The Moon Watching Tower(simplified Chinese:望月楼; traditional Chinese: 望月楼; pinyin: Wàngyùe Lóu; literally “the Tower used to watch the moon”) is actually two separated towers connected by a corridor. It’s the wing of the Sanqing Tower. Inside the East side to the tower, there stores the Taoist scriptures since the Ming Dynasty(AD1368-1644), including the Orthodox Taoist Scripture written in the 10th year of Zheng-Tong(AD 1445), and the Wan-Li Taoist scripture written in the 35th year of Wan-Li（AD 1608）.
The collection of Taoist Scriptures here is the most complete version throughout the world. Because there are so many scriptures in the Moon Watching Tower, from the first day to the seventh day of the sixth lunar month every year, the White Cloud Taoist Temple would held a grand ceremony to collect all its collections. People move the scriptures out, turning over and over again in sunlight in order to kill the bookworms. Unfortunately, you cannot visit these precious scriptures now in the White Cloud Taoist Temple. They have been handed over to Beijing Library for better protection. But there is still copy version of all the scriptures in the Moon Watching Tower, so don’t be disappointed!
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