Scenic Area in Fangshan District about 70 km southwest to Beijing consists of Yunju Temple and Shijing Mountain with a core area of 20,000 m2. First built between the late Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, Yunju Temple enjoys a history of 1,400 years and a total area of 77,000 m2. It has been extended for successive reigns and dynasties, forming a structure of five yards and six palaces.

Yunju Temple, surrounded by mountains, faces river in the east and is arranged along the rising topography, being known as the Giant Buddhist Temple in Northern China. It has more than a dozen historic pagodas dating from the Tang and Liao Dynasties, which contain woodblocks for Buddhist sutra, scrolls of printed or manuscript sutras and 14,278 well-known Buddhist sutra steles. Therefore, it is honored as the Treasure of China and the Dunhuang in Beijing. On March 4, 1961, Yunju Temple was in the first batch of important heritage sites under state protection of China. In 1992, it was honored as the World’s Best Scenic Spot in Beijing. In May 1999, it was formally restored as the religious site of Buddhism. In 2001, it became the National 4A-level Scenic Spot. Shijing Mountain is located in the east of Yunju Temple with a height of 450 m, and it is not only the birth place of Fangshan’s Buddhist sutra steles but also the excavation site of body relics of the Buddha.

Currently there are a total of 4,196 Buddhist sutra steles dating from the Sui and Tang Dynasties housed in 9 caves of the Shijing Mountain. It also has numerous cultural relics including Jinxiangongzhu Pagoda, the thousand-year-old well and steles of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and is known as a time-honored holy land of Buddhism by virtue of magnificent mountain, splendid pagodas, deep and serene caves and oddly-shaped trees.