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Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture.

Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture lies along the upper Yellow River. Bingling Temple’s grottoes occupy a red-sandstone cliff in Yongjing County, while the national intangible-heritage record for Linxia brick carving names Linxia County. The two subjects bring together the prefecture’s river landscape and a craft used in local architecture.

A large image and cliffside steps at Bingling Temple.
Bingling Temple cave and cliff

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A large image and cliffside steps at Bingling Temple.

Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture

Bingling Temple Grottoes

Red-sandstone grottoes above the Yellow River in Yongjing County.

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A large carved grey-brick panel displayed inside the Linxia brick-carving heritage workshop.
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Linxia City

The prefecture’s county-level city, with workshops and buildings that use carved grey brick.
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  1. Bingling Temple cave and cliffAuthor not specified on source page · Rights status not determined Photo source ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.
  2. A carved brick panel inside the Linxia brick-carving heritage workshop.Author not specified on source page · Rights status not determined Photo source ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.