Ancient Construction
Marvel of Wutaishan
and Hanging Temple of
Hengshan, China
By Chin Siew Yin
One of the temple buildings at Wutaishan
A
ny trip to Wutaishan would be incomplete
without visiting the famed Hanging Temple
of Hengshan which is not far away and
shares the same geological setting of the Trans-
North China Belt (TNCB), consisting of several
lithological, metamorphic and structural units.
Geologists are still arguing about the
relationship between the Hengshan, Wutaishan
and Fuping lithotectonic complexes, the structural,
magmatic and metamorphic histories of these
complexes and the timing of the orogenic event
that resulted in the closure of ocean between
the Western and Eastern blocks that divided the
Archean North China craton.
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