Hanging Temple

Danya on flying Temple, Baiyun several times, mirage of suspected bird road on the sea, by the clouds.

This land so rich, alluring.

In our travels between the possession of the Crag famous temples, according to the woods of the show, there surprising of landscape, Pong, Metropolitan of propagation of battle plateau of ...

However, in Shanxi Hunyuan County five kilometres from a suspension in the air of ancient buildings, this is the case of Northern Hengshan 18 landscapes unique Temple — vacant Temple.

Vacant temple built in the late Northern Wei, Jin, Yuan, Ming retake, from the Department to build temple to have 1400 years, the temple has a total of more than 40 Temple Pavilion, designers will base built on klif and dug holes plug for radical suspension.

Pavilion built between, begin looking down the mountain, such as abyss, the abyss, shore facing ruohong, Valley looking, such as a wall between the female chicken, but it is as if one magical xianshanqiongge,.

Vacant Temple of narrow terrain, build clever, though after a millennium of natural and man-made disasters, but because of its unique structure and careful construction, now also keep those majestic, its steep attitude hanging in the northern half of the mountain, become China's architectural history a brilliant masterpiece.

The ancients have poem goes: "dangerous high 100 feet, hand removable stars, not hushed, shaking on God.

"As far as the Hengshan Chi" records, located at the North Hengshan, since repeated manual strangulation through conquests, the traffic is very inconvenient to the construction of the monastery is difficult. Another said, a team of craftsmen here, see the Valley very dangerous, Feng Shui, but would like to leave with nearly 1000-foot cliffs, the construction of the Pavilion, everybody thinks that difficulty is too big, as they entered the push-Valley, suddenly appear a bit Zhang surname craftsman volunteered to take on this project. He undergone repeated field trips and careful design, i.e. the rate they started construction, they first of all construction Pavilion ready all the material and at the foot of the processing, Assembly, then let dozens road all processed parts are transported to the top of the Hill and at the top of the drop off the cliff, construction personnel on waist tie ropes, leg push another ring rope, suspended in operation between the cliff, only one hammer a hammer in khaki's cliffs Foundation construction Pavilion erected. Soon a seat on the next day, do not touch the ground "and" vacant "Ferris monasteries would have been completed. Vacant to the monastery to fly half-plug, beam is based on the pretext of blue dark Toro with beam-to-be bottom integrated, Gallery bar around tight with the temple floor layout prioritized, both symmetric and slightly changed, distributed among also liaise and Pavilion, and the corresponding fold their ingenious lies, cookie, complex spiral staircase with, people walking down the stairs as they stepped on the heads of the latter. House Center Pavilion and take a side House, with plank road, begin to go early in the plank road, feet and outgoing planks creak, particularly to the core, the most unbearable head, like a drunk like gods feel. Plank road design is also the most dangerous of the vacancy of the temple, in the Palace opposite fly floor, are equipped with central corridor, ring Gallery layer but for offering up and down.

The main building of the vacancy of the temple, the Buddha Temple, Kannon Temple, three Palace, the temple, the Temple of three religions in bronze, cast iron, clay, stone, wood and other Buddhist, Daoist priest, fairies and other modeling exquisite statues around 1980s Yu.

Most interestingly, Temple, Buddhism, Taoism, sin, God, and so each, were gathered in a temple. Fozhu Sakyamuni, Buddha, Tai Sin Songziguanyin Li Dong-bin, etc, got, friendly harmony within the temple. In this scale is not huge temples, full of harmony, meanwhile, can also be linked up Chinese folklore, it is because of people's and reality, where God himself useful, Taoism and Buddhism, etc, because there is only a piece of the resort. But for people and the operation of ghosts, monsters are also taken to greener pastures.

Vacant in the layout of the Palace and the statue of the piece may be reflected in the Chinese folk religion beliefs of practicality and egalitarianism.

Where in the monastery looked upon, on the occasion of worship in burning incense, parties are to last, to seek for crops. However, it had been left vacant by the monastery, the most obvious. Thus the various sects, we all have equal shares, who cleverly designed to build temples, this relatively reasonable jiangxinduju.

All buildings are vacant Temple are all between timber, size of more than 40 Palace, in the middle between broached rock, digging into the grotto, the so-called "back cliff in a niche.

"Grotto" public transportation above the engraved tianqiao "four characters, enter the monastery, need sky, grottoes, step promenade, cross-fly on the stack, and suddenly, like in the upright position on the labyrinth, Cliff Buddha body high, air of serenity, the sculpture is exquisite, pilgrims visitors after this, just like in the fairy palace que, divinely into Santa. At the same time greatly rendering a Buddhist Mystic unexpected atmosphere.

Vacant Temple, truly, upload cliffs, Pro deep valley, near the mountain base, rock houses, in the mist-shrouded, this piece of sky loft has only a few root Bowl thick poles supporting all Pavilion, its most pavilions are suspended in space, though slightly shaky would result in the collapse of down, but in fact the ancients in the overall design of the building have been taken into account, when all its structures meet the mechanical principle.

Otherwise would not have to pass down to the present, and become famous monuments.

For vacant Temple, ancient poet, who have come to Mexico in the early famous poet Li Bai was a poem called "the five mountains in search of sin without being far" and look under the temple fly Pavilion, Marvel, then chill in a monastery of stone as the Tablet, the concept of the "giant brush calligraphy."

Later in this also built taibai Temple. Now view the "giant" Tablet has been Datong city Hua Yan Temple collection. Name generation geographer Xu Xiake visited vacancy of the temple, and the "world view" of the title of the giant, known as the "three horse tail hanging in the air" vacant Temple, in the provision of such a desolate place, could build such a magnificent building. According to the temple the existing scheduled period of Jin dynasty large cliffs carved Tablet note in the Jin dynasty has been built with very large scale. But had suffered a millennium of rain and snow and frost and man-made disasters and immortal, that Cliff engraved horizontal folds down transformation of the Earth billions of years, and built on a cliff on the vacancy of the physical Temple was recorded in ancient craftsman's extraordinary talent, the monastery buildings of groups inherit our monastery in traditional style and local conditions, on the basis of a positive innovation, developmentExhibition, as we explore the study of ancient architecture provides a rich, valuable information, but also the ancient wisdom of the working people.