Daguangmingdian or known as Da-guangming-dian, the Great Hall of the Brightness[1] (Chinese: 大光明殿; pinyin: Dà guāng míng diàn) was a building near the Forbidden city, Beijing. It was a Taoist temple as well as the temple for the Qing royal family.
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The current Guangming Hutong is named after this building.
The temple is burned down in 1900 during the Boxer Uprising and the subsequent Boxer war.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Picturing the True Form. p. 18.