The initial impression of Mount Fanjing came from a photo on the Internet.
The first impression was
Such a fairy place, I don't know?
After consulting the information, I realized that this place is in Guizhou.
The grass on Mount Fanjing was planted at that time.
This time we went to Mount Fanjing at the end of October,
We were lucky, the weather was very good on the day we went to Mount Fanjing,
There are sea of clouds, Buddha light, cloud waterfall, sunset...
The only regret is that at sunset, the drone has no power.
Save some regrets for the next trip...
First share a few pictures of Fanjing Mountain's fairyland journey
Aerial photography of Fanjing Mountain Red Cloud Golden Summit
Reappearance of Buddha's light
On the way to the old golden roof
Aerial photography of the old golden dome
fanjingshan sunset
The symbol of Mount Fanjing: Mushroom Stone
fanjingshan sunset
Sea of clouds in Mount Fanjing
Self-driving itinerary recommendation: (from Chengdu)
D1 Chengdu -- Chongqing -- Mount Fanjing (820km, 10 hours and 30 minutes)
D2 Fanjing Mountain one-day tour
D3 Fanjingshan -- Chongqing -- Chengdu
The road from Chengdu to Fanjingshan is high-speed all the way, and the toll is about 500. I don’t remember it very clearly.
I was driving alone, and the road was easy to walk. Except for a bit of congestion in Chongqing, there were no other cars throughout the journey.
Tickets for Mount Fanjing:
Peak season: 100 yuan (March 1st to November 30th)
Low season: 90 yuan (December 1st to February 28th)
Half ticket standard:
1. Students
2. Minors aged 14-18
Free ticket standard:
1. Elderly people over 60 years old and children under 14 years old can reserve zero yuan tickets online
2. Disabled
3. Soldier
4. Buddhist clergy
Sightseeing ticket:
Round trip: 20 yuan
One-way: 10 yuan
cableway:
Round trip: 140 yuan
One-way: 70 yuan
(Children under 1.1 meters in height are free of charge)
For friends who want to go to Fanjingshan, you can take a serious look at my travel notes, it will definitely help you a lot.
For those who go to Fanjingshan in peak season, you must get up early in the morning.
Fanjing Mountain opens at 8:00 in the morning. It is best to enter before the first batch of tourists enter.
This minimizes the queuing time.
Fanjingshan has regulations that limit the number of people entering the mountain every day.
There are a lot of people queuing up late,
You need to line up to enter the mountain gate, you need to line up to take a sightseeing car, and you need to line up to take a cable car.
This is a waste of time and will miss the great scenery on the top of the mountain.
Gate of Mount Fanjing
Guide map of Mount Fanjing,
The main attractions are on the top of the mountain.
This is where you line up for the sightseeing bus
The scenery along the way of the sightseeing car is also good, and it will pass a big golden Buddha temple,
However, there are no stops along the way, directly to the cableway station.
When we arrived at the cableway station, there was also a long queue.
But fortunately, it didn't take long to queue up.
The cableway takes about 20 minutes to cross the sea of clouds.
We are above the sea of clouds.
Today's weather is particularly good, and both the old Jinding and the new Jinding are clearly visible.
at the top of the mountain,
Glance Zongshan small feeling.
【Location】
Fanjing Mountain is "the first mountain in Guizhou" and "the first peak in Wuling".
Located at the border of Yinjiang County, Jiangkou County and Songtao County in the northeast of Guizhou Province,
With a radius of six to seven hundred miles, its highest peak - Fenghuang Jinding (Phoenix Mountain) is 2572 meters above sea level, the place of worship - Laojinding (Fanjing Mountain Laoshan) is 2494 meters, and the new Jinding (Xinshan) is 2336 meters.
Mount Fanjing is the first peak on the transitional slope from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to the Xiangxi Hills (relatively high as 2,000 meters).
It is not only the watershed between the Wujiang River and the Yuanjiang River, but also the highest main peak of the Wuling Mountains across the four provinces (regions) of Guizhou, Chongqing, Hunan, and Hubei.
【Geography】
Mount Fanjing is an ancient area south of the Yellow River in China that was first lifted from the ocean to land.
The peculiar landform landscape formed 1 to 1.4 billion years ago is left here: abrupt solitary peaks, steep cliffs, deep valleys, ups and downs of waterfalls,
Hundreds of millions of years of wind and rain erosion have sculpted the mountains, stone forests and peaks near the old Jinding.
Such as "Mushroom Stone", "Eagle Rock", "Thousand Volume Book", "General's Head", etc., are uncanny, lifelike and interesting.
The new Jinding is a lone peak, piercing the sky,
Jindao Gorge splits Xinjinding into two halves from the peak to the mountainside.
There is only a line of canyons that can be climbed by iron chains, and the top of the canyon is connected by a flying bridge, which is extremely steep.
Standing on the top of the peak, sometimes thousands of miles away, you can see everything at a glance;
Sometimes it is shrouded in clouds and waterfalls, surrounded by Buddha light, which is ever-changing and mysterious.
Fanjing Mountain "gathers the wonder 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 of "Cui Wei does not reduce the five mountains, and the spirit is enough to spread for thousands of years".
【Ecology of Mount Fanjing】
Fanjing Mountain is high and steep, and the mountain is huge, forming a "one mountain has four seasons,
The vertical climate characteristics and the distribution belt of animals and plants,
It preserves the rare subtropical native ecosystem in the world,
And there are rare ancient species from 70 million to 2 million years ago.
According to scientific investigation data, there are 2,601 species of organisms in Mount Fanjing, including 1,800 species of plants.
There are 17 species of rare plants listed under national key protection, accounting for 43% of the total number of protected plants in Guizhou Province;
There are 801 species of animals, 19 of which are listed as national key protected animals, accounting for 68% of the total number of protected animals in Guizhou Province.
【Introduction of Buddhism】
Fanjing Mountain is a famous Buddhist mountain with thousands of years in Southwest China. In the Song Dynasty, Buddhism was officially introduced to Mount Fanjing.
In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Xiyan Temple (now the suburb of Yinjiang County), an earlier temple in Guizhou Province, was built in Siqiong County at the foot of Shanxi.
(Daoguang) "Yinjiang County Chronicle" says: "Xiyan Temple... was built in Song Dynasty."
"A Brief Introduction to the Places of Interest and Historic Sites in Guizhou" says: "There is a temple in Xiyan, and it is also a trace of the Song Dynasty." A famous ancient temple with a history of one thousand years is actually the ancestral home of Buddhism in Mount Fanjing.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming government mined cinnabar and gold mines in the Fanjingshan area, and sent officials to supervise them.
Due to the miraculous scenery of Mount Fanjing, Buddhism flourished and became the "Pure Land of Brahma" yearned for by monks, so it was officially named "Mount Fanjing", and it was called "Big Buddha Mountain" among the people.
In the early Ming Dynasty, besides Xiyan Temple was rebuilt on Fanjing Mountain, temples such as Tianma Temple were also built.
In the 11th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1413), a war broke out between Sinan chieftain and Sizhou chieftain for cinnabar.
Sinan, Tongren, Songtao and Shiqian prefectures were established in the area around Fanjing Mountain. In the same year, Guizhou Province was formally established.
Two hundred years later, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Mount Fanjing was known as a "Famous Historic Site" because of "an ancient Buddhist temple".
Guizhou Governor Guo Zizhang (now Jiangxi Province) wrote "Qian Ji" (1608) and recorded Mount Fanjing: "Fanjing Mountain is the first mountain in Guizhou, comparable to Tiantai." After the failure of the Zhejiang poet Xie Guogeng in the late Ming Dynasty, he Living in seclusion in Mount Fanjing, he called himself "Tiantai Yiren".
Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the legend of Maitreya and Mount Fanjing has been widely circulated among the local people.
The ancients built Sakyamuni and Maitreya halls on the top of the new Jinding peak, as the highest symbol of Buddhism in Fanjingshan.
In the "Emperor's Stele" of the Ming Dynasty, Maitreya and Mount Fanjing were specifically recorded, and it was called "Boundless Dharma Realm, the Palace of Ultimate Bliss".
During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Mount Fanjing was awarded twice, requiring the government to protect the "one main hall, four emperor's temples, and 48 big foot temples" in Fanjing Mountain.
Fanjingshan Maitreya Dojo is confirmed by the miraculous natural landscape. Near the new and old golden dome, you can often see wonderful "Buddha light" and "Phantom". The ancients believed that "Buddha light" and "Phantom" are "Maitreya image", and everyone worshiped devoutly.
In addition, from the distance of the "Buddhist Terrace" on the West Road Chaoshan Ancient Road, Fanjing Mountain presents a scene of three Maitreya statues juxtaposed: the old Golden Summit is a seated Maitreya statue, and the new Golden Summit is a golden monkey worshiping Maitreya statue. The three main peaks are connected. It is the 10,000-meter-long reclining statue of Maitreya.
When Mr. Zhang Ke, the late famous writer in Guizhou, was collecting wind at Fanjing Mountain, he looked at Fanjing Mountain from Amitabha Temple in Yinjiang County, more than a hundred miles away, and also found that the golden dome was a huge statue of Maitreya.
The new Golden Summit is the most distinctive and iconic landscape of Mount Fanjing. It is 2,375 meters above sea level, towering and straight, with a height of nearly 100 meters. Like a giant bamboo shoot unearthed, like a jade dragon whistling in the sky, surrounded by red clouds, pointing directly at the sky. In the middle of Jinding, there is a Jindao Gorge, which divides the top of the mountain into two parts. There are Sakyamuni Hall and Maitreya Hall respectively. There is a bridge connecting the two halls, which is magnificent.
The spirit and symbol of Mount Fanjing - Mushroom Stone.
It is about 10 meters high, big at the top and small at the bottom, shaped like a mushroom. It is so big that it will fall at the touch of a touch.
The old Jinding and Hongyun Jinding face each other across the mountain.
Compared with Hongyun Jinding, I think the old Jinding is easier to climb, although the altitude here is higher.
On the old Jinding, you can see the whole picture of Fanjing Mountain.
At sunset, the sea of clouds in Fanjing Mountain is also unique.
after sundown
The sea of clouds in Mount Fanjing is still churning.
We only saw this peerless beauty when the last car on the cableway went down the mountain.
Walk from the top of the mountain to the cableway station,
The staff is already counting the number of people going down the mountain.
We are already the last group of tourists going down the mountain.
Fanjing Mountain is really beautiful, like a fairyland.
It is still a pity that the starry sky and sunrise of Fanjing Mountain cannot be photographed.
Because there is no place to stay on the top of the mountain, the scenic spot does not allow tourists to spend the night on the top of the mountain.
Otherwise, the starry sky of Mount Fanjing is as shocking as its sea of clouds and Buddha light.
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