First of all, let's talk about the arrangement of today's activities. The bus arrives at Mount Qingcheng at about nine o'clock, we take the cable car to Shangqing Palace, and then walk down the mountain along the tour. At noon, we will walk down to the mountain gate, there will be known as "Qingcheng four best" "cave milk wine, Taoist pickles, bitter tea, white fruit stewed chicken" such as food waiting for you. After a short rest, we will go to Dujiangyan Scenic Spot to visit. At five o'clock, we will take the bus back to Chengdu.
While we were talking and walking, we didn't realize that an hour had passed. The car now passes through the city of Dujiangyan, which is world-famous for the Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project, built northwest of the city in the third century B.C. by Li Bing, the governor of Shu County, who led the masses, and which we will visit on our way back.
Qingcheng Mountain is close at hand, so I'll use these few minutes to give you a brief overview.
Qingcheng Mountain, the main peak of the old Xiaotian, with an altitude of 1,600 meters, is located in the northwestern part of the Chengdu Plain in the Dujiangyan City Scenic Area, 63 kilometers away from Chengdu, Dujiangyan, 15 kilometers away from Chengdu, as early as 1982 was announced by the State Council as the first batch of national key scenic spots, in 2000, it is in the Dujiangyan together with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), approved as a world cultural heritage.
Qingcheng Mountain belongs to the Qionglai Mountain System, according to geological research formed in 180 million years ago, the formation of the mountain building movement, the peaks of the standoff, such as the city gallery, the mountain forests, lush, green all year round, in the Tang Dynasty that is known as the "Qingcheng," so the name of Qingcheng Mountain.
Qingcheng Mountain's name, there is another way of saying. That is, "Qingcheng Mountain" is a clerical error. The so-called "Qingcheng" refers to the place where the immortals live. In the Tang Dynasty, the Taoist and Buddhist religions competed for the territory of Mount Qingcheng, so Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty issued an imperial edict that "the temple should be returned to the Taoist family, and the temple should be built on the old place outside the mountain." The word "Qing" in the edict was missing the radical, and people have been making mistakes ever since. This statement, but also more credible, there are Tianshidong three emperor hall in the Tang Xuanzong hand edict monument as evidence.
Qingcheng Mountain is not only to the sunrise, the sea of clouds, the holy lights of the three natural wonders to attract guests from all directions is more to Qingcheng Taoism and famous all over the world. Qingcheng Taoist qigong is also famous.
Taoism is the "Tao" as the highest faith in China's indigenous traditional religion, which arose in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Qingcheng Mountain, as the ancestral mountain of Tianshi Dao, is one of the four famous mountains of Taoism and one of the birthplaces of Taoism.
Almost at the same time as Christ Jesus, during the reign of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Ling (later known as Zhang Daoling), a member of the Pei State Feng Ren, knitted a hut to seek Taoism at Mount Heming in Dayi, a mountain thereafter. He claimed to be the "Heavenly Master by order of the Supreme Lord Lao", and honored Laozi as the master of the religion. With the Tao Te Ching as the sacred text, he created the "Way of the Five Pieces of Rice", also known as the "Way of the Heavenly Master", based on the sorcery of the primitive Qiang tribes of the region, which was used to subdue and drive away evil spirits and demons. The Tao of the Celestial Masters", also known as the "Tao of the Celestial Masters".
Tianshi Zhang came to Tianshi Cave in Qingcheng Mountain in 143 years to preach and cultivate in this cave, and was transformed here. Thereafter his son Zhang Heng and his grandson Zhang Lu also inherited the teachings here. In addition, Fan Changsheng of the Jin Dynasty, Du Guangting of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shaowei of the Southern Song Dynasty came here one after another to preach.
In the Qing Dynasty in the eighth year of Kangxi, Wudang Mountain, Quanzhen Tao Longmen Sect 11th generation heir apparent Chen Qingjue to Mount Qingcheng to preside over the religious affairs, and later by the Kangxi Qing Dynasty, "Dantai Bidong" sealed him as "Bidong real people". Since then, Qingcheng Taoism belongs to the Quanzhen Taoist Longmen School Bidong sect has been passed on 13 generations.
Taoism advocates "self-sufficiency, return to simplicity and truth", they call the land where the gods reside "Cave Heaven", Mount Qingcheng is the fifth of the Ten Cave Heaven of Taoism, and there is a ruling deity in each cave heaven. Qingcheng Mountain's ruling deity is Ning Fengzi, who is enshrined in the Jianfu Palace and was honored by the Yellow Emperor as "Wuyue Zhanyan".
Qingcheng Mountain is divided into two mountains, each with an area of 15 and 100 square kilometers. Here 36 peaks, 8 big holes, 72 small holes, 108 scenes everything is permeated with the spirit of Taoist culture. The former mountain is the main part of the scenic area, highlighting the Taoist style of revering nature Taoist temples are scattered throughout.
Speaking of natural style, we have to mention the natural beauty of Mount Qingcheng, which has been known as "the world of Qingcheng," the reputation of its "ghost," but also for the generations of writers and writers respected, which the contemporary master of Chinese painting, Mr. Zhang Daqian in 1940, around the time, his family lived in the mountain. In 1940, Mr. Zhang Daqian, a contemporary master of Chinese painting, lived in Qingcheng Shangqing Palace and called himself "Qingcheng Guest".
Well, friends, Mount Qingcheng is here, let us also do a round of Qingcheng guest, with it to a close contact it. Please take your belongings and get off the bus in order. Pay attention to safety when you move around and stay close to our group during the tour. If you get lost, please call me on my cell phone at 13 followed by nine sixes.
Walk down the stone steps that the great poet Du Fu called the "Dan Stairs". We now come to the place is the ancient name "Chang Dao Guan" Qingcheng Mountain main temple Tianshidong. Here the sea level of 1100 meters, three sides of the mountains and one side of the stream, just like the scene of the fairy capital.
Touring the Tianshi Hall, Three Emperor's Hall, Yellow Emperor's Shrine in turn, now come to the place is the Sanqing Hall. This hall was built in 1923, for the heavy eaves of the roof of the pavilion-style building, in front of the hall to nine stone steps to support.
We see, the front gable and support the six large stone columns are 1.2 meters, carved beasts of the large stone base, in the solemnity and majesty, is not rich in the interest of Linyong it. Hall across five large open space, ***580 square meters, also supported by a variety of exquisite whole stone columns. These columns, 4.4 meters high, very grand. We look closely at the upper end of this column support bow and curved door, are using openwork flower carving, engraved with figures and flowers, color tone elegant, exquisite craftsmanship.
This hall is enshrined in the supreme three gods of Taoism. In the middle of this is living in the Qingweitian, Shangqing realm of the "First Heavenly Father" is also known as "Shangqing" or "Tianbaojun". The one on the left is "Lingbao Tianzun", also known as "Yuqing" or "Lingbaojun", who lives in Yuyu Heaven, the realm of Yuqing. The one on the right is "Tao Te Te Chun", also known as "Tai Ching" or "Shen Bao Jun", who lives in Dazhi Tian, the realm of Tai Ching, and is also known as Lao Zi, or Laozi. The three heavenly beings are collectively known as the Three Pristine Ones, each of which is the head of the religion, and is the creator of all things in the universe, with command over all the demons and gods.
We went out of the temple to see, this temple in front of the stone fence carved with "Tian Rustling spirit baby figure", this stone statue are bareheaded backless laughing and playing with the baby their bald head on the ring scar, Tian Lingcai concave has not been long flat, and some of us Chengdu words called "Mao Gen'er! Some of them have what we call in Chengdu language "Mao Gen'er". The stone sculpture uses innocent and lively babies to represent the "Red Son", according to the Tao Te Ching, "The constant virtue is not separated from the power to return to the babies." It implies that the highest state of monasticism is to reach the level of childishness. The "conch" and other musical instruments designed in the stone carving will emit pleasant sounds when encountering the wind, called "Heavenly Rustling", which represents the nature revered by Taoism, and this "Heavenly Rustling Spiritual Infant Picture" actually represents the lofty philosophical and philosophical principles of Taoism. This is the "Heavenly Rustling Spirit Picture", which actually represents Taoism's lofty philosophy and aesthetic taste.
There is also a very tall ancient ginkgo tree with a height of 30 meters and a crown diameter of 36 meters. I invite you to guess the age of the tree. It's not 500 years old, and it's not just 1,000 years old. In fact, it is almost 2000 years old. According to legend, this tree was planted by Zhang Tianshi himself. Standing under this tree, let us have to sigh, the stars, history changes, time flies ah.