The Zen of Nanshan in Longkou is mixed with mountains and seas, and it is known as the "first mountain in Donglai" for praying.
For Yantai, Shandong, I am probably familiar with "Yantai Apple". However, after learning about Yantai, I found that not only Yantai apples are the most beautiful symbol of the city, but this coastal city at the junction of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea is the only city in China that won the "United Nations Habitat Award". Surrounded by mountains and seas, Yantai is also a famous historical and cultural city in China. The profound Chinese and Western cultures preserved during the opening period have formed a unique and beautiful seaside style, making Yantai a famous coastal eco-tourism and leisure resort. In Longkou City, Yantai City, there is a national 5A-level tourist attraction-Nanshan Scenic Area, which is called "the first mountain in Donglai". With its rich tourist resources, it has become a world-famous scenic spot of "Blessing Nanshan and Blessing the Holy Land" by combining religion, history and culture.
It may be unfamiliar to everyone in Longkou, but if you mention "Longkou fans", you should be familiar with it. Longkou City belongs to Yantai, which is the county-level escrow city of Yantai City. Nanshan Scenic Spot in Longkou City was called lu shan in ancient times, where the beautiful lakes and mountains in Longkou were located. There were once many temples and incense. Nanshan Scenic Area is located in the south-central mountainous area of Longkou, with a total area of 1.4 square kilometers. The scenic area is divided into three parts: religious cultural park, historical cultural park and Donghai tourist resort, where the world-famous Nanshan Giant Buddha and Nanshan pharmacist Jade Buddha are located. I don't know if Nanshan chose the giant Buddha, or if the giant Buddha took a fancy to Nanshan. Nanshan has once again become the world of Buddhism, and the Buddha's voice is surrounded by the morning bell and the evening drum.
Buddhist culture has had a great influence and function on China culture. After a long period of dissemination and development, it has formed China Buddhist culture with China national characteristics, and has also left a splendid Buddhist cultural heritage in history. In the religious and cultural park of Nanshan Scenic Area, Nanshan Temple, Xiangshui Temple and Lingyuan Temple are all historical buildings left in the Jin and Tang Dynasties. Huayan World, located in the northeast of Nanshan Giant Buddha Square, a scenic spot in Nanshan, was completed in 2119, and a grand opening ceremony was held for it.
Huayan World, also known as Huazang World, is short for Lotus Huazang World, which is the name of the pure land of Buddha Pilu Zena. It covers an area of 115,111 square meters with a building area of 5,511 square meters. The main construction includes three parts: "Five Buddhist temples", "Ode to the King of Medicine Dynamic Music Square" and "Turn the Meridian Corridor". After the completion of the project, Huayan World has added religious and cultural attractions to Nanshan tourist attractions, further increasing the religious and cultural atmosphere and connotation of Nanshan. The dynamic music fountain of Ode to the King of Medicine, which uses sound, light, electricity and machinery to open and close, open, descend and rotate, draws lessons from the artistic characteristics of traditional Buddhist modeling in China and combines modern science and technology.
The brass sculpture with a height of 19.26 meters is divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower parts. The upper part, composed of the pharmacist Buddha and the lotus petal, is a symbol of longevity. In the middle, the shape of medicine pot and lion drum symbolizes the promotion of Buddhism; The lower part is the shape of the twelve gods and Sumeru, which protect human health. The Five-Party Buddha V, which represents the five kinds of wisdom of human beings, is the Buddha in the East, the Buddha in the South, the Buddha in the West, the Buddha in the Lotus World in the North, and the Buddha in the Pilu Zena in the Central China. The four bodhisattvas below are Manjusri Bodhisattva, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, Maitreya Bodhisattva and Guanyin Bodhisattva. They are in charge of great wisdom, great deeds, great goodness and great compassion. The fifth Buddha can eliminate people's five kinds of troubles: greed, anger, stupidity, slowness and doubt.
There are 118 prayer wheels beside the prayer-turning corridor. The prayer-turning wheel is an instrument in Tibetan Buddhism. When Tibetans put scriptures in the prayer-turning wheel, it is equivalent to reciting the scriptures once. The more mantra they hold, the more they show their devotion to the Buddha. The earliest scripture in the prayer wheel is the six-character mantra, and the prayer wheel here is mainly the mantra of the auspicious goddess and the mantra of the pharmacist. Most people will pin their hopes for happiness in the future or their expectations for life on the prayer wheel. People think that prayer wheel is equivalent to chanting scriptures, and it is the best way to repent of the past, eliminate disasters and take refuge, and cultivate merits.
Buddhist culture after thousands of years has always been one of the main beliefs in the hearts of Chinese people. Huayan World perfectly integrates Buddhist art with modern civilization. The wisdom of Buddhism is vast and profound, and the magnificence of art is also the precipitation of years after all. As a tourist, while praying for the holy land in awe, it can also make people realize the cultural connotation condensed in Buddhism, which is the charm of Nanshan Scenic Area.
Longkou Scenic Spots
Longkou City is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Yantai City, Shandong Province, bordering Penglai City in the east, Qixia City and Zhaoyuan City in the south, Bohai Sea in the west and north, and Tianjin and Dalian across the sea. Below I have sorted out the scenic spots and historical sites in Longkou, hoping to help you!
inventory of scenic spots and historical sites in Longkou
Longkou Scenic Spot 1: Nanshan Scenic Spot
Nanshan Scenic Spot is one of the 5A-level scenic spots awarded by the state. It is located in the beautiful Lushan Mountain in Longkou City, and it is an excellent tourist attraction combining natural landscape with human landscape. In 2112, all the tourism enterprises in Nanshan successfully passed the double certification of ISO9111 international quality management system and ISO14111 international environmental management system. The whole scenic spot is divided into four parts: religious cultural park, historical cultural park, theme park and Donghai tourist resort.
Nanshan Tourist Scenic Area is drawing a beautiful view of life with its elegant natural landscape and rich cultural landscape. Knot Lu in the human environment, without the noise of horses and chariots, picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and leisurely seeing Nanshan.
The religious and cultural park in Nanshan Scenic Area consists of Nanshan Ancient Culture Garden, Nanshan Temple, Nanshan Giant Buddha, Xiangshui Temple and Lingyuan Temple. Its scenic spots are all the remains of Jin, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the ancient temple is a thousand years old, which can be described as a resort with a new look. The pavilions, pavilions, corridors, towers and mountain water systems in the ancient buildings are simple and elegant, magnificent and magnificent. The Nanshan Giant Buddha in the scenic spot is a rare tin bronze Buddha sitting in Sakyamuni, with a height of 38.66 meters and a weight of 381 tons, making it the first bronze Buddha sitting in the world. There are Gongde Hall, Wanfo Hall and Buddhist History Museum under the lotus seat of the Giant Buddha. The Ten Thousand Buddhas Hall displays nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine's lifelike bronze Buddha statues, which are isomorphic with the Mahayana Buddha into a grand lineup of ten thousand Buddha statues. The Buddhist History Museum displays the historical records of the rise and prosperity of Buddhist culture, and the museum displays dozens of cultural relics and Buddhist cultural and artistic treasures such as Sakyamuni Buddha relics.
The Chinese Historical and Cultural Park in Nanshan Scenic Area is the only large-scale theme park in China, which started in ancient times and ended in the Qing Dynasty, taking history and culture as the longitude and auspicious culture as the latitude, covering an area of 6 square kilometers. The Chinese Historical and Cultural Park, with different styles of China's major dynasty buildings as the carrier, vividly shows the general situation, important cultural relics, major events and representative figures of 5,111 years' history. According to the requirements of tourism activities, it integrates historical culture, auspicious culture, folk culture, food culture and street culture, showing the profoundness of Chinese civilization and the colorful national culture in an all-round way, just like a vivid general history of China. In July, 2113, the park was named as "Real Scene Base for History Teaching in Middle Schools" and "Patriotism Education Base for Teenagers"
Longkou Scenic Spot 2: Xufu's Hometown
Xufu's Hometown is located in Xufu Village, Jinshan Town, Ganyu District, Jiangsu Province. According to the unearthed cultural relics, Ganyu District belonged to Qi County in the Warring States Period and Lang County in the Qin Dynasty. Thus, Xufu Village, located one kilometer south of Jinshan Township in the north of Ganyu District, Jiangsu Province, is also called Xufu's hometown. Another view is that xu fuzhen (called Xuxiang County in ancient times) and Xu Fu in Longkou today are famous alchemists and great navigators in the Qin Dynasty in the history of China. More than 2,211 years ago, he led thousands of boys and girls, carried all kinds of crops and sailed eastward, creating a precedent of friendship between China, Japan and South Korea, and was admired by the people of China, Japan and South Korea for generations.
Xu Fu's deeds are first seen in the biographies of the first Qin Emperor and Hengshan Mountain in Huainan in Historical Records (called "Xu _" in the biographies of the first Qin Emperor and "Xu Fu" in Hengshan Mountain in Huainan). According to Historical Records, Qin Shihuang hoped to live forever. In 219 BC, Xu wrote that there were three fairy mountains in the sea, Penglai, Abbot and Yingzhou, where immortals lived. So Qin Shihuang sent Xu _ to lead thousands of boys and girls, as well as three years of food, clothing, shoes, medicines and farm tools to the sea to seek immortality, which cost a lot. However, Xu _ led many people to the sea for several years and did not find the sacred mountain. In 211 BC, Qin Shihuang made an east tour to Langlang, and Xu _ excused that he was unable to sail because of the huge obstruction of mackerel after going out to sea, and asked for more shooters to deal with mackerel. Qin Shihuang agreed and sent a shooter to shoot a big fish. Later, Xu Fu led his people out to sea again and came to "Guangze Plain" (probably Kyushu, Japan). He felt that the local climate was warm, the scenery was beautiful and the people were friendly, so he stopped making himself king and taught the local people the methods of farming, fishing, whaling and paper draining, and never came back. Later, all the history books recorded that Xu Fu went to sea, but there were different opinions about where he arrived. Records of the Three Kingdoms, Biography of Wu Shu and Wu Quan, History of the Later Han Dynasty, Biography of the Eastern Han Dynasty and Kuodizhi are recorded as Zhizhou, but the specific location is unknown. After the Five Dynasties,
was Japan, and today's Qin family (an ancient Japanese Dulai family). ) is his descendant, and said that after Xu Fu arrived, he called Mount Fuji Penglai. More than 2211 years ago, Qin Shihuang gained supreme power. In order to enjoy this power permanently, he dreamed of immortality. Therefore, people are constantly sent to seek the immortal medicine. Once, after Qin Shihuang went to Mount Tai for meditation, he passed Longkou, which was also called Huangxian County at that time. Under the arrangement of the local leader, alchemist Xu Fu met the emperor as a local celebrity and continued his investigation with the group. When he arrived in Lang _ (now Jiaonan), Xu Fu officially wrote that there were three sacred mountains in the Bohai Sea, where immortals lived and ate the fairy medicine in the mountains. All of them lived forever, and he was willing to go through fire and water to get the fairy medicine for the emperor. Qin Shihuang was very happy, gave him a lot of gold and silver treasures and told him to go to the sea to seek immortality. But it didn't take long for Xu Fu to come back and say that he saw the immortal, but the immortal didn't think it was a gift, and he needed beautiful children, men and women and various craftsmen's utensils as gifts to get the fairy medicine. Qin Shihuang then sent 511 children and men to the sea with Xu Fu again.
In the second year, Emperor Taishi visited the East again, and dropped in to see Xu Fu. Although he was attacked by an assassin Zhang Liang with a sledgehammer on the way, he still arrived in Lang _ as planned, but unfortunately he didn't see Xu Fu. When he saw Xu Fu again, it was already ten years later, and he was on his third east tour. Chui fook still didn't find the fairy medicine. His explanation is this: I was going to get the fairy medicine, but there was a big fish guarding the fairy mountain at sea, which failed. This time, Qin Shihuang personally led archers to the sea to fight with the big dumpling fish, killed a big shark and went back excitedly. < P > I think it's great now, and Xu Fu can finally get the fairy medicine. However, he still didn't wait for the elixir, and he died on his way back to Xianyang. His men didn't send out mourners in order to usurp the throne. People all over the country didn't know that Xu Fu was riding a tiger for a while without an excuse, so in 211 BC, he crossed the ocean with a mighty team of immortals, looking for the illusory Three Gods Mountain and the panacea. Since then, I have never returned to the Central Plains. Hometown Controversy: On May 6th, there are still two days before the annual Xufu Cultural Festival in Longkou. This is the seventh time. At that time, an unveiling ceremony will be held for two statues of Xu Fu in Xu Fuyuan Square, one of which will be presented to Jizhou Island in South Korea and will stand in the exhibition hall of Xu Fu. Longkou people always think that Xu Fu's hometown should be Longkou.
The Records of the Historian is the earliest record of Xu Fu's deeds. Sima Qian, who was appointed as an official in the reign of Emperor Wudi of the Western Han Dynasty at that time, was only 71 or 81 years away from Xu Fu's crossing to the east. It must be because of the great influence of this incident, so he recorded the grand occasion of seeking immortals in his immortal works: "Xu Fu, a Qi man, and others wrote that there are three sacred mountains in the sea, where immortals live. Please fast, and ask for it with boys and girls. So he sent thousands of Xu Fatong men and women to the sea to ask for immortals. " Sima Qian said that Xu Fu was a neat person.
There is a xu fuzhen in the northwest of Longkou City. The town is named after Xu Fu, the alchemist of Qin Dynasty, and there is a Xugong Temple in the town that imitates the ancient Qin Dynasty. Xu Gong Temple is not big, but a quadrangle with a statue of Xu Fu, and a cultural exchange exhibition between China and foreign countries due to Xu Fu. "There used to be a small temple here, which was commemorated by local people in memory of Xu Fujian. In front of the temple is Xu Gezhuang, which is said to be Xu Fu's hometown. " Li Shuzhi, the manager of Xugong Temple, said. Not many people usually come here to visit, but every time they come, Li Shuzhi will tell tourists so enthusiastically that Longkou is Xu Fu's hometown.
Sima Qian didn't tell Xu Fu's native place. Then why do Longkou people think that Xu Fu's hometown is Longkou? This stems from the record in History of Han Geography: "Donglai County has seventeen counties and Xuxiang." Regarding the origin of Xuxiang, Yu Qin, a scholar who studied the history and geography of Qi in Yuan Dynasty, said in Qi Cheng: "Xuxiang was named after Xu Fu's quest for immortality." Qi Cheng has been promoted as a rare book by historians and is one of the national famous records. "Township" was an administrative regional unit in the Qin Dynasty, while Xuxiang County in the Han Dynasty refers to Huangxian County, and now Longkou City has preserved many relics about Xu Fu. For example, Xu is the most popular surname in Huangxian County; There is a Dengying Village by the Jiangshui River in the east of the city. It is said that when Xu Fudong crossed Yingzhou, he assembled boys and girls from here and set sail. There is a statue of Xu Fu standing on the scenic Di Island, which was originally called Ji Island. It was named after Xu Fudong's temporary placement of his mother on this island. Of course, this is just a legend.
Ganyu-the place where the string songs are sung is the hometown: there is another saying about Xufu's hometown. In June, 1982, Ganyu County, Jiangsu Province (now Ganyu District) conducted a place name survey, and found a natural village named "Xufu" one kilometer south of Beijinshan Township, the county seat. According to the local people, "Xufu" was originally called "Xufu" and was still called "Xufu Village" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. According to the unearthed cultural relics, Ganyu County belonged to Qi in the Warring States Period and Lang _ County in the Qin Dynasty. Thus, Xufu Village, located one kilometer south of Jinshan Township in the north of Ganyu County, Jiangsu Province, is also called Xufu's hometown. At present, there is a lot of debate about these two statements in the field of history, because there is no conclusive evidence, and the debate is not over for a while. But this does not prevent people from commemorating Xu Fu.
Longkou Scenic Spot 3: Xufu Festival
Xufu Village in Jinshan Town (formerly xu fuzhen), Ganyu District, Jiangsu Province is the hometown of Xu Fu, the alchemist of Qin Dynasty. Chui fook (? —? ), namely Xu _ (note, it is "_" [ㄈㄨㄨ] [fu _] instead of "city" [ㄕㄕㄕㄕㄕㄕㄕㄕㄕㄕㄕㄕㄕㄕㄕ1256 In 219 BC, he was sent by Qin Shihuang to Japan with 3,111 children and men, looking for the medicine of immortality. In Japan, he taught agriculture, mulberry and medicine, and became a success.