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Location: 7 km southwest out of the town.

Description: To 7 km southwest out of the town, there’s Shuanglin Temple. This Buddhist temple houses more than 2,000 terracotta figurines dating back to the Song and Yuan dynasties. These figurines are exquisitely vivid, earning the temple a reputation of ‘the Treasure House of Painted Sculptures’. These sculptures were molded onto wooden skeletons, like flesh to bone, and even in a deteriorated form, appear life like.