A fire broke out at Yongqing Temple in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, at 11:24 a.m. on Wednesday, engulfing the three-story wooden Wenchang Pavilion and sending thick black smoke into the air. The blaze left only the pavilion’s concrete frame standing, but no injuries or deaths were reported. Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire.⁠ ⁠ With a history of 1,500 years, Yongqing Temple was originally built in 536 during the Southern Liang dynasty on Fenghuang Mountain and was celebrated in a poem by Tang dynasty poet Du Mu as one of the “four hundred eighty splendid temples” of the Southern Dynasties. Wenchang Pavilion once served as the hermitage of Shi Naian at the end of the Yuan dynasty, where he wrote Water Margin, one of the four great classics of Chinese literature. The current pavilion, however, was a reconstruction completed in 1993 after the original structure was demolished and the monks were dismissed in 1958.⁠ ⁠ 📽️Video by: Gabe Jung⁠ 🤳Click our linkinbio to sign up to o...