Featuring traditional Chinese cultural elements, the highly anticipated Chinese video game #BlackMythWukong is set to be released soon. Below is a cultural thread introducing the game's ancient Chinese buildings, which had their prototypes in Shanxi Province, China. Shanxi Province is a rich mine of ancient Chinese architecture, with buildings... from all Chinese dynasties, yet it is relatively unknown outside of China. Local authorities in China's Shanxi province have launched initiatives to promote the game and local culture to game enthusiasts since the province is home to the game's architectural prototypes.show more

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐤𝐲: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 (悬空寺) The Hanging Temple (悬空寺) is a temple built into a cliff (75 m or 246 ft above the ground) near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Datong City, Shanxi Province, China. Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because as a Buddhist temple it also contains references to the other two of the three Chinese traditional philosophies or religions (三教): Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock. The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight bake.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐡𝐚𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞 (小西天) The Little Western Paradise (小西天), also known as the Temple of One Thousand Buddhas (千佛庵), is located in Xi County, Shanxi Province, China.   Early records indicate that the traveling Buddhist monk Dongming, who lived towards the end of the Ming dynasty (1368­­-1644), was responsible for starting the temple construction. More than a thousand polychrome clay sculptures are kept in the 169.6-square-meter Upper Main Hall, today's most admired feature of the Little Western Paradise. These sculptures, created at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), are interwoven into the building's timber construction, depicting palatial and lavish scenes from a Buddhist Pure Land.   The temple and its sculptures are mostly forgotten even in Shanxi due to the underdevelopment of Xi County since the Ming Dynasty.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚: 𝐘𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐧𝐠 (永乐宫) Located in Ruicheng, Shanxi Province, Yongle Gong is a famous Taoist temple complex with murals from the Yuan dynasty. Dedicated to Lü Dongbin, a Taoist saint, the temple was initially situated in Yongle Town, about 15 miles west of its present location. It was constructed over 128 years, from 1240 to 1358. Between 1958 and 1966, it was dismantled and moved piece by piece to its current location after the Sanmenxia Dam was built, flooding its original site.   It was one of 180 sites in the first batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐟𝐮 𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 (崇福寺) The Chongfu Temple (崇福寺) is located in Shuozhou, Shanxi. The temple was built in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The hall's murals and sculptures were damaged when the temple was converted into a granary towards the end of the Yuan Dynasty.   Rebuilt during the Ming Dynasty, the temple became a landmark. The temple fell into disrepair and weed infestation under the Republic of China and the late Qing Dynasty.   Chongfu Temple was looted when the Japanese invaded Shuozhou city during the Anti-Japanese War. The beautiful Northern Wei stone pagoda, erected by Cao Tiandu, a court official during Emperor Xianwen's reign of Northern Wei, for his late father and son, was stolen by the Japanese invaders in 1939 and deposited in the Tokyo Imperial Museum along with numerous plundered objects.   It was restored to the Taiwan History Museum when the war ended. The base and tower are housed in a museum in Taipei, but the top remains on the Chinese mainland.

𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐫𝐭: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐠 𝐉𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 (府城玉皇庙) The Fucheng Jade Emperor Temple, adorned with Taoist deities, is a delightful destination to visit by any standard. What sets it out, though, are the exquisitely painted sculptures of the 28 lunar mansions, which depict scholars and aristocracy with serious and lighthearted attitudes; these sculptures are among the finest examples of Taoist painting in China.   According to research, these magnificent statues were created during the Yuan dynasty.   The Jade Emperor, Taoism's supreme deity, is surrounded by his kids, wives, and maids. Standing outside the hall, adorning the green-glazed roof, are the 28 lunar mansion governors, the originals of which can be found in the Jincheng Museum.

This is Hanuman. When buddhism spread from India to China, the religious elements spread as well

山西还是陕西啊