Located at the southern foot of Hongluo Mountain, Hongluo Temple was built in 378 AD and was enlarged during the Tang Dynasty. Its original name was Daming Temple, also called Huguo Temple. Its current name of Hongluo or the red river snail is derived from a legend of the Maiden Red River snail. For the past 10 centuries, it has been a pivotal land for the Buddhism in north China; many senior Buddhist monks were trained and practiced here. And it is also the birth place of Jinghua Qigong.
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