On the Tai (Thai) Mountain in April,
Shihei Imperial Road opens.
Six dragons over ten thousand ravines,
涧谷随萦回。
Flying streams■,
The water is in a hurry and the sound is lamenting.
The gate of heaven roared,
The breeze is coming.
This quatrain was composed by Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty of China, who ascended Mount Tai in April of the first year of Tianbao (742 AD). It shows the strange mountains of Mount Tai, the strange water, the trees have "sound", and the scenery is beautiful. Mount Tai in eastern China, known as Daishan in ancient times, is also known as "Daizong". Located in the central part of Shandong Province, entrenched between Jinan, Licheng, Changqing and Tai'an, with a total area of more than 420 square kilometers and an altitude of 1545 meters, it is majestic and high, magnificent, beautiful scenery, and enjoys the "exclusive respect of the five mountains, the length of the five mountains"
of honors.
Mount Tai has wonderful natural scenery and splendid cultural relics. It has always been valued by emperors of various dynasties and favored by literati and writers of all dynasties. At the beginning of many emperors' accession to the throne, or when they went out to hunt, most of them went to Mount Tai to pray and sacrifice.
If it is a peaceful and prosperous world, it will come here to hold a ceremony of sealing Zen. The literati of the past dynasties left countless poems praising Mount Tai
Essays, inscriptions, or travelogues.
Mount Tai gradually rises from south to north, there are three significant steps, the three heavenly gates of Mount Tai, namely the red gate, the middle heaven gate and the south heavenly gate are arranged on the top of the three steps, running through the top and bottom.
The first scenic spot of Mount Tai is Dai Temple, also known as Tai Temple, located in the north of Tai'an City at the southern foot of Mount Tai, it is the place where the ancient emperor came to Mount Tai to seal the Zen sacrifice and hold the ceremony. Dai Temple is a palace-like complex of buildings in the Forbidden City. Dai temple inscription is lined up, the real grass is attached to the seal, the style is complete, the style is different, and it is the culmination of Chinese calligraphy art. "Tianguan Palace" is the main building of Dai Temple, carved beams and painted buildings, heavy eaves octagonal, painted bucket arches, yellow tile cover top, golden splendor; under the heavy eaves of the ground, eight big red pillars are lined up in a word, there are wind chimes hanging at the four corners of the eaves, the breeze blows, jingle as a ring, pleasant to the ear.
The portrait of the Emperor of Dongyue is hung in the middle of the temple of the temple. On the north, east and west walls, there is a huge mural, called "Qi Ji Hui Luan Tu", 62 meters long, 3.3 meters high, with the pen of the dragon and phoenix to depict the grand occasion of the Dongyue Emperor's patrol. The eastern part is the "Enlightenment Map", and the western part is the "Huiluan Map". The mural is said to be a masterpiece of the Song Dynasty, the scene is large, the content is wide, it is really rare, it is an ancient art treasure.
Out of the south gate of the Heavenly Palace, follow the steps to the south for the Ren'an Gate, with the Heavenly Gate. There is a courtyard on the east side of Ren'an Gate, which used to be the "East Imperial Seat", also known as the "Welcome Hall", which was the place where the emperor came to rest and change clothes and hold banquets when he came to worship Mount Tai in the past. Now there are cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings related to Mount Tai and sacrifices of the past dynasties, among which the lion along the incense, Wen Qiongyu and the yellow and blue glazed porcelain gourd are the most eye-catching, known as "the three treasures of Mount Tai". Out of the north gate of the Heavenly Palace, there are three sleeping palaces in the middle, east and west. After Zhao Heng named the Dongyue Emperor as the "Dongyue Great Qiren Holy Emperor", he thought that if he was the "emperor", there should be a "queen", so in the fifth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1112 AD), he imagined three "Shuming Queens" for the "Dongyue Great Qiren Holy Emperor", and established these three dormitories as the places where the queen and concubine lived. The bronze pavilion behind the Tianzhen Hall was cast and built for the 43rd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. Together with the copper pavilions in Beijing, Kunming, and Wudang Mountain in Hubei, this copper pavilion is known as the four major copper pavilions in China.
In the Han Bai Courtyard, the vigorous and upright Han Cypress tree, the body of the tree is knotted and towering, if the dragon is swirling, although the skin is peeled off and the heart is withered, but it is followed by new branches, the ancient and lush, very amazing. According to legend, this cypress tree was planted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty when Liu Che ascended Mount Tai, and it has been more than 2,100 years ago.
Enter the mountaineering portal "Dai Zongfang", go up a short distance and turn east, you will see an ancient building surrounded by red walls and covered by cypress. This is the "Queen Mother Pool", which was called "Qunyu Nunnery" in ancient times and "Yao Pond" in the Tang Dynasty.
Follow the stone steps up, the front is the queen mother's hall, the east and west have matching rooms, and the bronze statue of the queen mother is enshrined in the hall. The west side house was originally the house of the Taoist priest, the east side room is "Guanlan Pavilion", under the pavilion is a deep stream, the waterfall rings and the spring sounds, go along the prestige, but see the Hushan Reservoir Dam waterfall rolling down, like plain brocade, the pearl hangs upside down. There is a water bay down the river, the name is "Qiu Zai Bay", the water of the bay is clear, and it is called the washing tiger.
The east of the pavilion is the Feiqiu Ridge, and it is said that Lu Dongbin once inscribed a poem behind the stone wall, and often bowed to the poem when he saw it. One night, Lu Gong came here again, waved his pen and pointed his forehead, and he turned into a dragon and left. There is a natural stone cave under the ridge, the name is "Lu Zu Cave", there is a statue of Lu Dongbin stone carving in the hole, it is said that this hole was originally the place of Lu Dongbin alchemy. Walk into the backyard from the east corner gate of the Queen Mother Pond and see a pavilion again, the pavilion is built high, it is said that it is the place where the eight immortals gather, the name says: "Yuexian Pavilion". Pavilion is north for the Seven True Palace, this hall is the building of the Ming Dynasty, there are eight immortal colored statues in the hall, the image is realistic, the shape is beautiful, there is the name of the plastic. There are the ruins of the temple of the old monarch temple on the west side of the queen mother pool, there are two stone tablets here, also known as the mandarin duck stele, there are words on all sides, the words have four or five layers, the calligraphy is different, it is the inscription of the celebrities of the Tang and Song dynasties, it is one of the famous stone tablets of Mount Tai. About 500 meters away from the north side of the Queen Mother Pond, there are several arches such as the Gate of Heaven, the Heavenly Steps, and the Confucius Landing Place stand in turn, known as the "Fang Group".
After the group square, it is the Red Gate Palace. The palace is divided into two courtyards, the east courtyard is called "Maitreya Courtyard", the main hall is three, there is the Buddha statue inside; the main hall of the west courtyard worships the statue of Bixia Yuanjun. This kind of mixed phenomenon of Buddhism and Taoism coexisting, is a characteristic of Mount Tai. The name of the east pavilion of the Red Gate Palace is "Dressing Pavilion". In the past, feudal officials went to the mountains, and they all changed their civilian clothes here and moved forward by the mountains. Not far from the east across the stream, there is a Tang monument erected by the empress Wu Zetian in the first year of the Tang Dynasty (685 AD).
Out of the Red Gate Palace, go up the stairs, pass through the Wanxian Building, that is, reach the holy place of self-cultivation that is regarded by the ancients as the holy place of self-cultivation - Doumu Palace, also known as "Miaoxiang Temple". Because the dragon spring water surrounds the palace waterfall and hangs the pavilion, it is also called "dragon spring view". The current building was rebuilt in the 21st year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty. The southeast side of the palace has "Jiyun Tower" and "Tingquan Mountain House", the long corridor turns, faces the mountain and the water, is the best place to enjoy the scenery. To the east of the palace, the middle stream water flows through three sections of cliffs in a row, forming three small waterfalls and three small stone pools. The water splashes the waves, makes a pleasant sound, and is full of emotion, which is called "three pools of waterfalls". Outside the palace gate, there is a plant of ancient acacia planted in the Ming Dynasty, the trunk is thick and three circumferential, one of its branches is prostrate on the stone beam, about 10 meters, folds and rises, heads up outside the sky, resembles Wolong, so it is called "Wolong Huai", also known as "Mother and Son Huai". The front hall of the Doumu Palace originally had the statue of the Doumu. "Doumu" is the name of the goddess believed in Taoism, that is, "the great sage Yuanjun of the congenital Doumu", which is said to be the mother of the Big Dipper. The apse is dedicated to the statue of Guanyin, and it is also a temple in the miscellaneous places of Buddhism and Taoism. According to the "Little History of Mount Tai", this place used to be inhabited by nuns.
From the Doumu Palace through the northeast, it is the famous Jingshiyu. On the south side of Jingshiyu is the "Alpine Flowing Water Pavilion", and there is a large stone slope of nearly 0.6 hectares nearby, and the Diamond Sutra is engraved on the slope, and the characters are as big as a bucket. There is flowing water flowing over the stone slope beside the pavilion, the scenery is peculiar, and there is a poem that says:
The gate of heaven poured a curtain of rain,
After the burning, the spirit is thousands of years old.
This poem is very vividly written about the mountain springs here, the flowing water here, and the peculiar stone carvings here......
of all kinds of landscapes. Turn over the Huimaling, circle around the mountain road, in front of it is the "Zhongtian Gate", also known as the "Ertian Gate". It leans on Zhongxi Mountain in the east and Phoenix Ridge in the west, and is the intersection of the two mountaineering routes in the middle and west. From here, you can take the aerial cable car straight up to the South Heavenly Gate.
From Dai Zongfang all the way to the north, to the South Tianmen, winding for more than 20 kilometers, there are many places of interest and historic sites along the way, which is dizzying. Halfway through, it passed through the famous Taishan "Eighteen Plates", and the eighteen plates were 79 plates in the whole process, totaling 1633 levels. The middle is bounded by Shengxian Fang, the south of the fang is "slow eighteen plates", the north of the fang is "tight eighteen plates", and the middle is "unhurried eighteen plates". After climbing the slow eighteen plates, that is, to ascend to the immortal fang, the legend of the ascending immortal fang is the dividing line between the world and "heaven". As soon as a person passes the Ascending Immortal Fang, he will become an immortal. The latter section of the mountain road is the most difficult, known as the "cloud ladder", also called "tight eighteen plates", is the most difficult section of Mount Tai.
After walking the eighteen plates, looking back and looking at the eighteen plates, it is like the "ladder of heaven" hanging on the chest of Mount Tai, and like a thin white belt hanging under the South Heaven Gate, floating in the deep valley, which is extremely spectacular. The top of the eighteen plates is the Nantian Gate, also known as the Three Days Gate, which is the end of the road to Mount Tai. The door was built in the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1264 AD), the door is inscribed with the three words "Mokong Pavilion", and the door couplet wrote:
The door fetish is nine heavens, and the holy miracle of three days is walked up;
The steps are ten thousand steps, overlooking the wonders of a thousand mountains.
It is not difficult to see from this couplet that the towering and steep Nantianmen, only by going up can you enjoy the holy relics of Mount Tai, and only after climbing without fear of hardships, can you look down on the wonders of Mount Tai. In the south gate of "nine days of clouds", the yellow tile and red wall are quite spectacular, and it is the symbol of Mount Tai.
Out of the South Gate of Heaven, that is, to the north end of the Heavenly Street of Daiding. The heavenly street is bordered by the cliff in the north, and the deep valley in the south, and there are many inscriptions of the past dynasties on the cliff. Tianjiefang is built on the mountain of more than 1000 meters above sea level, the shape is unique, three doors and four pillars, four pairs of stone lions are carved delicately and expressively, and the top of the four pillars is higher than the top ridge, carved as the style of "Huabiao", it is the unique archway on Mount Tai. Starting from Tianjie, passing through Qingyun Cave, Elephant Trunk Peak, and Baiyun Cave, "stepping on the clouds and watching the scenery, such as being in the clouds and mist, you can experience the feeling of soaring clouds and fog in mythology".
Daiding famous spot Bixia Temple, is the place where you must pass through to the Jade Emperor Peak, this is the temple that worships Bixia Zhenjun, built when Song Shenzong Dongfeng Taishan was sealed. The original name was "Zhaozhen Temple", the full name was "Zhaozhen Temple", and the Ming Dynasty changed its name to "Bixia Lingyou Palace". In the past, it was also a place where good men and women came here to worship "Grandma Taishan". Bixia Temple is rich and magnificent, and there is a bronze statue of Bi Yuanjun of Mount Tai goddess in the main hall. Standing in front of the ancestral hall, if the weather conditions are suitable, you will see a kind of "Buddha light". In the fog not far from you, there is a colorful halo, which will reflect your shadow into the halo, and you can also walk in to take a photo, which is the famous Bixia "Baoguang" wonder.
Bixia Temple is a magnificent ancient building complex in Daiding. Not far from the north of Bixia Temple, that is, Tang Mo Cliff, the cliff is 13.3 meters high, engraved with the book "Ji Taishan Ming" written by Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, the font is handsome and majestic, it can be called a good calligraphy. Further up is Mount Tai pole top Tianzhu Peak, because there is a Jade Emperor view built on the peak, also called the Jade Emperor Peak. The Jade Emperor Peak is 1545 meters above sea level and is the highest peak of Mount Tai. Standing on the top of the Jade Emperor overlooking Daixia, "the peaks dotted with dots, galloping and rushing, majestic and endless; ”
There is the Jade Emperor Temple built on the top of the Jade Emperor, there is the top stone in the temple, the word "extreme top" is engraved on it, it is the highest point of Mount Tai. Legend has it that the ancient emperor's sealing ceremony was held here. Outside the Jade Emperor Temple, there is Gongbei Stone or called Exploration Sea Stone, it is a wordless tablet, its height is 6 meters, width is 1.25 meters, thickness is 0.9 meters, the whole word tablet is flat and smooth, very eye-catching. It is not known whether the wordless tablet is a "Qin tablet" or a "Han tablet". There is a sun-viewing pavilion not far from the top of the pole to the east, where you can enjoy the sunrise of Mount Tai, which is known as the wonder of Mount Tai;
To the west, there is a view of the river pavilion, where you can enjoy the magnificent scenery of the sunset, the golden belt of the Yellow River and the jade plate of the sea of clouds. On the top of the Jade Emperor, there are also scenic spots such as Zhanlu Terrace, Sheshen Cliff and Immortal Bridge. Cross the fairy bridge, only to see two cliffs standing opposite each other, the interval is only three or four meters, there are three boulders connected to support the bridge, its scene is really as praised by a poem:
The three stones and two cliffs are broken, and the emptiness is like a knot of green smoke.
猿探雁过应回步，始信危桥只渡仙。
From the South Heavenly Gate to the north fork, you can go to the back stone dock known as "the back garden of Mount Tai". Here the strange peaks are inserted into the sky, and the strange stones are like bamboo shoots, so it is called "bamboo shoot city". Go down the mountain from Daiding, return to Zhongtianmen, go west along the Phoenix Ridge, and then go to the Black Dragon Pond. Here the mountain cliff stands, the waterfall hangs in the air, and it is another beautiful scenery of Mount Tai.
Climb to the flat peak of Mount Tai and see the famous Confucius Rock:
The height of the up, the strength of the drill, can be spoken;
Out of its kind, out of its own, it should be natural.
This not only depicts the towering and transcendent Confucius Rock, but also praises Confucius's character and learning. According to legend, Confucius stood here when he climbed Mount Tai and exclaimed "Mount Tai and the world is small". Later generations called the place where Confucius stood "Confucius Rock", and engraved "Confucius Small World Place".
Mount Tai carved stone is also rare for famous mountains at home and abroad. From the Qin and Han dynasties to the Northern Qi, Wei, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the monuments are like forests, and the literati gather. Although the stele has undergone more than 2,000 years of changes, more than 1,000 have survived. Each of them uses different schools of calligraphy and ingenious carving techniques to jointly organize this splendid and colorful "Chinese Calligraphy Art Exhibition".
Mount Tai really has the wonder of Yellow Mountain, the beauty of Wuyi Mountain, the steepness of Huashan, the waterfall of Kuanglu,
衡岳的云烟和雁荡的嶙峋……
Mount Tai is a high unity of humanistic beauty and natural beauty, and is a symbol of the Chinese nation.