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Xian. The Beilin Museum is housed in a former Confucian Temple and is a themed museum focusing on displays of stone steles, epigraphs and stone sculptures from past dynasties.

Datong, China - 23rd June 2009: Tourists exploring the vertiginous wooden pagodas of the Hanging Monastery Xuankong Temple built over a thousand years ago high on a mountain cliff in the Shanxi province of China. Composite panoramic image created from five contemporaneous sequential photographs.

High angle view of Ancient Hillside Rock Carving, Sakyamuni entering nirvana- Dazu, Baodingshan, Chongqing, China.

The Hanging Temple, also Hengshan Hanging Temple, Hanging Monastery or Xuankong Temple (simplified Chinese: 悬空寺; traditional Chinese: 懸空寺; pinyin: Xuánkōng Sì) is a temple built into a cliff (75 m or 246 ft above the ground) near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, Shanxi Province, China. The closest city is Datong, 64 kilometres (40 mi) to the northwest. Along with the Yungang Grottoes, the Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions and historical sites in the Datong area. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it is the only existing temple with the combination of three Chinese traditional philosophies: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.

Huayan Temple, National Cultural Protection Bureau, Datong City, Shanxi Province, China

The Hanging Temple or Hanging Monastery near Datong in Shanxi Province, China. Frozen river in the foreground.

Traditional cave dwellings in Shanxi Province, China

The Hanging Monastery Xuankong Si near Datong in China

Aerial view of Xuan Kong Monastery(悬空寺) in China

Mian Shan / 'Silky' Mountain) is characterized by its natural landscapes, especially its cultural and religious relics. It is also the birthplace of the Qingming Festival (Deep Cleansing Day), which is one of China's most important traditional festivals and an element of intangible cultural heritage.

Landscape view at Yungang Grottoes, ancient Chinese Buddhist temple grottoes built during the Northern Wei dynasty near the city of Datong, in the province of Shanxi. They are excellent examples of rock-cut architecture and one of the three most famous ancient Buddhist sculptural sites of China. The others are Longmen and Mogao.

Dangerous walkway via ferrataat top of holy Mount Hua Shan in Shaanxi province near Xi'an, China

Pingyao, Shanxi, China- April 7, 2012: The Ancient City of Ping Yao is a well-preserved ancient county-level city in China. It is located in Ping Yao County, central Shanxi Province. The Ancient City of Ping Yao well retains the historic form of the county-level cities of the Han people in Central China from the 14th to 20th century. The Pingyao County Government office, also named Yamen in Chinese, is an ideal place for a culture discovery to check out what an ancient Chinese local government looks like. Here is the courtwall of the Yamen.

Wuhan University Library is the library system of Wuhan University, serving the university's students and faculty. Wuhan, Hubei, China - October 15, 2018.

Datong, China - December 21, 2013: The Hanging Temple built into a cliff 75m above the ground near Heng Mountain. The temple built more than 1500 years ago. The temple is the only one existing with the combination of three Chinese traditional religions: Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. Photo taken from Datong City, Shanxi Province, China.

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Badaling, China: Said to be the most visited section of the Great Wall of China is Badaling in the Juyong Pass about 70 miles south of Beijing and on this December day the sky was somewhat overcast and chilly it was exciting standing on the Great Wall of China.

Memorial arch of Chinese traditional style architecture

Xi'an, China - February 2nd, 2023: The halls surrounding the courtyard of Huaqing Pools, home to Tang Dynasty-era hot springs

Tower ancient buildings in Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, China

Tourists sightseeing Huayan Temple, a Buddhist temple located in Datong, Shanxi, China. It is an artistic complex of ancient Chinese architecture, sculpture, frescoes and inscriptions, as well as a cultural synthesis of religion and politics.

Datong, Shaanxi, China - August 17, 2014: People in the hanging monastery Xuankong Si of Datong in China

Datong, Shanxi, China- March 2, 2013: The Yungang Grottoes, in Datong city, Shanxi Province, with their 252 caves and 51,000 statues, represent the outstanding achievement of Buddhist cave art in China in the 5th and 6th centuries. Together with Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang and Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, the Yungang Grottoes site is one of the three leading grottoes locations in China. The Yungang Grottoes were enrolled as World Heritage by UNESCO in 2011. Here is the major buddist statue on site.

Passing by the maze at Huangyaguan Great Wall on my way to the Wall.

$Tianmen Mountain , in Chinese is Tiānmén Shān. It is a mountain located within Tianmen Mountain National Park, Zhangjiajie, in the northwestern part of Hunan Province, China. Tourists can walk on kilometres of paths built along the cliff face at the top of the mountain, including sections with glass floors. An 11 km road - Tongtian Avenue - with 99 bends also reaches the top of the mountain and takes visitors to Tianmen cave natural arch in the mountain of a height of 131.5 m. As with the mountain, the cave translates as Heaven's Door and has a 999 step entrance known as \$

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