Tianmen Mountain, one of the earliest famous mountains and one of the most representative natural landscapes in Zhangjiajie, is known as the first sacred mountain in western Hunan Province. Tianmen Mountain is 1518 meters above sea level, the surrounding peaks are low, but its lone peaks are towering, the momentum is unique, the world's highest altitude of natural and ingenious mountain-piercing cave Tianmen Cave, suspended above the QianxunSu Wall, has become a unique scenery in the world, and is also one of the four wonders of Tianmen Mountain.
"Two mountains chisel through a door, one door splits the two mountains, how many gods and immortals can not be closed, and only white clouds are allowed to seal all year round." This poem by the Qing Dynasty scholar Tian Rongchao describes Tianmen Mountain.
At about 10:00 a.m. on this day, we took a scenic environmental protection car from Shanmen to the winding mountain road, which is one of the four wonders of Tianmen Mountain, "Tongtian Avenue". The avenue has ninety-nine bends, bends are tightly connected, layered, and the mountain is soaring upwards, although the total length is less than eleven kilometers, the altitude has increased sharply from two hundred meters to 1,300 meters, and the thrill of sitting in the car is no less than that of taking a helicopter circling the air. The people in the car made exclamations from time to time, and from time to time admired the driver's superb driving skills. My attention also shifted from the beautiful scenery outside the window to the driver's driving operation, and I felt that the tihua show was no longer as good as his show.
It was almost eleven o'clock in the afternoon, and when I came to the square in front of TianmenDong, there were already countless tourist groups and crowds. Standing in the square and looking up, the Tianmen Cave was clearly visible in the steaming, but at this time, we were like being in a dream, and there was a feeling of "I want to fly away by the cloud immortals and go straight into the Ninth Heaven". The Heavenly Gate Cave rises from the sky, like a portal to the sky, and the nine hundred and ninety-nine steps up the ladder lead directly to it, which is both magnificent and mysterious.
The ladder to heaven has five slows and four steeps, which coincides with the meaning of nine and nine, revealing the ups and downs of the road of life, and the truth that it can only become an instrument after experiencing ups and downs. I wanted to go for a walk, but there was a red off-road vehicle parked at the beginning of the ladder, as if there were foreign actors, and it was said that a crew was filming a movie. Therefore, the ladder to the sky is sealed, and tourists can only take the escalator to the gate for free.
We entered the Tianmen Cave, and looked at the two ends of the cave to be obscured by a thick white fog, but we could deeply feel the magnificence of the cave, and I was really amazed by the incomparable divine power of nature! Tianmen Cave is 131.5 meters high, 57 meters wide and 60 meters deep, and I heard that there were planes crossing it.
The formation of Tianmen Cave is not the same. However, according to geological experts, the intersection of the east-west rock layers in the central system of Tianmen Cave was crushed and collapsed due to squeezing, and finally formed Tianmen Cave in 263. Tianmen Mountain was called Yunmeng Mountain in ancient times, also known as Yuping Mountain. After the formation of Tianmen Cave, Sun Xiu, the King of Wu during the Three Kingdoms, thought it auspicious and gave him the name "Tianmen Mountain".
There are different folk legends about Tianmen Cave, one of which is beautiful and moving. On the right side of Tianmen Cave is a boulder shaped like an old man standing against a cliff, which is the incarnation stone of the legendary Ghost Valley Ancestor.
According to legend, when the Eight Immortals were traveling in this cloud, they felt that the Tianmen Cave had leaked the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, which hindered the emergence of big people in the local area, so they each showed their divine powers and worked together to push a large stone towards the Tianmen Cave and wanted to block it. However, as you know, the big stone suddenly stopped in mid-air, and it didn't move at all. Just when I felt strange, the boulder flew up and landed at the foot of the mountain.
It turned out that this was caused by the ghost valley ancestor, who smiled with his beard and told the eight immortals: The Heavenly Gate Cave is pulling up the earth, and the harmony of yin and yang is a wonderful portal for the gods of heaven and earth, and its immortal wind is stirring, which is beneficial to the people's livelihood, how can it go against the will of heaven? The Eight Immortals suddenly understood and gave up their original thoughts. However, the Ghost Valley Ancestor was afraid that the other immortals would swim to this time, and regenerate the same mind as the Eight Immortals, so they transformed into stones and guarded the Heavenly Gate Cave forever.
Tianmen Cave is unpredictable, as if it contains infinite mysteries of heaven and earth. The Tianmen Cave we saw this time is the appearance of clearing after the rain, if it is sunny, we will witness the scene of mist idle or the light of the sun, and if we encounter wind and rain, we will be in the situation of swallowing clouds and spitting fog and even the clouds and fierce winds... From ancient times to the present, the fantastic and beautiful "Heaven's Gate Spitting Fog" and "Heaven's Gate Aura" have been said to be the auspicious elephants of the celestial realm, and their names have been passed down. What is strange is that on the stone wall at the top of Tianmen Cave, ticking and ticking, the "plum blossom rain" that lands endlessly every day, the origin of this "plum blossom rain" has always been a mystery! It is rumored that as long as this "plum blossom rain" is opened to receive forty-eight drops, you can become a fairy mile! There are also records that in the past, standing somewhere in Zhangjiajie City, you can see Tianmen Cave, but now you can only see the mountain in the same place, and the mystery of this "Tianmen turning" has really covered Tianmen Cave with a mysterious and mysterious color.
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