Henan is the root of Central Plains culture and one of my favorite cities. I travel to Henan every year to relax myself. Traveling to Henan during the Spring Festival, I strongly recommend the treasure attraction: Shaolin Temple. Because during the Spring Festival, you can go to Songshan Shaolin Temple to pray and feel the most traditional taste of the Spring Festival. There, there is also the strongest flavor of the year. Let's talk about some related raiders experiences.
Shaolin Temple
The Shaolin Temple was founded in the 19th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (495). It was built by Emperor Xiaowen at the northern foot of Shaoshi Mountain in Songshan Mountain, opposite the capital Luoyang, in order to place the venerable Indian monk, Batuo. Shaolin Temple is often hospitalized and covers an area of about 57,6 square meters. The current abbot is Shi Yongxin, the 47th and 33rd generation descendant of Cao Dong. Shaolin Temple is a world-famous Buddhist temple and the ancestral home of Zen Buddhism in Han Dynasty. It occupies an important position in the history of Buddhism in China and is known as "the first temple in the world". It is famous all over the world because of its dedicated research and development of Shaolin Kung Fu by Shaolin monks in past dynasties, and is known as "Shaolin Kung Fu is the best in the world". Tickets: 8 yuan opening hours: 8:-16:3 (all day); Time to stop admission: 16: Address: The best viewing time in Songshan Shaolin Scenic Area, Dengfeng City, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province: it is suitable for all seasons and the best in spring and autumn
Traffic Raiders:
External traffic:
1. Take a bus from Zhengzhou coach station to Dengfeng, get off and transfer to CMB in the same place, which takes less than half an hour. There is also a tourist through train in front of the railway station.
2. Take a bus from Luoyang coach station to Dengfeng, and it takes about 9 minutes to reach the Shaolin Temple crossing.
3. Both Xuchang City on the Beijing-Guangzhou line and Ruzhou City on the Zhiliu line can be reached within 2 hours by bus.
local transportation: you can get there by bus No.1, No.2, No.3, No.6 and No.8.
self-driving: Xuchang city on the Beijing-Guangzhou line and Ruzhou city on the Zhiliu line can both be reached within 2 hours.
recommended tour route:
essence tour route 1: Shaolin Temple → Dharma Cave → Chuzu Temple → Erzu Temple → Sanhuangzhai
essence tour route 2: Shaolin Temple → Songshan Academy → Taishi Mountain → Laomu Cave → Junji Peak → Luya Waterfall → Zhongyue Temple
essence tour route 3: Shaoshi Mountain → Sanhuangzhai → Only the mountain gate, the snow pavilion, the Thousand Buddha Hall, etc. are left, and the main buildings we see now are all rebuilt later. There are Tallinn, Shaoshi Que Gates, Chu Zu 'an, Dharma Cave, Er Zu 'an, Yongtai Temple, Liantianfeng, Sanhuangzhai, Shanmen, Forest of Steles and Gallery of Steles, Tianwang Hall, Daxiong Hall, Tibetan Classics Pavilion, Fangzhang Room, Shaolin Martial Arts Romance Hall, Thousand Buddha Hall, Lixue Pavilion, etc.
? Must-punch attractions:
1. Mountain Gate
The mountain gate is the gate of Shaolin Temple, which was built in the 13th year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1735) and renovated in 1974. On the forehead of the door, there are three characters "Shaolin Temple" personally mentioned by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. Above the center of the plaque is engraved with the six-character seal of "the treasure of Kangxi's imperial pen" There is a pair of stone lions in front of the mountain gate, male and female opposite, carved in Qing Dynasty. There are two stone squares symmetrically on the east and west sides of the eight-character wall of the mountain gate. The horizontal line outside the East Stone Square is "Zuyuan Diben" and the horizontal line inside is "Ba Tuo Chuang"; The internal banner of Xishifang is "Mahayana Resort" and the external banner is "Song Shaochan Forest". The main entrance of the mountain gate is a three-room-wide single-eaved building that rests on the top of the mountain. It is located on a two-meter-high brick platform, with hard-mountain side doors and splayed walls on the left and right.
2. Daxiong Hall
Daxiong Hall is located behind the Temple of the King of Heaven. Daxiong Hall is the center of Buddhist activities in the temple, and it is also called the three major Buddhist halls together with the Heavenly King Hall and the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion. The original building was destroyed in 1928 and rebuilt in 1986. There are statues of Sakyamuni, Pharmacist Buddha and Amitabha Buddha in the hall. In the middle of the hall, the four characters of "Baoshu Fanglian" written by Emperor Kangxi are hung. There is a statue of Guanyin on the back wall of the screen wall, and eighteen arhats are molded on both sides. The temple is dedicated to the statues of Sakyamuni, Amitabha Buddha and Pharmacist Buddha, and the Guanyin statue is hung behind the screen wall, with eighteen arhats standing on both sides. On the east side of Ursa Major Hall is Kinnara Hall, which was rebuilt in 1982.
3. the sutra depository
the sutra depository is located behind the hall of great heroes. The Buddhist Scripture Pavilion, also known as Fatang, was built in the Ming Dynasty, destroyed in the 17th year of the Republic of China (1928), and rebuilt in 1994. It is the place where monks and nuns hold Buddhist scriptures. The Tibetan Scripture Pavilion has a collection of eight million volumes, which is the place where monks and nuns hold scriptures. It contains a reclining Buddha statue of white marble presented by a disciple of Myanmar in Shaolin Temple in 1996. There is a big iron pot under the platform of the sutra depository, which was cast in Wanli of the Ming Dynasty. It was a small pot used by Shaolin Temple monks for cooking. To the southeast of the sutra depository is a meditation room, where monks meditate, while the opposite West meditation room is a hall for receiving guests.
4. The Dharma Cave has a natural stone cave at the upper part of the middle peak of the Wuru Peak behind the Shaolin Temple, which is called the Dharma Cave. At the beginning of Zen Buddhism, Zudharma sat quietly in this cave wall for 9 years from 527 to 536 AD. The Dharma Cave faces southwest, and the entrance of the cave is made of blue stones, with a depth of about seven meters and a height of more than three meters each. There are three stone statues on the platform in the cave, in which there is a sitting statue of Dharma and its disciples on both sides. According to the records in Shuo Song of Qing Dynasty, at the upper left of the cave, there was a small stone pagoda, which had already been destroyed. The east wall of the cave is inscribed with the word "true colors". There are four characters on the stone wall in the west outside the cave: "Face the wall and cave into the sky".
Gourmet Raiders:
Carp-baked noodles
Carp-baked noodles are a traditional dish in Kaifeng, which is made up of two famous dishes: fried fish in sweet and sour and baked noodles. It is characterized by bordeaux color, softness, freshness and fragrance, and the baked noodles are as thin as hair, fluffy and crisp. ?
Noodle paste
Noodle paste is made by fermenting soybean milk at a proper temperature to turn sour, then heating it in a pot to about 8℃, adding a little sesame oil and stirring it repeatedly when the liquid level is mushy, adding miscellaneous noodles when it is boiling, stirring it continuously to make it paste, and adding the prepared salt, chopped green onion, green beans, celery, leek and pepper, and the noodle paste is finished.
Pipa Crisp
is a pastry without stuffing. Legend has it that Emperor Qianlong asked the chefs in the palace to make snacks in the shape of pipa strings. It has the characteristics of milky white and bright color and soft and sweet entrance. It's memorable after eating.
Shaolin Eight-treasure Crisp
Shaolin Eight-treasure Crisp is a traditional food for Shaolin monks. It is a crispy food made of Ganoderma lucidum, Hericium erinaceus, Tremella, Ginkgo biloba, Auricularia auricula, Pleurotus ostreatus, Lentinus edodes and Poria. It has dietotherapy effects, and can strengthen tendons, activate collaterals, refresh the mind and keep fit. It is a traditional food of Shaolin monks and has been made for more than a thousand years.
Set of Four Treasures
"Set of Four Treasures" is the representative work of Dong Chen's family, a famous chef in Kaifeng, which has been handed down for a hundred years. It is named because it integrates duck, chicken, pigeon and quail, and the four birds are layered and intact. ”。 "Set of Four Treasures" is absolutely a combination of the four flavors of chicken, duck, pigeon and quail, which are rich, fragrant, fresh and wild. Four whole birds are set in layers, all of which are complete without a bone.
Bucket Chicken
Bucket Chicken is a special dish in Kaifeng, which is made from local high-quality hen and century-old soup. Golden color, fat but not greasy, fresh and crisp.
? Tips:
We used to see that Shaolin Temple requires a bachelor's degree or above. Many people think this is a rumor, but it is true, but the description is not accurate. Nowadays, it is true that ordinary people can not become monks in Shaolin Temple, but only college students who have graduated from Buddhist College are qualified. Therefore, study hard.