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Heaven open god show Qi Yun Mountain
Qiyun Mountain, also known as Baiyue, is located in Xiuning County, Huizhou Basin, 40 kilometers away from Huangshan Mountain, because of its "one stone inserted into the sky, and the sky in harmony", Ming Jiajing changed its name to Qiyun Mountain.
Qiyun Mountain rises almost flat, and the highest peak is 585 meters above sea level, but due to its relative height, it still looks majestic.
On Qiyun Mountain, you can take the ropeway or take the ancient road. Dengfeng Bridge is a necessary bridge for walking up the mountain, the bridge was built during the Ming Dynasty, presided over by the Huizhou prefect Gu Zhixian, 9 holes and 10 piers, bluestone paved, the bridge was formed on the day of the ancient sage promotion, the people felt its moral government, in order to express congratulations, the bridge was named "Dengfeng Bridge", step by step, the meaning of ascending, more than 400 years ago.
In order to facilitate tourists and pilgrims to rest up and down the mountain, and to shield passers-by from the wind and rain, thirteen pavilions with different styles have been built on the short 9-mile mountain road, known as "Nine Mile Thirteen Pavilions". Later, because Xu Xiake had climbed Qiyun Mountain twice in three years, it was named "Xiake Ancient Road". It should be known that Xu Xiake has revisited only four famous mountains in her life.
Go to Wangxian Lou and enter the Qiyun Mountain "Cave Heaven and Blessed Land". There are three stone rocks: Qizhen Rock, Zhonglie Rock and Shouzi Rock. Qizhenyan is the place where the earliest Daoist monks in Qiyun Mountain and the Qixia Zhenren of the Tang Dynasty practiced, and the Zhonglieyan was dedicated to Guan Gong, and the Shou character of Shouziyan was written by Zhu Xi.
Further on to the Day Gate. The One Day Gate is a spacious stone cave that looks like an elephant trunk from a distance, and is purely made by Heavenly Works. Legend has it that when Emperor Xuanwu and Jizo Bodhisattva competed for Mount Qiyun, he kicked open the mountain and became a mountain gate.
After a day's gate to the Zhenxian Cave House, there are many natural caves under the cliffs, offering statues of various gods and immortals, followed by the Eight Immortals Cave dedicated to the Taoist Eight Immortals, the Yuantong Cave is dedicated to the Buddhist Nanhai Guanyin, the Luohan Cave is dedicated to the Taoist Zhenwu Emperor Jun, the Yujun Cave is dedicated to the Folk Dragon King, and the Wenchang Cave is dedicated to the Keju Wenqu Star. From the True Immortal Cave House of Qiyun Mountain, you can feel the strong atmosphere of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhahood and Harmony. Taoist monks who used to practice lived in the cave. It is one of the quintessences of Qiyun Mountain scenery.
Eight Immortals Cave
Yuantong Cave /Luohan Cave
Yujun Cave / Wenchang Cave
The cliffs are full of Taoist temples, and the cliffs are full of cliff carvings, "Tiankai Shenxiu", "Tiankai Pictures", "Xin'an Shengjing", "Qiyun Scenic Scenery", "Xuantian Miaojing", "Climbing Clouds and Holding the Sun", "Heaven on Earth", "Pengying in the World", "Near Penglai", "High or Low, Large or Small, or Kai or Grass, a total of nearly 100 places.
Qiyun Mountain is a layered sandstone, red as cinnabar, brilliant as red Xia, which is a typical Danxia landform. Its Danxia landform developed more than 72 million years ago, which is a typical "terrain inverted" inclined mountain. The shape of the peaks is peculiar, the cliffs are cliffs, the mountains are abrupt, the thirty-six strange peaks, the seventy-two strange stones, the twenty-four flying springs, the sixteen caves, the Palace View Taoist Courtyard dotted among them, and the inscriptions and stones are interspersed, forming the "Heavenly Open God Show", a unique landscape painting. The Qianlong Emperor praised Qiyun Mountain as "the world's unparalleled victory, the first mountain in Jiangnan".
The peak of the incense burner peak in front of the Taisu Palace on Yuehua Street is independently upright, shaped like an incense burner, and is a column-shaped Danxia. Legend has it that the copper pavilion and incense burner on the top were given by Zhu Yuanzhang, destroyed in 1958 and rebuilt in 1983.
Qiyun Mountain is one of the four famous mountains of Chinese Taoism, the Taoist "Taoyuan Dongtian". During the Tang Dynasty (758-760), Taoism was introduced to Qiyun Mountain, and xuanwu was followed by the Wudang Mountains, and until Ming Jiajing, Qiyun Mountain Taoism was a sect of the Wudang Mountain Quanzhen Sect, and there has always been a saying that "Xuanwu is on duty in Wudang on the day and stays in Qiyun at night". During the years of Ming Jiajing and Wanli, the Taoist Jiangxi Longhushan Zhengyi sect of Zhang Zhenren's ancestors was ordered to stay in Qiyun Mountain for three generations, build Taoist temples, improve Taoist rules, and incense became increasingly popular, and gradually became the center of Taoist activities in Jiangnan.
The Taoism of Qiyun Mountain is a living fossil of typical Ming Dynasty Taoism, and its Taoist deity offerings and Taoist style, and most of the stone carvings we see are also from the Ming Dynasty. The Characteristics of Taoism in the Ming Dynasty were highly secularized, with the harmony of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
In the third year of Ming Jiajing (1524), after the emperor sent Wang Tianguan (Wang Taiyuan) to Qiyun Mountain to seek the apparition of the heir, he believed in Taoism and the Jiajing Emperor built the "Xuantian Taisu Palace". A large number of palaces, such as the "Jade Void Palace" and the "Dongtian Fudi Ancestral Hall", were also completed with the support of the imperial court. However, the teachings of this period did not develop much, so the status of Qiyun Mountain was increasingly degraded in the Qing Dynasty, and the incense was gradually declining, losing the style of the "fairy city" of the past.
Taisu Palace was built during the Baoqing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, and was later named after the Jiajing Emperor who asked for a spiritual experience here, and became the first royal dojo in Jiangnan.
Taisu Palace is facing north in the south, Drum Peak in the east, Zhong Feng in the west, Yuping Peak in the middle, the three peaks are connected in the shape of a "mountain", the main hall is like a crossed chair, the left green dragon and the right white tiger. At the back of the hall, five mountain springs converge in front of the hall, which coincides with the auspicious "five waters to the hall and one water out", and the dojo ceremonies are held here. The original was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt in 1994 as it was.
The Yuxu Palace was built under the Purple Cliff during the Ming Zhengde period, raised by the Taoist Wang Taiyuan, and consisted of three stone workshops: "Taiyi Zhenqing Palace", "Jade Void Que" and "Zhishi Renwei Palace". There are reliefs of sacred birds and beasts in the stone square, and the palace is a natural stone cave. Lasting nearly ten years, it is the most complete Ming Dynasty building preserved in Qiyun Mountain, dedicated to Emperor Zhenwu. Each of the idols enshrined in the cave has Taoist legends about the gods.
The ancient stele in front of the palace, which is seven meters high and one meter wide, is inscribed with the "Zixiao Palace Xuandi Ming", which was composed by Tang Yin, a talented son of Jiangnan, with a total of 1024 characters.
In addition to the 108 Taoist palaces, halls, courtyards, altars, and pavilions on Qiyun Mountain, there is also a street called Yuehua Street, which is the essence of Qiyun Mountain. For example, from the three-day gate at the east end of Yuehua Street to the Dongyang Taoist Temple at the west end of the street, it happens to be a C-shaped arc, like a crescent moon, looking down on Yuehua Pond from the front of the ruins of Yuehua Street,
Yuehua Street is actually a small ancient village, formed in the Song Dynasty, most of the villagers are descendants of Taoist monks, and there are now more than 30 villagers. The Taoist temple and the houses on the street are adjacent, the cigarettes and cooking smoke are intertwined, and the Taoist practice and folk life are integrated, which perfectly interprets the taoist orthodox school's concept of "cultivation in the earthly world, the earthly world is cultivation", and is known as the first village of Taoism in China.
Located under the Changsheng Building on Yuehua Street, Xiaohutian is a stone workshop of the Ming Dynasty. After entering the door, there is a grotto, and on one side of the grotto is the abyss of ten thousand heavens, which is said to be the place where the Taoist priests ascended into immortals. The top wall of the stone chamber has many patterns, which can be touched by the reach, and it is believed that it is a dinosaur fossil.
Qiyun Mountain watched the sunrise
Taste of Qiyun Mountain (Huizhou).