Hello friends, welcome to join Chengdu Sunshine Travel Agency’s one-day tour of Qingcheng Mountain. I am your tour guide COCO, and here I wish you all a happy day!

Let me first talk about today’s event schedule. The bus arrived at Qingcheng Mountain around nine o'clock. We took the cableway to Shangqing Palace and then walked down the mountain to tour along the way. When you go down to the mountain gate at noon, delicacies such as "Dongtian milk wine, Taoist pickles, Kuding tea, and ginkgo stewed chicken" known as the "Four Wonders of Qingcheng" are waiting for you. After dinner, we will take a short rest and visit Dujiangyan Scenic Area. At five o'clock, take the bus back to Chengdu.

While talking and walking, an hour passed without realizing it. The place the car is passing through now is Dujiangyan City, which is world-famous for the Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project built in the third century BC by Li Bing, the prefect of Shu County, who led the masses in the northwest of the city. We will visit here on the way back.

Qingcheng Mountain is right in front of you. I will use these few minutes to give you a brief introduction to its overview.

Laoxiaoding, the main peak of Qingcheng Mountain, is 1,600 meters above sea level. It is located in the Dujiangyan City Scenic Area in the northwest of the Chengdu Plain, 63 kilometers away from Chengdu and 15 kilometers away from Dujiangyan. As early as 1982, it was announced by the State Council as one of the first batch of national A key scenic spot, in 2000, it was approved as a World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO along with Dujiangyan.

Qingcheng Mountain belongs to the Qionglai Mountain System. According to geological surveys, it was formed during the orogeny 180 million years ago. The peaks are surrounded by each other and look like a city corridor. The mountains are lush with trees and green all year round. They were called "Qingcheng Mountains" in the Tang Dynasty. It is called "Qingcheng", hence the name Qingcheng Mountain.

There is another explanation for how Qingcheng Mountain got its name. That is, the clerical error of "Qingcheng Mountain". The so-called "Qingcheng" refers to the place where gods live. In the Tang Dynasty, Taoism and Buddhism competed for the territory of Qingcheng Mountain, so Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty issued an edict to "return the temple to Taoism, and the temple to its old location outside the mountain." The radical of the word "Qing" in the edict was missing, and from then on people made mistakes. This statement is also relatively credible, as evidenced by the edict tablet of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty in the Three Emperors Hall of Tianshi Cave.

Qingcheng Mountain not only attracts guests from all over with its three natural wonders of sunrise, sea of ??clouds and holy lanterns, it is also famous for Qingcheng Taoism. Qingcheng Taoist Qigong is also famous far and wide.

Taoism is my country's native traditional religion with "Tao" as its highest belief. It emerged in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Qingcheng Mountain, as the ancestral mountain of Tianshi Taoism, is one of the four famous mountains of Taoism and one of the birthplaces of Taoism.

At the time of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, which was almost the same period as Christ Jesus, Zhang Ling (later known as Zhang Daoling) from Peiguofeng built a grass on Heming Mountain in Dayi, Houshan City, seeking Taoism. He claimed to be "a heavenly master by the order of the Supreme Lord," and respected Laozi as his leader. He used the Tao Te Ching as his holy book and created the "Five Pecks of Rice Way" based on the witchcraft of the local Di and Qiang primitive tribes to cast down ghosts and exorcise demons. It is called "Tianshi Dao".

In 143, Tianshi Zhang came to Tianshi Cave in Qingcheng Mountain to preach and practice Buddhism, and he became immortal here. After that, his son Zhang Heng and his grandson Zhang Lu also succeeded here. Fan Changsheng of the Jin Dynasty, Du Guangting of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shaowei of the Southern Song Dynasty came here to preach one after another.

In the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Qingjue, the 11th generation descendant of the Longmen sect of Quanzhen Taoism in Wudang Mountain, came to Qingcheng Mountain to preside over teaching affairs. Later, Emperor Kangxi granted him the "Dantai Bidong" and named him "The True Master of Bidong". Since then, Qingcheng Taoism belongs to the Bidong Sect of the Quanzhen Taoist Longmen sect and has been passed down for 13 generations.

Taoism advocates "purity, self-restraint, and return to simplicity." They call the land where gods live "cave heaven." Qingcheng Mountain is the fifth cave heaven among the ten major Taoist cave heavens. Each cave heaven has a chief ruler. The main deity of Qingcheng Mountain is Ning Fengzi, who is enshrined in Jianfu Palace and was named the "father-in-law of the Five Mountains" by the Yellow Emperor.

Qingcheng Mountain is divided into two mountains, front and rear, each covering an area of ??15 and 100 square kilometers respectively. The 36 peaks, 8 large caves, 72 small caves and 108 sceneries here are all permeated with the spirit of Taoist culture. The front mountain is the main part of the scenic spot, and Taoist temples that highlight the natural style of Taoism are scattered throughout it.

Speaking of natural style, we have to mention the natural beauty of Qingcheng Mountain. It is known as "Qingcheng is the most secluded place in the world". Its "secretness" has also been praised by literati of all ages, among which contemporary Around 1940, Mr. Zhang Daqian, a master of traditional Chinese painting, lived with his family in Shangqing Palace in Qingcheng, calling himself "Qingcheng Guest".

Okay, friends, Qingcheng Mountain has arrived, let us also be a Qingcheng guest and have a close contact with it. Please pick up your belongings and get off the bus one by one. When moving, stay safe and stick with our team when visiting. If you get lost, please call my mobile number, 13 followed by 9 followed by 6.

Walk down the stone steps called "Dan Staircase" by the great poet Du Fu. The place we are coming to now is the Tianshi Cave, the main temple of Qingcheng Mountain, which was known in ancient times as "Changdao Temple". It is 1,100 meters above sea level, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing a stream on one side, making it look like a fairy city.

We visited the Tianshi Palace, the Three Emperors Palace, and the Huangdi Temple in sequence, and now we are at the Sanqing Palace. This main hall was built in 1923. It is a pavilion-style building with double eaves on the top of the mountain. The front of the hall is supported by nine stone steps.

Look, the six large stone pillars supported side by side by the front eaves are all made of 1.2-meter large stone foundations with exquisitely carved patterns of strange animals. They are solemn and majestic, and are full of elegance and interest. The main hall is lined with five large bays, covering an area of ??580 square meters, and is also supported by various exquisite solid stone columns.

These pillars are 4.4 meters high and very impressive. Let's take a closer look at the supporting bows and curved doors at the top of this pillar. They are all hollowed out with figures, flowers and plants, with elegant colors and exquisite craftsmanship.

The three supreme gods of Taoism are enshrined in this temple. The person in the middle is the "Yuanshi Tianzun" who lives in Qingweitian and Shangqing realm, also known as "Shangqing" or "Tianbaojun". The person on the left is the "Lingbao Tianzun" who lives in Yu Yutian, Yuqing realm, also known as "Yuqing" or "Lingbao Lord". The person on the right is the "Moral Heavenly Lord" who lives in the Dachitian, Taiqing realm, also known as "Taiqing" or "Shenbaojun", which is Taishang Laojun, also known as Laozi. The three deities are collectively called the Three Pure Ones, each of whom is a leader, who controls all kinds of ghosts and gods, and is the creator of all things in the universe.

Let’s go out to the temple to have a look. The stone railing in front of the temple is carved with the "Picture of the Heavenly Spirit Infant". These stone statues are all bald, backless, laughing and playing babies. There are no ring scars on their bald heads. The concave tops of the Tianling Caps have not yet flattened out, and some still have what we call "hair roots" in Chengdu dialect. The stone carvings use innocent and lively babies to represent "innocent children". According to the Tao Te Ching, "Eternal virtue is inseparable, and strength goes to babies." This implies. The highest state of Taoism is to reach the level of childlike innocence. The "conch" and other musical instruments designed in the stone carvings will make a pleasant sound when exposed to the wind, called "Tian Su", which represents the nature advocated by Taoism. This "Tian Su Lingying Picture" actually represents the lofty philosophy and philosophy of Taoism. Aesthetic taste.

There is also a very tall ancient ginkgo tree here, with a height of 30 meters and a crown diameter of 36 meters. I ask everyone to guess the age of the tree. Not 500 years old, not just 1,000 years old. In fact, it is almost 2,000 years old. According to legend, this tree was planted by Zhang Tianshi himself. Standing under this tree, we have to sigh that the stars have changed, history has changed, and time has flown by.