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The Sanshengci, or Three Sages Shrine, is located on the southern side of the Early of Zhi canal (
According to Liu Dapeng’s Jincizhi, originally there were separate temples to two of the divinities currently worshipped here. One was dedicated to the Medicine King (Yaowang 藥王) and another to a True Lord (Zhenjun 真君; also Cangwang 倉王). In the second year of the Qianlong reign period (1737 CE) they were combined into one temple and, because of the addition of the Dragon King (Longwang 龍王), it was renamed the Shrine of the Three Kings 三王祠. The name was later changed to the Shrine of the Three Sages (Liu 1986, 32-33; Miller 2007, 191).