Shrine in China's Yangzhou City, Commemorating Go-un Choi Chi-won Our visit in October 2013 |
Ceremony for Choi at this Shrine, Oct 2013 Seminar on his Legacy The Shrine in Lishui County Our visit to Huang-shan Biography of Goun Choi Chi-won China Sacred Mtns Index Page San-shin Site Contents Page |
The shrine for Korea's Korea's great Confucian-Daoist "Lone Cloud" Sage-Hero Choi Chi-won is inside this restored Ming-Dynasty City Gate of historic Yangzhou City along the ancient Grand Canal, within the beautiful Shouxihu [Slender West Lake] Park. |
our group crossing the stone bridge and entering the fortress-gate that now protects the City Museum, gardens and Shrine for Master Go-un, on the hazy morning of 2013.10.15 |
in the garden within the gate, the most explicit "dragon rock" ever seen! |
The Grand Shrine for Go-un Choi Chi-won at the eastern rear of this Park |
beautiful etched-bronze artworks on either side of the hall, depicting sceneries from Choi's life in Gyeongju and Yangzhou |
upstairs, a Museum of Choi's role in a millennium of relations between Korea and China |
even a souvenir stand! with medallions for sale... |