You can take Lungshan Temple as a point of departure in studying any number of things, such as the worldview of the Chinese people, and the relationship between our religious faith and the way we live our lives. And when you take a close look, you will make many surprising discoveries. Temple architecture shows the great beauty of our folk arts as well as the variety and depth of our folklore, and implicit in all you see is our respect for the universe and our concern for the affairs of man.

If architecture is a reflection of the human spirit, then the carvings found throughout a temple show our deep respect for the gods.