Introduction to the scenic spot:
Mount Tai is the first of the five mountains in my country and the best mountain in the world. It has a good reputation and is one of the top ten most beautiful and shocking mountains in China. With an altitude of 1532.7 meters and an area of ??426 square kilometers, it is majestic and known as the national mountain of China. Mount Tai faces the Yellow Sea to the east, the Yellow River to the west, and is surrounded by Wenshui River. It looks forward to the holy city of Qufu, and to the back is the spring city of Jinan. It stands tall in the east of China with the power of reaching the sky, and is famous in ancient and modern times for being the only one of the five mountains. Mount Tai is not only a sacred mountain worshiped by emperors of all dynasties, but also a spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation and a microcosm of Chinese history and culture.
Mount Tai is majestic and tall, with thousands of years of spiritual culture and cultural landscape. It is located in Tai'an City, Shandong Province. In Mount Tai Scenic Area, there are 156 peaks, 138 cliffs, 72 famous caves, 72 strange rocks, 130 valleys, 64 waterfalls and pools, 72 famous springs, more than 10,000 ancient and famous trees, and 42 ancient ruins. There are 13 ancient tombs, 58 ancient buildings, more than 2,500 stone carvings from past dynasties, 14 grotto statues, 12 modern and contemporary cultural relics, and more than 10,000 cultural relics. Among them, the Chengziya ruins, the earliest existing stone pagoda - Simen Pagoda, Dawenkou ruins, Lingyan Temple, Dai Temple, Qianfoya Grottoes statues, Longhu Pagoda, Jiuding Pagoda, Feng Yuxiang's tomb, Tang Daguanfeng stone carvings, Northern Qi sutra stones The Yu Diamond Sutra was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relic protection unit. The scenery of Mount Tai is famous for its magnificence. The overlapping mountains, the thick shape, the background of the pines and boulders, and the changes in the clouds and smoke make it both majestic and bright, and quiet and mysterious. Sunrise on Mount Tai is one of the wonders of Daiding and an important symbol of Mount Tai. Whenever there is mist in the morning or evening, visitors standing on the top of a higher mountain and looking at the light will see a misty curtain of mist. The colorful halo of blue inside and red outside reflects the entire figure inside, just like the colorful halo above the head of the Buddha statue, so it is called Buddha light or precious light. There are famous landscapes in Mount Tai Scenic Area such as Tianzhu Peak, Riguan Peak, Baizhang Cliff, Immortal Bridge, Wudafu Pine, Wangren Pine, Longtan Waterfall, Yunqiao Waterfall, Santan Waterfall and so on. Over the past thousands of years, twelve emperors have come to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen. Confucius left his admiration for climbing Mount Tai and minimizing the world, while Du Fu left his admiration for being able to reach the top of the mountain and see all the mountains at a glance.
Travel guide:
1. There are currently four official entrances to Mount Tai for selling tickets, namely: the entrance to Hongmen Palace, the entrance to Tianwai Village (Tiandi Square), and Taohuayu Entrance to the mountain pass, Tianzhufeng entrance to the mountain pass.
2. When visiting Mount Tai, try to avoid taking a tourist bus up and down or taking the cableway to and from. If your physical strength allows, it is best to climb the section from Zhongtianmen to Nantianmen to feel the magical charm of Mount Tai.
Tour routes:
Taishan now has four regular routes:
1. The first route: the most classic Hongmen Road hiking middle line, which is actually the middle line climbing Feng Yudao.
It means from Dai Temple (Dongyue Temple) → Tianmen → Confucius’s Landing Place → Red Gate → Zhongtian Gate → Nantian Gate → Jade Emperor Summit
2. The second option is to take a car The mountain ring road up the mountain.
Tianwai Village (Tiandi Square) → Huanshan Road → Zhulin Temple → Huangxi River Reservoir → Zhongtianmen → Nantianmen → Yuhuangding
3. The third way is to enter from the northwest side of the mountain pass , the entrance to Taohuayuan is a mountain-ring highway.
Entrance to Taohuayu → Mountain Ring Road → Colorful Stone Creek → Red Phosphate Fish Sanctuary → Taohuayuan Cableway → Nantianmen → Yuhuangding
4. The fourth is the northeastern mountain pass The direction is generally said to be Tianzhu Peak, which is the back mountain.
Since many people climb from the front mountain, they can also go up the mountain from this side and descend from the front.
Tianzhu Peak → Impression of Mount Tai (Performance Venue of the Zen Ceremony) → Carp Back → Big and Small Tianzhu Peaks → Shihe → Yao Guanding → Beitianmen → Riguan Peak → Jade Emperor Peak
Ticket price:
Peak season (February 1st - November 30th) 125 yuan; low season (December 1st - January 31st of the following year) 100 yuan.
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