One thing that I learned on our tours of various temples and monastaries was that the preservation of the ancient structure is very different than our culture's. To the Chinese it is better to tear down and rebuild an ancient temple that is rotting than to try to hold on to what remains. In that way they maintain the presence of a structure but are able to make it out of new materials. For our group it seemed so destructive and wrong to build something new and still claim that it had the same value as the structure built hundreds of years ago. We place value in the age of a building and how long it has been able to withstand the elements, for them it is perhaps more the idea that the structure embodies that is important. This issue demonstrates a difference in our cultures and a difference in our culture's definitions of a structure's authenticity.