Zhongyue Temple Junji Hall in Dengfeng
Junji Hall leads the largest surviving temple complex of the Five Sacred Mountains, with a yellow-tiled hip-and-gable roof and towering Song iron guardians cast in 1064.
View attraction
Spatial Framework & Civilizational Geography · County-level
Deng Feng City
The ancient courtyards of Shaolin Temple and Mount Songshan anchor the Centre of Heaven and Earth UNESCO World Heritage sites in Dengfeng.
Regional story
A place shaped through time
The ancient courtyards of Shaolin Temple and Mount Songshan anchor the Centre of Heaven and Earth UNESCO World Heritage sites in Dengfeng.
Deng Feng City
4 entries
Atlas Attractions
Three Han Dynasty Stone Towers in Dengfeng
Built in the early second century under the Eastern Han, these stone towers are among China's oldest surviving ritual structures, carved with acrobats, cuju football and clerical script.
View attraction
Songyang Academy & Ancient Cypress in Dengfeng
Where the Cheng brothers taught Neo-Confucian philosophy, two cypresses that Emperor Wu reputedly named the Great General and Second General are said to be thousands of years old.
View attraction
Dengfeng Astronomical Observatory (Guo Shoujing)
Built by the Yuan astronomer Guo Shoujing, this is China's oldest surviving observatory, where work on the Shoushi calendar fixed the year at 365.2425 days.
View attraction