Ancient building treasures in Shanxi

Located at the foot of Hengshan Mountain in Shanxi Province, Hanging Temple is the earliest and best-preserved high-altitude wooden cliff building in China. In 2010, it was selected as one of the top 10 precarious buildings in the world by Time Magazine, being as famous as the Gate of Europe in Spain. The whole building of the Hanging Temple is suspended on the right-angle cliff. After more than 1500 years of being blown by wind and hit by rain and experiencing many earthquakes, it still stands tall. Although the inner space of the temple is small, the elements of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism are well combined.

7.Haizhou Guandi Temple

In China, the Guan Gong belief ps three schools—Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. In Caibarién, Cuba's Villa Clara province, the Chamber of Commerce in the local Chinatown places Guan Gong alongside the Mother and Patroness of Cuba “Our Lady of Charity” in their respective shrines to worship. Although there are temples dedicated to Guan Gong all over the world, the largest one is the Haizhou Guandi Temple in Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, which is known as the “Origin of Guandi Temple” since the Haizhou is the hometown of Guan Gong. The Guandi Temple in Haizhou was first built in the Sui Dynasty and then expanded by the following believers. Then the temple became larger and larger with a total area of 220,000 square meters, which holds a well-deserved title of “the Leading One of Martial Temples”.