How to get to Lingyuan Mountain

●Geographical location: Lingyuan Street, Qingyang Town, Jinjiang City

●Development status: A thousand-year-old temple with continuous construction and considerable scale. Managed and free of charge.

●Traffic information: The road to Lingyuan Mountain is very easy to walk. From Qingyang, Jinjiang, follow the Quan'an Highway toward Anhai. You can see a "Lingyuan" on the right side of the Lingyuan Street section. The narrow gate of the Zen Temple. After entering the gate, walk a short distance along the cement road to the foot of the mountain. A 3.2-kilometer long winding mountain paved with cement can go directly to the top of the mountain.

●Main features: The mountain and temple are integrated into one, surrounded by flowers and trees, with rugged rocks. Standing at the highest point on the top of the mountain, you can see far into the distance, feel the cool breeze blowing on your face, and feel relaxed and happy. The best tourist season is generally April to November every year.

Lingyuan Mountain is not high, only 305 meters above sea level. There is a temple on the mountain called Lingyuan Zen Temple, which is one of the famous thousand-year-old temples in southern Fujian.

After entering the mountain gate, you can see the Guandi Temple on the right side of the road. The temple is not big, but it has many believers and is very popular. A short walk further you will reach the "Lingyuan Zen Temple". Vehicles are stopped here and visitors need to walk up the steps to enter. At the top of the steps, you can see an ancient camphor tree. According to the nameplate on the tree, this tree is more than 600 years old.

What you see when you go to Lingyuan Mountain is the Lingyuan Zen Temple. The temple is very old, with a history of more than a thousand years. According to the inscription on the wall of the temple: the name "Lingyuan" began in the eleventh year of Yongping of Emperor Ming in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the first year of Emperor Mu's rise to peace in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a man named Lin Xishan built a Lingyuan Pavilion here. In the ninth year of the founding of the Emperor in the early Sui Dynasty, an eminent monk named Yichen, nicknamed "A Grain of Sand", expanded Lingyuan Pavilion into Lingyuan Temple and became the abbot.

For more than a thousand years, Lingyuan Mountain has attracted many celebrities and poets, and many Confucian scholars in the past dynasties have settled here to study. Ouyang Zhan, who was the first to open eight Fujian subjects in the Tang Dynasty, lived on this mountain and studied for three years. Lin Zhi, a famous scholar in the Song Dynasty, studied and died in Lingyuan Mountain and was buried here. His descendants, the poet Lin Wai, who wrote the handed down work "The Tower on the Green Mountain Beyond the Mountain, When Will the Singing and Dancing in the West Lake Stop?" also studied in Lingyuan Mountain. The Purple Cloud Room.