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Hidden within a village community in Gaoping city, North China's Shanxi province, the Tiefo Temple kept its exquisite 500-year-old painted sculptures low-profile for so long. It wasn't until August that its 72-square-meter main hall was opened to the public. This move came shortly after the release of the blockbuster AAA video game, Black Myth: Wukong , which brought the ancient architecture that inspired 36 scenes in the game into the limelight. The Tiefo Temple is one of them. ▲ Tourists ride camels at the Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring Scenic Area in Dunhuang, Gansu province, last month. The tourist city is renowned for desert landscape as well as Buddhist murals and grottoes. Zhang Xiaoliang/For China Daily Since August, an unprecedented number of tourists have flooded to Gaoping. During holidays and on the weekends, visitor flow at the temple always reaches its daily cap of 3,000 people. On regular days, there are still 400 to 500 travelers, according to Shen Fei, secre
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