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Mt. Hengshan, North Holy Mountain
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Mt. Hengshan, North Holy Mountain
Release time：2025-01-06 14:42
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Mt. Hengshan, the North Holy Mountain, has been a famous holy place for Taoism since ancient times and is known as ‘the towering mountain supporting the heavens’ and ‘the most famous mountain in the north of China’. It is one of the five holy mountains of China. The other four are Mt. Taishan in Shandong Province (East Holy Mountain), Mt. Huashan in Shannxi Province (West Holy Mountain), Mt. Hengshan in Hunan Province (South Holy Mountain) and Mt. Songshan in Henan Province (Central Holy Mountain). Tianfengling Peak, the summit of Mt. Hengshan at 2,016.1 meters above sea level, is located 4 kilometers to the south of Hunyuan County. The complex of ancient architecture at Mt. Hengshan was first constructed during the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534), although much was reconstructed and restored in the later Dynasties. Mt. Hengshan features peaks soaring to the sky with steep and precipitous cliffs, therefore most of the buildings are on the precipitous cliff designed skillfully and constructed boldly. Hengshan Mt. was put on the name list of the first batch of National Parks of China by China’s State Council in 1982 and was added onto the China’s Natural and Cultural Heritage List and World Natural and Cultural Heritage Tentative Lists in 2009.
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