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On August 20, Black Myth: Wukong was launched globally and subsequently became the top trending search. In addition to the game experience, many game scenes also sparked heated discussions.

Sharp-eyed netizens quickly posted a comparison, and found that many scenes in Black Myth are almost identical to ancient buildings in Shanxi Province. In fact, in the incomplete list of filming locations currently disclosed by the game, Shanxi Province alone accounts for 27 of the 35 filming locations in various provinces and cities.

"Thanks for the invitation. I downloaded the game this morning and bought the plane/train tickets this afternoon. I'm on my way to Shanxi now." Netizens who are worried about this low-key province with many ancient buildings also expressed their hope that Shanxi can steadily receive this wave of traffic. After all, the 27 filming locations are just a drop in the bucket in the vast ocean of ancient buildings in Shanxi, and there are many more exquisite and magnificent buildings waiting to be explored.

01

Hanging Temple

△The Hanging Temple. (Photo/Visual China)

Located in Datong City, Shanxi Province, the Hanging Temple is an ancient temple built on a cliff. It is also the only unique temple in China that combines Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. The Hanging Temple was once selected as one of the world's top ten unstable buildings by Time magazine. People often use the phrase "The Hanging Temple, half a day high, suspended in the air by three horsetails" to describe its unique construction method.

02

Group of maids in the Basilica of Our Lady

△The maid statue in the Notre Dame Hall. (Photo/TuChong Creative)

There are 43 Song Dynasty colored sculptures enshrined in the Holy Mother Hall of Jin Temple. The main statue is the Holy Mother Yi Jiang (the queen of King Wu of Zhou), and the other 42 are colored sculptures of eunuchs, female officials and maids. This group of statues broke through the pattern of religious statues before the Song Dynasty. It is the earliest statue in the history of Chinese sculpture that reflects court figures, and truly reproduces the life in the palace in the past. It has extremely high cultural and artistic value.

03

Jinci

△Jin Temple. (Photo/TuChong Creative)

The Jin Temple was built in 471 AD to commemorate King Wu of Zhou's second son Shu Yu and his mother Queen Yi Jiang. The three national treasure-level buildings on the central axis of the Jin Temple - the Xian Hall, the Yunuma Feiliang, and the Holy Mother Hall, the three famous plaques - "Nan Lao", "Shui Jingtai", and "Dui Yue", and the three unique features of the Jin Temple - Zhou cypress, Nan Lao spring, and the Song Dynasty maid statue.

04

Yongle Palace

△Yongle Palace. (Photo/TuChong Creative)

The Yongle Palace is located in Yongle Town, Ruicheng County, Shanxi Province. It was built to commemorate Lü Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals. It took more than 110 years to complete the construction. It is the largest and most intact Taoist palace in my country. Together with the Baiyun Temple in Beijing and the Chongyang Palace in Huyi, Shaanxi, it is known as the "Three Major Ancestral Temples of Quanzhen Taoism."

05

"Zhao Yuan Tu"

△ The Yuan Dynasty mural "Chao Yuan Tu" in Yongle Palace. (Photo/Visual China)

Yongle Palace is known as the "Oriental Art Gallery" for its mural art. The most exquisite existing Yuan Dynasty murals are the "Chao Yuan Tu" in the Sanqing Hall. The west, north and east walls of the Sanqing Hall are painted with groups of gods to show the Jade Emperor and Ziwei Emperor leading the gods to worship Yuanshi Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun and Taishang Laojun. The murals were painted slightly earlier than the European Renaissance and almost throughout the Yuan Dynasty. They are the most wonderful Yuan Dynasty murals that have survived.

06

Pingyao Ancient City

△ Pingyao Ancient City. (Photo/TuChong Creative)

Located in the central part of Shanxi Province, Pingyao Ancient City is one of the best-preserved ancient cities in China and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Pingyao Ancient City experienced great prosperity during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, becoming the financial and commercial center of Shanxi and one of the birthplaces of China's earliest banknote exchange and ancient financial industry.

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Zhenguo Temple

△ Zhenguo Temple. (Photo/TuChong Creative)

Zhenguo Temple has a history of one thousand years and is divided into two temples, the front and the back. On the central axis of Zhenguo Temple, there are the Heavenly King Hall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ten Thousand Buddha Hall of the Five Dynasties, and the Three Buddha Hall of the Ming Dynasty. The most quintessential of them is the Ten Thousand Buddha Hall, which is known as the "thousand-year treasure". It retains the colored sculptures of the temples and temples during the Five Dynasties and is the only clay sculpture work of the Five Dynasties outside of Dunhuang.

08

Shuanglin Temple

△Shuanglin Temple's national treasure Skanda. (Photo/Visual China)

In 1997, when UNESCO listed the ancient city of Pingyao in Shanxi as a World Heritage Site, the list was defined as "one city, two temples", and the "two temples" were Shuanglin Temple and Zhenguo Temple. Shuanglin Temple is not large, but it has more than 2,000 exquisite painted clay sculptures of various shapes in a small space, with extremely high artistic value, and is known as the "Chinese Ancient Sculpture Museum".

09

Nanchan Temple

△Nanchan Temple. (Photo/TuChong Creative)

Nanchan Temple is a folk building complex and the earliest existing wooden structure in China. The inscriptions on the beams in the temple prove that it was built more than 70 years earlier than Foguang Temple. There are dozens of Tang Dynasty statues in the temple, and the exquisiteness of their sculpture skills is comparable to the contemporary works in Mogao Grottoes.

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Foguang Temple

△Foguang Temple. (Photo/Visual China)

The painting on the front wall of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang depicts Mount Wutai, the dojo of Manjusri Bodhisattva, thousands of miles away, recording the heyday of Buddhism at that time. The "Great Foguang Temple" marked in the painting is the Foguang Temple located in Foguang New Village, Wutai County, Shanxi Province. Foguang Temple was discovered by Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin in 1937. Its appearance broke the assertion of Japanese scholars that "there are no wooden structures in China before the Tang Dynasty", so it was praised by Liang Sicheng as "China's first national treasure".

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Yingxian Wooden Pagoda

△Yingxian Wooden Pagoda. (Photo/Visual China)

The Yingxian Wooden Pagoda is located in Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province. It is also known as the Sakyamuni Pagoda. It is the oldest and tallest wooden pagoda in the world. The tower body adopts a mortise and tenon structure without using a single nail, showing the amazing woodworking skills of ancient Chinese craftsmen. It is known as one of the "Three Great Pagodas in the World" along with the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

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Feiyun Tower

△ Feiyun Tower. (Photo/Visual China)

Feiyun Tower is located in Dongyue Temple in Wanrong County, Shanxi Province. There is a local saying: "There is a Feiyun Tower in Wanrong, half of it is inserted in the clouds", which is used to describe its high position on the top of the mountain. Feiyun Tower is a pure wooden structure and is known as "the first wooden building in China". Feiyun Tower is densely covered with brackets and looks exquisite. It is also known as the "South Tower and North Tower" together with the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda.

13

Feihong Tower

△ Feihong Tower. (Photo/TuChong Creative)

Located in Guangsheng Temple in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, Feihong Pagoda is the most iconic pagoda and one of the four largest pagodas in China. The other three are Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, Songyue Temple Pagoda and Qianxun Pagoda. Feihong Pagoda is octagonal and has 13 floors. Its outline shrinks from bottom to top, forming a cone. It has survived an 8.0 magnitude earthquake and is still intact.

14

Huayan Temple

△The tooth-baring Bodhisattva at Huayan Temple. (Photo/Visual China)

Huayan Temple in Datong, Shanxi Province is one of the only three Liao Dynasty temples left in China, the other two being Dule Temple in Jizhou, Tianjin and Fengguo Temple in Yixian, Liaoning. In the center of the platform in front of the main hall of Huayan Temple, there is an iron octagonal silk burning furnace, which is a relic from the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

15

Yungang Grottoes

△ Yungang Grottoes. (Photo/TuChong Creative)

As the first grottoes in China excavated with royal authorization, the Yungang Grottoes not only reflects the political ambitions of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but also marks the beginning of the "Sinicization" of grotto art. Here, a variety of Buddhist art styles have achieved unprecedented integration.

16

Datong Nine Dragon Wall

△ Datong Nine Dragon Wall. (Photo/TuChong Creative)

The Datong Nine Dragon Wall was built in the late Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. It is a glazed screen wall in front of the palace of Zhu Guidai, the thirteenth son of Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. Nine flying dragons are evenly and harmoniously distributed on the wall, and their soaring momentum is vividly displayed on the wall. On both sides are sun and moon patterns, which are very ornamental. The Datong Nine Dragon Wall, Beihai Park Nine Dragon Wall, and the Forbidden City Nine Dragon Wall are the three most famous Nine Dragon Walls in China.

17

Xiezhou Guandi Temple

△Jiezhou Guandi Temple. (Photo/Visual China)

There is an old saying: "Shandong is a saint of literature, Shanxi is a saint of martial arts." Guan Yu is well-known for his virtues, and among the people, he is the first of the gods of literature and martial arts. The Xiezhou Guandi Temple, located in the west gate of Xiezhou Town, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, is not far from Changping Village, the hometown of Guan Yu, a general of the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period, and is therefore known as the "ancestor of martial arts temples."

18

Qiao Family Courtyard

△ Various courtyards and pavilions in Qiao's Courtyard. (Photo/Visual China)

Qiao's Courtyard was built in 1756 by Qiao Zhiyong, a famous Shanxi merchant in the late Qing Dynasty. The courtyard is a fully enclosed castle-like building complex, which looks like the Chinese character "囍" when viewed from above. Qiao's Courtyard has high architectural aesthetics and residential folklore research value, and is known as "a pearl in the history of northern residential architecture in the Qing Dynasty."

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Mount Wutai

△ Mount Wutai. (Photo/Visual China)

Mount Wutai is the first of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China and is the dojo of Manjusri Bodhisattva. Since Buddhism was introduced to China, Mount Wutai has always been a holy place in the hearts of Buddhist practitioners, and thus has preserved a large number of Buddhist cultural heritages, including Buddha statues, scriptures, murals and ancient cultural relics. It is said that the most popular temple in Mount Wutai is the Wuye Temple located under the Tayuan Temple, also known as the Wanfo Pavilion. On the first and fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, there is an endless stream of pilgrims.

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Taiyuan Ancient County

△Taiyuan ancient county town. (Photo/TuChong Creative)

Taiyuan Ancient County was first built in the eighth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1375). There are many historical buildings in the city. It follows the ancient architectural pattern of "City Phoenix Remains" of Jinyang Ancient City. It is shaped like a phoenix with its head facing north and its tail facing south, so it is called "Phoenix City". The filming location of the movie "Man Jiang Hong" is a typical five-courtyard house located in the northeast corner of Taiyuan Ancient County Scenic Area.