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The Wanfo Hall of Zhenguo Temple

...that the capital city Chang'an during the Chinese Tang dynasty (618-907 AD) had 111 Buddhist monasteries and 41 Daoist abbeys within its walls?
...that the Underground City in Beijing is a bomb shelter said to accommodate six million people?
...that Zhenguo Temple's Wanfo Hall (pictured) is the only surviving building that was built during China's Northern Han dynasty?

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