As Beijing enters the most beautiful autumn season, ginkgo viewing is one of the most important appointments in autumn. This best time of the year should go to Dajue Temple in Xishan Mountain to feel the thousand-year-old ginkgoes with the ancient meaning of the temple, which is indeed a great autumn color in the outskirts of Beijing!

The lofty ancient temple and the thousand-year-old ginkgo, accompanied by the green lamp and the moon, in the Dajue Temple guarded for a thousand years. In the rise and fall of the dynasties, in the appearing and vanishing of lights, guarding the beam of light, but also guarding every time you stop, and everyone looks back to gaze.

Dajue Temple, located at the eastern foot of Yangtai Mountain in Beijing's Haidian District, was built in the Liao Dynasty, with the temple facing east, reflecting the Khitan custom of "respecting the sun to the east". The temple is named "Qing Shui Yuan" because of the clear spring that flows into the temple.

In the Jin Dynasty, it was one of the eight temporary imperial palaces of Jin Zhangzong, and later it was also called Lingquan Temple. The Ming Emperor Xuanzong rebuilt it in the 3rd year of the Xuande period (1428) and gave it the name "Dajue Temple". Since then, the temple has been continuously re-expanded in the 11th year of the Orthodox (1446), the 14th year of the Chenghua period(1478) and the Kangxi-Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty to form the present scale.

The temple is built leaning the mountains, from east to west, in order for the mountain gate, the bell and drum tower, Tennoji, Amitayus Buddha Hall, the Altar of Great Compassion and other buildings. The building is very majestic and ancient, with a strict layout.

There are many precious cultural relics in the temple, including the stone tablet of "The Tibetan Scripture Tablet in the Yangtai Mountain Qingshui Courtyard", which records the history of building the temple and carving scriptures, and the Guanyin mural in Amitayus Buddha Hall, which is an art treasure of the Qing Dynasty.

Dajue Temple is located in the midst of mountains, with lust trees, clear springs and beautiful scenery, and was a famous scenic spot in the Liao and Jin dynasties. There are sky-high ancient cypresses and verdant bamboo, among which three hundred years of magnolia and  thousand years of ginkgo are famous in Beijing.

Dajue Temple is a national major cultural relics preservation unit., and now it has become a famous tourist destination in the suburbs of Beijing.