The Beiyue Temple in Quyang is located in the county town of Quyang in Hebei Province. It is also known as the Beiyue Zhenjun Temple or Beiyue Temple. It was built during the reign of Emperor Xuanwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty and has been renovated and expanded at various times since then. The existing buildings were mostly built after the Song and Yuan dynasties, including the main gate, the imperial incense pavilion, the Lingxiao Gate, the Sanshan Gate, the Feishi Hall, and the Dening Hall. The layout is in the shape of a square, with a length of 300 meters from north to south and a width of 139 meters from east to west. The main building, the Dening Hall, has a double-eaved glazed tile roof, is about 30 meters high, and has a width of seven rooms and a depth of four rooms, surrounded by corridors, the structure is rigorous and magnificent; the two walls on the east and west sides of the hall are painted with a huge “Heavenly Palace Map,” which is 6.5 meters high and 17.6 meters wide. The largest figure is 3.3 meters high. A total of 73 different characters are painted in the picture, with different expressions and lifelike. It is said to be a genuine work of Wu Daozi from the Tang Dynasty and has high artistic and historical value. There are 137 stone inscriptions from the Northern Qi, Tang, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, including the famous Dawei Wangfujun Stele, the Yuan Dynasty Zhao Mengfu Stele, and the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang Stele. This temple was originally dedicated to the worship of the Northern Emperor, and in the 17th year of the Shunzhi reign (1660) of the Qing Dynasty, it was still worshipped here. Later, it was moved to Hunyuan, Shanxi Province.
曲阳北岳庙 位于河北省曲阳县城内。全称北岳安天王圣帝庙,简称北岳真君庙、北岳庙。始建于北魏宣武帝时期,后历代均有不同程度的重修与扩建。现存建筑多为宋元以后所建,主要有神门、御香亭、凌霄门、三山门、飞石殿、德宁殿,规模宏大,平面布局成田字形,南北长300米,东西宽139米;主体建筑德宁殿,重檐琉璃瓦顶,高约30米,面阔七间,进深四间,四周出廊,结构严谨,雄伟壮观;殿内东西两壁之上绘有巨幅《天宫图》,其高6.5米,宽17.6米,最大的人物高达3.3米,图中共绘有各种人物七十三个,神态各异,栩栩如生,相传为唐代吴道子真迹,具有较高的艺术及历史价值。庙内现存有北齐、唐、元、明、清各代碑石题刻一百三十七块,其中著名的有大魏王府君碑、元代赵孟頫碑、明代朱元璋碑等。此庙原为祭祀北岳大帝之所,至清代顺治十七年(1660)还在这里遥祭北岳大帝,后方改祭于山西省浑源。