Pang brother took me to Mount Tai. As a Chinese, it is always a pity that I did not go to Mount Tai, the first of the Five Mountains with a long history and culture. Here I will share the strategy for climbing Mount Tai, so everyone can go to Mount Tai to check in! We set out from Shanghai, and the climbing season is at the end of October. This guide is suitable for couples with plenty of time and moderate physical strength.
There are four routes to Mount Tai: Tianwai Village, Hongmen, Taohua Valley and Tianzhu Peak. The last two routes are unpopular. Generally, the first two routes are used for the first time: if you have sufficient physical strength and time, take the Hongmen route; if you save effort, take the Tianwai Village route. The route to Tianwai Village is divided into two: walking up the mountain from Zhongtianmen and going up the mountain by cable car from Zhongtianmen. We chose Tianwai Village to take a bus to Zhongtianmen and then walk up the mountain.
Stay in Tai'an the night before climbing; climb Mount Tai on the second day and stay overnight on the mountain; visit Dai Temple after descending the mountain on the third day, then take the train to Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, and stay one night in Qufu ; On the fourth day, we visited three holes, and then took the train back to Shanghai from Qufu.
Overall plan:
Itinerary: 4 days (one day on the way back and forth, one day in Mount Tai, one day in Qufu) Transportation: train, taxi, bus, cable car, Mobike Accommodation: Stay at Ramada Hotel at the foot of Mount Tai, Yunchao Hotel on Mount Tai, and Queli Guest House in Qufu. Cost: Hotel transportation, tickets and food? 4000 for two people
Detailed itinerary:
Day 1: Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station——>Taian Railway Station——>Check-in at Ramada Hotel
The next day: Tianwai Village——>Zhongtian Gate——>Yunbu Bridge——>Wudafu Pine——>Looking Rensong——>Eighteen Pans——>Nantianmen——>Yunchao Hotel——>Tianjie——>Bixia Temple——>Tang Dynasty Cliff Carvings——>Five Sacred Mountains——>Jade Emperor Peak—— >Riguanfeng——>Yunchao Hotel (rest)
The third day: Yunchao Hotel——>Tianjie——>Riguanfeng——>Gongbei Stone——>Tianjie (breakfast )——>Hotel check-out——>Nantianmen Ropeway——>Tianwai Village——>Dai Temple——>Taian Railway Station——>Qufu——> Queli Guest House
Day 4: Queli Bin House -> Confucius Temple -> Confucius Mansion -> Confucius Forest -> Queli Binshe -> Qufu Railway Station -> Shanghai
The route on the mountain is very simple, with basically no forks; Like Huangshan, if you take the wrong road, you will die.
Transportation:
On the first day, we took a train from Hongqiao Railway Station to Tai'an Railway Station, which took 3 hours and 48 minutes. Take a taxi from the train station to the hotel at the foot of the mountain. The next day we walked from the hotel to Tianwai Village, where we took a bus to Zhongtianmen, which took about half an hour. On the third day, we went down the mountain and took the cable car from Nantianmen to Zhongtianmen. From Zhongtianmen, we took a bus to Tianwai Village, which took about three-quarters of an hour. In the afternoon, we took a taxi to Dai Temple. After visiting Dai Temple, we took a taxi to Tai'an Railway Station. Take a train from Tai'an Railway Station to Qufu Railway Station, which takes 20 minutes. We took a taxi to the hotel at Qufu Railway Station and rode a Mobike to go shopping in Qufu.
On the fourth day, I rode a Mobike to the Confucius Temple. After visiting the Confucius Temple and the adjacent Confucius Mansion, I rode a Mobike again to find a place to have lunch. After lunch, I cycled to Kong Lin. Kong Lin went out and cycled to the hotel to pick up his stored luggage, then took a taxi to Qufu Railway Station and took the train back to the Magic City.
Accommodation:
First night: Tai'an Ramada Hotel Second night: Taishan Tianjie Yunchao Hotel Third night: Qufu Queli Hotel
At the foot of Mount Tai There are many hotels and the prices are not expensive. The Ramada Hotel is backed by Mount Tai and has a great location. It takes about a quarter of an hour to walk to Tianwai Village.
Compared with the top of Mount Huangshan, there are many hotels on Mount Tai, all clustered in the Tianjie area, and the price-performance ratio is much higher than that of Mount Huangshan. Yunchao Hotel is located on Tianjie. It was newly built recently. It has a palace-like structure, like a side hall of the Forbidden City.
Queli Hotel in Qufu is amazing: there are several classical buildings with white walls and gray tiles scattered on the large clean water area, connected by corridors; the interior decoration is also simple and elegant. The interior decoration of the room is average, very simple and not big. The seat is very good and very close to the Confucius Temple. It only takes five minutes by bike.
Food:
Prepare some snacks and fruits on the train. Prepare food and water to replenish energy during mountain climbing: a bottle of mineral water, beef jerky and chocolate per person. The Tianjie on the mountain is really a street, there is no shortage of food, and the prices are not ridiculously expensive, so there is no need to bring dinner up the mountain.
Other items to bring:
Clothes: three sets of underwear, three pairs of cotton socks, long-sleeved T-shirts; sweaters and jackets; cap and scarf. Washing: towels. Medicine: cold medicine, Diarrhea medicine, band-aids. Travel accessories: ID card, mobile phone, power bank, power cord. Travel accessories: poncho (not used), sunglasses and backpack: one backpack each
Cost: refer to the table (this table is a budget , some of the fees therein may differ slightly from the actual ones)
During the four days, the weather could not be called crisp and clear, but there was not a drop of rain, so we were still very lucky. Follow Fat Brother as the guide and foodie, have fun and eat happily.
Day 1: Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station -> Tai'an Railway Station -> Ramada Hotel
The train from Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station at 1:30 pm will arrive at Tai'an Railway Station in the evening A quarter past five. It takes about 20 minutes to take a taxi from the train station to the hotel.
Tai'an is a small city. The hotel is at the foot of Mount Tai. You can see the black peaks behind the hotel. In the evening, I found a restaurant near the hotel and ordered a large plate of chicken. The portion size of the chicken is reminiscent of the Liangshan brothers’ mantra: eat meat in large quantities and drink in large quantities.
The next day: Tianwai Village——>Zhongtian Gate——>Yunbu Bridge——>Five Doctor Pine——>Wangren Pine——>Eighteen Pan——>Nantian Gate——> Yunchao Hotel——>Tianjie——>Bixia Temple——>Tang Dynasty Cliff Carvings——>Five Sacred Mountains——>Jade Emperor Peak——>Riguan Peak——>Yunchao Hotel (rest)
Get up at seven in the morning and check out. We ate local specialty beef dumplings at the breakfast shop outside the hotel. After leaving the hotel and walking to the left for about a quarter of an hour, we arrived at Tianwai Village Square. Tianwai Village Square is a huge circular square, and the bus station is hidden under the square. Get on the bus and go to Zhongtianmen. After getting off the bus, you have to walk a mountain road to reach the Zhongtianmen climbing entrance and the place where you take the cable car.
The road from Zhongtianmen to Shibapan is an ordinary dirt hill. There are stones and bushes on both sides of the road, and there are some pine trees in some places. The roadsides or cliffs are covered with calligraphy left by the literati and politicians of past dynasties. Since I have no knowledge of calligraphy, I only care about the authors of stone carvings, and I counted the ones written by Mao Zedong the most.
The Five Doctors Pine It is said that Qin Shihuang encountered a heavy rain on his way to the mountain and escaped under the pine tree. Therefore, the pine tree was named the "Five Doctors" by Qin Shihuang.
It was already 12 noon when the eighteenth game was reached. The Eighteen Pans are neither dangerous nor beautiful. There are only continuous stone steps, which makes people feel frightened. Passing through Longmen and Shengxianfang all the way, it was about two o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived at Nantianmen.
After passing Nantianmen, you will find Tianjie. I found the hotel in the small alley on the left side of the Tianjie entrance. I packed up, put down my luggage, and set off to go shopping in Tianjie. Tianjie is really a market in the sky; the background is blue sky and white clouds, there is no reinforced concrete forest. If there were more clouds and fog, it would feel like the heavenly palace in Journey to the West.
Walk straight ahead on Tianjie. After passing the canopy gate, you can see a small pavilion. You turn a small corner and enter a large square. In the distance is the Bixia Temple on the high stone steps. . Bixia Temple is dedicated to Bixia Yuanjun, and there is a huge incense burner in front. You can see the smoke coming out of the incense burner from a distance. This is probably the culprit of Mount Tai's haze. But the architectural complex of Bixia Temple is the most beautiful on the top of Mount Tai.
After Bixia Temple, on the way to Jade Emperor Peak, you will pass by a group of cliff carvings, which is the largest and most powerful group of cliff carvings on the mountain. The golden "Jitaishan Inscription" on the right was written by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty himself.
The top of the mountain is very flat, and there are red ancient "come here" everywhere. One of the Internet celebrity monuments is the "Five Mountains Sovereign" on the five corners of the RMB. There are always people lining up waiting to take pictures, so don't expect to find a good angle to queue slowly. What I like most is the wordless stele outside the Jade Emperor Temple, which is said to have been erected by Wu Zetian.
After watching the sunset on the top of the mountain, we went back to Tianjie to have dinner and rest in the hotel.
In fact, there is only a small area on the top of Mount Tai: Jade Peak, Gongbei Stone, Zhanlu Terrace, and the Five Sacred Mountains are all on the top of the small hill. At this time, if you are not planning to watch the sunrise the next day, you can go down the mountain. All the sights have been seen. When we had dinner at Tianjie, Tianjie was still very lively, with people shopping, eating, and night climbers who had just climbed to the top of the mountain.
The third day: Yunchao Hotel -> Tianjie -> Riguan Peak -> Gongbei Stone -> Tianjie (breakfast) -> Hotel check-out -> Nantianmen Cableway ——> Tianwai Village ——> Dai Temple ——> Tai’an Railway Station ——> Qufu ——> Queli Guest House
I got up at five o’clock and went to Jade Emperor Dingzhanlu Terrace to watch the sunrise. We lined up at Nantianmen to take the cable car down the mountain. Sunrise and sunset are really similar, except that there are more people watching the sunrise.
The cable car still goes to Zhongtianmen. It was noon by bus from Zhongtianmen to Tianwai Village. We had lunch at KFC and took a taxi to Dai Temple.
Before visiting Mount Tai in ancient times, the emperors would first go to Dai Temple to hold a sacrificial ceremony, and then climb the mountain to enshrine it. Therefore, according to the procedure, you should first go to Dai Temple and then climb Mount Tai.
Dai Temple is like a mini town: it is surrounded by high walls, and each wall has two gates; it is very big, and it takes about three hours to visit it all. Entering from the Zhengyang Gate in the south, there are Peitian Gate, Ren'an Gate, Tiankuang Hall and Houzai Gate in sequence on the central axis; there are small courtyards on the left and right sides of the central axis. The buildings in Dai Temple are all red walls with glazed tiles, and the ground is paved with bluestone. There are many cypress trees from the Han Dynasty inside, and there are many huge steles carried by Bixi. The entire Dai Temple building and trees are simple and elegant, very simple. A tree or a monument is not hundreds of years old, but thousands of years old.
The inconspicuous little black stone in the picture below has a few words engraved on it. I was a little excited when I saw it: it was written by Li Si of the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago; it is like a myth in history. The relics of the characters are right in front of you.
At the northern end of the central axis of Dai Temple is the largest Tiankuang Hall. There are murals from the Song Dynasty inside, which completely record the tour and return of Emperor Dongyue. Wear shoe covers at the door. At the north gate we climbed up the city wall and walked along the wall back to the south gate. From the city wall, you can see Mount Tai in the distance, and you can also see the layout of the entire Dai Temple from a height.
Take a taxi from Daimiao to Tai'an Railway Station and take the train to Qufu. It only takes 20 minutes by train from Tai'an to Qufu, which is very close. Take a taxi from Qufu Railway Station to Queli Binshe. You will pass the city gate on the way and the hotel is in the ancient city. The name of this hotel is very Confucius, as if returning to ancient times.
I found two Mobike bicycles in front of the hotel, walked around the hotel, had dinner, and then went back to the hotel to rest.
Day 4: Queli Guest House——>Confucius Temple——>Confucius Mansion——>Confucius Forest——> Queli Guest House——>Qufu Railway Station——>Shanghai
Confucius Temple There is an opening ceremony at the entrance of the city every morning at 8 o'clock, which is very interesting and worth seeing. After the ceremony, everyone went into the city to watch.
The Confucius Temple has nine courtyards. At the beginning, there were several stone gates; the courtyards were separated by gates with red walls and golden tiles; there was a stone corridor in the middle of the courtyard, with countless cypress trees on the green grass on both sides; There is an inscription given by the emperor, and there is a rainproof pavilion outside. At first we were appreciating it carefully, but then we realized how deep the courtyard was. After walking one after another, we were so tired that we didn’t even want to look at it. The entire Confucius Temple is like a palace. The specifications of the buildings inside, the steles and plaques given by the emperor, everywhere show its noble status.
The Confucius Mansion is located next to the Confucius Temple. It is the office and residence of Yan Shenggong, the eldest son of Confucius’ family.
After lunch, we rode to Konglin. Konglin is the cemetery of the Kong family. The lush forest land is filled with various trees, and the green forest grassland is dotted with the tombs of Confucius and his descendants. Except for Confucius and his sons and grandsons, the tombs of other descendants of the Confucius family are not very obvious, just a small mound in the forest. A slightly famous one with a stone sculpture of a patron saint. Because it is a cemetery, I only took pictures of the gate and not inside. It was big enough inside so it was like it was just the two of us, except for the occasional person we bumped into.
After leaving Konglin, I bought some local specialty tortillas, then took a taxi to the train station, left Qufu, and took the bus back to Shanghai.