Qiongzhu Temple is also known as Bamboo Temple, which is a famous temple in Kunming, which is 12 kilometers northwest of Kunming city. This Buddhist temple located on the Yuan hill was built at the beginning of the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) and was rebuilt during the Qing dynasty in 1885. The temple is famous for its 500 clay statues (arhat), each representing a different character. They were modeled in 7 years from 1883 to 1890 by a master sculptor from Sichuan and its disciples. These statues represent the faithful ones coming to pray in the temple, the most extraordinary characters were used as models.

There is a beautiful legend about the temple. An old legend tells that during immemorial times, the king of the Dali kingdom and his brother drove out and went hunting rhinoceros. However, when they drove along the way till the Jade Table Hill (Yu`anshan), all the animals disappeared. At its place, they saw a group of monks all holding a stick of bamboo. When the king was about to ask them where the rhinoceros had passed, the monks vanished in a cloud and only their bamboo sticks left behind them. The next day, the sticks had taken root in the ground, and the place was entirely covered with a luxury bamboo forest. The king then asked to built a temple there to commemorate this fantastic meeting.

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