It takes courage to step out of the house in the hot capital, but the sun is too high, so I can only go to the suburbs of Beijing to escape the heat. We used to go north, but this time it’s a little different. Let’s head west all the way to Fangshan for the weekend! Speaking of Fangshan, Shidu should be the most frequented place in the past. The scenery there is picturesque and the scenic spot is mature. It is very suitable for gathering with friends. This weekend we plan to change the theme, visit museums, and stay in a resort hotel in Fangshan Mountain , come to a leisure and cultural trip to escape from the scorching sun.
First stop: Zhoukoudian Ruins.
The last time I came to the Zhoukoudian site seemed to be a primary school student. As a national first-class museum and a national archaeological site park assessed by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, it is certainly worth visiting again. The Zhoukoudian site is located in Zhoukoudian Town, Fangshan, Beijing. The undulating Taihang Mountains face the vast North China Plain, and a small river flows in front of the mountain. It is rich in natural resources. It is the place where the "Peking Man" lived 700,000-200,000 years ago, the early Homo sapiens 200,000-100,000 years ago, and the caveman 30,000-10,000 years ago. All kinds of fossils and cultural heritage sites of different periods have been found here, and many "Peking Man" fossil remains, stone tools, hundreds of animal fossils and a large number of fire remains have also been unearthed.
Zhoukoudian Site Museum
The collections exhibited here include more than a thousand pieces of ancient humans, ancient animals, cultural relics, etc. The display method is mainly based on the combination of multimedia interaction and digital technology, introducing the discovery, excavation, research and protection of the Zhoukoudian site.
Here shows the discovery and excavation process of the Zhoukoudian site, and the production and living conditions of the "Peking Man" 700,000 to 200,000 years ago. They obtained food through gathering and hunting.
ape cave
This is the most famous site of the Zhoukoudian site. It turned out to be a natural limestone cave. "Peking people" lived here intermittently for nearly 500,000 years. The sediment flowing in from the outside of the cave fills the cave layer by layer to form a huge thick accumulation layer, which is a standard section of Middle Pleistocene cave accumulation in North China.
The ape-man cave protection shed here is even more spectacular. The golden sunlight shines in, and it seems to be a place for online celebrities to check in!
Zhoukoudian Ruins Popular Science Experience Hall
The theme of the experience hall is traveling through ancient times. Through large-scale interactive exhibitions such as primitive picking, stone tools, ancient hunting and ancient fishing, the audience can travel back to ancient times through time and space. Both adults and children can find fun here At the same time, learn knowledge, enlighten wisdom, and understand the greatness and hardship of human beings in the evolution process.
The Zhoukoudian site is the cradle of "Peking Man" and their descendants, and one of the important birthplaces of human beings in Asia. Come here to see your ancestors, where the Beijingers came from, and the process of searching for "self", you can find the answer at the Zhoukoudian site.
Tips:
Bus route: Take bus No. 836 from Tianqiao to Zhoukoudian, transfer to bus No. 38 and get off at Zhoukoudian Ruins.
The second stop: Tianyu Mountain Villa European Style Castle Hotel
When the car turned into the gate of Tianyu Mountain Villa, the whole scenery changed completely, making people feel as if they had come to a small town in Europe. That's right, Tianyu Villa is a dream-making space.
This is a large-scale leisure and vacation garden-style hotel integrating catering, accommodation, conferences, entertainment, sports and fitness. Spending a leisurely and beautiful day in Tianyu Villa is the most surprising place of this trip to Fangshan. .
This is like an authentic German town. The Baroque architecture brings people a solemn and joyful atmosphere. Taking a leisurely walk in the garden is really like being in a fairy tale! Everything is set against the lake. Against the blue sky, it is like a painting. Just feel everything here quietly and forget the busy traffic in the city. This is what we should look like on weekends.
The group of villas with Berlin County as the core, some are adjacent to the lakeside, some are built on the mountain, patchwork, red brick walls, surrounded by tall green trees, the shadows of the trees are whirling, low-key and quiet. If it is early in the morning, we can hear the crowing of the countryside and enjoy the most beautiful blue sky in the suburbs of Beijing. If it is in the evening, there are waterfalls and springs flowing here, and there is a charming golden color in the evening.
In the evening, back to our Edburgh, it can accommodate a group of 12 of us to stay together. The six rooms are also equipped with a dining room and a living room, so that we can relax and rest here. The rooms are all in European style, with solid wood furniture and colorful wallpapers, elegant and warm, very comfortable.
In the morning, what wakes you up is no longer the alarm clock, but the chirping of birds, insects, cocks and dogs. This is the real experience of embracing and enjoying nature! Open the curtains, surrounded by green trees, the air in the mountains and forests is extraordinarily fresh, and the natural oxygen bar, once you come, you don’t want to leave again.
Tianyu Mountain Villa has a large area of green fields, and the pastoral scenery is very interesting. Here, you can pick a variety of original ecological organic vegetables and organic fruits. From the vegetable field to the dining table, it is completed in the shortest time. This kind of timeliness naturally makes the dull urban taste buds full of expectations. In Tianyu Villa, there are not only abundant self-grown ingredients, but also skilled chefs. Let us take turns tasting the specialties here during the two meals of the day.
I have to say that Tianyu's hospitality dishes are really domineering when served on the table. The ruddy soup is soaked in the ingredients, making the fat but not greasy, tender and soft safflower meat, firm and solid meatballs without starch, homemade Old tofu... are quite tasty, rich and aromatic. The cabbage vermicelli on the bottom is more heroic and simple.
Beef roasted wheat grains is a dish that can explode your circle of friends. The grains of wheat are very competitive, and they are fragrant with minced meat. It is rare to have such a large grain of wheat directly on weekdays, and it can be regarded as a new dish!
This crunchy meat roll is similar to Shandong pancakes. The pepper is the finishing touch. The aroma of the elbow meat, the crispiness of the fried pork chops, and the crispness of the vegetable leaves are paired with a fresh green onion. Just like this roll, don’t mention it How fragrant!
Salt and pepper mushrooms are a must-order dish in the suburbs of Beijing. There are also innovations here. The crispy and crispy ones are the fastest "bottomed out" dishes on the table.
I only had a short stay of one day and one night in Tianyu Villa, and I have seen enough. However, there are more special items that I have not experienced. I look forward to living in Tianyu Villa again and continue to return to my fairy tale dream.
Third stop: Yunju Temple
Fangshan Yunju Temple is located in Shuitou Village, Dashiwo Town, Shijing Mountain, Fangshan District, also known as Xiyu Temple. It is a treasure house of Chinese Buddhist cultural characteristics composed of Yunju Temple, Shijing Mountain Tibetan Scripture Cave, and Tang and Liao Pagodas. Yunju Temple was first built in the late Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasty. After successive repairs, it formed five courtyards and six halls.
In Yunju Temple, there are precious collections of stone, paper and wood scriptures, Buddhist relics, Tang and Liao pagodas and many cultural relics and historic sites. Among them, the 14,278 pieces of Fangshan Yunju Temple stone carvings of Buddhist scriptures are famous all over the world.
Yunju Temple was first built in the Daye period of the Sui Dynasty (605-618) by Master Jing Wan, an eminent monk of the Sui Dynasty. The temple sits west and faces east. On the central axis, there were originally six halls, which were Tianwang Hall and Pilu Hall in turn, with Drum Tower and Bell Tower on both sides; There are buildings such as the monk's room, Manjusri Hall and Abbot's Courtyard on the side; the highest point is the Great Compassion Hall, which is integrated with the Dharma Hall and the Sutra Pavilion, forming the largest hall in the temple. There is a Liao Dynasty brick pagoda in the north of the temple, named Luohan Pagoda, commonly known as the North Pagoda; there was also a brick pagoda in the south, named Yajing Pagoda, commonly known as the South Pagoda. The south tower and most of the halls of the temple were destroyed by artillery fire during the Anti-Japanese War, and only the mountain gate, the north tower and four small towers around it survived. In recent years, the main buildings have been rebuilt one after another.
Stone Book
Yunju Temple is most famous for the Fangshan Stone Scriptures stored in the Stone Scripture Mountain opposite the temple. They are the only stone-carved Tripitaka in China. The scriptures are all engraved on stone slabs and hidden in nine caves. During the Daye period of the Sui Dynasty, Master Jingwan inherited the ambition of his teacher, Master Huisi, a monk from Nanyue Mountain in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and made a vow to engrave scriptures and hide them in the stone room, so as to be used as the scriptures in case of "difficulty with the law" again. From the Daye of the Sui Dynasty to the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, the temple was built here to engrave scriptures, and it was completed until the end of the Ming Dynasty. Among them, the Tang, Liao, and Jin dynasties carved the most scriptures.
On the hillside of Shijing Mountain, there are nine scripture caves, which are divided into upper and lower floors. Eight of the caves are closed. After filling the sutra boards, the doors are blocked with stones and cast with molten iron. Only one of the largest Leiyin caves is open. Jingwan originally carved 146 sutras, which were embedded in the four walls of the cave. There are four eight-sided pillars in the cave, and 1056 Buddha statues are carved on the pillars, so it is called Qianfozhu. There are a total of 4196 Buddhist scripture stones in the nine caves. The South Pagoda in the temple at the foot of the mountain is also called the Sutra Pressing Pagoda, and there are 10,082 scripture stones in the underground palace under the pagoda. There are 14,278 scripture stones in total, engraved with 1,122 Buddhist scriptures and 3,572 volumes, which can be called the most inscribed Buddhist scriptures in the world. In order to better protect this batch of precious cultural heritage, Yunju Temple returned all 10,082 Liao and Jinshi scriptures to a constant temperature, constant humidity, airtight, nitrogen-filled underground palace at 9:9:9 on September 9, 1999. middle. Fangshan Stone Classics is a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation, an extremely precious world cultural heritage, and has extremely high academic, cultural and historical values. It enjoys the reputation of "National Treasure" and "Stone Classic Great Wall".
Yunju Temple also collects more than 22,000 volumes of paper scriptures, which are engraved and hand-written copies of the Ming Dynasty. The number is rare among famous temples in China.
Buddha relic
The Buddhist relic of Yunju Temple was unearthed on November 27, 1981. Under the worship stone of Leiyin Cave in Shijing Mountain, a stone cave about two feet long, wide and deep and a set of stone boxes carved from white marble were found. Inside the big stone box is a bluestone box with Jingwan inscriptions on the top of the bluestone box, and inside the blue box is a third layer of fine white marble box. Inside is the fourth set of small silver letters, and finally the fifth set of extremely small jade letters, exquisite raw materials, fine carvings, two relics of Sakyamuni Buddha were found in the small jade letters, which aroused great controversy at that time. sensation. These two Buddha relics, together with the Buddha finger relics from Famen Temple in Shaanxi and the Buddha bone relics from the two places of the Eight Great Places, are collectively known as the "Three Treasures of the Sea".
Don Tower
There are five Tang Pagodas in Yunju Temple with seven eaves and two with single eaves, which are located in the temple and on the opposite Shijing Mountain. The four small square towers at the four corners of the North Tower are seven-eave Tang towers. These pagodas are square, more than 4 meters high, and the top of the pagodas has seven floors of double eaves, so they are also called seven-level pagodas. Among them, the small Tang Pagoda in the northwest corner was built in the second year of Jingyun (711 AD), and is currently the oldest Tang Pagoda in Beijing.
The North Tower, the symbolic building of Yunju Temple, is 34.2 meters high and has a brick and tile structure. It was built in the Liao Dynasty. The pagoda brake and the body of the pagoda are composed of Xianglun, covered bowl, and pavilions to form a bell, drum, and tower-shaped appearance. The base of the pagoda is an octagonal Xumizuo , around the girdle, there are sculptures representing the music and dancers of the Liao Dynasty, reflecting the cultural relics of the Liao Dynasty, and providing material materials for the study of music, dance and other cultural arts of the Liao Dynasty. A total of 176 bricks of Buddha statues are inlaid on the eight-sided base at the lower part of the North Tower. On each of the bricks of the Buddha statues, there is a verse of "all dharmas are born by fate, I say it is fate, and they are destroyed because of fate. I say so" .
The three ancient pagodas on the north side of the North Pagoda, from north to south, are the tomb pagodas of Yuantong, Liaochen, and Yunguang masters and apprentices, and the three Yunju Temple presided over in the Qing Dynasty, so they are also called Sangong Pagodas. The architectural style of the three tomb towers belongs to the Lama Tower. Each tower has a tower inscription, which records the outstanding contributions made by the three abbots to the restoration of Yunju Temple in the Qing Dynasty. With merit, three tomb towers were built.
Yunju Temple is lined with trees and lush bamboo forests, which is also a good place to escape the summer heat. At the same time, tasting Zen tea here and listening to Sanskrit sounds will make this summer pure and peaceful.
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Fourth stop: Fangshan Geological Park Museum
Fangshan Geological Park Museum is located in Changgou Town, Fangshan District.
The exhibition of this museum takes "heaven, earth and man" as the soul, takes the park's address changes, biological evolution, and human evolution as the main line, and uses popular science, storytelling, and popular language as the link. , Multi-angle display of the park's geological relics and cultural landscape content. From the moment I entered the door, I was full of curiosity. It is really rare to see such an attractive and interesting museum in China that is not boring at all.
Hall of Geological History and Evolution
Through the three main lines of rock evolution, tectonic evolution, and biological evolution, it tells the history of geological evolution in different development periods of Fangshan UNESCO Global Geopark.
Geological Landscape Hall
Taking the eight parks as display units, even Shidu, Shihuadong and other scenic spots have been moved into the museum.
Exhibition halls of world geological parks at home and abroad
Geoparks from all over the world are introduced, and rock specimens, Fangshan stratigraphic walls, etc. are displayed through a microscope.
Herbarium
A rich and colorful mineral world is displayed.
Tips:
Fee: Free visit, make an appointment at least one day in advance, and receive a ticket with the appointment number and valid certificate
Address: Jinyuan Street, Changgou Town, Fangshan District
Bus route: Take 917 from Tianqiao and get off at the intersection of Yunjusi, and walk west along Yunjusi Road for about 2.3 kilometers.
Fifth stop: Zhangfang Ancient Battle Road
Zhangfang Ancient Battle Road is located in Zhangfang Village, Zhangfang Town, Fangshan District, Beijing. The Song-Liao Ancient Battle Road is adjacent to Taihang Mountain in the north and Juma River in the south. It has beautiful scenery, pleasant scenery, simple folk customs, and many scenic spots and historical sites. It has always been a place that Chinese and foreign tourists yearn for.
After preliminary detection, the ancient battle path is about 1,500 meters long, and has been restored to more than 400 meters. According to cultural relics experts, it is the only military ancient battle path discovered in the Beijing area. Living facilities are of high value to the study of ancient military affairs, politics and architecture.
The ancient battle road with blue brick structure, the wall bricks are built in a straight line, the upper and lower joints are staggered, and the top is built with vertical bricks in a straight line. This kind of building method is consistent with the construction method in the Song and Liao Dynasties. The distribution of fork roads in the battle road forms a network structure, criss-crossing, extending in all directions, with twists and turns, connecting the four city gate towers and surrounding villages. The Zhangfang Village Pagoda is located in Zhangfang Village, Fangshan. It was built in the sixth year of Liao Tianqing (1116). The tower is an octagonal stone tower with five levels of dense eaves. 6 meters high. The base of the pagoda is divided into upper, middle and lower floors. The upper part is a round stone-carved lotus support, and the middle and lower parts are two-layer Xumizuo, with relief figures and animal patterns all over the body. In the middle of the pagoda is an octagonal building made of a single stone. Because there are scriptures engraved on it, it is commonly known as "Jingzhu".
In the short two days in Fangshan, the itinerary was compact but very leisurely and relaxing, which gave me a better understanding of Fangshan. Of course, this is only a small part of Fangshan’s visit. There are more attractions waiting for me to explore. The air here is fresh. The ingredients are natural, and it is a good place worth visiting many times.