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

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

(240318) -- ZHANGZI, March 18, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Above: This undated file photo shows Zhang Yufei posing for a photo outside Faxing Temple shortly after he started working in the temple in Zhangzi County, north China's Shanxi Province. Below: This photo taken by Xinhua photographer Yang Chenguang on March 16, 2024 shows Zhang Yufei posing for a photo outside Faxing Temple in Zhangzi County, north China's Shanxi Province. 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 thr

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