Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2012 shows the Hanging Temple built upon crags of Hengshan Mountain, Datong, north China's Shanxi Province. The Hanging Temple, involving the Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, could date back to Northern Wei Dynasty (386-535 AD).
Photo taken on Nov 20, 2012 shows the winter scenery of Hengshan Mountain, one of the Five Sacred Mountains of China, in Hunyuan county, north China's Shanxi province.
Located 12 km (7.46 miles) east of Lingshi County, Shanxi Province, the Grand Courtyard of the Wang Family is the largest folk residence among all the well-known grand courtyards.
Pingyao is a small town in central Shanxi Province whose history goes back 2,700 years.The city wall stretches for about six kilometers.The old town of Pingyao went on the list of world cultural heritage in 1997.
The volcanic cluster of Datong, Shanxi province is a quaternary cluster with more than 30 volcanic cones scattered across the eastern part of the Datong Basin to the east, west, south and north.
This grand courtyard was built in the reign of the Daoguang emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and was the private residence of a wealthy merchant of Shanxi.
After a week of rain, you can see the sea of clouds appearing over Mianshan Mountain, with the splendid view of peaks shrouded in clouds as if it were a sea.
