Best chinese temples to visit worldwide

This type covers Taoist, Confucian, folk and imperial state temples in China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and Korea, often with Buddhist figures sharing the same altars. Most follow a common plan: a gate with painted door gods, courtyards on a north-south axis, a great incense burner in front of the main hall and side halls for lesser deities. Look up at roof ridges crowded with dragons and figurines, at carved stone columns and, in Confucian temples, at the stelae naming scholars who passed the imperial examinations.