World Cultural Heritage: Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains (3)

Hundreds of years later, only the ruins remain of many Taoist temples, and the existing Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains mainly consists of the Taihe Palace, Nanyan Palace, Zixiao Palace, Yuzhen Palace and the remains of the Yuxu Palace and Wulong Palace, as well as over 200 temples of all kinds. The area of the structures reaches 50,000 square meters and the entire complex covers a total area of more than 1 million square meters. The scale is still very large. The major cultural heritage sites which were listed in the World Heritage List include the Taihe Palace, Zixiao Palace, Nanyan Palace, Fuzhen Temple and the “Zhishi Xuanyue” memorial archway. In addition, the Taoist temples in the Wudang Mountains also preserved 1,486 different statues, 409 inscriptions, 682 religious tools and objects, at the same time it also has a large collection of books and religious text which are also precious cultural remains.

The essence of Wudang Taoism, Wudang Taoist music and Wudang martial arts are also derived there and added new content to traditional Chinese culture.