Temple Site No. 1 is located at Gucheng Village in Sanjiazi Township, Hunchun City, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province. In June 1995, the local farmers discovered stone blocks,Buddhist sculptures, pottery tiles and other artifacts when they were leveling the farmland. The studies showed that these artifacts were from the Temple Site No. 1. The sculptures were made of marble, gray sandstone, fine clay pottery, etc. The stone sculptures had more types, which were seated Buddha,Buddha head, bodhisattva statue, Lotus transmutation figure, thousand-Buddha, halo, aureole, lotus pedestal, etc. The architectural parts were cylindrical tiles, flat tiles, etc. The typological features of the Buddhist sculptures and tiles showed that the date of the Temple Site No. 1 at Gucheng Village was no later than the early period of the Bohai Kingdom and can be seen as the earliest Buddhist temple in the Tumen River Valley confirmed to date.
