Datong Guide

Yungang Grottoes

​Yungang Grottoes ,carved in A.D.460 ,1500 years ago,are a treasure house of art as famous as the Ajanta Grottoes of India and the mammoth Buddha sculptures at Bamyan in Afghanistan.The Yungang Grottoes were carved on the face of a low ridge ,stretching one kilometer from east to...

Hanging Temple

Hanging Temple,a work beyond beauty,a work beyond technique,a work beyond mankind's power,only one site of Hanging Temple is for more enough to attract your visit to China!

Hanging Temple

The Haning Temple was first built over 1400 years ago in the Northern Wei Dynasty and rebuilt in the Tang , Jin , Ming and Qing Dynasties.This temple is unique not only in its concern for harmony and order in its constructional techniques and in its elaborate design.It is also unique in its...

Huayan Temple

Nine Dragon Wall

Nine Dragon Wall in Datong was built in 1392 It is the biggest ,oldest and tallest nine dragon wall in China.

Datong Museum

Datong  Mouseum is a comprehensive museum majoring, affiliated to the administration bureau of datong city. We set up in 1958, officially opened in 1959, said datong city cultural relics exhibition, in 1963 changed its name to datong city museum. After more than half a century history of...

Yanmenguan Pass of Great Wall

Yan means 'wild goose' in English, and was so-named because wild geese are seen flying around the pass every year. Early in the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC - 476 BC), King Wuling of Zhao established Yanmen County in this region. The Tang Dynasty (618 - 907) built a pass called...

(06/2011)Business trip to Datong,Shanxi

I had a business trip to Inner Mongolian for the Mongolian black basalt products with my customer from Lebanon ,and then I came back from Datong airport to Guangzhou .

The architecture of Datong is traditional style ,there are lots of towers in the city center-shopping places .You can...

Datong City Wall

The old city wall was built in Ming Dynasty about 600 years ago.

When we climb up the city wall ,we will enjoy the gate tower , a tall and magnificent building. The function of gate tower was mainly for the commanders to ascend the height to watch the enemy and command the battle.

Shanhua Temple

The temple dates from the tang Dynasty.In 1122 the whole temple complex was almost completely destroyed by fire.Furtheher restoration was done during the Liao and JIn  in 1445. The whole compound is recognized throughout China as an intact architectural group of the Liao and Jin period....