For Nanjing's emotions, is to go to Meihuashan to see the plum blossoms every spring, in the fall to go to Qixia Temple to see the maple leaves, summer hiding in the shade of the sycamore trees sheltered from the sun, the winter wrapped in a big cotton jacket was frozen straight to shiver. Drink a bowl of small wonton stew, eat a bowl of duck blood vermicelli, chop half a duck, and then a cage of xiao long bao, the impression that all the Nanjing delicious things, are snacks.

Going to the end of last year, I seem to have written about Nanjing, born in Nanjing 20 years, Nanjing feelings have been deep into the life of work and rest and way of thinking.

This time to introduce you to Nanjing, there has been a very popular attractions, but also new attractions in Nanjing Oh!

Every time I see someone write a travelogue of Nanjing, I sigh, why other people's eyes of Nanjing, so good-looking, good to see I have not seen the general, so there is an opportunity to think of Nanjing to go out and play a little more! This time to go to a few places are Plum Blossom Hill, the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, the Great Newspaper Temple, Tangshan Hot Springs, Niushoushan, Museum of Science and Technology (Fu Zi Temple), China Gate Castle (Ming City Wall)! Think about it, this route really covers all the characteristics of the entire city of Nanjing ah!

First, a brief introduction

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1 China Gate Castle

The first stop, it came to China Gate Castle.

Zhonghua Gate is one of the thirteen Ming Dynasty capital city gates of the Ming City Wall of Nanjing, formerly known as the Jubao Gate, is the largest existing city gate in China, and the best-preserved and most complex fortress urn in the world, known as the "world's first urn".

In Nanjing, ah, history has a lot of gates, so there are a lot of allusions and history, China Gate Castle's historical allusions, with its original name of the Jubilee Bowl has something to do with it.

Then the construction process was very rigorous, Zhu Yuanzhang requirements, every place should have the name of the craftsman, because if there are 2 consecutive problems is to be copied.

The city gate was used for defense at that time, and the hiding hole could hide thousands of soldiers. When the enemy came, it would first cause the phenomenon of an empty city, and then open the jack gate, and finally trap the enemy inside the gate, and then the soldiers hiding in the hole could take the opportunity to annihilate the enemy!

The construction of the Jubao Gate gate building when the sudden subsidence of the foundation, the entire gate building collapsed, no way, the craftsmen and repair from scratch, but repair to half of the gate building is still collapsing, Zhu Yuanzhang know about this, so the strategist to fortune-telling, said that the foundation of the city wall has a monster specializing in eating earth to eat the brick of the wall, the need for the city to be buried in the bottom of the Jubao basin in order to suppress, Zhu Yuanzhang is to ask Shen Wansan to be this Jubao basin, and said that it is the time to return at the fifth hour. The five nights of the time to return, but when it comes to the five nights of the time, do not want to return, and then let the night watchman does not play the five nights, so Nanjing has no more five nights of the day!

There is an exhibition hall on the wall, is the exhibition hall of the treasure bowl, there are some peripheral, is available for sale, there are some historical stories and information what, on both sides of the wall.

After the snow, some of the snow has not melted, mottled presence in the shadow of the wall, which is following the 2008, another large area of snow, more or less have written excited.

Da Bien En Temple, outside the China Gate in Nanjing, is the oldest Buddhist temple in Chinese history, built by Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, in honor of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, and Empress Ma, with its golden splendor, is the largest and highest specification of the temple in the history of China, and is the first of the hundred temples.

Here is the puja of the monks of all generations, called the Lotus Pond Sea Fair, and here is exactly where, if you look closely, you will find, along with Zhu Yuanzhang and his son Zhu Di.

City wall, there are a lot of red lanterns, very New Year's atmosphere, it is said that ah, go up the stairs are also built by the old city bricks, it is the former villagers, think it is very good to use, then take home to build a house, and finally expropriated back.

This is the 32nd Qinhuai Lantern Festival in Nanjing, the history of the Qinhuai Lantern Festival is mainly distributed in the Qinhuai River basin in Nanjing, after the 20th century, mainly concentrated in the Fuzimiao area, now has been extended to the "ten miles of the Qinhuai," the east side of the five miles of the lot, the core area, including the Fuzimiao, the Zhanyuan Garden, the Egret Island Park, Wu Jingzi Former residence of Wu Jingzi, Jiangnan Gongyuan, Zhonghua Gate, the old Mendong, Dazhongyen Temple Ruins Park and Zhonghua Road, Pingjiangfu Road, Zhan Yuan Road, Pabi Road area, the outside of the Qinhuai River night tour project from February 11 has been continued to March 26, oh, every evening at 5:30 p.m. to send the boat, the night at 9:30 p.m. to the end of the network ticket price is preferential!

In fact, as early as the beginning of the Southern Dynasties, the capital city of Nanjing had organized the Lantern Festival. In order to pray for good weather, family happiness and peace in the world! Standing by the river we see the Grand Annunciation Temple, which becomes very nice at night, with lights lit up all around. Here is the river section of the China Gate of the cruise ship, before I was unbelievable, you can actually do a cruise ship from the Fuzimiao to the Qinhuai River, I did not think it is really possible!

2 Great Newspaper Temple

Great Newspaper Temple, I was the first time to come, but also therefore left a very deep impression, looking at the place is not big, it took more than 2 hours to visit!

Until 2008, from the Da Bien En Temple predecessor of the Chang Gan Temple underground palace unearthed shocked the world and the Buddhist world of the world's only one "real bone of the top of the Buddha", and finally to the end of 2015, the Da Bien En Temple Ruins Park officially opened.

The first of the hundred temples, said to be destroyed in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom war, a fire, will be destroyed here. This movie is at the entrance, you can spend a minute or two to watch it, the movie is looped, detailed for you to tell the past and present life of the Great Newspaper Temple!

Probably a few years ago, the U.S. drama, Chinese takeout boxes on the pagoda pattern fire, after much verification found that this is Nanjing's Grand Annunciation Temple, the construction of the Grand Annunciation Temple of the construction of the project, the process is complex, especially the nine layers of glazed pagodas, can be called a thousand years old. From the 17th century 60's, Nanjing Dazhongnian Temple glazed tower (then called "China Porcelain Pagoda") has become a representative of China and even the Eastern culture of the landmark building, in Europe, reputation, enduring.

Thousands of years looking at each other

Both sides of the *** eight glazed columns, meaning that Shakyamuni Buddha's eight phases of the road;

Seven lotuses on the trail, meaning that the Buddha "seven steps to the lotus".

The end of the promenade is the Venerable Master Xuanzang and the Buddha's look. Master Xuanzang in the world and the Buddha's nirvana about a thousand years apart, Xuanzang top bone relics and the Buddha's top bone relics *** with about a thousand years in this place.

Hanging above the waterworks site are the excavated glazed components.

The site is modeled after the construction of the Daebien Temple, and some of the temple's treasures are displayed on a large screen in front of it.

Glazed doorway

This is the glazed doorway of the standard floor of the Great Annunciation Temple Tower. We can see that there are many animals on the arch, which is a unique form of Tibetan Buddhist art called "six apprehended objects".

This arch color, very good-looking, it is said that this arch is the material used in the glazed tower, but this is a replica, the fact that the object does exist.

These are unearthed cultural relics, is then the building blocks of the glazed tower, is now in disrepair, but still be able to see when the glazed tower of the elegance.

This is to show the craft of making glaze at that time, can be done very beautifully, there are some smaller ones, can be turned into a pendant, put on the body!

South four hundred and eighty temples

The picture is the Liang Wu Di asked Dharma scene, around the show is when the South Dynasty, the Buddhist city of Buddhist temples, because of the health of the picture will be taken at the Jimei Temple, the South Dynasty period of the health of the city (Nanjing) has surpassed the Chang'an (Xi'an) and Luoyang has become the center of the country's Buddhism.

Shelli Buddha light

Da Bien En Temple gathered Buddha top bone relics, induction relics, Xuanzang top bone relics and all the holy relics of the four Buddhist treasures.

This hall is equipped with 84,000 lamps, meaning "84,000 Dharma doors", and, very carefully, the lamps have small lotus flowers. In the center of the hall is the Buddha's nirvana where the Brahmaputra Double Tree, the center lying nirvana Buddha, behind the five Buddha's solemn appearance. The seven-colored light in the exhibition hall from time to time corresponds to the induction of the relics had seven times to release the light, so that Nanjing has become a holy place of Buddha's light documented.

The Gallery of Sutra Transformation

All of us must know the story of the Nine-Colored Deer, which warns people not to do bad things and to be good.

Millennium underground palace in the glass below is the year of the Great Newspaper Temple glazed tower tower base site, glass composed of octagonal is the year of the tower base auxiliary range, in 2008, in the underground palace was found in the stone letter, iron letter, the seven treasures gilt Ayurveda and other national cultural relics, in the ayurveda was found in a gold coffin and silver coffin, a size of the silver letter, respectively, hiding the top of the Buddha's real bone and induction of the Sharifa.

In the picture below, right in the center is the Gilt Seven Treasures Ashoka Pagoda.

Taking the elevator and going up to the top floor of the pagoda, the entire floors of the Great Repose Pagoda are themed with Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, creating white bronze reliefs, presenting a system of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the Four Heavenly Kings, the Four Bodhisattvas, the Three-bodied Buddhas, the Three World Buddhas and the Five Directions Buddhas.

3Zhongshan Mausoleum

Before I write about Zhongshan Mausoleum, I want to tell you that on the road to Zhongshan Mausoleum (Mausoleum Road), there is the best sycamore boulevard in Nanjing, it is a pity that I came here in the winter, and I was not able to take a very good picture of the boulevard, but if you go to the Internet and search, you will be able to see what it looks like in the summer time, in fact, these trees do not originate from France, and it is the origin of the trees in the China's Yunnan, because Dr. Sun Yat-sen's casket in this ceremony held in Feng An, when many people at home and abroad, groups donated a lot of offerings, which was donated by the Shanghai French Concession Public Service Bureau at the time, so the name of the French sycamore. In Nanjing, many of the sides of the main road, are planted with this tree, making it a shady avenue, green corridor, known as the crown of the country, so there is a "paradise, under the Suzhou-Hangzhou, than the green corridor of Nanjing," the reputation.

Remember when I was a child, about kindergarten, took a picture here, and since then a long, long time have not come here, today finally came here. Zhongshan Mausoleum, is to Nanjing City must go to the place, but also the father of the nation's burial place. Sun Yat-sen once brought his hand down here to hunt, see here really is the mountains and water, majestic, he had the idea of his day to sleep on this mountain, sent out the emotion: "I wish to die after my death, to the national begging a take up the earth, to bury the body and.

The main buildings of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum are Boai Square, tomb road, mausoleum gate, stone steps, pavilions, halls and burial chambers, etc., very neatly arranged in a central axis, there is a symmetrical beauty, more reflective of the traditional Chinese architectural style, from the air down, like a lying on a green carpet of the "Liberty Bell", absorbing the Chinese traditional The layout of the mausoleum is characterized by the combination of Western stone art, solemn simplicity, a new style.

4Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum

Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum is the joint tomb of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanjin, and the Empress Ma, and it is the largest and best-preserved imperial tomb in Nanjing. It has a history of more than 600 years now. Generally visit the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum will be put together, if in the plum blossom mountain opening season, will also be linked with the plum blossom mountain together to see, every peak season, tourists are endless.

The main building of Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum: Jinshui Bridge - Wenwufang Gate - Bei Dian - Xiaoling Dian - Fangcheng - Minglou - Baoding

From Jinshui Bridge to Fangcheng, the whole pattern is square. The pattern is square, Jinshui Bridge I did not shoot, Meihuashan toward the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum is the first bridge.

After going in, you can see the monument hall, which was destroyed in the war and was changed into a monument hall during the Tongzhi period.

The one you see here is called the Hall of Enjoyment. The most important part of the mausoleum area is the Hall of Enjoyment, which is dedicated to Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma and other concubines.

This is Fangcheng, on which a Minglou was built, the original Minglou was roofed, and now only the four walls remain. Fangcheng and Minglou were innovations of the Ming Dynasty, and none of the tombs of the emperors before the Ming Dynasty had such buildings. In front of the top of the treasure to build a tall square city and bright building, more solemn atmosphere, showing the emperor's incomparable majesty.

The Sacred Path

I think this Sacred Path should be the most famous, lush and green in summer and full of golden leaves in fall, which can be regarded as one of the most famous scenic photos in Nanjing. The road is divided on both sides of six kinds of 12 pairs of **** 24 stone beasts, four of each kind, two squatting and two standing, from east to west arranged lions, xiezhi, camels, elephants, unicorns and horses.

5 Niu Shou Shan

Niu Shou Shan, the mountain is 248 meters high, due to the east and west peaks facing each other sex like a bull's horns and was named, always heard that people who have been to the Niu Shou Shan, Niu Shou Shan, said how how to look good in the underground palace, in fact, it does let a person breathtaking.

In recent years, the world's highest Buddhist relics - Sakyamuni Buddha's top bone relics in Nanjing, Nanjing, by the religious, cultural, heritage research agreed, the Nanjing Municipal Government decided to build the NiuShuShan Cultural Tourism Zone, long-term enshrinement of the Buddha's top bone relics. So we can now see the NiuShuShan scenic area

Tour mode

FoDingSi - Buddha Ding Tower - Buddha Ding Palace - Zen realm of the great view

The whole process is about 3 hours or so

Privately believe that the Niu Shou Mountain scenic area must be in the picture to appreciate can not be, must have personally been to know, each has been to the Niu Shou Mountain people, always out of the mouth of a word, beautiful!

Niushou Mountain has a temple was first built in the early years of the Southern Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, the temple was grand in scale, called the Buddha Cave Temple, the birthplace of Zen Buddhism before the "Niushou Zen", destroyed in the Southern Song Dynasty war, revived in the Ming Dynasty. Until 1856, the temple was destroyed in the Hong Yang rebellion, incense interrupted for a hundred years.

Adhering to the architectural style of the Tang Dynasty, according to the functional division for the ceremony of Buddha, Dharma, Lent, monks, tea garden five areas, many people at first glance think it is very much like the Japanese architecture, but do not know, Japan's architectural style is because of the study of the architecture of the Tang Dynasty!

There is an ancient ginkgo tree on the right side of the square, also known as the "Three Treasure Tree". Looks like three trees, actually the same root. It is like three incense in front of the Buddha Temple, to feed the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha three treasures, and therefore known as the Three Treasure Tree.

Plaza in front of the Buddha Temple

Before the plaza there is a release pool, the pool has ten dragon-like decorative objects, called the pit vipers (bā xià), is one of the dragon's nine sons.

On the opposite wall of the pond are the ten Rudras. This pond is located under the bridge in the photo below, where you can see the dragon head decorations and many wishing coins, which are the beliefs of the people who come here.

Thousands of People Listening to the Dharma Brick Sculpture

The following brick sculpture is called "Thousands of People Listening to the Dharma", which shows the scene of Buddha preaching the Dharma to his disciples.

The Hall of the Heavenly King is the first hall behind the mountain gate. The Hall of Heavenly Kings was first seen in the Pure Land Sect temples, and the Chinese Zen Sect originally did not offer Maitreya. However, after the Song Dynasty, when Chinese Buddhism became a dual practice, the Hall of Heavenly Kings began to appear in most Chinese monasteries. Inside, this Maitreya Buddha is not quite the same as the open-hearted image we usually see, and it is said to be the future image of Maitreya Buddha.

Da Xiong Bao Dian

Da Xiong Bao Dian has a floor area of 950 square meters, is the core building of the Buddha Dingshi Temple, is also the place where the monks worship, the reason why it is called "Da Xiong Bao Dian," because the Da Xiong Bao Dian is usually the main worship of the Buddha Shakyamuni Buddha, and the Da Xiong is the Buddha's moral name. So we see a lot of temples inside the Mahamudra, are dedicated to Sakyamuni Buddha.

In fact, from the inside so very Tang Dynasty style of temple architecture, I am very much like, there is a kind of ancient color, the atmosphere in the calm and magnificent.

Some of the top of the snow has not yet been melted, some of the snow on the roof as if it had never come to disappear as clean, there are written eaves of the water droplets, but also drip drip drip drip constantly fall. The gardens in the temple adopt the form of withered landscape to show the Zen mood of one sand, one world, one stone, one universe. The four corners of the eaves have this kind of wind chimes, when there is a wind blowing will make a tinkling sound, pleasant and crisp. Worry-free Square is also the starting point of the Buddha's Dome Sanctuary. The four big characters "Buddha's Dome Sanctuary" on the wall of 10,000 characters were inscribed by Venerable Nebula of Taiwan's Fo Guang Shan. Take the mini-transportation, and then go to the Buddha's Peak Pagoda, which is one of the landmarks of the Buddha's Peak Sanctuary. It is about 88 meters high, with nine levels and four sides, and echoes with Hongjue Temple Pagoda of the Ming Dynasty, which recreates the magnificent pattern of the "Twin Pagodas" of the historical Niu Shou Mountain!

This angle is my prayer tree in the escalator next to the red ribbon shot, the tower can be climbed, in the tower on the far view, you can enjoy the beauty of the four levels of Niushoushan!

Buddhist Palace

Buddhist Palace is known as the world's Buddhist culture and art hall

Buddhist Palace cleverly use the history of the formation of the mine pit and built to enshrine the Buddha's top bone contains the core of the cultural connotations, is a combination of classical and modern, contemporary architecture and Buddhist culture blend, unique, exquisite art hall.

The interior is divided into 9 floors, consisting of three major spaces, namely, the Ch'an Realm Grand View, the Hall of Relics, and the Relic Hidden Palace.

The whole Buddha Palace is not only the main place to collect the relics of the Buddha's top bone and receive the worship of the faithful.

It is also the relic culture, the world of Buddhism and Zen culture with a variety of artistic methods to focus on the presentation of cultural exhibitions, which brings together the national religious community, the art world, the architectural world of first-class team of experts, aiming to achieve the "world of Buddhist culture and heritage, contemporary architecture and art of new landscapes," the grand goal, the magnificent building in the Nanjing for this I am very proud!

The Zen Landscape: A large-scale Zen cultural experience space is formed by integrating modern Zen "earthly landscape", and the Buddha's life is reproduced naturally and romantically with the carefree tree, Bodhi tree, and Shorea tree as the core cultural elements.

The 9-meter-long reclining Buddha lies quietly under the Shala Dome, where visitors and worshippers can offer flowers to the Buddha.

Zenland Grand View

The Zenland Grand View, oval in shape, is decorated with earthly landscapes in the colors of yellow, white and grey, thus allowing people to appreciate Zen while walking. It consists of three parts, the Zen Garden where Buddha was born and became a monk, and the Rulian Theater in the middle, which shows the deeds of Buddha's life.

The top of the Zen Garden is the Sahara Dome, patterned after the branches of the Sahara tree at the time of Buddha's nirvana. The dome is fully covered with light-transmitting film and lights that create the first rays of morning sunlight, the warmth of midday daylight, the colorful sunset in the evening and the moonlight at night.

The reason why the Zen realm of the Grand View makes people feel that the visual effect is outstanding, and his lighting with the vast majority of the relationship between each statue of the Buddha with golden-yellow light, the whole child, the Zen realm of the Grand View is a blue light tone, the light from time to time and there are slight changes, irradiated in my Buddha on the light division white, but the bottom of the lotus pedestal is golden-yellow, the whole child with the light, in order to have the appearance of this The entire lighting is matched together to create this perfect visual effect.

Sheri Hall

Sheri Hall: It consists of Thousand Buddha Hall and Ten Thousand Buddha Hall.

The Hall of a Thousand Buddhas is the only place in the world where the fourth offering session of the Vajrayana Mandala is centrally presented in the form of a physical building and a statue of Buddha, and it is also a three-dimensional presentation of the highest realm of the world of Hwa-tsang. The first glance is absolutely opulent, do not see with their own eyes, absolutely do not know that there is this good-looking.

The hall's Sherry Pagoda enshrines the 36 sacred relics that were re-lighted in full bloom at the same time as the Buddha's top bone relics. The Ten Thousand Buddhas Gallery surrounds the Thousand Buddhas Hall, displaying exquisite Buddhist murals and statues, Dehua white porcelain, tin bronze, ancient glaze, alabaster and other different materials of Buddhist statues are reflected here.

8 on eating and staying

Eating

In the past few days, we ate at several restaurants, I picked some dishes to share with you.

Salt water duck, this salt water duck is to Nanjing must eat a dish, salty marinade marinated, aftertaste is very good, although it is meat, eat but feel very light, eat a few pieces will not feel tired.

Salted meat and sausage, during the New Year, these basically every family will have, but the taste of each family is different, some delicious, some sweet, some slightly salty, some have a smoky taste, in short, there will always be subtle changes.

Stinky tofu and fat intestines, stinky tofu is also more famous food in Nanjing, Nanjing stinky tofu is divided into two kinds, one is tile gray dried tofu, a kind of gray tender tofu. Dried tofu is a snack with sauce, and the gray tofu is the one in the picture below, which can be used for cooking. I prefer to eat the gray stinky tofu, which has a bigger smell and is more fragrant!

Meat rounds of roasted vegetables, this dish I was eating out of the flavor of the home, next to the sugar lotus root, Ruijin Road, there is a, Nanjing, the first honey sugar lotus root, this is really delicious, is the best honey lotus root in Nanjing ate, is the lotus root is very tough, and the sweetness of the very right, very much like to eat.

Nanjing Hanfu Hotel

It is a 7-storey building in the typical Republican style. Hanfu Hotel is located on a street of Republican culture on Changjiang Road, only about 1 kilometer away from Xinjiekou.

The feeling of staying in this hotel is very Nanjing, after all, is the Republic of China style building of the building, close to the 1912 block is also a very good-looking building, the room as soon as you enter the door there is a fragrance, and the receptionist reacted to the room's network is not good, nothing to say on the take a router over, the network speed instantly full signal and good.

Yishang Hot Springs

Nanjing's Tangshan Hot Springs is very famous, it is said that Chiang Kai-shek once built a villa here specifically for Song Mei Ling to soak in the hot springs here.

Tangshan Hot Springs is a world-famous hot springs treatment area, the first of China's four major hot springs treatment area, is China's only European, Japanese hot springs water quality of the international dual-certification of the hot springs, with a "thousand years of sacred soup, health paradise," the reputation.

The hot springs area in order to prevent the privacy of other guests, so, is not allowed to take the camera, winter to take a bath, absolutely very comfortable, cold body, instantly covered by warm spring water, that cool ah, instantly bursting with happiness ah, there is also a stone bath, soak in the bath, lying on the top, covered with a towel, comfortable, if you are not afraid of catching a cold, I really want to sleep on it! The first thing you need to do is to get a good night's sleep on top of it.

Living in the Yi Shang Hot Spring Hotel, the morning meal on the first floor, we recommend that you soak in the hot springs or at night is better, soak in the hot springs after a comfortable sleep! In the second floor of the rest area, you can receive a fruit, a yogurt and a snack, so the treatment is considered to have seen the hot springs in the very good it ~

The whole trip here, for the love of Nanjing, is far from being able to express in words, when you have seen the Nanjing spring, summer, autumn, winter, rain, thunder, lightning, snow, have seen the Nanjing people who have lived for decades of the Nanjing's love for the Nanjing, the Nanjing people who have lived for decades of the Nanjing's love for the Nanjing's love for the Nanjing. I've seen Nanjing's love of ducks, Nanjing's passion for life and yearning, and I'd say you probably have an understanding of Nanjing.

Oceanic Traveler-Yang Xian Xian Y