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People walk up the wide stone steps leading to the Sun Yat Sen Mausoleum, a grand building with a blue-tiled roof, surrounded by trees in Nanjing, China.

Traditional Buddhist temple in Nanjing, China, featuring ornate, upturned tiled roofs, yellow walls, and decorative stone railings surrounded by trees.

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