On the Tour of Lingyan Mountain in Jinan

The mountain of Lingyan Temple is not high. Climbing a mountain has steps, where you can enjoy the scenery, and where the middleman rests.

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1. The tourist bus in Changqing District goes directly to Lingyan Temple (you can enjoy a free ride if you buy a full-price ticket).

2. Tour No.60 in Jinan (free ride if you buy a full-price ticket)

Jiefang bridge bus parking lot (Carrefour is in the north) (7: 30-8: 00 am)

Municipal Wuyuan bus parking lot (8: 00-8: 30 am)

Shengli Avenue (8: 00-8: 30 am)

Tel: (0531) 85997756 85660341

3. Tel: (053 1)8500888 to 806830, Jinan Coach Terminal, Jinan Tourism Distribution Center.

4. Jinan Tourist Bus Station No.71Jinan Hero Mountain Road Tel: (0531) 88316168316366.

5. No.75 Dikou Road, Jinan Long-distance Passenger Transport Center Tel: (053 1)86309872

Lingyan Temple, located at the northern foot of Mount Tai, is located in Wande Town, Changqing District, Jinan City. It is 45 kilometers from Jinan in the north and 25 kilometers from Taian in the south. National Highway 104 and Beijing-Fuzhou Expressway (with Lingyan Temple exit) pass through the territory.

Lingyan Temple was founded in the Eastern Jin Dynasty with a history of 1600 years. The temple has a long history and rich Buddhist heritage. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has been called the "Four Famous Temples at Sea" together with the National Assembly Temple in Zhejiang, qixia temple in Nanjing and yuquan temple in Hubei, ranking first. Lingyan Temple is now an important part of Mount Tai, a world natural and cultural heritage, a national key cultural relic protection unit, a national-level scenic spot and the first batch of 4A-level tourist areas in China.

Stop at Lingyan Scenic Area, and you will see mountains and steep rocks there. White pool is beautiful, and spring is sweet and fragrant; There are many historical sites and many Buddhist sounds. There are not only towering Pizhi pagodas, but also grotesque iron cassocks. There are also ship halls in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and colored clay arhats in the Song Dynasty. There are also natural wonders such as "Spring Dawn in the Mirror Pool", "Castle Peak" and "Clear Cave and Snow". Therefore, Wang Shizhen, a writer in the Ming Dynasty, said that "Lingyan is the most secluded place on the back of Mount Tai, and it is not impossible not to visit Mount Tai in Lingyan". There are statues of caves in the Northern Wei Dynasty, pagodas in the Tang Dynasty and clay sculptures in the Song Dynasty. The clay sculptures of Lohan in the temple were made in the Song Dynasty, which Liang Qichao called "the first sculpture on the sea", and Liu Haisu wrote "Lingyan is the best in the world, vivid and vivid". During the Cultural Revolution, because it was an air force warehouse, the clay sculptures in the temple were not destroyed.

In recent years, Lingyan Temple has made great progress in cultural relics protection and tourism development, and has become a well-known tourist attraction at home and abroad. Every year, millions of domestic and foreign tourists come to Lingyan for sightseeing and exploring the past. Or climb mountains to keep fit and observe nature; Or summer vacation, business talks.

Lingyan Temple, a thousand-year-old temple, is welcoming guests from all directions with its profound historical background, beautiful natural scenery and modern service facilities! .

Lingyan Mountain is one of the twelve branches of Mount Tai, with the main peak 668 meters above sea level. Lingyan Mountain, formerly known as Fangshan, was named after the top flat wall cut. Because it looks like a jade seal, it is also called Yufushan. The sun on the mountain is a full moon and lush Lingyan Valley. The winding mountains extend to the east and west, and Lingyan Temple is located in this green valley.

The mountain around Lingyan Temple is mainly composed of two parts. The lower layer, called crystalline basement, is a medium-coarse grained gneissic adamellite that invaded in the late Archean period 2.4 24. 126 billion years ago. The upper part is called sedimentary cover, which is limestone and shale deposited in Paleozoic CAMBRIAN 600 million years ago. It is not integrated on the crystalline substrate and becomes the main body of the mountain range.

In addition to faults, there are gravity sliding structures and various fold structures around Lingyanshan, and neotectonic movement is also very common and intense, showing an intermittent upward trend. Stratigraphic lithology, geological structural conditions and various geological processes constitute the four characteristics of Lingyan Mountain, which are beauty, strangeness, seclusion and elegance.

The natural scenery of Lingyan Temple is magnificent, with Shi Xiu, strange rocks, secluded caves, clear springs and strange trees. There are Fangshan, Shishan, Xiangshan, Langgong, Kongming, Zhushan, Lingshan, Xiangshan, Ji Ming and Huangxian. Youchao He Yan, Langgong Rock, Furiyan, Renxian Rock, Yuhua Rock and Happy Rock; There are Ant Cave, Baiyun Cave, Guanyin Cave, Wuyun Cave, Hanyun Cave, Yuanchao Cave and Tiger Cave. There are Ganlu Spring, Zhuoxi Spring, Baihequan, Sage Spring, Shi Gui Spring, Fangshangquan, Huayan Spring, Langgong Spring, Shenbaoquan, Guancaiquan, Huanglongquan, Woxiang Spring and Shanbaoquan. There are ancient and famous trees such as Cooper, Tang Huai, Song Ginkgo, Mo Ding Pine, Yuanyang Sandalwood and Longfeng Sandalwood.

Lingyan Temple has four distinct seasons, a pleasant climate and rich flora and fauna. According to statistics, there are 80 species of birds belonging to 14 orders and 37 families. Mammals ***5 orders, 9 families 15 species; Reptiles ***4 orders, 5 families and 9 species; Amphibians 1 order, 2 families and 4 species; Insects ***8 orders, 62 families 194 species. * * * There are 506 species of vascular plants belonging to 95 families, 3 13 genera. Among them, there are 3 17 wild plants and 0/89 cultivated plants. The forest area of Lingyan * * main scenic spot is more than 10,000 mu, which is divided into three categories: coniferous forest, bamboo forest and economic forest. Coniferous forest, a forest group dominated by Platycladus orientalis; Bamboo forest, mainly light bamboo; Economic forests include apple, hawthorn, apricot, walnut, persimmon, jujube, ginkgo, Toona sinensis and other tree species. Lingyan Scenic Area is rich in Chinese herbal medicine resources, including 42 families and 98 species, among which Lycium barbarum and Polygonum multiflorum are common. If you come here in spring, you can also taste many wild vegetables in the mountains. According to the investigation, there are 35 kinds of wild vegetables, belonging to 15 family. The common ones are Chenopodium album, Swertia japonica Thunb., Portulaca oleracea, Shepherd's purse, Pogostemon cablin, mint, Artemisia capillaris and Chrysanthemum indicum.

Lingyan Temple, a thousand-year-old temple, is outstanding and has accumulated many beautiful legends. Langgong said, the stone nodded, and the mountain had spirit, so it was called Lingyan; There are three springs, making holes and introducing "five steps and three springs"; Wang Ge's cry conveys an immortal love story. There are countless cypresses, praising truth, goodness and beauty, lashing camouflage and greed; There is a legend of Muyushi, which tells people the interesting things left by Emperor Qianlong's eight visits to Lingyan and Mo Bao. There is also the legend of Jiming Mountain, warning people to suppress evil and promote good, and obeying the law is the right way.

Lingyan Mountain has beautiful scenery, simple folk customs, tranquility and harmony. Every year, Spring Festival, temple fairs, country parties or traditional festivals are good opportunities for people to pray, get together, visit relatives and go shopping. At this time, people are beaming, wearing new clothes and walking hand in hand. There are laughter, songs and the joy of harvest on the mountain road, which has become a unique scenery where Lingyan flows.

[Edit this paragraph] Introduction of scenic spots

Bizhita was founded in Song Chunhua in the fifth year (994) and completed in the second year of Jiayou (1057), which lasted for 63 years. "Bhikuni" comes from Buddhism, transliterated as "Bhikuni Buddha", abbreviated as "Bhikuni Buddha", and Bhikuni Tower means Bhikuni Tower. The tower is an octagonal nine-story pavilion-style brick tower with a height of 55.7 meters. Taki is made of stone octagon with relief on it, engraved with stories such as Asoka's conversion to Buddhism in the peacock dynasty of ancient India. The tower is made of blue bricks, with waist eaves on each floor, double eaves on the lower three floors and flat seats on the second to fourth floors. The eaves and diameter of the tower decrease step by step from bottom to top, and the points should be closed appropriately. The first to fourth floors of the tower are equipped with tower core columns with coupon holes, which can be built step by step. Starting from the fifth floor, it can be built into a solid. When climbing the tower, you must turn left 90 degrees along the waist eaves outside the tower wall and enter the upper door opening. There is an iron tower brake on the tower, which consists of a bowl, wheels, a treasure cover, a round lamp, a rising moon and a treasure bead. Eight chains hung from the treasure cover and were taken over by eight iron diamonds on the eaves of the ninth tower, and continued underground in the tower to play a role in lightning protection. Bizhita is magnificent, beautiful in shape, complex in structure and appropriate in proportion. It is a typical Song Dynasty style and a landmark building of Lingyan Temple. Ceng Gong, a writer in the Song Dynasty, wrote a poem praising "the statutory meditation room faces the steep valley, and the pagoda faces the mountains".

The Thousand Buddha Hall is named after many Buddha statues in the hall. This temple was built in the Tang Dynasty (627-649) and rebuilt by Song Jiayou, Ming Jiajing and Wanli. The existing wooden structure is in the Ming Dynasty.

The Thousand-Buddha Hall is built on a mountain, with a high platform, seven rooms wide and four rooms deep, and a single eaves on the top of the hall, slowly lifting the far eaves. There is a huge bucket arch under the eaves, with gorgeous wooden edges and colorful paintings. The eaves are long and towering, and they have the potential to spread their wings and fly. There are eight stone pillars under the front eaves. The pillars are carved with dragons and phoenixes, flowers, leaves, water waves, lotus petals and precious lotus flowers. Exquisite carving, highlighting the style of Tang and Song Dynasties.

There is a "three-body Buddha" in the center of the temple. In Chinese, "Dharma Body" means that the Buddha's innate Dharma is embodied in itself, and it is called Pilu Jinna Buddha, which was painted with rattan tires in the second year of Song Zhiping (1065) and transported from Qiantang to Lingyan. On the east side is the "Baoshen" named Lushenafo, which was cast with 2500 Jin of copper in the 13th year of Chenghua (1477). On the west is "Shi Ying", named Sakyamuni Buddha, also made of copper, which was cast in the 23rd year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1544). There is a spiral bun on the top of the Buddha's head, with graceful posture, tall brow and dignified eyes. The three Buddha statues are patchwork, dignified in appearance, smooth in clothing lines, concise in clothing and full of artistic appeal.

The Thousand Buddha Hall has been praised by tourists and experts for its 40 colorful Lohan clay sculptures, of which 32 were carved in the third year of Song Zhiping (1066) and 8 were carved in the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty (1573- 1620). These statues are all sitting on 80 cm high brick corsets, and the height of the top of the Lohan statue is between 105 and 1 10 cm. In shaping these arhats, ancient artists broke the traditional Buddhist sculpture mode, paid attention to realism, and had a strong secular atmosphere and real life interest. They describe God with form, express their feelings with God, and show their hearts with emotion. They pay attention to embody the personality and characteristics of each arhat and portray the inner world of arhat, making it real, vivid and close to life. Look at its shape, bow, stick to the ground, cross your hands, sit up, talk with your fingers, or listen carefully, all of which are accurate and vivid. Look at his expression, some are brave and angry, some are kind and mature, some argue, some close their eyes, some smile, some bow their heads and whisper, some overlook, and all are meticulous. Look at its temperament, some graceful, some shabby, some elegant, all vivid, can be described as lifelike, ready to move. In addition, the relationship between human body and clothing is also handled properly. The straightness of lines, the ups and downs of reality and reality, the changes of clothing pleats at the moment of action, and the texture of fabrics are all accurate and vivid, with a strong sense of rhythm. A medical professional said that through Lohan's robes, we can see the ancients' accurate grasp of human anatomy. In addition, during the maintenance of 1982, it was also found that these painted arhats also have abdominal cavities like human bodies, and there are viscera made of silk in the abdominal cavities. In addition, there are five baht coins, Kaiyuan Bao Tong, the first three generations of copper coins in the Song Dynasty, bronze mirrors in the Song Dynasty, ink inscriptions and other cultural relics.

19 12 years, Liang Qichao, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, visited here and praised the Lohan clay sculpture in the Thousand Buddha Hall as "the first sculpture at sea" and wrote an inscription in his own hand. 1987, He Jingzhi wrote after visiting the Thousand Buddhas Hall in Lingyan: "It's better to paint a god than to convey the spirit, and the pen from the gods is to write people. Forty arhats in Lingyan, each evokes a poem to talk about. Liu Haisu, the master of art, came to Lingyan Temple and wrote a eulogy that "Lingyan clay sculpture is the best in the world, with vivid flesh and blood".

Tomb tower Lingyan temple monk cemetery. There are 167 stone tombs in Tallinn, covering the Northern Wei, Tang, Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, with 8/kloc-0 epitaphs and stone tablets. Tomb tower is generally composed of tower foundation, tower body and tower gate. The tower foundation is square, round and octagonal, with embossed cymbals. This tower is very tall, with the Buddha's name and year number engraved on it. Tasha's designs include wheels, pots, the moon rising, spheres, flowers and dragons. There are usually tombstones beside the tomb tower, which record the experiences of eminent monks and witness the historical evolution of Lingyan Temple, and are precious historical materials for studying the development history of Buddhism.

There is a north-south corridor in the middle of the tomb tower forest, which is of masonry structure, and there is a single-story and double-eaved Northern Wei ancestor tower (corporate tomb tower) at the northern end. On both sides of the corridor are all-stone structural towers, which are divided into six types according to their shapes: obelisk tower, bell tower, drum tower, barrier tower (Lama tower), warp tower and pavilion tower.

The Tomb Pagoda Forest is an ancient stone carving art museum with rich accumulation. Tomb towers with different shapes, exquisite structure and reasonable layout; Sculpture is rich in content, diverse in techniques and exquisite. For example, the tower is surrounded by various artistic images and bears the weight of Lux. Under heavy pressure, the mouth is wide open, the face is twisted, the waist of the limbs is bent, and the muscles of the whole body are protruding, which gives people the exaggeration of strength and the hardship of bearing weight; Some carved knights straddle the lion and play polo with curved sticks in their hands; Some carved playful cubs, which were very awkward; There are also elegant carved costumes and entertainment scenes of long silk dances. Relief shows the intelligence and superb carving skills of ancient working people.

Zhuoxiquan, Baihequan and Shuanghequan

Located under the cliff on the east side of the Thousand Buddha Hall, three springs are adjacent, commonly known as "five steps and three springs". Spring water gushes from the stone stream, which is sweet and inexhaustible all year round, and is injected into the stone pool like a mirror. This is the reason why the mirror pool is spring dawn. Zhuo Xiquan, also known as Zhang Xiquan, was handed down from generation to generation as a legal monk. He struck the rock with a tin sheet and the water rushed out with Zhang Xi. Baihequan, also known as Shuanghe Spring, is named after the legend that when the statutory Buddhist monk was looking for water, he was instructed by the woodcutter in the mountain and saw the spring water at the screaming place of Shuanghe. Zhuoxi Spring is one of the 72 famous springs in Jinan.

Ganlu spring

Lixu, located in the northeast of the temple, is known as the "first spring of Lingyan". I saw a stone sinus on the cliff wall and in the wooded place. The spring water oozes like dew, tinkling, crisp and sweet, hence the name "Ganlu Spring". Monks often fetch water, make tea and cook here, and often discuss scriptures here at night. "Cool realm" is one of the eight scenic spots of Lingyan.

Daopao spring

Located under the cliff on the east side of the Runwheel Tibetan Site, it is listed as the "Quanming Monument" of gold. It is named after a cast iron block shaped like a cassock standing by the spring. The source of spring water is vigorous, and the spring water is constant all the year round, which is the main drinking water of the temple. There are steep cliffs, robes with spring water, fish swimming in the pond, winding cloisters, which have a unique taste. The cassock spring is one of the 72 famous springs in Jinan.

Tan Baoquan

Located a few miles southwest of the temple, it is named after a thousand-year-old sandalwood tree that grows by the spring. It has mountains to the south and villages to the north. The pool is full of water, and the spring is named after the pool, which is full of spring. It is the main water source for the production and life of Lingyan villagers. Tan Baoquan is one of the 72 springs in Jinan.

Spring water at the edge of the cliff

Located in Nanliwei, Chongxing Bridge, Lingyan Temple, it was named after the spring water leaked from the gap in the cliff. The cliff here is also called "dishuiya" because the spring water runs down the wall. Because every time Xia Guang glows, the water drops are full of brilliance, so Emperor Qianlong named it "Yuhua Rock" and wrote a poem "I didn't see the sky flying, but the rock fell to make smallpox". Because of its magnificent scenery, it was listed as one of the eight scenic spots of Lingyan in ancient times.

There are caves, underground hidden machines and spring waterfalls in Lingyan Temple Scenic Area. Besides Zhuoxi Spring, Mazu Spring and Tanbao Spring, Shuanghe Spring, Baihequan, Ganlu Spring, Yinhu Spring, Fangshangquan, Quanfei, Huanglongquan and Langgong Spring are also among the famous springs in Jinan.