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In the following text you will read another factual description of a place

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Following is a factual description of Fanjing Mountain in China. Read it and guess the
meaning of the unfamiliar words from the context

Fanjing Mountain boasting the rare soaring up
rock formation and listed as UNESCO World
Natural and Cultural Heritage site in 2018 is a
real miracle! [1]
Perched at the top of the most significant “Red
Clouds Golden Peak” is the more incredible
Fanjingshan Temple with 2,336 meters above the
sea. Enjoying the so hard-to-see location on the
column shaped peak, Fanjingshan Temple draws a
lot of people to have a personal look at the real
temple in the air and take fantastic novel pictures.
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[2]
Fanjingshan Temple is actually the two temples,
namely Temple of the Buddha and Maitreya Temple, on the peak of the “Red
Clouds Golden Summit” (the New Golden Summit at Fanjing Mountain. One is
for worshipping Sakiymuni representing the present and the other is for Maitreya
representing the future. The two temples were originally built from Yongle period
of Ming Dynasty, about over 500 years ago, and the present temples have been
rebuilt according to its original look and with iron tiles to protect from the strong
mountain wind. And there is only one hall for each temple, which is built with
layers of stone pieces into 5.4 meters wide and 5.55 meters deep. There is a
bridge linking between the two temples above the deep Gold Sword Gorge. And
people to Fanjingshan can only climb up by the thousands of steps to first visit the
Temple of Buddha on the south side, and walk across the bridge to visit Maitreya
Temple on the north side of “Red Clouds Golden Summit”, which proves the
alternation from Sakiyamuni to Maitreya to mean from present to future in
Buddhist theory. [3]
Since “Red Clouds Golden Summit” is often surrounded by mists and sea of
clouds, standing on the platform outside of Fanjingshan Temple is really cool
to admire the extraordinary view like viewing in the air. Thus, people from
around the globe flock up to Fanjingshan to visit the iconic summit and
Fanjingshan Temple to add such incredible experience and sightseeing into their
travel memory. [4]

(343 words, adapted from “Fanjingshan Temple - Temples in the Air”,
https://www.chinadiscovery.com/guizhou/fanjingshan/fanjingshan-temple.html

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