The Hanging Temple was built about 16 centuries ago

The Hanging Temple is a temple built into a cliff near Mount Heng, Shanxi province. It is 64km from Datong City. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because it includes Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian elements. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure was hidden inside the bedrock.Welcome to China for Canton Trade fair. HRC is pleasure to provide Guangzhou hotels booking and China Tour guide .

 
The Hanging Temple was built about 16 centuries ago and believe it or not, its only support – small wooden poles still keeps the temple stabile and lean to the Hengshan mountain. The building hangs in height of 246 feet above the ground.

Monastery of the from the ground about 60 meters, the highest point of the three religions temple 90 meters from the ground, siltation of bed, now 58 meters remaining. The Kongsi development of China's architectural heritage and architectural style, the entire temple, upload cliff, overlooking the deep valley, back rock according to the niche, Terakado south, west is positive. The whole temple for the wood frame structure, in accordance with the principles of mechanics, semi-plug beam based on the pretext of rock dark prop, beam up and down one of the Gallery bar so tightly linked. Its architectural features can be summarized as "strange, suspended, clever words. Odd - the Monastery of afar, like a pair of exquisitely carved reliefs, mosaic climbed cliff, near to see the Monastery of great volley tendency to want to fly. Hanging - the whole Temple the total Diange 40, the surface appears to support their more than a dozen root sized thick wooden pillars, in fact, some poles is not bound by force. It is said that when they were built in the Monastery of the these stakes, people see the Monastery of seems to not have any support, afraid to walk up the Temple will fall, in order to have reassured the people in the Temple under the placement of these poles, so someone with a "Monastery of the half a day, three the horsetail air crane "to describe the Monastery of.