Abstract
Composed primarily of quartz sandstone, Mount Cangyan is an example of a peak-forest landform. Cleverly integrated into this landscape, Bridge-Tower Hall bestrides the gap between two cliffs.
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Three Hanging Temples here refer to the Hanging Monastery of Mount Heng, Shanxi, Bridge-Tower Hall on Mount Cangyan in Jingxing, Hebei, and the Xishan Hanging Temple in Kunming, Yunnan. Alternately, there are those who hold the number of hanging temples at six, seven and ten in China.
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Xuan (lit. mysterious or abstruse), a Taoist term.
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Kong (lit. empty or vacant), a Buddhist term.
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Fengshui Bridge is a type of bridge that integrates the concept of fengshui as “avoiding wind and accessing water.”
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Along the River During the Qingming Festival (Mandarin: qing ming shang he tu), one of top 10 most famous ancient Chinese paintings, was painted by Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145) in the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127).
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Records of the Grand Historian (Mandarin: shi ji), literally Historical Records, was written by Sima Qian, a Chinese historian in approximately the second century BC during the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC–8 AD).
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Basic Annals of Qin Shi Huang (Mandarin: Qin Shi Huang ben ji) was the 6th Volume of Records of the Grand Historian.
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Huai Nan Zi: Ren Jian Xun, a Chinese philosophical classic including theories from Taoist, Confucianist and Legalist concepts, literally The Philosophers of Huainan: In the Man’s World, was written in the second century BC.
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Specifically, the distance between the origins of the tributaries of the two rivers on either side of the watershed area is small. The rivers mentioned here refer to the Baoshui-Xieshui and Danshui-Bashui Rivers, which together flank the Qingling Ridge.
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This famous Northern Song Dynasty water conservation project was intended to extend the Baihe River north to Beijing but was unsuccessful due to water level issues and the limited nature of available engineering techniques.
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Zhongyuan culture (lit. culture of the Central Plain region in China) is the origin and core part of the Chinese culture centered in Henan Province and distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, which can be traced back to the Neolithic from 6000 to 3000 BC.
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Lingnan culture is an important culture in southern China covering what are now the Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan Provinces.
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Wang, F. (2016). “Integration” Cases. In: Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0483-4_8
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