#Record my life#In our youth, we grew up listening to Hong Kong and Taiwan songs and watching Hong Kong and Taiwan movies. At that time, in addition to gunfight movies and martial arts films, there were also ghost movies. In the depths of our memory, it is deeply imprinted with the image of the Maoshan Taoist priest played by Lin Zhengying who exorcises ghosts and demons. We are full of curiosity about the mystery and power of the Maoshan Taoist. In reality, does the Taoist priest of Maoshan really exist?
The unknown will arouse people's strong desire to explore. The seeds of curiosity have long been planted, and it just needs a chance.
On the morning of January 10, 2023, we set off from Zhenjiang and headed for Maoshan.
Maoshan
Maoshan Provincial Temple
Maoshan Scenic Area is located 26 kilometers southeast of Jurong City, Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, 48 miles away from Zhenjiang City, and is located in the hinterland of Nanjing, Zhenjiang and Changzhou. It includes 6 sub-scenic areas and a scenic corridor, with nine peaks, eighteen springs, twenty-six holes, and twenty-eight pools.
The Gate of Wonder
Statue of Lao Tzu
Jiuxiao Wanfu Palace (Ding Palace) is located at the highest point of Maoshan Mountain, and it is also the most influential palace of Maoshan Mountain, and because it is located on the top of the main peak of Maoshan Mountain, it is usually called Ding Palace. The top palace was founded in the Western Han Dynasty after Sanmao Zhenjun ascended to the Tao, and has a history of more than 2,100 years.
Top Palace
mountaintop
Yunkai
The "Immortal Cave" here, also known as the "Penghu Cave", the entrance of the Immortal Cave, is less than 100 meters away from the mountain gate of Yuanfu Palace. Legend has it that in ancient times, there were immortals who practiced in the cave and became immortals, so it was called the "Immortal Cave".
The cave was clogged during the Qing Dynasty and was not reopened to visitors until the 80s of the 20th century. Xianren Cave is a limestone karst cave, formed has a history of more than 65 million years, this cave is 920 meters long, divided into upper, middle and lower three layers, has been developed and utilized for the middle and lower two layers, the length is 208 meters. The temperature here is low all year round, more than ten degrees lower than the outside temperature. Sun Xingyan, a literati of the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem praising this cave: "Weeping milk is sweet and delicious, and the ointment is slippery and difficult to touch." The heart is suspicious and turns to the fairyland, and the wilderness sees the flat land. ”
The main scenic spots in the cave are: Green Ox Playing in the Water, Tongtian River, Immortal Stove, Jiuqu Milky Way, Upper Realm Immortal Book, Benevolence Pool, Moon Bud Lake, Tiansheng Immortal Bridge, Lotus Overhang, Shadow Wall Ruins, Flying Waterfall, Seven-level Floating Slaughter, Lao Tzu's Preaching, Jade Curtain in Sight, Millennium Snow Mountain, etc.
Maoshan Taoist priests have existed in history. Moreover, Maoshan Taoism has two branches in the north and south: the ancestor of South Maoshan is the famous alchemist Ge Hong, and the ancestor of the Taoist priest of North Maoshan is Tao Hongjing. Maoshan Taoist priests belong to the Taoist sect, they can marry wives and have children, and they are not taboo meat.
Here are some legends related to Maoshan Taoists: Maoshan Taoists can drive away evil spirits, cure diseases, divination predictions, etc. Through the cultivation of Taoism and immortal arts, they gained the ability to communicate with the gods.
From Maoshan Scenic Area, we went to Tianmu Lake Scenic Area in Changzhou City.
Tianmu Lake is located eight kilometers south of Liyang City, Changzhou, and is named "Tianmu Lake" because it belongs to the remaining veins of Tianmu Mountain. Around Tianmu Lake, there are many historical and cultural sites: Wuyuan Mountain named after Wu Zixu, a Chu person in the Spring and Autumn Period, Cai Yong, a great writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty, reading platform, Taibai Building, Bao'en Temple, the former site of Longxing Temple, a famous temple in the Tang Dynasty, "the first stone arch dam in the world" and so on.
The weather is still cool during the season, and it is even colder by the water's edge. We gave up the idea of visiting Tianmu Lake and only went to Nanshan Bamboo Sea here.
Tianmu Hunan Shankhut Seascape Area is located in Liyang, Jiangsu Province at the junction of Jiangsu, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces, and is a national 5A-level scenic spot.
Nanshan Bamboo Sea
The Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo sang bamboo poems: "It is better to eat no meat, not to live without bamboo, no meat makes people thin, and no bamboo makes people vulgar." "Let's come to Nanshan Bamboo Sea and also go to some of the fireworks on our bodies.
alley
The scenic spots open to the public in Nanshan Bamboo Sea include: the moon on the dam embankment, the bamboo raft singing, the night camp, the leisure village, the Nanshan Shouquan, the towering ancient trees, etc. Nanshan Bamboo Sea contains the poetry and charm of green mountains and green waters, and is a picturesque and elegant place, with the reputation of "Paradise Nanshan, Dream Bamboo Sea".
Zhuhai
bamboo grove
The theme here is bamboo culture and longevity culture.
The Bamboo Culture Museum covers an area of about 4,000 square meters, and the overall building is divided into two pavilions, and the west side of the museum rests on the promenade, and the overall architectural pattern vividly outlines a "bamboo" shape. The exhibition hall shows us the exquisite expression and lifelike craftsmanship of bamboo carving art, which focuses on the display of yellow bamboo carving, Hui bamboo carving, Jiading bamboo carving, Jinling bamboo carving and other fine arts, among which Huizhou bamboo carving and Jinling, Jiading and called the three major local bamboo carving.
Shou culture is an extension of the cultural connotation of Nanshan Zhuhai. According to the "Book of Shang", it is said: "There are five kinds of blessings, one is longevity, the second is wealth, the third is Kangning, the fourth is good virtue, and the fifth is Zhongbang." The folk believe that Wufu refers to "blessing, Lu, longevity, happiness, and wealth", so even the jade worn is carved with five bats to show auspiciousness, and the "five blessings holding longevity" at the same Shou Cultural Square will also be expressed in the meaning.
Birthday
long life
The "Wu Yue Brother Yifeng" here is "brother" instead of "first", and there is no "bamboo" prefix, because of the bamboo in the mountains. When you reach the top of the mountain, it is "one foot on three provinces", because this is the junction of Jiangsu, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces. There is a big bell on the top of the mountain, for visitors to hit the bell to pray for blessings.
Brother Yifeng
The chicken song village here is located at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces.
Jiming Village
Yitai
Dafudi
Nanshan Zhuhai has specially built a panda pavilion, covering an area of more than 1,000 square meters. When we arrived, the cat was lying on its stomach in the most comfortable position.
Cats
Cats