Jinci Hall of the Holy Mother A Daoist temple from the Song Dynasty. It is located in Jinci, southwest of Taiyuan City in Shanxi Province. The Hall of the Holy Mother was built during the Tiancheng reign period of the Song Dynasty (1023–031) and was renovated in the first year of the Jiangning reign period (1102). The hall is seven bays wide and six bays deep, and has a double-eaved hipped roof. The roof is covered with yellow and green glazed tiles with trimmed edges, and there are glazed ridge beast decorations from the Ming Dynasty. The temple is built on a hill, with a two-room-deep corridor around the perimeter. The front eaves used to have eight wooden dragon pillars with powerful, sinuous dragons and delicate craftsmanship. The style of the dragon pillars was commonly seen in the Sui and Tang dynasties on the pillars of the niches of statue monuments and the pillars of pagoda doors. The wooden dragon pillars in the Hall of Our Lady are the earliest existing examples in China, and they are also an example of the “secondary steps all around” system in the Song dynasty's “Construction Code”. The hall uses the “reducing pillars” method, which means that there are no pillars inside the hall and the beams and rafters are exposed. The brackets are made of thick materials and come in various shapes, extending far beyond the eaves. The pillars around the hall lean slightly inward, creating “side angles”. The corner pillars are taller, the side angles are raised, and the roof eaves have a larger arc, enhancing the stability and beauty of the curve of the building. There are 42 painted Song Dynasty statues of gods in the hall, which are masterpieces of Song Dynasty sculpture in China. The square pond and the cruciform board bridge in front of the hall, together with the flying bridge over the pond, were built in the Northern Song Dynasty. There are 34 small octagonal stone columns in the marsh, connected by Pu Bo Fang at the top, with dougong and liangfang, supporting the bridge surface. The bridge surface is in the shape of a cross, wide from east to west, sloping like wings from north to south. The bridge is surrounded by a railing, with the bridge surface paved with bricks. The structure is ingenious and special, and is a unique masterpiece in the history of Chinese bridges.

晋祠圣母殿 宋代道教宫观。在山西省太原市西南的晋祠内。圣母殿始建于宋天圣年间(1023—031)，宋疆宁元年(1102)重修。殿阔七间，深六间，为重檐歇山式建筑。屋顶板覆盖黄绿琉璃瓦剪边，有明代更换的琉璃花脊兽装饰。殿基依山而建，殿身四周设围廊，廊深两间。前檐曩有木雕盘龙柱八根，盘龙鳞爪有力，盘曲自如，工艺精巧。要盘龙柱之制，在隋唐时多见于造像碑神龛倚柱和石塔门的依柱上，而圣母殿的木构盘龙柱是我国现存最早的盘龙柱，也是宋代《营造法式》“副阶周匝”制的实例，殿内采用减柱法，即殿内无柱，梁架露明。斗拱用材粗大，形制多样，出檐深远。殿四周的柱子微向内倾斜，形成“侧角”，角柱增高，侧角生起，屋檐的弧较大，增强了建筑的稳定和曲线美。殿内有四十二尊宋代彩塑神像，为我国宋塑之佳品。殿前的方形池沼和上面的十字形板桥一鱼沼飞梁，同为北宋建造。沼中立小八角形石柱三十四根，柱头用普柏枋相联，上置斗拱、梁枋，承托桥面，四面以桥连接对岸。桥面呈十字形，东西宽广，南北下斜如翼，桥边设有勾栏围护，桥面铺砖，构造奇巧特殊，为我国桥梁史上仅有之佳作。