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Dengfeng

Dwight Zehuan Xiao China - 23-Oct-19

Dengfeng

This is a site that I really enjoyed exploring. It’s not difficult to check out all the inscribed sites, and Mount Songshan has a lot to offer: landscape, religions, architecture... Again I’ll only make comments complementary to previous reviews. Sites are mentioned in chronological order.

Que Gates are important cultural relics that embody ancient Chinese ceremonial or funerary traditions

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Mount Wutai

Dwight Zehuan Xiao China - 22-Oct-19

Mount Wutai

A lot has been said about the Taihuai Buddhist architectural complex, but one’s Mount Wutai experience could not possibly be complete without paying a visit to the magnificent Great East Hall of the Foguang Temple, the third oldest timber structure in China and the finest of its kind.

The Foguang Temple was first established during the Northern Wei Dynasty in the 5th century, but the existing Great East Hall dates back to 857 AD, when it was rebuilt after the Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution ordered by Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty in 845 AD. Due to its rural and arid location, the temple kept intact and remained hidden in plain sight, not to be rediscovered until 1937. The Great East Hall is the best living example of Tang-style wooden structure in all of China, easily noticeable through its imposing hipped roof and huge columns with Dougong (interlocking wooden brackets)

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Lushan National Park

Dwight Zehuan Xiao China - 16-May-19

Lushan National Park

Time for my first review! I didn’t start writing my own reviews because a lot has been told about most of the WHSs by fellow WH lovers, and there’s really not much to add. Great job, guys! However, judging from the only reviews on Lushan by Els and Stanislaw, I suspect that most people might have missed the highlights of this site, and feel obliged to share my experience with it. Hopefully it will give you an alternative perspective of this great mountain that has become an integral part of Chinese culture over 2,000 years of history.

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Dwight Zehuan Xiao
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China
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Galápagos Islands
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Minoan Palaces

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Update 15.04.24
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    • Rating Stats
    Florence 5
    Galapagos Islands 5
    Imperial Palace 5
    Rapa Nui 5
    Yungang Grottoes 5
    Aachen Cathedral 4.5
    Auschwitz Birkenau 4.5
    Chartres Cathedral 4.5
    Cordoba 4.5
    Fujian Tulou 4.5
    Istanbul 4.5
    Machu Picchu 4.5
    Nasca Lines 4.5
    Pont du Gard 4.5
    Rome 4.5
    Temple of Heaven 4.5
    Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.5
    Yin Xu 4.5
    Arles 4
    Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 4
    Dengfeng 4
    Dong Phayayen 4
    Fortified City of Carcassonne 4
    Granada 4
    Great Wall 4
    Huangshan 4
    Iguazu National Park 4
    Loire Valley 4
    Lyon 4
    Matera 4
    Mount Wuyi 4
    Paris, Banks of the Seine 4
    Reims 4
    Silk Roads Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 4
    Strasbourg 4
    Trier 4
    Vatican City 4
    Venice and its Lagoon 4
    Wadden Sea 4
    Xidi and Hongcun 4
    Albi 3.5
    Bourges Cathedral 3.5
    Brugge 3.5
    Caral-Supe 3.5
    Castel del Monte 3.5
    Dazu Rock Carvings 3.5
    Dubrovnik 3.5
    Dutch Water Defence Lines 3.5
    Falun Great Copper Mountain 3.5
    Imperial Tombs 3.5
    Kotor 3.5
    Longobards in Italy 3.5
    Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 3.5
    Medina of Fez 3.5
    Medina of Marrakesh 3.5
    Mogao Caves 3.5
    Mount Taishan 3.5
    Mount Wutai 3.5
    Mountain Resort, Chengde 3.5
    Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 3.5
    Old Town of Lijiang 3.5
    Orange 3.5
    Ping Yao 3.5
    Plitvice Lakes 3.5
    Poblet Monastery 3.5
    Potala Palace 3.5
    Quanzhou 3.5
    Seville 3.5
    Skocjan Caves 3.5
    Sukhothai 3.5
    Summer Palace 3.5
    Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius 3.5
    The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.5
    Upper Middle Rhine Valley 3.5
    Vienna 3.5
    Volubilis 3.5
    Amiens Cathedral 3
    Amsterdam Canal Ring 3
    Avignon 3
    Bordeaux 3
    Budapest 3
    Burgundy 3
    Canal du Midi 3
    China Danxia 3
    Cologne Cathedral 3
    Cordouan Lighthouse 3
    Cuenca 3
    Cuzco 3
    Eisinga Planetarium 3
    Fagus Factory 3
    Fontainebleau 3
    Grand Canal 3
    Grand Place, Brussels 3
    Gulf of Porto 3
    Kaiping Diaolou 3
    Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou 3
    Longmen Grottoes 3
    Lushan National Park 3
    Macao 3
    Major Town Houses 3
    Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 3
    Meknes 3
    Mont-Saint-Michel 3
    Monte San Giorgio 3
    Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3
    Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 3
    Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 3
    Prague 3
    Provins 3
    Qinghai Hoh Xil 3
    Quito 3
    Riga 3
    Roskilde Cathedral 3
    Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 3
    Saint-Emilion 3
    Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3
    Santa Maria delle Grazie 3
    Schokland 3
    Semmering Railway 3
    Skogskyrkogarden 3
    South China Karst 3
    Speyer Cathedral 3
    Tallinn 3
    The Four Lifts 3
    Versailles 3
    Visby 3
    Vézelay 3
    Wachau Cultural Landscape 3
    Warsaw 3
    West Norwegian Fjords 3
    Ayutthaya 2.5
    Birka and Hovgarden 2.5
    Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
    Cesky Krumlov 2.5
    Champagne 2.5
    Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 2.5
    City of Luxembourg 2.5
    Corvey 2.5
    Drottningholm 2.5
    Funerary and memory sites of the First World War 2.5
    Great Spa Towns of Europe 2.5
    Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 2.5
    Kronborg Castle 2.5
    Kulangsu 2.5
    La Lonja de la Seda 2.5
    Lima 2.5
    Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
    Medina Azahara 2.5
    Medina of Essaouira 2.5
    Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.5
    Mount Sanqingshan 2.5
    Nice 2.5
    Potsdam 2.5
    Qhapaq Ñan 2.5
    Rabat 2.5
    Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
    Rietveld Schröderhuis 2.5
    Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 2.5
    Salzburg 2.5
    Sewell Mining Town 2.5
    Singapore Botanic Gardens 2.5
    Tarraco 2.5
    The trulli of Alberobello 2.5
    Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5
    Valparaiso 2.5
    Völklingen Ironworks 2.5
    Zollverein 2.5
    Belfries 2
    Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2
    Chaîne des Puys 2
    Colonies of Benevolence 2
    Graz 2
    Ibiza 2
    Kraków 2
    Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 2
    Nancy 2
    Peking Man Site 2
    Plantin-Moretus Museum 2
    Plečnik's Ljubljana 2
    Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2
    Schönbrunn 2
    ShUM Sites 2
    Van Nellefabriek 2
    Venetian Works of Defence 2
    Vilnius 2
    Al Zubarah 1.5
    Beemster Polder 1.5
    Bryggen 1.5
    Flemish Béguinages 1.5
    Fortifications of Vauban 1.5
    Fortress of Suomenlinna 1.5
    Frontiers of the Roman Empire 1.5
    Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 1.5
    La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 1.5
    Le Havre 1.5
    Maison Carrée of Nîmes 1.5
    Mazagan 1.5
    Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5
    Par force hunting landscape 1.5
    Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 1.5
    Primeval Beech Forests 1.5
    Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin 1.5
    Stoclet House 1.5
    Danube Limes 1
    Holasovice 1
    Lower German Limes 1
    1. Amalienborg and its district (T)
    2. Bouches de Bonifacio (T)
    3. Casablanca, Ville du XXème siécle, carrefour d'influences (T)
    4. Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (T)
    5. Chinese Section of the Silk Road (T)
    6. City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (T)
    7. Dali Chanshan Mountain and Erhai Lake Scenic Spot (T)
    8. Expansion Project of Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: King Lujian's Tombs (T)
    9. Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve System (T)
    10. Hua Shan Scenic Area (T)
    11. Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen (T)
    12. La Moneda Palace (T)
    13. Le noyau historique ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine (T)
    14. Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
    15. Le rivage méditerranéen des Pyrénées (T)
    16. Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
    17. Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
    18. Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (A) (T)
    19. Les témoignages matériels de la construction de l’État des Pyrénées : la Co-principauté d’Andorre (S) (T)
    20. Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
    21. Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
    22. Maijishan Scenic Spots (T)
    23. Massif du Mont Blanc (T)
    24. Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
    25. Moulay Idriss Zerhoun (T)
    26. Nuruosmaniye Complex (T)
    27. Parc National de Dakhla (T)
    28. Poyang Nature Reserve (T)
    29. Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
    30. Salt Mines of Maras (T)
    31. San Francisco Church and Convent (T)
    32. San Pedro de Atacama (T)
    33. SanFangQiXiang (T)
    34. Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
    35. Site of Southern Yue State (T)
    36. Sites mégalithiques de Carnac (T)
    37. Svalbard Archipelago (T)
    38. The Ancient Waterfront Towns in the South of Yangtze River (T)
    39. The Central Axis of Beijing (including Beihai) (T)
    40. The Chinese Section of the Silk Roads (T)
    41. The Four Sacred Mountains as an Extension of Mt. Taishan (T)
    42. The Hadrianic city of Italica (T)
    43. The Lijiang River Scenic Zone at Guilin (T)
    44. The Mediterranean Facet of the Pyrenees (France-Spain) (T)
    45. Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade Routes from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea (T)
    46. Trakai Historical National Park (T)
    47. Via Appia 'Regina Viarum' (T)
    48. Western Xia Imperial Tombs (T)
    49. Wooden Structures of Liao Dynasty - Wooden Pagoda of Yingxian County, Main Hall of Fengguo Monastery of Yixian County (T)

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