Shanxi Monastery : in the sky, the castle in the air

China has six Monastery, the North has four, the South has two.

northern Shanxi Hengshan four were Monastery, Hebei Cangyan Shan Monastery, Qi County, Henan Province, Chaoyang Monastery, Xining Monastery; South The two are the Western Hills Monastery in Yunnan, Zhejiang Jiande Daci Rock Monastery.

Shanxi Hengshan Hanging Monastery, also known as Xuan Kong Temple, located in Hunyuan County, Shanxi Province, Datong sixty-five km away, is the only existing Buddhism and Taoism and Confucianism One of the unique temple. It is built between the cliffs, was built in the late Northern Wei Dynasty, so far, fifteen hundred years of history.

vacant the face of Hengshan Temple, perched Ping, upload rock, deep valley beneath, floating pavilion, the structure Qiao Qi, Qiao care beam up and down through the rock dark one, the gallery is about connecting bar, surprising twists and turns, virtual and real.

Monastery about fifty meters high from the ground, the development of China's architectural heritage and architectural style, the architectural features can be summarized as" odd, hanging, clever" in the name.

data above, the Monastery of the overall layout of the temple, Buddhist temple, the temple, three Buddha, Tai-Hall, Temple, Drum Tower, Bell Tower, Garan Temple, Song Zi Yin Hall, Earth Store Bodhisattva Temple, the Buddhist goddess concept of inter-Temple, Buddha Temple, Lei Yin Temple, the three palace, Chun-yang Palace, along the cliff, the house of the three religions, five permitted and so on. Hall floor there is a change in the distribution are symmetric, scattered in contact, winding loop, virtual and real, small, space rich, varied levels, small in the big, feel a small place. Compact, scattered dependencies, and its layout is different from the central axis of the temple Hirakawa prominent, symmetrical; also different from the mountain temples of gradually increasing pattern of the mountain, are following the cliff bump, degree of trial-shaped potential, go with the flow the air, the structure, look, layering scattered, subtle changes, so that the combination of form and space compared to the orderly artistic effect.

Text/Photo: Lao Yang Sina blogger