History and archeology: Why the Chinese monks constructed a monastery over an abyss and as to them it worked well] 1,5 thousand years ag

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In China there is the real architectural miracle – the Trailing monastery which in literal sense hangs over an abyss. It is cut out at huge height directly in a rocky steep wall of one of five great mountains of China. If to consider that fact that to this masterpiece one and a half thousand years, arise a question: how ancient monks could construct it, after all they had no difficult technique, allowing to deliver materials to big height and to work in such conditions? Let's get acquainted closer with this improbable religious object. In more detail...