大同英文介绍

Mount Heng
Mount Heng
Mount Heng
Mountain Heng Beautiful Natural Scenery Mount Hengshan has always been a favorite destination, a summer resort and leisure place for tourists for its religious reputation and gorgeous landscapes. Famous Religious Holy Place Both Buddhism and Taoism coexist in Mount Hengshan, which forms the chief religious feature of the mount .
The exterior shots
北魏风韵的遗存 ---“云冈石窟”
云冈石窟位于大同市西16公 里的武周山麓，依山开凿， 东西绵延一公里，现存洞窟 53个，石雕造像五万多尊。 其中尤为珍贵的是第十六至 二十窟，世称“昙曜五窟”， 是北魏名僧昙曜奉文成帝旨 意开凿的，距今已有1500多 年的历史。
Geography and rce
Resource
Major is coal. Datong is an old fashioned coal mining city in China, and still sits on significant reserves of this commodity. Consequently it has developed a reputation as one of China’s most polluted cities. The Datong Coal Mining Group is based here and is China’s third largest such enterprise.
Yunggang Grottoes(云冈） Yunggang Grottoes are well—known all over the world for their grand momentum, rich contents and exquisite carving. The fifth and sixth grottoes and wuhua cave are colorful in contents, majestic and magnificent. It is the essence of Yunggang art and also the artistic treasury well-known in the world .
large-size wall carvings
HuaYan Temple
Huayan Temple, located in the southwest of Datong City, is one of the biggest temples in China built in Liao Dynasty. It got its name because it was and remains a major temple of the Huayan sect, a sub-category of the Buddhism popular in north China. The Huayan Temple is divided into two parts: the Upper Huayan Temple and Lower Huayan Temple which have their own gate and architecture respectively. In 1963, the two separated temple combined a whole temple.
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Culture and History
Boom in the Northern Wei Dynasty: Capital
Build in Autumn Dynasty
History
Strengthen in battles: Prosperous city
Revive in reform: travel city
In addition, the mountain peak protects it from rain and snow; and the mountain around it also diminishes damage from longtime sunshine.
The second reason is that the builders followed a principle in Taoism: no noises, including those from rooster crowing and dog baying; so from the upper ground, all noises drop away.
My Hometown
——City of Datong, Shanxi Province
Contents
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Introduction Geography and Resource
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Culture and History
Scene and food Future
Introduction
Datong is the Shanxi Province's second largest city, which is a city with a long history and splendid culture. The rich historic remains have made it an ancient Chinese capital, the city of sculptures and coal is known to the world. Therefore it is one of the first group of 24 famous Chinese historical and cultural cities by the State Council.
悬空寺
The Hanging Temple is a temple built into a sheer cliff aboveJinlong Canyon, near Mount Heng in the province of Shanxi.
Why build a monastery like this? Location is the first reason; building a monastery on the cliff could shield it from floods.
Geography and Resource
Geography
1.Datong lies in the north of Shanxi Province, located a few hundred kilometers west by rail from Beijing with an elevation of 1,040 metres 2. Datong is the northernwest city of Shanxi, and is located in the Datong Basin. The urban area is surrounded on three sides by mountains, with passes only to the east and southwest. Within the prefecture elevations generally increase from southeast to northwest.
Yungang grottoes

Yungang Grottoes is located in the south of Wuzhou Mountain and far away 16 kilometers from the city of Datong. Yungang Grottoes is the cultural heritage of the world, national 5A scenic spot in China and one of the largest grottoes in China. Yungang Grottoes was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty in 460 and had a history of about 1500 years. It has 45 main grottos, over 1,200 niches and over 51,000 Buddhist statues
The entire appearance
The Five buddha
The Nine Dragon screen
Located in the southern side of Dong Street, is the Nine-Dragon Screen built for the Prince Hongwu, the 13th son of the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD). It is presently the oldest and largest glazed screen in China and even before 350 years. It is three times larger than the one in Beihai Park, Beijing City.
The whole scenery
Mount Heng(北岳恒山)
—Mount Heng is located in Hunyuan County, City of Datong and has an elevation about 2017 meters. Mount Heng is one of the Wuyue with Mount Tai ，Mount Hua ，Mount Heng and Mount Song.
The Hanging Temple
Suspension temple is located at the foot of Hengshan mountain on Xiyan cliff in Jinlong gorge, 5 km south of Hunyuan County Town. Since ancient time, here is always ranked as the first wonder of Hengshan Mountain which is one of the five lofty Mountains of China. It was built in late Northern wei period , The now remaining buildings were the relics of Ming and Qing Dynasties. The front of suspension Temple faces east just like a giant screen
The other grottoes
第 三 窟 第 九 窟
第十一窟
第九和第十窟
Tan Yao Five Grottos 昙曜五窟 The Buddhist statue is 14m-high and it has been considered as a city card of Datong.