• Wugong Temple(Five Official's Temple)
  
  

  	Wugong Temples is located at the southeast part of Haikuo city. Wugong Temples is a complex of five traditional temples and halls. The buildings were built during the reign of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty to commemorate the five well-known officials of the Tang and Song dynasties. Through different dynasties period, restoration and extension works were carried out to this temple complex with the inclusion of gardens, ponds and pavilions to beautify the complex compound.
  	The five temples forming the whole complex are the Wugong Temple, Songgong Temple, Guanjia Temple, Xuepu Temple, Wugong Jingshe and the Qiong Garden. Inside Wugong Temple is a stone tablet craved with unique Chinese calligraphy inscriptions of Emperor Huizong's rescript from the Song Dynasty. Songgong Temple was built to commemorate Su Shi and his brother Su Zhe. Tablets of stones with inscriptions of his poems and essays were found here. Today it is a quiet place for couples and families to escape the city crowds.

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• Tianya Haijiao   
  
  
  

  	(literally 'edge of the sky, rim of the sea') Twenty kilometers from the city is a somber-looking beach with clear water, coconut palms and grotesque rocks. It was rumored that during the Tang and Song dynasties, disgraced officials were exiled to this piece of land. Upon seeing the vastness of the sky and the sea, people sent to this place believed they had reached the edge of the sky and the rim of the sea.
  	In recent years, this place has become a popular tourist spot where tourists throng in waves each year. Other attractions such as Heavenly Pillar and Rock of the Sky are also well-known. Heavenly Pillar (Nan Tian Yi Zhu) A pillar-shaped rock rising seven meters high.
  A Qing official inscribed four huge characters saying "Nan Tian Yi Zhu" meaning "Pillar of the Southern Heavens". It was said in a myth that the pillar came from the Heavens to support the sky. To this day, locals look upon the rock with great reverence.

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