Mount Heng

Mount Heng in Shanxi, called the Northern Heng Shan to tell it apart from the Southern Heng Shan in Hunan, is the northern member of the Five Great Mountains of China. It stands in Hunyuan County in the prefecture of Datong, and has been counted sacred since the Zhou dynasty, in the way of mountains where Daoism holds ground. A shrine to the mountain god, the Shrine of the Northern Peak, was built on its slopes in the Han dynasty. It is the smallest of the five in area, the least developed and the least visited, and there are no hotels on the mountain. The Hanging Temple is cut into a cliff beside it.