2021-03-05 11:05:43 GMT2021-03-05 19:05:43(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
TAIYUAN, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Residents in the Liangcai Village, located in the city of Changzhi, north China's Shanxi Province, used to offer prayers for rain in the local Temple of King Dayu, a mythological figure who is believed to have tamed floods in ancient China.
In recent years, however, the temple has been plagued by an existential threat from decades of decaying due to rainwater leakage.
"The temple has been leaking for more than 20 years," Wang Hongrui, a Party official in the village, said of the only immovable cultural relic in the village.