Shuang’gui Temple in Liangping District of Chongqing is called ‘the Chan Temple in Southwest’. With its unique historical cultural value, it has a big inf luence on Chinese Buddhism. Shuang’gui Temple does not only keep basic system of the traditional temple but also presents prominent characteristics of traditional space layout of Sichuan, which is exactly the combination of religious culture with the local culture. With authenticity principle of protection and restoration design of cultural relics, this paper focuses on its unique constructional and environmental characteristics and comes up with the important protection plans: local gardening, constructional layout and cour tyard space, and folkcustoms decoration. And it also proposes specific means of protecting the ancient buildings: ventilation and damp-proof, pest control and prevention and sustainable development. Through the case of Shuang’gui Temple, we can explore the idea and method of identifiable protection and restoration design in international field, and keep the authenticity of ancient buildings on the one hand and demonstrate the difference between the restoring things and originals on the other hand so as to develop cultural and historical value as well as information value.