Near Chengdu Old South Gate, beside Wuhou Avenue, there is a complex of ancient buildings surrounded by red walls. This is the Temple of Marquis Wu described in the poem Prime Minister of Shu written by Dufu “Where can we find the Marquis of Prime Minister, it is outside the Jinguan City among the mass of cypress. ” Wuhou might be translated as ‘Minister of War’, and was the title given to Zhuge Liang, a famous military strategist of the Three Kingdoms Period (220-80 AD) immortalised in one of the classics of Chinese literature, The Tale of the Three Kingdoms. Curiously, Zhuge Liang is not the main attraction of the temple. The front shrine instead is dedicated to Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang’s emperor. Liu’s temple, the Hanzhaolie Temple, was moved here and rebuilt during the Ming Dynasty, but the Wuhou Temple name stuck all the same.
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