But Guan Gong worship is intended to respect moral principles, loyalty, righteousness and courage.

The Guan Gong spirit represents ruling class values and he is seen as the epitome of loyalty and righteousness, as well as a patron saint of wealth. An Emperor Guan Imperial Garden has been restored as a classical garden in the northern China architectural style. It is China's largest and earliest Guan Gong Temple and consists of three parts: a Haizhou Ancestral Shrine, Changping Emperor Guan Ancestral Temple, and Changping Emperor Guan Ancestral Mausoleum. In addition to being a national historical heritage site, it is a national 4A scenic area and one of Shanxi's top 10 scenic areas. The gargantuan god weighs in at a stunning 1,320 tonnes and can be seen holding. The statue features over 4,000 strips of bronze and stands at 58 meters tall. Workers dismantle a 58-meter-high statue of Guan Gong weighing more than 1,200 tons on Septemin Jingzhou, Hubei Province, China. The statue weighs five times more than the Statue of Liberty in the US. Browse 28 STATUE OF GUAN YU (JINGZHOU) photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. The temple in Haizhou covers a 73,000-square–meter area. A leviathan statue of the ancient Chinese warrior god Guan Yu has been completed in Jingzhou city in Hubei province. Around the world there are more than 300,000 of these temples, from the United States to Japan, Singapore and Thailand. Statistics show that Taiwan alone has thousands of Guan Gong Temples. Guanyu is popularly worshiped by the Chinese people, in different sects and is called the god of war by the common folk, with great influence in China and abroad. On Nov 17, 2012, it entered the world cultural heritage tentative list, along with some Guangyu architecture. The Guan Gong Temple, in the town of Haizhou is the largest temple of its kind in the world and is on China's historical protection list. Guan Yu (AD160-219), also named Guan Yunchang, was born in the modern-day village of Changping near the city of Yuncheng, Shanxi province and is referred to as Emperor Guan.

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