Fanjing Mountain in Tongren City, Guizhou Province, has been a famous Mountain of Buddhism since ancient times, and since the Ming Dynasty, believers have been like clouds and incense has flourished. In modern times, it has become a famous tourist attraction, and the Internet celebrity punch card place, although 8 of the 10 days on the mountain are cloudy and rainy, but come here
Tourists still flock to the area, with the Red Cloud Dome and Mushroom Stone at Fanjing Mountain being emblematic, and among the many attractions, the two temples on top of the Red Cloud are particularly special.
Built at an altitude of 2572 meters above sea level, the two peaks are connected by a stone bridge, have undergone two damages and two reconstructions, and still stand under the erosion of thousands of years of wind and rain, this is the Fanjingshan Temple, which is
A magical temple known as the "Temple in the Sky".
Legend has it that the original red cloud top was a mountain stone, Shakya and Maitreya at the same time looked at this place, want to cultivate here, because they can't tell each other, can only ask the Jade Emperor to cut, the Jade Emperor waved his hands, the top split into two halves, the left side gave Miller to build a temple, the right side gave Shakya to build a temple, a bridge in the middle is connected, under the bridge is a deep gorge - Golden Knife Gorge, like a knife splitting axe, amazing!
Climbing the Golden Dome of the Red Cloud is a very challenging thing for those who come here. If you want to reach the top, you need perseverance, and you need courage.
Here there is only a narrow 10,000-step ladder, with chains as handrails, cliffs, hands and feet to climb up, some places only allow one person to pass, although the height is not as high as the old golden roof, but the difficulty can be comparable to the long sky boardwalk of Mount Hua.