The specific location of Mount Tai

Mountain Tai runs through central Shandong, within Tai'an City, and stretches between Tai'an, Jinan and Laiwu. In front of Mount Tai is Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, and in the back is the spring city of Jinan.

Mount Tai rises in the east of the North China Plain and towers over the Qilu Plain. It is bounded by the sea in the east, the Yellow River in the west, and the waters of Wen, Si and Huai in the south. It is about 200 kilometers long from east to west and wide from north to south. It is about 50 kilometers long, with main veins, branch veins and residual veins involving more than ten surrounding counties, covering an area of ??426 square kilometers.

Mount Tai, also known as Daishan, Daizong, Daiyue, Dongyue and Taiyue, is one of the famous Five Mountains in China. It is located in the central part of Shandong Province, stretching between Tai'an, Jinan and Zibo. The total area is 24,200 hectares. The main peak, Yuhuangding, is 1,545 meters above sea level.

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The history and culture of Mount Tai

Mount Tai has a very strong mythological background. In ancient times, people believed that the sun rises in the east, so the east is the origin of all things. source. Mount Tai is the highest mountain in the East. Therefore, in ancient times with backward technology and closed minds, people believed that Mount Tai could connect the sky and the earth.

As long as you climb Mount Tai, you can talk to God and accept God's will. However, Qin Shihuang believed that he was the son of destiny and was recognized by God. Only he was qualified to accept God's will. Therefore, Mount Tai It was chosen by Qin Shihuang as the place of Zen.

Emperors from all dynasties later followed suit and regarded Mount Tai as a holy land. They held many sacrificial activities such as offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors, but very few were able to actually enshrine the Zen in Mount Tai. Influenced by feudal thought, ancient people had a strong sense of hierarchy and believed in ghosts and gods. Even if the natural conditions of Mount Tai were harsh, they would go up to the mountain to practice Zen.

In addition, only six emperors of Qin Shihuang went to Mount Tai to pray for Zen. It was not that other emperors did not want to go. On the contrary, they regarded being able to go to Mount Tai to pray for Zen as an honor. However, going to Mount Tai to enshrine the throne required the emperor to have certain merits and to receive auspiciousness from heaven. In other words, he had to get approval from God before he could go to Mount Tai to enshrine the throne, talk to God, report his achievements to God, and accept God's will.

There is a very interesting thing when talking about Feng Chan. As the first emperor to go to Mount Tai to Feng Chan, Qin Shihuang went to the top of Mount Tai to Feng Chan. When he led his entourage to climb halfway up the mountain, it rained heavily.

This was believed by the people at the time that Qin Shihuang killed too many people and was strict in the rule of law, which angered God and was not recognized by God. However, Qin Shihuang still stubbornly insisted on his opinion and led everyone to Mount Tai to worship. Perhaps it was Qin Shihuang's move that completely angered God and caused the death of the Qin Dynasty in just two generations.

The following emperors were more reliable. The second emperor to go to the throne was Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. This man only went to the mountain to grant the throne with real evidence. He served in the army all his life and resisted the Xiongnu in the north. He ushered in the glorious period of the Western Han Dynasty, so he was recognized by heaven and went to the mountain to become a Buddhist monk.

The third one is Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He experienced troubled times and reunified China. However, his purpose of becoming a Zen was not pure. According to legend, he was to consolidate the Liu family's royal status and wanted to "family dynasty".

The fourth place is Tang Gaozong. He did a unique thing. He took Wu Zetian to enshrine Zen. And in order to show the strength of the country, the convoy continued for hundreds of miles, accompanied by envoys from other countries. The fifth emperor of the Tang Dynasty was Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was also the only dynasty in which two emperors went to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen. The last one was Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty.

Everyone knows that the Song Zhenzong period was not peaceful. He has never made any achievements. It can be said that he cannot recite poems and write poems in writing, and cannot lift a gun and mount a horse in martial arts. Moreover, he also did something that was a loss of power and humiliation to the country. He signed the Chanyuan Alliance with Liao, ceded the thirty-six states of Youyun and paid tribute every year.

Logically speaking, such an emperor is not qualified to be enshrined in Zen, but he faked the auspiciousness from heaven and then went to Mount Tai to be enshrined in Zen. According to later speculations, Song Zhenzong disappointed the civil servants, military generals and people during the battle against Liao Dynasty, so he wanted to consolidate his position by conferring Zen status.

He wanted to show that he was the "right one" through this move, but we later learned that this did not save him, nor did it save the Song Dynasty. It is strange to say that after the Song Dynasty, no emperor went to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen, and most of them went to offer sacrifices. Perhaps this is also related to the fact that the next generation in the Song Dynasty was not as good as the previous one.

So many emperors held ceremonies, sacrifices and other activities in Mount Tai, leaving a profound cultural background for Mount Tai. As an editor at the foot of Mount Tai, I have seen the ceremony many times, and the scenery is still the sunrise. , sea of ??clouds and sunset are more eye-catching.

The countless temples, Taoist temples, steles, etc. on Mount Tai are also places worth visiting, because they have become the epitome of Chinese culture through the accumulation of history. Moreover, the idea of ??"harmony between man and nature" represented by Mount Tai has gradually become the spiritual sustenance of the Chinese people and is one of the treasures in the Chinese nation's ideological and cultural heritage. The editor hopes that everyone will come to Mount Tai to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the sea of ??clouds and appreciate the ancient charm of Zen.

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