A Chinese dragon at the Mengjia Longshan Temple in Taipei

Built in 1738, Mengjia Longshan Temple | Longshan Temple is one of the oldest temples in the city.

A Fenghuang on the roof of Mengjia Longshan Temple | Longshan Temple in Taipei

Here are the primitive caves of 25, 000 years ago, the overlapping strata of the Yangshao Culture, Longshan Culture and Xiaotun Culture, the memorial mausoleums of ancient Emperor Zhuanxu and Emperor Ku over 4, 000 years ago, the first library of inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells, the Soul Spring Temple, known as the " First Ancient Buddhist Temple in Henan ", and 10, 000-Buddha Ravine, as well as unique Wenfeng Pagoda, Xiuding Temple Pagoda and Mingfu Temple Pagoda.

The district is home to historic buildings such as Longshan Temple, Taipei's oldest temple, and the Red House Theater, the first and largest teahouse and playhouse in Taiwan.

Central Wanhua is known for its historical sites ( like Longshan Temple ), traditional shopping, and local snacks.

Mengjia Longshan Temple | Longshan Temple is Taipei's oldest temple.

Near the famous Longshan Temple is the Huaxi ( Huahsi ) Street Tourist Night Market ( also known as " Snake Alley ").

Mengjia Longshan Temple () was built in Taipei in 1738 by settlers from Fujian, China.

Image: Longshan Temple panorama. jpg | Panorama view of the outer courtyard of Longshan Temple.

The Tujia-speaking areas of Longshan County are mostly located around the Xiche River 洗车河.

Dali's newly finished administrative district that houses the newly opened Dali International Convention Center is in Longshan District.

* Longshan District, Liaoyuan, Jilin

* Longshan Township, Tieling, in Yinzhou District, Tieling, Liaoning

Longshan is seen as an emblematic example of Taiwanese classical architecture, with southern Chinese influences commonly seen in older buildings.

For example the middle reaches of the Jing River and Wei River evince settlement known as the Shaanxi Longshan.

Only the middle layer at Dawenkou is associated with the Dawenkou culture, as the earliest layer corresponds to the Beixin culture and the latest layer corresponds to the early Shandong variant of the Longshan culture.

The rammed earth construction of these walls was an inherited tradition, since much older fortifications of this type have been found at Chinese Neolithic sites of the Longshan culture ( c. 3000 – 2000 BC ).

The presence of both round and square shapes in the Puyang tomb, at Hongshan ceremonial centers and the late Longshan settlement at Lutaigang, suggests that gaitian cosmography ( heaven-round, earth-square ) was present in Chinese society long before it appeared in the Zhou Bi Suan Jing.

The Dongyi nationality, one of the important origins of the Chinese nation, lived here and created the Dawenkou, Longshan and Dongyeshi cultures.

While it was long thought that the Chinese had developed the blast furnace and cast iron as their first method of iron production, Donald Wagner ( the author of the above referenced study ) has published a more recent paper that supersedes some of the statements in the earlier work ; the newer paper still places the date of the first cast-iron artifacts at the 4th and 5th centuries BC, but also provides evidence of earlier bloomery furnace use, which migrated in from the West during the beginning of the Chinese Bronze Age of the late Longshan culture ( 2000 BC ).

The Chinese routine of the Cups and Balls is often called " The Immortal Sowing Beans ", it originated in ancient agricultural society as early as the Longshan Culture Period, pre-Shang Dynasty ( before 1600 B. C .).

Image: Dragon on Longshan Temple. JPG | Chinese Dragon on Longshan Temple.

Evidence of the early use of rammed earth has been seen in Neolithic archaeological sites of the Yangshao and Longshan cultures along the Yellow River in China, dating back to 5000 BCE.

Later, Yangshao culture was superseded by the Longshan culture, which was also centered on the Yellow River from about 3000 BC to 2000 BC.

Ye ( 1995 ) focuses on the Northern variety of Xinghuo Village 星火村, Miao ' ertan Township 苗儿滩镇 ( formerly Miaoshi 苗市 ), Longshan County 龙山县.

Brassett ( 2006 ) based their Tujia data primarily on the variety of Tasha Township 他砂乡, Longshan County, and also partly from Pojiao Township 坡脚乡 and Dianfang Township 靛房乡.

The Longshan culture (, meaning " Dragon Mountain ") was a late Neolithic culture in China, centered on the central and lower Yellow River and dated from about 3000 BC to 2000 BC.

Eleven characters found at Dinggong in Shandong, China on a pottery sherd, Longshan culture

* Longshan culture, late Neolithic culture, centred on the central and lower reaches of the Yellow River

Statue of Hua Tuo at Mengjia Longshan Temple in Taiwan

* Longshan Temple, the name of five temples in Taiwan

Unlike the later Longshan culture, the Yangshao culture did not use pottery wheels in pottery making.

Image: CMOC Treasures of Ancient China exhibit-black pottery goblet. jpg | Black eggshell pottery of the Longshan culture ( c. 3000 – 2000 BC )

Archaeological sites reveal that prehistoric cultures such as the Yangshao Culture and Longshan Culture were active in what is now northern Henan since the Neolithic Era.

Another well-known panoramic view is from Longshan ( Mt Long ), where the famous ancient poet Su Shi ( 1037 – 1101 ) once wrote a poem.

During this time, two cultures had emerged near the mountain, the Dawenkou culture to the south and the Longshan culture to the north.

Since Fire Temple was at least partially built to conform to the dimensions of the cliff alcove in which it was built, it is neither round in form nor truly subterranean like other structures defined as kivas

The following year he was put in charge of the Greek games that were staged in honor of the Temple of Venus Genetrix, built by Julius Caesar.

Farther, near the terraced road leading to the Temple, situated on the top of the cliff, several houses built in a row dating to the Hellenistic period have been discovered.

Between 529 – 520 BC yet another temple was built by the Peisistratids, the Old Temple of Athena, usually referred to as the arkhaios neōs ( ἀρχαῖος νεώς, " ancient temple ").

Part of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti from the Monumentum Ancyranum ( Temple of Augustus and Rome ) at Ancyra, built between 25 BCE-20 BCE.

Aelia came from Hadrian's nomen gentile, Aelius, while Capitolina meant that the new city was dedicated to Jupiter Capitolinus, to whom a temple was built on the site of the former Jewish temple, the Temple Mount.

Roman Temple of Artemis in Jerash, Jordan, built during the reign of Antoninus Pius.

# Building a new city ( Ezekiel 33: 1 – 48: 35 ): The Jewish exile will come to an end, a new city and new Temple will be built, and the Israelites will be gathered and blessed as never before.

Upon the return from Babylonia and the restoration of the Temple, YHWH will once again dwell in the new Temple as he had in the Temple built by Solomon.

Nevertheless, the church flourished in Kirtland as Smith published new revelations and the church built the Kirtland Temple as the site of what they viewed as a new Pentecost.

and built a Holy Temple in its proper place and gathered the strayed ones of Israel together, this is indeed the anointed one for certain, and he will mend the entire world to worship the Lord together ...

Two main east-west roads were built rather than the typical one, due to the awkward location of the Temple Mount, blocking the central east-west route.

The likelihood of a 1st century tomb being built to the west of the city is questionable, as according to the late 1st century Rabbinic leader, Akiva ben Joseph, quoted in the Mishnah, tombs should not built to the west of the city, as the wind in Jerusalem generally blows from the west, and would blow the smell of the corpses and their impurity over the city, and the Temple Mount.

One might note, however, that what is assumed to be a niche for the Torah scroll in the building probably originally built as a Judeo-Christian synagogue between AD 70 and AD 135 on the traditional site of the Cenacle or upper room of the Last Supper and now identified as the site of the King David's Tomb is oriented not towards the Temple Mount, but towards the site of the Holy Sepulchre, which would seem to indicate that the Christian community that had built it had already began to transfer many of the religious traditions originally associated with the Temple to the sites they associated with Christ's death and resurrection ( such as the burial place of Adam and the centre of the world ).

Located in front of the Temple of Apollo, the main altar of the sanctuary was paid for and built by the people of Chios.

The ancient theatre at Delphi was built further up the hill from the Temple of Apollo giving spectators a view of the entire sanctuary and the valley below.

Hadrian built a pagan idol on the Temple grounds and prohibited circumcision ; these acts of ethnocide provoked the Bar Kokhba revolt 132 – 136 CE after which the Romans banned the study of the Torah and the celebration of Jewish holidays, and forcibly removed virtually all Jews from Judea.

The Forum of Caesar, with its Temple of Venus Genetrix, was then built, among many other public works.