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Wooden Pagoda, the imposing structure is highest and the
oldest wooden structure extant today in China. Built in the Liao Dynasty over 920 years
ago, the 67.3-metre-high pagoda stands at the foot of the Hengshan Mountain. Though it
appears as a five-storey structure, the pagoda in fact has nine storeys with four hidden
inside It was constructed with over 50 kinds of brackets, depending entirely on the
joining of tenons and mortises and more miraculously without a single nail or rivet.
Despite the long exposure to the elements, violent earthquakes and intense shelling during
wars, the pagoda remains intact, revealing it's exquisite quality in a rustic, simple
manner.
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