A fake replica of a smal1 piece of the city wall stands on its grounds. Ironically, directly outside this fake wall stands the only original Qing-dynasty city gate still standing, the Small North Gate (Xiao Bei Men). You can still read some of the inscriptions on it which were covered up with plaster during the Cultural Revolution. Sadly, it is used by the neighborhood people to hang their wet laundry and is in disrepair. This gate was left standing when the rest of the wall was torn down in 1911 because it was connected with what was then a functioning temple.
Inside Dajing Miao is a city wal1 museum which includes a scale model of Shanghai's old city wall complete with models of the entire Nanshi District as it looked in Qing times. There is also an exhibit of old photographs. Be sure to look upward at the roof of the original temple buildings and you wil1 find many roof ornament figurines in the shape of various historic warriors, gods and animals. It is located at 259 Da Jing Ge Lu.
