Mount Wutai
Mount Wutai, with its five flat-topped peaks, is a sacred mountain for Buddhism. Its cultural attractions include 41 temples, including the East Hall of Foguang Temple, the tallest surviving Tang Dynasty wooden structure, which contains life-size clay sculptures. It also features the Ming Dynasty Shuxiang Temple, which contains 500 statues that weave Buddhist stories into a three-dimensional picture of mountains and rivers. Overall, the architecture on Mount Wutai records the development of Buddhist architecture over more than a thousand years and its influence on Chinese palace architecture. Mount Wutai, which literally means "Five Terraces", is the highest mountain in northern China and is striking for its rugged terrain and five empty, treeless peaks. Temples were built here from the 1st century AD to the early 20th century.