"Three Purples" is the abbreviation of the name of the three mountains, located in the territory of Huating Town, Chengxiang District, Putian City. From east to west, the arrangement is Ziyun Mountain (767.4 meters above sea level), Ziwei Mountain (685.2 meters above sea level), and Zixia Mountain (also known as Purple Hat Mountain, 558.4 meters above sea level). The names of these three mountains have different names in different eras, the Song Dynasty called Yunfeng Mountain, Yunping Mountain and Purple Hat Mountain, collectively known as "Santai Mountain", because of its "strange stone towering, four hours purple" name. "Lingyun" means high into the clouds.
From putian City out of the south gate, along the Fuxia Highway west for more than 20 miles, after crossing the Seti Bridge, looking north, you will see the three big mountains standing majestically on the banks of Mulan Creek - "Three Purple Mountains". These three mountains are very different from the surrounding mountains. Three mountains sit side by side, the mountain is tall and wide, and the size is comparable. The mountain color is purple and green, lush and faint, and the peak is inserted into the green netherworld, exuding a solemn and extraordinary spirit, just like three huge gods standing on top of the earth. The people on the Three Purple Mountains are covered with mist and reflect the blue streams, and the people who look up in front of the mountain can't help but exclaim: "This is really a good mountain and river that is born!" ”
In the face of the mountains and rivers here, people may wonder: some of the surrounding mountains are red, some are white, why are all three purple? According to geological exploration, the rocks of these three mountains are composed of a purple-gray rhyolite and tuff, which were formed by the eruption of underground magma about 100 million years ago. These eruptions contain more iron, and the material composed of low-cost iron molecules is blue-gray, and due to the action of low-cost iron molecules, the minerals here "dye" the rocks purple-gray. According to the principles of painting and aesthetics, purple gray gives people a high and distant vision and a dignified and expensive aesthetic.
These three huge mountains towering in front of you are already moving enough to surround people's dreams, but it is far more than that. The name of the scene is "Three Purple Clouds", which shows that the Three Purple Mountains at the time of The Clouds are more impressive. During the period when earthquakes were frequent in Putian, according to the county records, before and after each earthquake, five-colored clouds would occur in the sky. The "Three Purple Mountains" are like three giant earthquake forecasting stations, warning the villagers that the sky will fall on the land of Si, and they must take precautions to flee as soon as possible. Common sense tells us that this is an anomalous celestial phenomenon that occurs during an earthquake - the seismic cloud effect. But at that time, people believed that the mountain god appeared to save the world.
However, the vast majority of the scenery of the Three Purple Mountains shrouded in Caixia was not a harbinger of an earthquake. That kind of color is usually in the morning or evening, that is the usual morning and evening glow. Because there are waters before and after the Three Purple Mountains, that is, on both the north and south sides. The former is The Mother River of Putian, Mulan Creek, and the latter is Juxi Creek, which flows down from the Nine Carp Lake. In addition, the trees on the mountain and down the mountain are luxuriant, and the rising water vapor is very rich. In addition, it is not far from the sea area of Xinghua Bay, and when the east wind blows, the water vapor of the sea will also enter along the Mulan Creek Gorge. The Three Purple Mountains are the highest in terms of altitude within a radius of tens of miles, and the water vapor blown into the stream and gorge is blocked by the mountains, and a large number of them are concentrated here, forming clouds. In the morning or evening, these clouds are exposed to low angles of sunlight, which will form a beautiful view of morning and evening glow. This is just ordinary weather, and it may be seen elsewhere. Although it looks good, it is rarely distinctive.
Every morning after the rain, the air pressure is high and low, the sky is boundless, the clouds fall to the ground, and in the south of the Three Purple Mountains, a thick blue-white smoke cloud is dragged on the ground in the narrow Mulan Creek Canyon, wrapped around the foothills of the Three Purple Mountains, sparse and dense villages, high and low forest peaks, all faintly hiding in that smoke cloud. At that time, I saw the Three Purple Mountains standing majestically under the firmament, with a deep blue sky overhead, overlooking the vast human world. At this time, this scene is like "three mountains on the sea", just like in the vast sea of smoke, suddenly erecting three Optimus Prime, at this time the mountain appears closer, the mountain face is particularly clear, the stone and tree on the mountain can be seen clearly, even the pedestrians on the mountain road can be recognized. At that time, the people living under the Three Purple Mountains, when they got up early and opened the door, they would take a breath and say, "The Three Purples are in the clouds!" "And will beckon all neighbors to come out and admire." The author in the Putian Twenty-Four Scenes embedded in the name of the link: "Three Purple Lingyun" is to write such a scene: "Three peaks high inserted nine Xiaozi, Ling Shuping dragging ten liyun".
There is also a magical legend about the Three Purple Mountains. It is said that there are three mountain gods in the Three Purple Mountains, who have been cultivating for thousands of years, reading poetry and books, and become three brothers, pretending to be three scholars. He entered Beijing and passed the third and third places in the examination. But the three mountain gods are arrogant and arrogant, unconvinced of each other, and love is higher than high. As a result, the three mountains became higher and higher in the continuous comparison, and the peaks reached the heavenly court. When the Jade Emperor saw that this was still possible, he sent Lü Dongbin to use his sword to cut off their hills. These three hills fell in front of the mountain and became the three villages of Hutou, Zhentou and Yuantou. The top of the mountain was split into a platform, so it was named "Santai Mountain". Nowadays, there is also a "Sanyuan Society" in the north of the Seki Bridge, which is dedicated to these three mountain gods who have won the "third and first", and the incense is very strong.
Guo Shangxian, a famous minister and great calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, praised the "Title of the Three Purple Mountains":
Looking at the dust of the column from a distance, the peaks stretched out and opened.
Distant to the turtle peak low ten thousand valleys, high suspension pole three platforms.
The desolate sunset takes the white clouds with it, and the towering green comes towards the red sun.
It is like the purple shoots of the heavenly spirit, and the immortals remember Penglai overseas.
There are many scenes worth watching in the Three Purple Mountains, such as the Turtle Mountain Temple is a unique place, and visiting the Three Purple Mountains to the Turtle Mountain Temple is equal to the White Tour.
The name of Guishan Temple has been passed down through the ages, and it is admired only because there are two extraordinary founding ancestors here: Zen Master Wu and Zen Master Hui Zhong. The legendary story of "arduous pioneering and dedicated cultivation" has attracted generations of people. It is true that "the temple is not big, but the name of the high monk" is the name.
There are two roads on the south side and southeast of kameyama temple. To the south, the Setung Highway is on the north fork of Huating Houtang Village, and there is a cement road that can be directly reached by car. If you hike, you can follow the ancient Shilei Mountain Road, and you can also reach it on the fifteenth mountain. To the east, from the west side of Guanghua Temple, up the gentle slope, it can also be reached for more than 20 miles. This is the path that no ancestor took when he opened the mountain.
Without a Zen master, Emperor Dezong of Tang was born in the fourth year (788) of the Shen clan in Hengtang, Huangshi, Putian. At that time, Putian Buddhism was prevalent, and Hushan had eighteen courtyards and thirty-six rocks. When he was seven years old, he followed his father to Baizhongyuan, one of the eighteen courtyards, and when he arrived, he did not want to go home and worked as a maid in the hospital. At the age of eighteen, he was ordained at Lingyan Temple (present-day Guanghua Temple). Soon after, he went north to seek enlightenment, first visiting gonggong mountain in Jiangxi, which had been expounded by the great silent Zen master MaZu, and then stationed at Baizhang Mountain to learn the Tao with Mazu Gaozu Huaihai Zen master. Huai Hai created the "Hundred Zhangs Qing Rules", advocating the combination of agriculture and Zen, not sitting in meditation, "not doing one day, not eating for a day". There is no way back to the Lingyan Temple, and the Lingyan is the Pure Land Sect. There is no wish to find another holy place, to establish a Zen temple. One day he climbed the mountain and went west, when the area was "like a sea of clouds, vines and roses, wolves and tigers have burrows, and trees have no path." "Climbing without a hazel, climbing over the mountains, I saw a six-eyed giant turtle and four small turtles in one place, and I saluted Wu ji again and again. There is no Bu Ding Bi ji di, determined to build a temple here. He filled his hunger with wild vegetables on the mountain, and used an eighteen-pound iron hoe to "hoe a Buddha" to hard reclaim a turtle ocean. At the same time, there is no story of driving tigers and saving deer in the grass temple, and the road is vast.
After a few years, the no-do line gradually became known to the world, and its temple was recognized by the government as "Kameyo-an". This is the earliest name of Kameyama-ji Temple. At that time, Chen Jushi of Xianyou (now Bangtou Kuntou) sent a nine-year-old child to be a boy without a beard, and after shaving, he was called Hui Zhong. Since then, the two masters and apprentices have worked hard every day to build a mountain with "bitter rice" and "full and fast" (eating a meal of wild vegetables in the early morning). Since then, the name of "Guiyang Ii Bodhisattva Monk" has not gone away, and the monks who come to vote for the name and the tanshin who are sincerely funded have increased day by day. Fan Yu gradually expanded, and there were more than 100 people living in the crowd. But the good times were short-lived. In the fifth year of Emperor Wuzong of Tang's reign, the emperor set off a campaign to destroy The Buddha and destroy the monks, which was the most serious legal difficulty of the "Three Martial Sects and One Sect" of Chinese Buddhism. The old monk was forced to hide in the homes of lay disciples and keep the Sanskrit practices in secret. Hui Zhong hid in a cave in the mountains, still full of hunger with bitterness. A year later, Emperor Wuzong died, the temple was restored, and the monks returned to the mountain. When Hui Zhong returned to the nunnery, he had to be cang, and from then on he brought his hair to Zen, no longer draped, and held a vow in white, known as the "Dragon Elephant in Zen". The Second Zen Master led the restoration of Fan Yu and was promoted by the imperial court to the "Guishan Inspiration Zen Temple", which was the first Zen Temple in Central Fujian at that time. After the nirvana of the ancestors, the statue of the body was revered for thousands of years, and unfortunately, the relics of his real body were destroyed by the "Cultural Revolution".
The right way in the world is not helped by demons, and there are many good things to wake up from nightmares. Today, the ancient temple of Guiyang is even more saga, and a seven-story stone pagoda stands in the southwest of the temple, which is hidden in the relics of the dead Monk Dingguang in Malaysia. Climbing the tower can look around the entire scenery of the turtle ocean.
Guiyang is a small plain surrounded by peaks, two miles in circumference, full of springs. Here, large and small mountain springs converge to the stream between the turtle and snake twin peaks, and then run out through the two peaks like lions, and pour down to the cliff on the east side of Ziyun Mountain, "Wan Ling Fei Liu Ru Lian", forming another scenic spot on the Three Purple Mountains - "Xishu Waterfall". "Puyu Jisheng" said: "Puquan water is not one in the name of the waterfall, and Xishu is the most strange." "Or: In ancient times, the Kowloon Pond Dragon flew and spat here, and became a spectacle." Or words: The Nine Immortals travel here, enlighten the Nine Dragons, and the Nine Dragons turn into a thousand stone walls, thus becoming a spectacle. There is a path to find in the middle of the mountain. "Now there are still stone carvings on the stone wall under the Xishu Waterfall: "Thunder" and "Snow Wall".
Visit Kameyama Temple, where the monks will enthusiastically brew you a pot of good tea. This tea is a specialty of Kameyama. At that time, the ancestors used eighteen pounds of iron hoes to open eighteen tea gardens on the mountain. Guishan water and soil rain dew is suitable for growing tea, tea quality is excellent, the Ming Dynasty Yiren guoshi Chen Jingbang once paid tribute to the royal family with Guishan tea, which was highly appreciated, and gave the name "Moon In the Middle of the Moon" - "In the Middle of the Moon" was the title of the Guishan Temple at that time. After experiencing generations of reclamation, the tea garden can be seen in the mountains, and now Guishan Mountain is "fried green", the color is turquoise and clear, the aroma is rich and deep, and it is famous at home and abroad.
Enjoy the scenery of "Three Purple Lingyun", not only see the pleasing scenic spots, but also give people an endless taste of the spiritual civilization of Zhi Zhixing, "Three Purple Lingyun" will be deeply imprinted in the hearts of every tourist.
(Source: Putian Qiao Xiang Times Author: Wang Chen Editor: Huang Bin)