Hanging Temple

The Hanging Temple stands in Hunyuan County, in the prefecture of Datong, built into a recessed rock face halfway up Cuiping Shan, a cliff of the Heng massif. The temple hangs about seventy-five metres above the ground, and its halls sit on rock more than thirty metres up. Forty halls and pavilions are arranged along the cliff in one narrow band, linked by walkways, and the temple holds the three teachings together: one of its halls sets the Buddha in the middle with Laozi and Confucius beside him. It was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit in 1982 and did not reopen to the public until May 2016.