Brahma Pure Land Paradise on Earth
"One mountain after another, thousands of mountains and thousands of mountains; year after year, thousands of years and thousands of years." Time is both destruction and creation in Fanjing Mountain.
That was 1.4 billion years ago. The ancient continents drifted and collided, the volcanic magma burst into flames, and in a blood-red sea of flames, Mount Fanjing was born. It is the earliest ancient area south of the Yellow River in China that was lifted from the ocean to land. Then, in the long geological history, the Fanjing Mountains have experienced four relatively significant geological tectonic movements of Fanjing-Wuling, Xuefeng, Yanshan and Himalayas, with continuous fission, folds, depressions, and steep extensions... Rolled into the Sichuan, Hunan and Guizhou Jurassic fold belts. The energy accumulated for billions of years lifts up the bottom of the ocean and becomes towering majestic peaks.
This mountain stands at the junction of Yinjiang, Songtao and Jiangkou counties in the northeast of Guizhou Province. As the main peak of the Wuling Mountains, Mount Fanjing, which has been baptized by the years, has long since returned to peace. Time is just a name for her. She has already used her richness and generosity to nourish the animals and plants for the reproduction of the ancient animals and plants. Provide conditions for evolution and evolution, and provide refuge and habitat for rare and endangered animals and plants.
Her generosity and compassion have made her a prestigious nature reserve and Buddhist monastery in China.
Chinese Buddhist Famous Mountain Maitreya Bodhisattva Dojo
The fame and development of Mount Fanjing both originated from Buddhism. The huge temple complexes of the Four Great Temples and the Forty-eight Foot Temples spread throughout the Fanjing Mountain area, establishing the Buddhist status of Mount Fanjing as the famous "Ancient Buddha Dojo". The only Maitreya Bodhisattva dojo in the mountains. Buddhist culture puts a solemn and magical color on the vast Fanjing Mountain.
In the Ming Dynasty, Buddhism in Fanjingshan reached its peak and flourished. In the forty-sixth year of Wanli (1618), Shenzong ordered Miaoxuan to rebuild the Golden Summit of Fanjing Mountain. This reconstruction was ordered by Emperor Shenzong. More than a hundred people including officials, gentry, monks and civilians participated in the event, which was unprecedentedly grand.
According to the "Emperor's Stele", there are five temples and six halls in the reconstruction. The five temples are: Chengen Temple, Tianqing Temple, Chaotian Temple, Tianlin Temple, and Tianchi Temple; the six halls are: Jiuhuang Hall, Sanqing Hall, Yuantong Hall, Maitreya Hall, Sakyamuni Hall, and Tongming Hall. Among them, Cheng'en Temple is called "Jinding Main Hall", also known as Cheng'en Temple. Tianqing Temple, Chaotian Temple, Tianlin Temple, and Tianchi Temple are called the "Four Great Forests", and they were collectively called the "Five Great Temples" of Fanjing Mountain in the Ming Dynasty. "This is a royal temple officially built in the Fanjing Mountain in Qiandong, Guizhou in the Ming Dynasty. Miaoxuan was ordered by the imperial court to be the abbot of Cheng'en Temple, and granted Zhenshanyin to govern Buddhism in the whole area, and cast a bronze Buddha statue of Sakyamuni and Maitreya, respectively. It was offered in the second hall of Sakyamuni and Maitreya. At that time, there were more than 10 eminent monks and hundreds of monks and nuns in the mountain.
Today's Cheng'en Temple is still solemn and solemn, silent on the top of the mountain surrounded by clouds and mist, with morning bells and evening drums, prayer flags fluttering, and pilgrims and tourists coming and going in an endless stream, but this place cannot be disturbed.
The famous Yue Zhizong in the world, the new and old Jinding each have their own merits
The magical power of natural creation makes Fanjingshan rich in intoxicating natural scenery. The golden summit of Fanjingshan, surrounded by clouds and mist, is very prone to magical natural phenomena such as Buddha's light. Imagine standing on the top of a high mountain, Above the clouds and mist, when the sun is rising in the east, the sunlight from behind you shoots you and the shadow of Jinding onto the clouds and mist in front and below, and three colorful halos appear in the sky.
According to relevant information, among the three famous mountains and five famous mountains in the country, only Mount Emei, Mount Lu and Mount Tai are the places where "Buddha's light" appears. However, in terms of the duration, magnificence, clarity and frequency of its "Buddha's light", it is not comparable to the "Buddha's light" of Fanjing Mountain, which further deepens the mystery of Fanjing Mountain.
Fanjing Mountain has two golden domes, the old and the new, with Cheng'en Temple as the boundary, and two hills on the left and right. Laojinding is a grand view garden of strange rocks. Because the stone is hard and the rock surface is delicate, it may be used as a mirror to illuminate people. This legend has been recorded in historical books. Whenever people take a stone slab from Laojinding on a night when the wind is clear and the moon is white, it will be beautiful. You can take your own image. And the strange rocky landscape is different in cloudy and sunny weather, the color is livid on cloudy days, and bright red on sunny days.
In the old Jinding, you can see the peculiar ten thousand volumes of books, the lifelike mushroom stone, the lifelike eagle rock and other wonders. Going down along the Mushroom Stone, the Nine Emperor Cave appears. Enter through the Shimen, you can see a side neatly in the courtyard, and then stretch into the cave. On the stone wall of Feiya, there are four big characters of "Dongtian Fudi" engraved with beautiful strokes. It is said that this is the place where Li Huangniang, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, practiced.
On the other side of the new Jinding, the shape of the mountain is more steep.
The crack in the middle is named Jindao Gorge, which divides the Golden Summit into two.
There is a sky bridge connecting them. There is a temple on each side, one side is dedicated to Sakyamuni Buddha and the other side is dedicated to Maitreya Buddha. Hongyun Ruiqi often surrounds it. It is called Hongyun Jinding, which is harmonious with "Hongyun Jinding", and has the reputation of "the first peak in the world".
And when I arrived at Fanjing Mountain this time, it was quite foggy due to the weather. In order to be able to take pictures of the beautiful scenery of the Red Clouds and Golden Summit, I kept guarding for three consecutive days before I could keep it open.
Use all four limbs to climb up the iron rope, look up in the gorge, a ray of skylight shines down, and when you reach the top, you can see the flying bridge connected. , time flies silently, only the light and shadow caress the mountain, and the clouds blow on the face.
Looking at Hongyun Jinding from a distance, the entire mountain rises in a columnar shape, with a large top and a small bottom. Its shape is like a steamer, and the local people call it "Fan Zeng Mountain". The upper end of the stone pillar is naturally split into two peaks, just like the Buddha's hand climbing high, with two fingers piercing the sky, and two Buddhist temples stand respectively on the fingers of the Buddha's hand. It is really a magnificent masterpiece carved by nature.
In Fanjing Mountain, there are not only two geological wonders worth seeing, the old and new Jinding, but there are more than 20 peaks above 2,000 meters above sea level in the whole mountain. The continuous mountains, unique landforms, and steep valleys all make the Fanjing Mountain has formed a majestic and steep scene with many mountains and mountains.
"Collection of the wonders of Huangshan, the beauty of Emei, the danger of Huashan, and the hero of Mount Tai", the ancients called Fanjing Mountain "the ancestor of all famous mountains in the world" because "Cui Wei does not reduce the five mountains, and the magic is enough to spread for thousands of years".
The mountain is not high, there is water, there is spirit
With the nourishment of water, the mountain has aura, aura and soul. Only then can mountains and rivers depend on each other and reflect each other, like poetry and picturesque.
The water in Fanjing Mountain is either trickling, dripping, hanging in the air, or roaring, all of which are extremely clear. The peak turns back to the water and merges into ninety-nine streams. Along the east-west direction of the mountain, it merges into the Jinjiang River and the Songjiang River to the east, and goes straight to the Yuanjiang River to enter Dongting Lake; it merges to the Yinjiang River to the west, and goes straight to the Wujiang River to enter the Yangtze River. .
The shape of Fanjing Mountain is like a dome, and the terrain elevation difference is more than 1,000 meters. Therefore, the rivers in the mountain are radially deep and diverted to the surroundings. There are 9 main rivers, and there is a saying that "Jiulong comes out of the mountain". With the Jinding, Laojinding and Fenghuang peaks of Fanjing Mountain as the center, it is the watershed between the Wujiang River and the Yuanjiang River system. The sources of the Manger River, Heiwan River, Kaitu River, Niuwei River and Taiping River flow into the Yuanjiang River; the Xiaojia River, Changtan River, Taojin River and Yujiagou flow into the Wujiang River.
There is also a Guanyin waterfall hidden deep in this mountain, which few people know but is very strange.
It is peculiar because a rock wall hit by the waterfall is especially like a standing Guanyin statue. This "Guanyin statue" has stood upright in a humid environment for a long time. The Avalokitesvara statue is very magical.
Mount Fanjing: A Simple Ecological Kingdom
Due to the huge mountain body and large vertical height difference of Fanjing Mountain, it has formed a primitive and simple ecological kingdom.
Mount Fanjing not only grows all kinds of plants and animals all over the mountains, but also has rare animals such as Guizhou golden monkey, giant salamander (salamander), white-necked pheasant, clouded leopard, and the only remaining "Guizhou crape myrtle" in the world. As well as rare plants such as the Chinese pigeon flower tree (Dove Copper). You can go to the Animal and Plant Exhibition Hall to see the introduction before climbing the mountain.
If you don't take the cable car, you can climb to the top of the mountain from the west line walking trail, and you can see the lush vegetation of Fanjing Mountain.
Although it has entered winter in terms of seasons, Fanjing Mountain is hovering in the most beautiful season of autumn, with red leaves all over the mountain and spots of colorful makeup dotting the deep mountains.
Listen to its sound, feel the wind blowing the forest, and the spirit of insects and birds singing; walking in it is to see the harmonious coexistence of one flower, one world, one stone and one life.
In order to protect Mount Fanjing, Mount Fanjing was designated by the Ministry of Forestry as a natural forest no-logging area (nature reserve). The main protection objects are the ecosystem composed of Guizhou golden monkeys, Davidia involucrata and other rare animals and plants as well as their habitats. In January 1987, Mount Fanjing became the only member of the second batch of China's second batch of protected areas listed in the international "Man and the Biosphere" protected area network by UNESCO, and became the fourth nature reserve in China to join the network, becoming a globally significant nature reserve. Class A protected area.
Therefore, if you have enough time and energy, it is best to go on foot when you come to Mount Fanjing. In this way, you can appreciate Mount Fanjing in the poetic flavor of tenderness and affection, trace back to the source, and find the spiritual life hidden deep in Mount Fanjing. legend.
If you are lucky enough to come with your lover, remember to lock a love lock on the top of the mountain, and wish yourself and your lover a safe and happy life.
Fanjing Mountain game recommendations and precautions
1. Looking for golden monkeys
The most ideal time to observe golden monkeys is in late April, when the young leaves are just sprouting, and golden monkeys will never miss their favorite food, so the probability of seeing golden monkeys in the forest is the highest at this time. And the mysterious Guizhou snub-nosed monkey living in Fanjing Mountain that has been passed down in the world, I don’t know if you can find it.
If you observe, you can carry a telescope. If you shoot, it is recommended to use a telephoto lens.
2. Precautions for hiking
Due to the fog and water vapor in the mountains, the Qingshiban road is prone to moss and slippery. It is recommended to wear shoes with strong "grip" function. The weather in the mountains is changeable. It is recommended to prepare a jacket and raincoat, and bring enough water and food. Watch out for snakes and bugs.
3. Recommendation for the best route to the Golden Summit
After entering the scenic spot, take the shuttle bus to the cable car boarding place, and take the cable car to the vicinity of Wanbaoyan.
Walk up the stairs to Pudu Square to Cheng'en Temple, where you can take a short break to replenish energy for meals.
On the left and right sides are the new and old Jinding (mushroom stone is near the old Jinding), which can be climbed on foot. Hongyun Jinding is steep, and many places need to grasp the chains and limbs and climb with them. It is recommended to wear gloves. Hongyun Jinding is an Internet celebrity attraction. Nowadays, there are many aerial photography people. Be careful that the rotating blades of the aerial photography device hurt people.
4. Questions about tickets for Mount Fanjing Scenic Area
In order to protect the ecological environment of Mount Fanjing, the scenic area implements a current limit, so a reservation system is adopted, and the time slot is reserved. It is recommended to watch the weather forecast in advance and choose to travel on sunny days, so that there is not much fog in the mountain and you can see it clearly.
5. Traffic related issues
First, you have to take a plane, train or car to Tongren, Guizhou, and then choose a bus, carpool or chartered car to go to the scenic spot.
Bus: There are buses to Fanjing Mountain at the exit of Tongren Railway Station. There are many buses every day during the peak season from April to November. The price is 25 yuan per person and the distance is 80 kilometers.
6. Board and lodging issues
There are many places to stay and eat in Jiangkou County at the foot of Fanjing Mountain, as well as some very romantic homestays. In terms of food, Guizhou cuisine is the main one, which is a bit spicy. Remember to try the rice wine brewed by the locals, not too delicious.
If you want to see the sunrise of Mount Fanjing, it is recommended to live on the mountain. The conditions on the mountain are not good, and the night is a bit cold, so keep warm.
7. Pay attention to protecting the ecological environment
Stores that sell food in the mountains do not sell instant noodles, because the soup of instant noodles can easily pollute the mountain soil, and they are also worried that plastic packaging may cause animals to eat by mistake. It is recommended to bring your own food, but do not litter. If you don't bring it, you will pass Wanbaoyan and Pudu Plaza on the way to the Golden Summit, where there are places selling food and water at reasonable prices.