It took me 2 minutes at most to get off the bus and eat good food. I took a taxi to the "Menghuan Dajinta". There were people walking up the mountain all the way. Because today is Women's Day, there are too many people to describe, but I was too tired to take pictures.

In more than p>1 minutes, I arrived at the Mengjuan Pagoda, and I saw such a building from a distance, which reminded me of the "Dajinta" in Yangon, Myanmar. The driver told me one day in the car that it was worth seeing, because it was the first in China and the third largest in Asia, and such a tower could only be regarded as an ordinary tower in Myanmar.

The weather was really hot, and my skin felt tingling from the sun. I was planning to buy a bottle of water, and I happened to meet an old man selling popsicles with an old wooden box on his back. The old man's clothes and the feeling that he couldn't come out too much made me take money out of my bag and bought popsicles from him. I gave him one yuan, and he was still there to give me change. I said, keep the change. He gave me two more popsicles. I said I couldn't eat that much. I asked for one and left. The old man said a lot to me in dialect. Thank you, girl! I haven't eaten this kind of popsicle for more than 1 years. It reminds me of many interesting things in my childhood, so I took this photo with the popsicle in my right hand and the camera in my left hand.

While eating popsicles, I didn't forget to look at my watch from time to time. I stepped up to the entrance of the tower area and saw a lot of people at the ticket window. According to people around me, Dai people only charge half price, while foreigners charge full tickets (3 yuan is the only one who can see such a tower? ) I was going to buy a ticket, but I didn't expect that maybe because of the clothes I was wearing, the ticket seller mistakenly thought I was a Dai, and asked me with the Dai, how many people? Fortunately, I can understand the Dai language he speaks, and I also speak to him in Dai language, alone. He said it was half price, so I asked him, didn't there be no charge before? Why is it charged now? He asked me if I was from Ruili. I looked at him and smiled. For a minute, I didn't know what I was thinking. I just wanted to say yes or no? I haven't answered him yet, but he mistook me for a native of Ruili, so he only accepted my 1 yuan, and then tore the ticket for me. I was squeezed out by the next person who wanted to sell the ticket. With the ticket, I had a feeling of not knowing, and I ate the popsicle in my hands.

This is a panoramic view of mangshi taken on the walk bar at the entrance.

In order to come back and write a diary, I wrote the following introduction about the tower with my notes:

Legend has it that "Sakyamuni" lived here when he was reincarnated as "A Luan" before his death. Hundreds of years after the Buddha's nirvana, Buddhist disciples "Zhao Han Da" and "Arhat" went to this mountain to practice in order to spread the teachings of the Buddha. In order to make "Zhaohan University" have a good environment for practice, weeds and spines all get out of the way, so it is called Leiya Mountain, which means the place where weeds are given up. Then a stupa was built on this mountain, which has been recognized as one of the holy places of Buddhism since ancient times.

The original Leiya Rangshan Pagoda was destroyed in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in 1942, and the Menghuan Pagoda in Luxi City was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution in 1966. In order to meet the wishes of religious believers, promote national culture and promote the necessary development of social economy and tourism, it was named Menghuan Pagoda, with a height of 76 meters and a base diameter of 5 meters. It was an octagonal four-door hollow pagoda and was held on June 3, 24. On may 1, 27, a ceremony was held to open the light and sway.

"Menghuan Dajinta" is located at the top of Leiyarang Mountain, which is 1,79.6 meters above sea level in the southeast suburb of mangshi. The tower is 73 meters high and the base is 5 meters long. The overall structure is an octagonal hollow stupa with four gates.

east gate respectively; South gate; Simon; North gate; This is one of the doors. Around the zenith pillar in the center of the main hall, there are four natural white marble Buddha statues, siddhattha gotama in the east, the pharmacist Buddha statue in the west, Guanyin Buddha statue in the south and Maitreya Buddha statue in the north. (This is one of the Buddha statues)

There are four gates, and there are eight guardian statues of the gods, which is one of them. Around the zenith pillar in the center of the main hall in the tower, murals and utensils reflecting the life and teachings of the Buddha are displayed on the second and third floors of the four main halls. Sixteen group towers with unique shapes are built on the outer platforms of the second and third floors respectively, and eight vase towers with exquisite Buddhist artistic creativity are built on the outer platform of the fourth floor. The main pillar on the pedestal is made of Buddhist special bell and thirteen bowls, and the highest point is wearing a large golden dome weighing 2.3 tons.

I'm near the zenith pillar in the tower.

I heard that the ceremony of laying stupas was held on March 29th, 25. On May 1st, 27, the coronation and opening ceremony of Menghuan Shwedagon Pagoda was held ceremoniously. At the same time, the Yunnan Buddhist Association also held a ceremony to welcome the Bodhi tree in Sri Lanka.

I was in the tower: (I was asked to take it, to be honest, I was thinking more about the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar)

These two young masters used red lines to weave auspicious lines that I could wear, and I invited two as I pleased. After worshipping the Buddha, I walked around the tower for a while and saw this incense burner. Where there are Dai people, you can see elephant statues everywhere. After 16: 3, take a taxi to the airport.

The p>17: 4 flight arrived in Kunming around 19: p.m. because of the delay, which ended my half-month trip.

Note: I have been busy with the things at hand since I came back, so I can't keep a diary as scheduled. Now I write in the form of memories. Thank you for sharing my travel notes with me!