Dōngguāng

Dongguang stands beside the southern Grand Canal on the plains of Hebei. Its Puzhao Temple, founded in the Song period, became famous for a large iron image of the Buddha. A local tale tells how the image broke free from a temple farther north and travelled along the canal until it reached Dongguang, where a monk carried it ashore. The story binds the town's Buddhist shrine to the waterway beside it.