High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ruicheng County is located in the Shanxi province of China. Yongle Gong (Palace of Eternal Joy), is a Taoist temple noted for the wall paintings inside its three main halls. It was moved to Ruicheng in 1959 to preserve it when a dam was built at Sanmenxia, putting the town of Yongle, the previous location of the temple, under water. The temple is 4 km north of the town on the main road. The Yellow River lies just south of Ruicheng. A pumping station on the river doubles as a monument to Yu the Great, the legendary figure credited with controlling the course of the Yellow River and saving many lives in the process. A temple (from the Latin word templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A templum constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur. It has the same root as the word "template," a plan in preparation of the building that was marked out on the ground by the augur. Templa also became associated with the dwelling places of a god or gods. This tradition dates back to prehistoric times.

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