The temple was repaired again and again from the first year of the Emperor Tai Ding' reign of Yuan Dynasty (in 1324), by governor Wang Tugebuhua (in 1344), to governor Wang Peigao in the 25th year of the Emperor Wan Ling's reign of Ming Dynasty (in 1597), to governor Li Qi in the 25th year of Jiaqing's Reign. After the foundation of the People's Republic of China, it was repaired in 1963 and in 1965 each. Later because of the construction of Gezhou Dam hydraulic engineering, the water level of the storehouse district elevated.

In the July of 1976, the temple was rebuilded on a new site eastern suburb in the county which is the present site and takes up 20.7 acres. The entrance of the new ancestral hall maintains the original appearance. But the scale was expanded. Now, the decorative archways are 17 meters high, and the side room expanded 7 meters from the left to the right. The decorated archways are covered with glazed tiles. The first-level roof pinnacle has the shape of fish, the second-level volume dragon, and the third-level grass dragon. The center of the roof is decorated into a treasured vase. The façade is the decorative archways, but the middle lies the Tianming Hall.

There are double-dragon cylinders on the left and the right side. In the middle of the hall, the three characters "Qu Yuan Temple" forwarded by Guo Moruo are seen. While the architrave, there is "leaving a good name to posterity loyally" which was forwarded by Wang Shuren from Xiangyang. The tablet of the doorway has "the honor can compete with the sun and the moon" forwarded by Zhang Xiuti. The overall atmosphere of the building is of great momentum, towering in the grove of oranges. The ridge the first-level house is decorated with flying phoenixes. Tian Ming Temple is decorated with long-life pines and cranes and unicorn spitting a jade book on both sides.

The surface of the wall is carved in curved grass laces and rectangular spirals. The whole painting was based on the mix of the color of red, yellow, green, and blue, one complimenting aother. The side rooms in the west and in the east are decorated with hard roofs and with the pictures of rolling dragons and phoenixes.The indoor can be provided for the tourists to inscribe a poem or have a rest. Inside the Qu Yuan Temple, there are not only bronze statue, sculpture, tablet porch, and grave of Qu Yuan, but also memorial hall where "the Zigui exhibition of archaeological findings" and "the Qu Yuan life story display" are set up.