The place where Emperor Zhenwu ascended, the place where Zhang Sanfeng opened the sect, and the world's first immortal mountain - Wudang Mountain
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Known as the holy land of Taoism in China, Zhang Sanfeng founded the sect here, and it is famous for the status of the five mountains of the four famous mountains and the five peaks of the Five Immortals.
Here together with the Yangtze River, Lijiang, and other scenic spots, it was selected as the top ten scenic spots in China that Europeans liked, and the top ten summer resort mountains in China, such scenic spots are naturally also national 5a-level scenic spots, which were named Dayue by the emperor that year, honored as the Royal Family Temple, and were selected as the most beautiful geological parks in the country.
Wudang Mountain is located in Danjiangkou City, Hubei Province, as early as the Han Dynasty here is the place of refuge in qiuxian Qingdao, from the Tang Dynasty began to be valued by successive emperors, the title of Wudang, at this time Wudang Mountain began to be known to the world, the reputation is prominent.
Wudang Mountain is the birthplace of Taoist famous mountains and Wudang martial arts, listed as the Seventy-two Blessed Lands, when Zhang Sanfeng founded the Wudang Sect here, worshipped the Zhenwu Emperor as the main god, and advocated the unity of the three religions.
The entire Wudang Mountain has more than 50 ancient buildings, covering an area of more than 200,000 square meters, and preserving more than 5,000 pieces of various cultural relics.
Wudang Mountain shows its transcendence from its geographical location, where the peaks are lined up, protruding in the middle, standing on the summit here, as if in a fairyland, the other has nothing to do with me, in line with the Taoist Taoist natural thought.
Wudang Mountain's Taihe Temple in the south of Tianzhu Peak, covering an area of more than 80,000 square meters, the entire building is on the lone peak, here is the highest resort of Wudang Mountain, as long as you climb the peak into the Taihe Temple, it is considered to be the true sense of Wudang Mountain, the Ming Dynasty's Yongle years ordered the construction of Taihe Temple.
Nanyan is the holy land of the true Wude Dao ascension, is the most beautiful place in the entire Wudang Mountain 36 Rocks, here was built in the Yuan Dynasty, the existing buildings have 21, covering an area of more than 90,000 square meters, the Flying Cliff near the Nanyan Palace is very worth a visit, the path can reach the top of the mountain all the way, looking at the distance here, the beauty of the mountain can be seen, the legend of the True Wu Emperor cultivated here for decades to become a immortal.
Runaway Valley is one of the more famous natural landscapes of Wudang Mountain, with a wide variety of animals, and is also the location of Jackie Chan's kung fu dream.
And there will be two times a day to stage a wonderful martial arts performance, if the donkey friends come here to bring food, the monkeys will take the food unceremoniously, and will thank you, if you do not bring food, some naughty will ask you like children.
Wudang Mountain is the first mountain in Chinese Taoism, and it is said that in ancient times, Emperor Zhenwu ascended here, and Wudang immediately means "non-true martial arts are not enough".
Since ancient times, it has been the ideal place for Taoists to pursue a fairyland, and there have been Daoists in the Wudang Mountains who have cultivated intensively, such as Zhou Zhi Yin Xi, Han Zhi Yin Changsheng, Jin Xie Yun and Yin Rail, Liu Qiu of the Southern Dynasty, Lü Chunyang of Tang, Silent Ranzi of Song, Zhang Sanfeng of Ming, and so on.
Since the establishment of Taoism in the Eastern Han Dynasty, successive emperors have held sealing ceremonies in Wudang Mountain several times, and Wudang Mountain has become increasingly famous. During the reign of Tang Zhenguan (627-649), emperor Taizong of Tang sent Yao Jian, an official from Junzhou, to wudang mountain to pray for rain, and later built the "Five Dragon Ancestral Hall" at Lingying Peak in Wudang. Since then, successive emperors have strongly respected the true martial god of Wudang Mountain and worshipped it as the god of the Sheji family.
During the Ming Dynasty, Wudang Mountain was enfeoffed by the emperor as Dayue and Xuanyue, and its status was above the Five Mountains.
Wudang Mountain has thousands of mountains, strange peaks and sagas, and rolling hills, both the majesty of Mount Tai and the danger of Mount Hua. The main peak Tianzhu Peak, more than 1,600 meters above sea level, surrounded by seventy-two peaks, thirty-six rocks, twenty-four streams, eleven caves, three pools, nine springs, ten pools, nine wells, ten stones, nine platforms and other scenic spots, beautiful scenery, magnificent momentum, known as "Ten Thousand Mountains to Come To The Dynasty", constitute a natural Danqing picture scroll.
Wudang Mountain not only has beautiful natural scenery, but also the ancient buildings on the mountain make it unique. The Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties all built a Taoist palace on Wudang Mountain with a grand scale and huge projects. Most of the existing buildings are relics of the Ming Dynasty, and their grand scale and exquisite skills are rare in the famous mountains of China and even in the world.
According to historical records, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di believed in Taoism, and during the Yongle period, he ordered Guo Jin and others to lead 300,000 people to enter wudang mountain and build a large number of civil engineering, which lasted more than ten years, from the Jingle Palace in the city of Junxian (now Danjiangkou City) to the Golden Peak of Tianzhu Peak, stretching for 70 kilometers, and built a complete set of 33 buildings with complete and majestic connections, such as Jingle Palace, Ying'en Palace, Yuxu Palace, Zixiao Palace, Nanyan Palace, Jade Dragon Palace, Yuzhen Palace, Taihe Palace, Fuzhen Temple, and Yuanhe Temple.
The whole building makes full use of the characteristics of the Wudang Mountain, the palace is built in the appropriate position between the peaks, peaks, slopes, rocks and streams, the layout is exquisite, so that the architectural group is dense and suitable, can be described as "five miles and one nunnery and ten miles palace, Dan Wall Biwa Wang Linglong", with the strange cliffs and valleys of the mountain as a background, both mighty and mysterious, there is a Jade Yu Qiong Lou's Immortal Mountain mood.
The Golden Hall, located on the tianzhu peak of the main peak of Wudang Mountain, was built in the fourteenth year of Ming Yongle (1416) and is the largest bronze gilded hall in China. The Golden Hall is 5.5 meters high, 5.8 meters wide and 4.2 meters deep, and on the throne in the middle of the hall is enshrined the bronze gilded statue of Emperor Zhenwu, which is 1.8 meters high and weighs about 10 tons. A gilded pearl hangs from the algae well, known as the "Wind Shelter Fairy Pearl".
It is said that this orb can suppress the mountain wind and cannot be blown into the temple door to ensure that the lamp in the temple is extinguished for a long time.
Outside the hall is a white jade balustrade, and under the platform is the Purple City, which is about 1,500 meters long. Zixiao Palace is the main palace of Wudang Mountain, but also one of the most complete preserved buildings, the temple is divided into four, in order of dragon and tiger hall, ten square hall, purple xiao hall and parent hall, one of the pair of "iron tree blossom" lamps, decorated with dragon phoenix, peacock, flower leaves, can be called a masterpiece.
Wudang Mountain integrates the beautiful and magical natural scenery, colorful cultural landscape and magnificent and mysterious ancient architecture, coupled with the profound Taoist culture, rich myths and legends, and exquisite Wudang martial arts, which still conveys the ancient Chinese cultural atmosphere, worthy of "the world's unparalleled victory, the world's first immortal mountain." ”
Everyone will have a martial arts dream in their hearts, sword and light sword shadow, happiness and revenge, here you can appreciate the heroic deeds of Wudang Zhang Sanfeng and his disciples. The ancient architectural complex here embodies the industrious wisdom of the ancient working people, and can be described as the relics of the Qin Emperor Han Wu, which is rare in previous dynasties.