Chengxu Taoist Temple

Chengxu Taoist Temple (澄虚道院) is locally called "The Sanctity Hall", located on Zhongshi Street (中市街) in Zhouzhuang Town and it faces Puqing Bridge (普庆桥). It was built between 1086 and 1093 in the Song Dynasty. However, the size of the Taoist temple had been expanding since mid-Ming Dynasty and its main Taoist activities began. It was 1,500 square meters in the Qing Dynasty, and it became one of the famous Taoist temples in southern Jiangsu Province. There are three great halls in the temple, Yuhuang Hall, Wenchang Hall and Shengdi Hall.

Chengxu Taoist Temple's vigorous religious activities have been flourished since the Ming Dynasty. This situation was until 1949. Every year on 22nd and 23rd of the sixth of the Lunar Calendar, it will hold a grand religious ritual, Taoist masters and priests are in robes playing traditional music instruments and chanting Taoists scriptures to praise the heaven.

In 1994, Chengxu Taoist Temple reopened to mass public. It maintained the original Song Dynasty style and the religious activities resumed.