The Longxing temple, also called "the Giant Buddha Temple" by local people, was first built in 586 during the Sui Dynasty (581-618).

It is one of the earliest, well-preserved and largest Buddhist temples in China.

Longxing Temple.

It became a national key cultural relics site under State protection in 1961.

Since then, the government has spent a great deal on renovating and expanding the old temple.

Emperors of different dynasties paid visit to the temple to burn joss sticks to the Buddha statues and left behind many poems or notes on the steles in the temple.