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The world-famous Eif

The world-famous Eiffel Tower is 300 meters high and is supported by four cement towers weighing 2,500 tons. What happens to a building without a foundation? Can you hang in the air? The Eiffel Tower can't, but the Hanging Temple can. 2010's "Time" weekly magazine, the Hanging Temple into the "global top ten strange buildings", and the Italian Leaning Tower of Pisa, attracted worldwide attention. Hanging Temple, a temple floating on a cliff, without thousands of tons of foundation, only a few pieces of wood stand. After more than 1,500 years of wind and rain, earthquakes and various disasters, the Hanging Temple is still unable to survive. Hanging Temple is located between the cliffs of Cuiping Peak on the west side of Jinlong Gorge in Hengshan. It is known as the "hanging temple, half-day high, three horsetails hanging in the air". It is famous for its steepness in the abyss. The Hanging Temple was built in 491 AD and is the only unique temple in China where the Buddha, Taoism and Confucianism are the same. The entire temple is hung on a steep cliff, and the bumps of the cliffs are cleverly built according to the trend, which is extraordinarily staggered and rhythmic. When the poet Li Bai visited the Hanging Temple in the past, he wrote the word "spectacular" and wrote that he still felt that he was not enough to express his excitement. He added a little more to "Zhuang". These two words are still engraved at the foot of the temple. On the rock. Many people think that the Hanging Temple is supported by the following ten wooden pillars. In fact, some wooden pillars are not affected by force. The real support weight is the crossbeams inserted into the rock.
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