Detailed data of Tiantai Mountain (Tiantai County, Zhejiang Province)

Tiantai Mountain (tiān tāi shān) is located in the north of Tiantai County, Zhejiang Province, China, with Xianxialing in the southwest and Zhoushan Islands in the northeast. It is the watershed between Cao 'e River and Yongjiang River. The main peak, Huading Mountain, is in the northeast of Tiantai County, with an altitude of 1,98 meters, and is made of granite. Hanging rocks, cliffs, waterfalls.

Tiantai Mountain is located in the east-central part of Zhejiang Province, at the junction of Ningbo, Shaoxing, Jinhua and Wenzhou. Known as "Buddhism is the source of Taoism and beautiful scenery", it is well-known at home and abroad; In 1988, it was approved by the State Council as a national key scenic spot, in 1992 it was listed as "Top Ten Tourist Attractions in Zhejiang Province", and in 215 it was rated as a national AAAAA-level tourist area.

The main scenic spots are: kokuseiji, Liang Shi Waterfall, Huading National Forest Park, a summer resort, Chicheng Mountain, Jigong's hometown, Qiongtai Fairy Valley, a paradise for leisure, Jigong's former residence in Loutai Pavilion, and Longchuan Gorge with unique charm. Basic Introduction Chinese Name: Tiantai Mountain Location: Tiantai County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province Climate Type: Subtropical Monsoon Climate Opening Hours: 7:-16: Scenic Spot Level: AAAAA Ticket Price: 1 yuan to 6 yuan (each scenic spot is charged separately) Famous scenic spots: Chicheng Mountain, Liang Shi Waterfall, kokuseiji, Area where Qiongtai Fairy Valley belongs: East China is suitable for playing season: required reading before departure from April to October, scenic spot dynamics, scenic spot introduction, key information, brief introduction, mountain system characteristics, mountain system composition, geological characteristics, geographical environment, natural environment, natural scenery, main scenic spots, resource overview, economy and culture, practical information, ticket information, opening hours, optimal travel time, safety tips, traffic information. Development and protection, historical exploration, famous mountains, tourism day, introduction of Tiantai Mountain Scenic Area, national AAAAA-level tourist scenic spot, national key scenic spot, one of the top ten famous mountains in China, national eco-tourism demonstration zone and top ten tourist attractions in Zhejiang Province. Tiantai Mountain Scenic Area is located in Tiantai County, the eastern part of Zhejiang Province. It is a famous mountain in the east of Zhejiang Province, with Ninghai and Sanmen in the east, Pan 'an in the west, Xianju and Linhai in the south, Xinchang in the north, and the coast of the East China Sea in Zhejiang Province. It is famous for its "Buddhism is the source of Taoism, and its landscape is beautiful". It is the birthplace of Tiantai Sect of Buddhism and Nanzong Sect of Taoism in China, and the hometown of living Buddha Jigong. Tiantai Mountain Scenic Area mainly includes kokuseiji, Liang Shi, Chicheng Mountain, Hanshan Lake and Huading Peak. Kokuseiji is a state-level cultural relic protection unit and the ancestral home of Tiantai Sect of Japanese and Korean Buddhism. The beautiful sea of clouds in the low mountains and the magical Buddha's light on the roof can be described as a unique rooftop. Mountaineering is a great blessing in life. Characteristics of Mountain System Tiantai Mountain is a branch of Xianxialing Mountain, with southwest-northeast trend, with an average elevation of more than 5 meters, and the main peak Huading Mountain is 198 meters above sea level. Tiantai Mountain is located in the central and eastern part of Zhejiang Province, at the junction of Ningbo, Shaoxing, Jinhua and Wenzhou. Known as "Buddhism is the source of Taoism and beautiful scenery", it is well-known at home and abroad. There are many overhanging rocks, cliffs and waterfalls, among which Liang Shi Waterfall is the most famous. The mountain system is mainly composed of Guoqing, Chicheng, Folong, Liang Shi (Tonghu and Huading), Baizhang (Qiongtai), Tongkeng Creek (Wannian Temple, Taoyuan and Qingxi) and Kaiyan (Zi Ning, Hanshan Lake, Mingyan Rock and Jiuzheshan Mountain). The mountains are naturally interesting, unique, and beautiful. Liang Shi Waterfall and Huading Guiyun are the most scenic spots. Geological features Tiantai Mountain is composed of granite. Hanging rocks, cliffs, waterfalls. It stretches across the coast of the East China Sea in Zhejiang Province. "The mountain is eight-fold, and it is like one on all sides, facing the three mornings. When you are a cow and a woman, you should stay in Taiwan, hence the name Tiantai." It is famous for its "beautiful scenery". Xianxialing in the southwest and Zhoushan Islands in the northeast. It is the watershed between Cao 'e River and Yongjiang River. The main peak, Huading Mountain, is in the northeast of Tiantai County, with an altitude of 1,98 meters (3,62 feet). Geographical environment Natural environment The beautiful landscape of Tiantai Mountain has attracted countless literati and poets. "The Tiantai Mountain is also a wonderful mountain builder", "The poor mountains and seas are rich, and the people and gods are magnificent". The natural landscape of Tiantai Mountain is unique, with inexhaustible strange stones, caves, waterfalls and clear springs, inexhaustible ancient trees, famous flowers, rare birds and exotic animals, and "beautiful landscapes". It is a natural botanical garden and zoo. There are many exotic plants, rare birds and animals. There are Sui Mei, Tang Zhang, Song Bai and Song Teng, and there are Lindera root called "elixir of life" and Dendrobium candidum called "life-saving fairy grass". Xu Xiake's view of waterfalls, especially Yunjin Rhododendron, which is widely distributed in thousands of meters of mountains, is over a hundred years old. Gu Gan is like iron, and its branches are like hooks. Every year in the late spring, pink and yellow flowers compete to open. The flowers are big and bright, and there are thousands of flowers in a tree, and the flowers are blooming. The ancient trees, wide areas and abundant flowers are rare in China, making it a great plant wonder in Tiantai Mountain. Rhododendron grows on Tiantai Mountain under the infiltration of aura. It is the oldest, tallest and largest "King of Rhododendron" in the world at present. It grows in the mountains with an altitude of 1,2 meters and an area of nearly 3 mu at the peak of Mount Hua in Tiantai. Its tree age is mostly between 4 and 1, years. Its trunk is like iron, its branches are like hooks, its branches are flourishing, and it has a unique momentum. In May every year, the azalea trees in Yunjin compete for release, and the pink and yellow flowers are big and bright. More than 1, azaleas on each tree are often divided into 7 to 13 small azaleas, which are curled up to form a cluster of bouquets with the size of a bowl. The bouquets are clustered together again, and they look like flowers and clouds, which are very gorgeous. Therefore, Yunjin Rhododendron has a very vivid name called "Rhododendron Thousand Flowers". In addition, there are rare wild animals such as civet cats, Sumen antelope and clouded leopards. These have greatly enriched the scenic tourism resources of Tiantai Mountain. Natural scenery The scenic spots in Tiantai Mountain also have their own characteristics, which can be summarized as four words: ancient, clear, strange and secluded. Chicheng Qixia, Shuangjian Huilan, Huading Xiuse, Qiongtai Moonlight, etc. are called the Eight Scenes of Tiantai. Liang Shi Scenic Area is the essence of Tiantai Mountain, a national scenic spot. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "there are eight big scenes, eight small scenes, and there are 3 famous scenes. How many scenes are there?". Sun Chuo, a writer of Rhododendron in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Tiantai Mountain, wrote in the Preface to Visiting Tiantai Mountain: "Those who build Tiantai Mountain are also beautiful ... with their majestic appearance, auspicious beauty, rich mountains and seas, and magnificent people." Xu Xiake, a great traveler in the Ming Dynasty, traveled all over the world, went to Tiantai Mountain three times, wrote two travel notes, and marked the Diary of Visiting Tiantai Mountain at the beginning of Xu Xiake's Travel Notes. Pan Lei, a famous scholar in the Qing Dynasty, sighed after visiting Tiantai Mountain: "After a long journey, I saw many famous mountains and towns, and the mountain was unique and could not be changed. Those who hide the beauty of all, are long, surprisingly endless, and explore endlessly are the only ones who are on the roof! ..... Taishan can have the beauty of the mountains, and the mountains can't be the wonders of Taishan. Therefore, it is necessary to visit Taishan without visiting the mountains, and it is necessary to visit the mountains without visiting Taishan. " The natural landscape of Tiantai Mountain was highly appraised. The main scenic spot, kokuseiji, kokuseiji, was built in the 18th year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (598). It was originally named Tiantai Temple, and later renamed kokuseiji, which means that "if the temple is completed, the country will be clear". The Southern Song Dynasty was listed as one of the ten temples in the south of the Yangtze River, and the existing buildings were rebuilt in 1734, the twelfth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty. The total area of the whole temple is 73, square meters, which is divided into five longitudinal axes, forming an ancient architectural complex with more than 2, square meters and more than 8 houses, complete halls, neat buildings and magnificent momentum. Now it is listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit. Kokuseiji is located in the "Xanadu" surrounded by mountains and surrounded by five peaks. The environment is quiet and beautiful, surrounded by towering ancient trees and trees, with an arch bridge in front of the temple and flowing water. After thousands of years, the ancient Sui Tower still stands on the hillside. The temple is magnificent and full of wonders, just like a natural painting, making it an ideal tourist destination. Kokuseiji is an ancient temple with profound cultural accumulation. During the Chen and Sui Dynasties, the wise master (538-597) founded Tiantai Sect, the first sect in the history of Buddhism in China, in Tiantai Mountain. During the Tang Zhenyuan period, the Japanese monk went to kokuseiji to seek the Dharma, and after returning home, he founded the Japanese Tiantai Sect in Biju Mountain, Japan. In the 11th century, Yi Tian, a Korean monk, went to kokuseiji to seek the Dharma, and introduced it to Korea, so kokuseiji became the ancestral home of Tiantai Sect of Buddhism in Japan and Korea. In the year when the temple was built, the "Sui Mei" planted by Master Zhang An was over 1,4 years old. During the "Cultural Revolution", it was on the verge of extinction. With the careful care of the monks, the dead trees were rejuvenated in the renovation year, and the flowers were like snow, and the results were numerous. Kokuseiji has a rich collection of cultural relics and historical sites, and a large number of cultural relics and historical sites are preserved, including gold and silver vessels, copper castings and silk products, inscriptions, scriptures, calligraphy and painting, wood carvings, jade ornaments, Buddha statues and precious gifts for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. Among them, the Bayeux Sutra, a relic of the wise master, was identified by Chen Yinque as a Sanskrit script of Shagongdaro in ancient India; Line-drawn inscriptions of seven Bodhisattva statues taken from the Sui Tower; The majestic flying tablet of Wang Xizhi's "Goose Word" in the temple is followed by cliff stone carvings such as Liu Gongquan's "Temple of Dazhong Guoqing" in the Tang Dynasty, Hanshanzi's poems by Huang Tingjian in the Song Dynasty, Mi Fei's "Xiuyan" and Zhu Xi's "Pillow Stone". The Nanmu statue of Luohan in the Yuan Dynasty and the bronze Buddha statue in the Ming and Qing Dynasties are rare art treasures and the testimony of the "Buddha country". And in memory of the Tang Dynasty astronomer monk and his party who went to kokuseiji to work out the Dayan Calendar, the monument of "a line of water flows west here", thich nhat hanh Yiguan Tomb, etc. All of them are shining with the splendid history and culture of the ancient temples of the Millennium. Liang Shi, a collection of wonders of the world, is the essence of the "Road of Tang Poetry" in eastern Zhejiang. Famous poets such as Li Bai and Meng Haoran once praised this wonderful scene and left immortal poems. Ascending along the stream, the mountains are dripping with green, the ancient trees are towering, the strange rocks are everywhere, and the strange peaks are abrupt. It is an excellent resort with different scenery and striking scenery. Visitors are immersed in it and fall into a fairyland. The Cuigu is more than 1,8 meters long. The most famous ones are "Rhinoceros Looking at the Moon", "Old Monks Deciding", "Sleeping Lion for a Thousand Years", "Tortoise Elephant for a Thousand Years", Primitive Schima superba Forest, "Yingzhen Bathing Pool" and so on. Tiantai Liang Shi is a "Granite Natural Bridge". The so-called "Tiansheng Bridge" is a bridge-like terrain with two ends connected to the ground and suspended in the middle, with limestone and sandstone being the most common. According to the field investigation by Academician Wang Sijing of China Academy of Engineering and researcher Yang Zhifa of Institute of Geology and Geophysics of China Academy of Sciences, Liang Shi is a masterpiece of nature with six unique geological and hydrological conditions. Simply speaking, from the internal point of view, the rock mass memory here has a vertical and horizontal "two steep and one slow" crack system; Externally, "cascade waterfalls" provide sufficient hydraulic power for "erosion into beams". Liang Shi Waterfall is a wonder in the scenic area. Liang Shi's beam is about 7 meters long, and the width of the beam is not enough. For example, black dragon ridges and straddles two mountain cliffs. The "waterfall" passes through the beam after three folds, and then rushes down from a 4-meter-high cliff, like white frost and snow that collapses. The sound of crashing at first glance is like thunder. According to the records, Xu Xiake, a geographer of Ming Dynasty who visited Tiantai three times, once walked the frightening Liang Shi Bridge. Now that the head of Liang Shi Bridge is closed, you can't walk, and the breathtaking appearance can only be imagined by yourself. Next to Liang Shi, there is the Zhongfang Guang Temple, and the Epiphyllum Pavilion in the temple was originally built by Jia Sidao, the Prime Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty. On the left side of the bottom of the waterfall is the lower Guang Temple, which is shaded by bamboo trees. According to legend, it is the place where 5 arhats should be true. Now there are 5 arhats carved in the temple. There are dozens of cliff inscriptions in Liang Shi, including the "First Wonder", "Building a Bamboo Cave" and "Living in a Real Golden Realm" written by famous people such as Mi Fei and Ding Darong in Song Dynasty, Gan Yu in Ming Dynasty and Kang Youwei in modern times. The real grass seal is complete and magnificent. Liang Shi Waterfall Scenic Area is the main shooting place of many film and television films, such as Shaolin Temple, Shaolin lay disciple, Legend of the Condor Heroes and so on, the first martial arts film in China. Overview of resources Tiantai Mountain is rich in resources. There are the first of the nine fairy grasses, "Tiepifenghu", the Tiantai Mountain "Wudao", the immortal food "Polygonatum sibiricum", the world-famous "dried bamboo shoots" and the crisp and transparent "tofu skin". Tiantai Mountain Yunwu Tea, Tiantai Mountain Tangerine and Little Red Haired Peanut are well-known for a long time. Tiantai Mountain Tangerine and Little Red Haired Peanut are famous for a long time. Rich in Chinese fir, citrus and medicinal materials. Tiantai is one of the most premature tea places in China. Tiantai Mountain is rich in high-quality mountain tea-Yunwu Tea, and the oriental tea culture-China Tea Ceremony was born. Tiantai Mountain is also rich in Chinese medicinal materials, including more than 1, kinds of rare medicinal materials such as Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos and Dendrobium nobile. "Tiantai Radix Linderae" has a unique quality and is an "elixir of life" of Chinese medicine. "Liang Shi" brand alpine vegetables, which grow in thousands of meters of mountains, are pollution-free green products and have been exported to Shanghai, Shandong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Hong Kong and Macau. Economic and Cultural Tiantai Mountain is not only beautiful in natural scenery and profound in cultural accumulation, but also has excellent tourism location conditions. Tiantai is one of the most premature tea places in China. Tiantai Mountain is rich in high-quality mountain tea-Yunwu Tea, and the oriental tea culture-China Tea Ceremony was born. "Tiantai Radix Linderae" has a unique quality and is an "elixir of life" of traditional Chinese medicine. "Liang Shi" brand alpine vegetables, which grow in thousands of meters of mountains, are pollution-free green products, and have been exported to Shanghai, Shandong, Fujian, Jiangsu and other cities in this province, and exported to Hong Kong and Macao. Both the Tiantai Sect of Buddhism and the Nanzong Sect of Taoism were founded in Tiantai Mountain. Kokuseiji, an ancient temple in Sui Dynasty, was the ancestral home of Tiantai Sect, and all Tiantai Sect believers at home and abroad went to kokuseiji to worship the ancestral home. At the end of Han Dynasty, Taoxi, the immortal mountain of Ge Xuan alchemy, Qiongtai, the fairy capital of Jasper chain, Tongbai, the holy land of Taoism, was the sixth cave in the world. Buddhist "Five Hundred Arhats Dojo" Fangguang Temple in Liang Shi. Hanshishan, the secluded place of Hanshanzi, a poet monk in Tang Dynasty. Wannian Temple, one of the "Five Mountains and Ten Temples" of Zen Buddhism in Song Dynasty, and Gaoming Temple, a national key temple. The "Buddha Country Fairy Mountain" has also created countless magical legends. The story of Liu Chen and Ruan Zhaocai's encounter with immortals in the Han Dynasty, which spread through the ages, happened here. Guoqing Lecture Temple, a thousand-year-old temple, Liang Shi Waterfall, Huading National Forest Park, a summer resort, Chicheng Mountain, Jigong's hometown, Qiongtai Fairy Valley, a leisure paradise, Jigong's former residence in Loutai Pavilion, and Longchuan Gorge scenic spot with unique charm. The activity of "214 international tourism and holiday destination evaluation adopted by national journalists" entered Tiantai Mountain tourist scenic spot in Zhejiang. Tiantai Mountain is not only the birthplace of Tiantai Sect of Buddhism in Han Dynasty, the destination of Tang Poetry Road, the birthplace of Nanzong Sect of Taoism and the birthplace of living Buddha Jigong, but also the rural experience destination of Hanshanzi, a poet monk, living in seclusion and pastoral life. The opening work of Xu Xiake's Travels in Ming Dynasty started from Tiantai Mountain. Practical information Ticket information Longchuan Gorge: 6. yuan Tiantai Tianhu Scenic Area: 45. yuan Jigong's former residence: 3. yuan Huading National Forest Park: 5. yuan Liang Shi Waterfall: 6. yuan Chicheng Mountain: 15. yuan kokuseiji: 1 yuan Opening hours Qiongtai Xiangu Scenic Area: 7:~16: Tiantai Mountain Longchuan Gorge Scenic Area: 8: . Tiantai Mountain is covered with overlapping peaks, gloomy and gloomy, and the climate is warm and humid, so it is very suitable for traveling from April to October. Especially in July-August, it can not only enjoy the beautiful scenery, but also avoid the scorching sun. It is a famous summer resort in southeastern Zhejiang. Safety tips: It will rain on the rooftop in July, the road will be slippery on rainy days, and there will be heavy fog, so it is not suitable for boarding.