The Wanshou Guan is Linxia's solitary Taoist temple, perched on a hillside above the predominantly Muslim city below. It has been rebuilt several times over the centuries, and the current structure is largely modern, but the setting is its real virtue: the views down over the valley, the mosques with their green-tiled roofs, and the ridgelines beyond the city are excellent and the climb takes only about twenty minutes.
The temple itself is modest — a few halls, some incense burners, resident monks who maintain the premises — and the contrast with the Islamic architecture that dominates the city makes it interesting precisely because of that incongruity. It is worth visiting not as a destination in itself but as a vantage point and a reminder that Linxia's religious landscape, despite its predominantly Muslim character, contains older layers.