Mianshan Mountains Shanxi China If you did not climb up the Mianshan Mountains, you have no chance to enjoy the wonderful scenery of the mountains in Shanxi, not far from Beijing. Its fantastic scenes are attractive, shocking the tourists. Atop the mountains you will see they are so magnificent that they seem to embrace the universal, everything on the earth. Also you can have a wonderful view of numerous low peaks around the Mianshan Mountains which stand out of them. So this is why such a precipitous mountain attracts flocks of visitors. More than its precipitous cliffs, the mountain demonstrates its great compassion of Buddhism inside. The Mianshan Mountains shows a combination of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. In the area of dozens of kilometers around, ancient temples can be seen everywhere.

Mianshan Mountains is located at south of Jiexiu City of Shanxi province, China.

Wreathe

Zigzag

Yidou spring scenery

The Heavenly Bridge The Heavenly Bridge is a plank road built along the face of a cliff, over 300 m long and less than one m wide, over 300 m from the bottom of a gully.

Cliff Climbing

The Eight Diagrams

Castellar

Like flowers growing on cliff

Loneness vale

Cliff temple concealing secret road

Corner

Castles in the air

the Dailuo Palace, Known as the “No. 1 Taoist Temple” on earth, it contains multi-story buildings, some pavilions rising one higher than another, painted beams and carved beams, with a floorage of over 10,000 sq m. The Biggest of Taoist Temple

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The precipice was as steep as it had been cut by a knife; and as was straight as a ramrod, Craggedness

The Baofu (Belly-Embracing) Rock, It looks like a belly held in the arms in a distance, It is about 60 m high, 50 m deep and 180 m long, and can hold over 200 halls and rooms. The Baofu Rock

the Suspended Temple

The Yunfeng Temple, halls and pavilions stand on different levels and covered corridors zigzagging their ways. The Yunfeng Temple

The Plank road built along the face of a cliff, the shape like “ 之 “,over 300m long, about 400 sidesteps, go to forward The Zhengguo Temple Cliffside road

Vertical Limit

The Zhengguo Temple in Mianshan Mountain boasts picturesque natural scenery and unique and miraculous cultural sites. The Zhengguo Temple preserves the statues mould with the dead bodies of 12 eminent monks. The Zhengguo Temple

The power of Buddha in the universe

Rear mountains

Overlook

The Jiegong Shrine boasts the largest grotto temple in China, b uilt in a huge hillside cave, it is 22 meters high, 40 meters wide and 25 meters deep, With a total area of more than 20,000 square meters. The Jiegong Shrine

Inside the temple, there is an 11-meter high statue of Jiezitui, dozens of reliefs on the cave walls and columns vividly depict Jiezitui’s life.

End of the road, mountains is the best

The Qixian Canyon (Canyon for Wise People) is a narrow, winding and rising gully with some suspension bridges and hanging waterfalls. The Qixian Canyon

When going up from the entrance of the canyon, tourists need to climb more than 10 ancient scaling ladders.

Flanked by towering peaks and oddly-shaped rocks, this gully is deep and quiet.

The Water Billow Gully

The Water Billow Gully, it presents different scenery in different seasons.

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