(ChineseToday)CHINA-SHANXI-ZHANGZI-FAXING TEMPLE-CULTURAL RELICS GUARDIAN (CN)

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(240318) -- ZHANGZI, March 18, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Yufei watches monitors in Faxing Temple in Zhangzi County, north China's Shanxi Province, March 12, 2024. Faxing Temple, with a history of more than 1,000 years, is nestled on Cuiyun Mountain of Zhangzi County. In 1988, the temple was listed as a national key cultural relics protection site. Zhang Yufei, a cultural relics guardian, has worked at the temple since 1993 when he was 21. Zhang initially took on the temple's daily maintenance. He gradually took an interest in the research of the relics at the temple and began to learn cultural relics knowledge. With in-depth research, Zhang has published several monographs on the temple's relics and shared Shanxi's cultural heritage stories through a WeChat public account. In the past three decades, Zhang has received more than 500,000 visitors from home and abroad. "These cultural relics have become a part of my life," said Zhang. He hopes that more people can join in the cultural relics protect

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