Baotong Temple is located at the southern hillside of Hong Shan Mountain in Wuchang District, Wuhan. It is fairly difficult to see the Temple from afar, hidden as it is almost entirely behind heavy vegetation.

This is a fairly representative and classic Chinese Buddhist temple, consisting of a Grand Hall, Meditation Hall and the Abbots Hall. There are also two gargantuan iron bells here, almost 900 years old, dating back to the Southern Song Dynasty. The halls are orderly distributed, simple yet solemn and splendid.

Most of the architectures were built along the natural landform of the mountain inside the temple as well as behind it. As the most famous structure inside the temple, Hong Shan Pagoda was built in Yuan Dynasty and the whole construction costs 11 years. It's built in honor of a monk named Lingjiciren; therefore the pagoda is also called Lingji Pagoda. Made of bricks and stones, the pagoda has eight angles and seven floors. It is 44.3 meters tall and the base is 37.3 meters. The inside of the pagoda is hollow, and there are windows on every floor. Tourists can climb along the stones stairs from the bottom to the top floor.

Baotong Temple is also renowned for its three springs and the strange-shaped stones on the mountain. Many ancient trees are also growing on the mountain behind the temple. Legend has that famous Chinese General of Nansong Dynasty Yuefei once planted pine trees here and they were thus called Yue pine trees. The trees were cut down at the end of Ming Dynasty. Later, many more pine trees were planted at the same place in Qing Dynasty and still retained the name of Yue pine trees. Eight of them still survived today.