Wutai mountain tourist map?

Wutai Mountain is very high above sea level. Although it is roughly at the same latitude as Beijing, its climate characteristics are similar to that of Daxinganling in Northeast China.

Wutai mountain area is humid in summer, and it often rains. You need to bring rain gear when going up the mountain. When traveling to Wutai Mountain in spring and autumn, you need to bring sweaters and pants. If you want to climb Dongtai to watch the sunrise, you must rent a cotton-padded coat.

From Fan Shi and Shahe in the north to Wutai Mountain, we should pay attention to the changes of seasons and climate. Before May and after September, expressway, which was high in the clouds, was blocked by snow, making it difficult to pass, and it took more than four months from mid-May to September. Every summer is the best time to travel to Wutai Mountain.

Nanshan Temple

It is a big temple in Wutai Mountain, about 2 kilometers away from Taihuai Town. This temple was built in the Yuan Dynasty. The whole temple has seven floors and is divided into three parts. The lower three floors are called Gokurakuji, the middle one is called Shande Hall, and the upper three floors are called Youguo Temple.

The stone carvings and clay sculptures in the temple are the most distinctive, including Buddhist legends, Taoist allusions and patterns such as trees and flowers. Their meticulous knife work and exquisite composition are a must of Wutai Mountain. This feature is most obvious in Youguo Temple. Standing on the top floor of Youguo Temple, you can overlook four of the five, and the scenery is quite good. The architecture of Nanshan Temple is also very distinctive. The whole temple is built on the mountain, with distinct levels and scattered patterns. There are twists and turns between the temples, and the paths are secluded, giving people a mysterious feeling.

Tickets: 4 yuan.

Xiantong temple

It is the largest and oldest temple in Wutai Mountain, commonly known as "ancestral temple". The whole temple covers an area of 43,700 square meters, with more than 400 large and small houses, most of which were built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Together with the White Horse Temple in Luoyang, it is the earliest temple in China and is now listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit. The temple is located in the central area of Wutai Mountain, at the foot of Bodhisattva Peak.

Xiantong Temple was built in Yongping period of Emperor Hanming, formerly known as Dafu Lingjiu Temple. It was expanded in the Northern Wei Dynasty and rebuilt by Emperor Taizong. Renamed Dahuayan Temple. Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, rebuilt it and gave it the name "Datong Temple". Judy in Ming Taizu named it "Dajiang Xiantong Temple" and Zhu Yijun in Ming Shenzong named it "Yongming National Protection Temple". In the 26th year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1687), it was renamed Daxiantong Temple until today.

There are many precious cultural relics left over from history in Xiantong Temple. On both sides of the hanging gate, there is a stone tablet. The stone tablet imitates the shape of a dragon and a tiger, and writes the words "dragon" and "tiger" respectively, which is a relic of the Tang Dynasty. Daxiong Hall is a place where Buddhist activities are held. Statues of Sakyamuni, Amitabha and Pharmacist Buddha are enshrined in the center of the hall. The whole hall is spacious and quaint. Infinite hall is a brick structure building, which is unique in that there are no beams and columns in the hall and no eaves outside the hall. Therefore, it is also called "Wuliangtang", which has high artistic value. There is a corridor on the inner wall of the hall, and the whole hall can be clearly seen anywhere in the corridor. Thousands of bowls of manjusri hall are dedicated to thousands of bowls of manjusri bronze statues cast in Ming Dynasty. Five heads are stacked on the bronze statue, and six hands are placed on the chest. Two of them were holding a golden bowl, in which Sakyamuni Buddha sat, with a thousand hands sticking out from the back. Each hand has a golden bowl, and each bowl has a statue of Sakyamuni Buddha, which is very strange in shape. The bronze hall was cast in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. It is a bronze building, 8.3 meters high, 4.7 meters wide and 4.5 meters deep. The four walls of the temple are all Buddha statues, called ten thousand buddhas. The partition wall is cast with various patterns, flowers, birds and animals, which are very delicate. There are five bronze towers in front of the bronze temple, which means five. Now there are only two, with eight sides and thirteen floors, which are exquisite and attractive. In the bell tower in front of Xiantong Temple, there is the largest bronze bell in Wutai Mountain, and a Buddhist scripture in regular script with more than 10,000 words is cast outside the bell. Because the clock is long, it is also called long clock, also called long-lived clock. There is a Huayan Sutra Pagoda in the Buddhist Scripture Building. On the yellow and white silk book 10 feet long and 6 feet wide, there are 80 volumes of 600043 words in small print, which are works of Kangxi period in Qing Dynasty. There are also precious cultural relics in the Tibetan Scripture Building, such as the bronze statue of sandalwood in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Tibetan Scripture of Leifeng Pagoda published during the Kaibao period in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the eighteen arhats painted on Bodhi leaves in the Ming Dynasty.

Admission: 6 yuan.

Nanzenji

Located on the north bank of Little Yinhe in Bai Yang Township, 2 1 km south of Wutai County, the temple is small in scale, but it has the oldest existing wooden structure in China-the Giant Buddha Hall.

The whole temple can be divided into two courtyards. There are six halls, including the Great Buddha Hall, the East-West Annex Hall and the South Gate Hall. There are more than 30 monk's houses in the backyard. The Buddha Hall is the main building of the temple, which was built in the Tang Dynasty. It has three deep halls and three wide rooms. There is no column in the hall, and the beam frame is extremely simple, which is the remarkable feature of large-scale wooden structure buildings in the middle and Tang Dynasties in China. The statues in the temple are all original works of the Tang Dynasty, and there are 17 statues on the altar, with Sakyamuni Buddha as the center and Manjusri and Pu Xian on both sides. It seems that they are preaching. These statues all look natural, and their styles are exactly the same as those of the Tang Dynasty in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. There are more than 70 brick carvings around the Buddhist altar, engraved with exquisite patterns, lace and lotus petals, which are masterpieces of brick surface relief art in Tang Dynasty.

Except for the main building, the Great Buddha Hall, which was originally built in the Tang Dynasty, other ancillary buildings were rebuilt in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Admission: 7 yuan.

Tayuansi

There is the landmark building of Wutai Mountain-the Great White Pagoda, which is about 50 meters high and white. There are more than 200 bronze bells hanging on the top of the tower, and the sound is crisp and pleasant. There is also a small white pagoda to the east of the White Pagoda. It is said that this pagoda contains the golden hair left by Manjusri Bodhisattva, so it is also called Manjusri Pagoda. Located on the north side of the Great White Pagoda, the Sutra Pavilion is a wooden structure with more than 20,000 books in Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan languages, of which more than 2,000 are rare books from Song Dynasty to Qing Dynasty.

Tickets: 4 yuan.

Pu Sa Ding

On the Jiu Feng of Wutai Mountain Spirit, it is said that Bodhisattva Peak is Manjusri Bodhisattva, so it is also called Zhenrong Garden and Manjusri Bodhisattva Hall. Founded in the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was rebuilt in previous dynasties. After Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Mongols and Tibetans settled in Wutai Mountain, and the Dalai Lama lived in Bodhisattva Peak, so Bodhisattva Peak became the head of the Huangmiao Temple in Wutai Mountain. Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty visited Wutai Mountain several times, stayed at the top of Bodhisattva and wrote inscriptions. In the hall and backyard of the East Courtyard, there are two white marble quadrangular stone tablets. The inscriptions are written in Chinese, Mongolian, Manchu and Tibetan, all written by Emperor Kangxi. Most of the existing buildings are Qing dynasty buildings, and the architectural forms, techniques and carving art refer to the palace. It is also the main venue of the Yellow Sect from the fourth day of June to the fifteenth day of June every year in the lunar calendar. Choose this time to climb the mountain, and you can see the grand occasion of monks' "town magic".

Admission: 5 yuan.

Wutai Mountain is located in the northeast of Wutai County, Shanxi Province, with a circumference of 250 kilometers. Because the five peaks are towering and flat, it is named.

The earliest Buddhist holy land

Wutai Mountain is one of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China. Lingjiu Temple in Wutai Mountain and Baima Temple in Luoyang are the earliest temples in China, which were built in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, with the spread of Buddhism, the scale of temple construction became larger and larger. In the early years of the Republic of China, there were more than 0/00 temples in the whole mountain, with about 1000 monks. Taihuai Town, surrounded by Wutai, is the most concentrated place of temples and has a Buddhist flavor.

Treasure house of ancient buildings

Wutai Mountain occupies an important position in the history of Buddhism in China. It was famous in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and preserved all generations of wooden structures since the Tang Dynasty. Known as the "treasure house of ancient buildings", eight temples, including nanzenji, Beige Temple, Yanqing Temple, Guangji Temple, Ding Bodhisattva and Songzheng Temple, are representatives of ancient wood structures. Among them, nanzenji and Beijushi are the earliest existing wooden structures in China, which are called "Millennium treasures" by architects at home and abroad.

Nanzenji was built in the third year of Tang Jianzhong (782), but survived the destruction of the law in Tang Wuzong at night. There are three halls in the temple. The beam frame of the hall is very simple, gentle and beautiful. On the stigma of the eaves column, many bucket-shaped wood blocks and arc-shaped arch materials are stacked layer by layer to make a bucket arch, which supports the far eaves and makes the building more beautiful and magnificent. The clay sculptures in the temple are all from the Tang Dynasty, which is the best sculpture in the Tang Dynasty. It is exactly the same as the Tang sculpture in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and has high artistic value.

Beixing was founded by Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty (47 1-499) and was rebuilt in the 11th year of the Tang Dynasty (857). Precious, the murals and statues of the Tang Dynasty are preserved in its hall, which is the only early mural in the existing wooden buildings in China. Most of the paintings are based on Buddhist stories, and their brushwork is smooth, which can be compared with Dunhuang murals. Liang Sicheng, a well-known architect in China, carefully studied the spread of the cuckoo, made measurements and drawings, and wrote a paper, "The architecture spread by the cuckoo in Wutai Mountain-four isolated cases of Wei, Qi, Tang and Song in the same temple; Four kinds of arts in Tang Dynasty. The publication of the article caused a sensation in Chinese and foreign architectural circles. Some foreign scholars called the North Temple "the Buddha's Light of Asia".

There are many cultural relics in Xiantong Temple.

The largest temple in Wutai Mountain is Xiantong Temple, which covers an area of 120 mu and has more than 400 halls. Its predecessor is the earliest Lingjiu Temple in Wutai Mountain, and it has been continuously expanded to become the first Zen Temple in Wutai Mountain. There are a lot of precious cultural relics in the temple. There is a bronze bell hanging on the bell tower outside the mountain gate, which was cast in the apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty (162 1-627) and weighed 9999.5kg.. When it hits, the sound can spread to 10. The Wuliangdian is 20.3m high, 28.2m wide and16m deep. It is a masterpiece of China's beamless architecture. There is a bronze statue of Pirufu in the temple. There is a bronze temple cast in the Ming Dynasty, with 50 tons of copper. The temple is 5 meters high and surrounded by thousands of small buddhas. It is a rare golden bronze building.

Complete works of Buddhist art

The stone carvings of Wutai Mountain also have high artistic value. The stone tablet square of Longquan Temple is a building in Bai Yushi, built in 1920- 1924, with wood-like structure. The figures of flowers, birds, insects and beasts carved on it are exquisite and vivid, and they are the best stone carvings in modern China. There is a shadow wall on the top of the bodhisattva, and the yellow glazed tile in the middle of the pattern is inlaid into two dragon play beads. Vivid image, finely carved, colorful in the sun, as if to break the wall and fly.

There are 58 existing temples in Wutai Mountain. This scale is rare among the famous mountains in China. In these temples, Buddhist architecture, sculpture, murals and other aspects of art are concentrated, which can be called the complete works of Buddhist art. No wonder some people's experience after visiting Wutai Mountain is: "a Buddhist history, a hundred art palaces."

There are many myths and legends in Wutai Mountain. The story of drunkenness hitting the mountain gate in Water Margin, the story of Yang Wulang in Yang Jiajiang Story and the story of the emperor shunzhi becoming a monk in Qing Dynasty all happened in Wutai Mountain. At that time, Bethune's "model ward" was located in Songyankou, Wutai Mountain. The old site is still well preserved, and a "exhibition room to commemorate Bethune" was built next to it. Tourism services

Wutai Mountain is inaccessible by train. There are two routes to visit Wutai Mountain. One is to take the express train from Beijing to Taiyuan, get off at Xinzhou or Fan Shi Shahe Station (330 kilometers), spread the bus until 7 o'clock, and then transfer to the bus. You can also take a bus from Taiyuan. Taiyuan takes the train to Shahe, Fan Shi for 200 kilometers, and the car shop is at 4 o'clock. Shanxi Province invested nearly 100 million yuan to transform Taiyuan-Wutai Mountain-Hengshan-Datong tourist trunk highway. After the reconstruction of this highway, the tourist traffic in Shanxi Province will be much more convenient.

Wutai Mountain can be visited for two days or three days. On the first day, you can visit the temples near Taihuai Town, such as Xiantong Temple, Tayuan Temple, Bodhisattva Top, Guangzong Temple and Yuanzhao Temple. The next day, I visited Shuxiang Temple, Longquan Temple, Puhua Temple, Guanyin Cave and Nanshan Temple. If it is a three-day tour, you can go to North Temple, Jinke Temple and nanzenji on the third day.

Wutai Mountain has high-end hotels, guest houses, hotels, and many small hostels run by farmers. Accommodation is convenient and the cost is not high. The more upscale hotel is Qixiange Hotel, located in Taihuai Town. The specialty is Taiwan Province mushroom with plump meat. The handicraft is a Taishan wooden bowl, with birch roots and pomegranate as raw materials. The colors are red, brown, brown and yellow, which is quite distinctive. Taiwan Province inkstone is divided into black, green, red and purple, and its carving method is rich in national characteristics.

The most suitable tourist season in Wutai Mountain is from June to September. But there are more rainy days in July and August.

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, the main attractions

Nanshan Temple

Nanshan Temple was built in Yuan Dynasty. There are 7 floors in the whole temple, the lower three floors are called Gokurakuji, the middle one is called Shande Hall, and the upper three floors are called Youguo Temple. Stone carvings and clay sculptures in the temple have Buddhist legends, Taoist allusions, trees and flowers and other patterns, which are a must for Wutai Mountain. Standing on the top floor of Youguo Temple, you can overlook the other four stops of Wutai Mountain.

Xiantong temple

Xiantong Temple is the largest and oldest temple in Wutai Mountain. It and the White Horse Temple in Luoyang are the earliest temples in China. It is located in the center of Wutai Mountain. The Daxiong Hall of Xiantong Temple is the main place for Buddhist activities. There are statues of Sakyamuni, Amitabha Buddha and Pharmacist Buddha in the temple. The whole hall is spacious and quaint. Infinite Hall is a brick structure, in which Pilufo, cast in bronze, is enshrined. There is no beam in the hall, which is very unique in shape and has high artistic value. The bronze temple is a bronze building with tens of thousands of small Buddha statues, which is a rare bronze cultural relic. In the bell tower in front of Xiantong Temple, there is the largest bronze bell in Wutai Mountain-Changming Bell. The surface of the bell is engraved with a regular script Buddhist scripture of more than 10,000 words.

Tayuansi

In the Tayuan Temple, there is the landmark building of Wutai Mountain-the Great White Pagoda, which is 56.4 meters high and white all over, and is known as the "first cool holy land". There are more than 200 bronze bells hanging on the top of the tower, and the sound of the wind is crisp. There is a small white pagoda to the east of the White Pagoda. It is said that this pagoda contains the golden hair left by Manjusri Bodhisattva, so it is also called Manjusri Pagoda. Located in the north of the Great White Pagoda, the Sutra Pavilion is a wooden structure with more than 20,000 volumes of scriptures written in three languages: Han, Mongolian and Tibetan.

Pu Sa Ding

Bodhisattva Peak is the largest and most complete Lamaism temple in Wutai Mountain. Every year from the fourth day of June to the fifteenth day of June in the lunar calendar, it is the main venue of Yellow Religion. At this time, you can see the grand occasion of the monks' "town magic". There are Kings Temple, Sakyamuni Buddha Temple and Bodhisattva Temple. Because emperors of all ages have climbed the Bodhisattva Peak, there are many plaques in the temple, all of which are inscribed by imperial calligraphers. In the lobby and backyard of the East Courtyard, there are two white marble quadrangular stone tablets. The four sides of the stone tablet are engraved with inscriptions in Chinese, Mongolian, Manchu and Tibetan, all written by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.

Other monasteries

Within Taiwan: Bishan Temple in Shouning Temple, Qixian Temple in Dailuoding, Puhua Temple, Guangzong Temple in Tang Shifang Sculpture Temple, Guanyin Cave in Yuanzhao Temple, Longquan Temple, Luo Qi Temple, Jingu Temple, Zhenhai Temple, Wanfoge Temple, Guan Hai Temple, Chikulin Jijifu Temple, etc.

Outside Taiwan Province: Yanqing Temple, nanzenji Secret Temple, Beixing Temple, Yanshan Temple, Songzheng Temple and Guangji Temple.

For a more detailed introduction of Wutai Mountain, you can go and have a look.

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Wutai Mountain, the first of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China, has both splendid natural scenery and rich cultural connotations. Wutai Mountain is the first batch of national scenic spots announced by the State Council, and it is also the first of the top ten tourist attractions in Shanxi Province.

Wutai Mountain is the Dojo of Manjusri Bodhisattva, so the main halls of many temples here are dedicated to Manjusri Bodhisattva. Manjusri Bodhisattva is Sakyamuni's left attendant, and the mount is a green lion, which indicates wisdom and ferocity. There are many stories about his origin. The story circulating in the Classic is that he was born in a Brahmin family in Tai Wei, and because of his kindness, he became a big disciple of Sakyamuni Buddha and helped the Buddha realize all beings. Among the great bodhisattvas, wisdom and eloquence are the first, so they specialize in Buddhist wisdom and are known as "great wisdom and manjusri".

climate

Wutai Mountain has a cold climate. Although the latitude is similar to that of Beijing, the climate is similar to that of Daxinganling. So tourists must pay attention to keep out the cold. When spring and autumn come, they need to bring sweaters and trousers. In summer in Taihuai area, the clouds are low and dense, the humidity is high, and it often rains. You'd better take an umbrella.

traffic

Visitors can fly to Taiyuan or Datong first. Because trains and planes can't go directly to Wutai Mountain, highway passenger transport is particularly important. There are buses to Taihuai Town in Taiyuan, Datong and Xinzhou, and there is a bus to Wutai Mountain every 30 minutes at Taiyuan Long-distance Bus Terminal and Taiyuan East Bus Station. The bus is Iveco or bus, the whole journey is about 200 kilometers, the driving time is about 4 hours, and the fare is 43 yuan.

If you take the train, you can get off at Shahe, Xinzhou or Taiyuan on the Jingyuan Line and then transfer to the bus. It is 48km by bus from Shahe Railway Station to Taihuai Town, and the fare is 15 yuan. The advantage is that the train from Beijing will arrive at 3: 00 in the morning, so you can start the whole day's journey ahead of time, such as catching the sunrise in Dongtai.

Taihuai Town has a long-distance bus station, which is sent to Taiyuan, Xinzhou, Datong, Yangquan, Shuozhou, Dingxiang, Fan Shi, Shijiazhuang, Beijing and other places.

entrance ticket

Tickets for Wutai Mountain Scenic Spot will be lowered to 95 yuan in winter, and the temple in Taihuai Town will also receive tickets separately, ranging from 3- 10 yuan.

hold

There are many hotels and restaurants of various grades in Wutai Mountain, and family hostels are also very active, so it is very convenient to stay. Many family hotels are also equipped with high-grade rooms, all of which are quadrangles with local characteristics, with complete facilities, quiet and comfortable. In addition, some family hotels also prepare home-cooked dishes with local flavor for tourists.

Brief introduction of main temples in Taihuai town

Xiantong Temple: The Buddhist music in Taihuai Town is melodious, and Xiantong Temple enjoys the highest reputation among rows of Buddhist temples. At the foot of the towering Bodhisattva Peak and to the north of the towering Great White Pagoda, it is the first hall of Wutai Qing Temple, with the largest scale and the longest history, commonly known as the "ancestral hall". When you enter the mountain to worship Buddha, you must first go to Xiantong Temple. There are more than 400 buildings in Xiantong Temple, and there are 7 temples on the central axis, which are all uncoordinated. The hatchback with the hall is neat and complete, and the Zhaitang Hall is intact, including three bronze halls, which are beautifully cast. Column forehead pattern and lattice fan pattern are all outlined by copper casting. Two copper towers, 8 meters high, are beautiful in appearance. The bell tower in front of the door is magnificent, with a bronze bell hanging, which can hit the whole mountain. The brick boundless hall, exquisite brick carving, boundless longevity Buddha, upper algae well, Huayan Jingzi Tower and various donors are all precious historical relics.

Ticket price: 6 yuan

Tayuan Temple: The striking of Tayuan Temple is attributed to the tall and mighty Great Mercy Life Extension Tower, which is the Great White Pagoda of Wutai Mountain. According to legend, after the death of Sakyamuni Buddha, it became 84,000 pagodas, and King Ashoka of India cast 84,000 pagodas, which were distributed all over the world. The Great White Pagoda in Wutai Mountain is one of the Buddhist pagodas in China 19. The 56.4-meter-high footprint tablet of the hidden Buddha attracted countless monks and secular beings to visit the footprints around the tower. The Zen Hall on the east side of the Tayuan is famous for another great man. It turns out that Mao Zedong lived here with Premier Zhou Enlai when he crossed Shaanxi.

Admission: 4 yuan.

Jinge Temple: Jinge Temple is 5 kilometers away from Taihuai Town in the center of Wutai Mountain/KLOC-0, which is a place to enter Wutai Mountain from South Road, not far from the toll station. The terrain here is very high, with an altitude of 1900 meters. The front and back rooms of the temple are connected by stone coupon holes. There is a statue of Guanyin with a thousand hands in the Guanyin Hall in the front yard, which is 17.7 meters high. It is said that there are 48 hand walls (not enough) with arrows, bows, nectar bottles and snakes on their arms. Looking up at Guanyin's face is like sitting in a well and revealing the sky. The whole statue is made of clay and gold. Such a huge statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva is unique not only in Wutai but also in the whole country.

Tickets: 4 yuan.

Longquan Temple: After passing Jingu Temple, down 10 km, there is a north-south gully called Donggou. Bitter spring water gushed from the spring pavilion at the foot of Gougoubei Mountain, hence the name of Longquan Temple nearby. It is also the only Buddhist temple in Wutai Mountain converted from a family temple. This ancestral hall was originally in memory of Yang Jiajiang. The stone tablet building in front of Longquan Temple should be the main reason for your visit. Although the four pillars and three doors are huge, there are towers, archways, majestic Buddha statues, vivid birds and beasts, lush flowers and plants, and countless precious fruits. There are eighty-nine dragons and twenty lions on the pillars. The leaves of stamen grass are as thin as hair. As thin as a veil; Birds and animals are alive and vividly, and it is amazing.

Tickets: 4 yuan.

Dai Luoding: It was called Foding Temple in ancient times. It is located at the top of the mountain beside Qingshui River in Taihuai Town, with a vertical height of 400 meters. Backed by Dongtai Peak, facing Taihuai Basin, with beautiful scenery, flowers and birds, surrounded by pines and cypresses. Buddhist nun was built in Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty. In order to satisfy the emperor's desire to worship a temple and Wutai, he had a whim and successively offered five Manjushri statues in the temple, symbolizing the five tops of Wutai Mountain. Since then, people who hate outsiders and believers have been spared the pain of trekking five stops to worship at the top of Dailuo, which is also known as "Little Chaotai". Of course, tourists still have to climb 1080 stone steps to show their sincerity. Two tall and straight pine trees in the temple, over 300 years old, are still lush. However, what really makes people feel at the top of Rhodes is that the last touch of golden light sweeps across the courtyard before sunset, watching the night scene where the starlight and the lights of Wutai Mountain Temple blend with each other.

Tickets: 4 yuan.

Bodhisattva Top: Bodhisattva Top is located on the Jiu Feng in Taihuai Town, Wutai Mountain, Shanxi Province. It is the first temple in the Huangmiao Temple in Wutai Mountain. It was also built in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and in the Ming Dynasty, it became the residence of five Mongolian and Tibetan lamas. In the Qing Dynasty, it actually became a royal temple, with an extremely prominent position, and it was also the place where the head of the Yellow Sect of Wutai Mountain, Zasak Lama, served as the abbot. Bodhisattva Top is called Bodhisattva Top in Manchu, which means the place where Manjusri Bodhisattva lives. The yellow glazed tiles on the temple and the archway on the seventh floor of the four pillars in front of the mountain gate are all symbols of the royal palace. Emperor Kangxi visited Bodhisattva Peak five times and Emperor Qianlong visited it six times. The "Lingfeng Scenic Area" on the Shuipai Building outside the gate of Bodhisattva Mountain and the "Wutai Scenic Area" on the stone tablet square in front of Manjushri Hall were inscribed by Emperor Kangxi himself. The inscriptions in Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan on two four-pillar stone tablets in the Bodhisattva Hall of the Eastern Buddhist Temple are the imperial pens of Emperor Qianlong. The manjusri statue in the Manjusri Hall of Bodhisattva Peak is also made according to the classic rules of Lamaism. The head is sideways, the waist is twisted, the hair is scattered, and the garland is hung on the body, which is particularly lively and vivid. On the walls on both sides, there are Thangka Tibetan paintings painted on cloth. In addition, there are peach-shaped doctors with Sanskrit spells hanging on the stigmas of the Hall of Mahavira and the Hall of Manjusri Bodhisattva. These are full of the charm of Lamaism. It is worth mentioning that Manjusri Hall is also known as Drip Hall. In the past, there was an eaves tile in Manjusri Hall, which always dripped down in spring, summer and autumn, rain or shine. After a long time, a step stone in front of Manjusri Temple became a honeycomb. This is an ingenious design in architecture. In the past, there was a hole in the glazed tile of Manjusri Hall, an aquifer under the tile, and a leak-proof facility under the aquifer. Whenever it rains, the rainwater passes through the holes in the glazed tiles and is stored in the aquifer. On cloudy or sunny days, the water in the aquifer will slowly drip from the eaves tiles. In the future, it's a pity that Manjusri Hall did not know the secret of protecting the top water of the hall when it was renovated.

Admission: 5 yuan.

Nanshan Temple: Nanshan Temple is the collective name of Youguo Temple, Gokurakuji Temple and Shande Temple. Wutai Taihuai Town is 3 kilometers south of the mountainside. The Yuan Dynasty was founded, which was supplemented and revised many times in the past dynasties. This makes the form and structure of temples in temples have their own characteristics. Nanshan Temple is also good at carving buildings, and the patterns on the walls, watchtowers, walls or probes have all broken through Buddhist teachings. The woodcarving patterns under the eaves of each temple are exquisite and decorated with painted gold, which is even more splendid. On the stone carving side of the temple, it was written by Cixi. The sculpture art of Wutai Mountain Temple was named Nanshan Temple.

Tickets: 4 yuan.

Bishan Temple: commonly known as Guangji Mao Feng. Wutai Mountain, 2 kilometers northeast of Taihuai Town, at the foot of Beitai Mountain. It is the largest ten-square meditation place in Wutai Mountain. Shifang Temple is a temple that specially receives tourists and monks according to regulations. "No shaving in Shifang Temple", no one can take it for himself. During the Republic of China, Long Fu, a monk living in a temple, tried to change this nature. He argued endlessly with dozens of representatives of Buddhism and even the government, and finally maintained the original temple rules of the factory. Therefore, people from all over Chaoshan especially admire this place. Bishan Temple area is shaded by trees and the water is flowing. Legend has it that it was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The front yard is mostly a single-story hall, and the backyard is full of double-eaved pavilions, which are exquisitely carved and unique. All the statues in the temples are works of the Qing Dynasty.

Ticket price: 4 yuan

Brief introduction of temples outside Taiwan Province

Bugu Temple: The name of Bugu Temple is always closely associated with its discoverer, Mr. Liang Sicheng, an expert on ancient architecture in China. 1937 In the summer, when Mr. Liang Sicheng visited Dunhuang murals, he noticed a painting on Wutai Mountain: an ancient temple, Lin Lizhong, and vaguely saw a pagoda. In Beikeji, Professor Liang discovered the "Founder Tower" of the Northern Wei Dynasty, which is still alive after 1400 years of ups and downs. It is engraved with rope patterns and tied with Indian-style lotus columns. Not only that, the whole Beidou Temple is a hall of architectural sculpture art integrating Wei, Qi, Tang and Song. The discovery of Beixing is undoubtedly a new continent of ancient art, and the arch-eye murals with iron cyan and stone green as the main tones vaguely reveal the style of Dunhuang. Mo Bao, a Tang Dynasty man under Dongtangliang, is a rare treasure, and is called "Four Wonders of Beixing" with architecture and sculpture. Bukoji is located in Foguang New Village, north of Doucun, Wutai County, 30 kilometers away from Wutai County. It is one of the seven existing temples outside Taiwan Province. The other six are nanzenji, Yanqing Temple, Guangji Temple, Songzheng Temple, Yanshan Temple and Secret Temple.

Tickets: 10 yuan

Nanzenji: nanzenji is the first temple from Wutai that I met on the South Road. It is located on the cliff near Li Jiacun, Bai Yang Township, Wutai County. Surrounded by trees, streams and green hills, it escaped the robbery of the sword and the destruction of the law in the Tang Dynasty. Although it is far from the center of Wutai Mountain, it is not at any peak, but visiting this temple has reached the highest peak of Wutai Mountain cultural relics. Because there is the oldest wooden structure building in China-nanzenji Giant Buddha Hall. Twelve eaves columns support the huge temple, the angle iron is upward, the stigma of the eaves column is slightly lower, and the bucket arch is tilted layer by layer. The heavy wall is not load-bearing, but only plays the role of shelter from the wind and rain, so the building is stable and beautiful. The statues in the temple are also full of the charm of the Tang Dynasty, and the 70 brick carvings around the Buddhist altar are also quiet and dignified. The preservation of nanzenji is a blessing to Chinese civilization.

Admission: 7 yuan.

Transportation: The best way to get to Beikeji is to take a bus from Taiyuan or Wutai Mountain in Xinzhou or Wutai Mountain in Xinzhou and get off at Doucun. Taiyuan Yidou Village is around 25 yuan, Wutai Mountain 10 yuan, and Doucun chartered five people to and from 20 yuan. Doucun to Beikeji is a 7-kilometer highway, and there is no special car. In this way, tourists can get off on the way in and out of Wutai Mountain and visit Beidou Temple, and only need to spend more money in 20 yuan.

Travel schedule suggestion

It takes at least three days to visit Wutai Mountain. If tourists live in the county seat, they can visit Songzheng Temple and Beidou Temple in the north by bus on the first day, and visit Taihuai in the afternoon, focusing on Xiantong Temple, Tayuan Temple, Luohou Temple and Bodhisattva Peak. The next day, I climbed to the top of Rhodes nearby, and then visited Bishan Temple, Nanshan Temple and Zhenhai Temple in the central area of Taihuai. On the third day, you can choose the platform to board the bus, and you can board Dongtai in the direction of Jingyuan Line. Tourists hiking along the river and Xinzhou can board China and Thailand and visit nanzenji and Longquan Temple. Another tour schedule is: On the first day, visit nanzenji, Bishan Temple, Xiantong Temple and Tayuan Temple, and climb to the top of Dailuo. The next day I went to Bodhisattva Peak, Guangzong Temple, Luohou Temple, Longquan Temple, Nanshan Temple and Puhua Temple. On the third day, I saw the sunrise in Dongtai, the splendid scenery in Nantai, Jingu Temple and Beidou Temple. If tourists live in Taihuai Town, they can arrange a two-day tour. On the first day, first visit Luohou Temple at the foot of Beishan Mountain in Taihuai Town, then visit Xiantong Temple, then visit Yuanzhao Temple, Guangzong Temple and Bodhisattva Peak in turn, then turn back to the original road, enter the east gate of Tayuan Temple, and enter Wanfo Pavilion from the south gate to the east. You can go to Dongtai to watch the sunrise the next day, then visit Bishan Temple, and visit Zhenhai Temple, Puhua Temple, Guanyin Cave and Nanshan Temple in the afternoon.

Shopping: Yanglin Street in Taihuai Town in the center of Wutai Mountain is a commercial street, and many tourist attractions also have tourist souvenir shops. When buying local specialties, you can make an appropriate counter-offer. Taishan Temple is different from other local temples. Tourist souvenirs and Buddhist relics are only sold outside the temple gate, and there are basically no retail stalls in the temple. Invisibly feel the solemn atmosphere in the temple, especially the religious and artistic atmosphere.