Shiliang waterfall

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Shiliang waterfall

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Shiling falls is the best in all the land of Tiantai Mountain, 22 kilometers north of Tiantai County, Zhejiang province. It is the essence of the "Tang Poetry Road" in eastern Zhejiang. In the mountains and hills, a stone crosses the sky, and the waterfalls are pouring down. "The wind and thunder all day and night" have made the scholars of the past pour their souls into the earth, leaving countless poems and poems of the Zhuang nationality, known as "the first wonders in the world". The ancient Fangguang temple near the waterfall is 500 Luohan Daochang. Zhongfangguang temple is a Buddhist temple.

Human history

Tiantai Mountain is a famous mountain in the south of the Yangtze River and the birthplace of Tiantai Sect of Buddhism.

Tiantai Mountain is centered on Huading, surrounded by mountains like petals. Therefore, from a distance, Tiantai Mountain looks like a blooming lotus.

Shiliang waterfall is not more spectacular than other waterfalls, but it has its own unique features: first of all, it has a huge stone beam about two feet long, spanning between the two cliffs. The slightly arched beam surface looks like a crawling python. Jinxi and daxingkeng two streams, from left to right, meet here. The rocks in the stream are bumpy, and the water falls down layer by layer. Every time, a snow-white spray is aroused, and then it falls down again. In this way, after four falls, the stream finally flows to the vicinity of Shiliang in the middle of the white waves, and gathers into a huge snow wave group to rush towards Shiliang. Some of them were beaten back, while most of them passed through the bottom of the beam and fell into the deep valley, making a deafening sound. Near the Shiliang waterfall, there are four character stone carvings entitled "the first wonder" by Mi Fu, a great calligrapher of the Song Dynasty, "Shiliang waterfall" by Kang Youwei, a leader of the reformists in the late Qing Dynasty, and "QianDu Youlai" by Liu Ao, a prefect in Shiliang.

There are numerous scenic spots and waterfalls in Tiantai Mountain. In his poem Huading, pan Lei, a poet in the early Qing Dynasty, said, "the peaks and hills are in Xiaohan one by one, and the waterfalls are full of rainbow thunder.". However, the best part of the roof is a waterfall, which is the famous Shiliang waterfall.

The beauty of Shiliang waterfall lies in the thousands of spray, which is like snow and pearls all year round. Therefore, there is a saying that "ice and snow are 3000 feet, wind and thunder are 12 hours". From Zhongfang Guangsi, you can reach Guangsi below along the mountain path. At this time, looking back at the Shiliang waterfall, the scenery changed again. I saw the stone beam hanging high into the clouds, the waterfall shaking off nine days, like a silver dragon falling from the sky, as described in a poem:

The stone bridge is full of wonders.

In front of the waterfall temple, it is sunny and rainy, and the Tanhua cloud is far from fragrant.

A curtain of poetry and painting hanging on the wall, the wind and thunder shake the sky forever.

I'd like to lie on a pillow and watch. There is a rattan bed beside the third pine.

When Xu Xiake looked down at the abyss from the stone beam, he once wrote: "I went up from the beam and looked down at the abyss. My hair and bones were all creepy."

Another unique feature of Shiliang waterfall is the beautiful scenery in eastern Zhejiang and the prosperous urban and rural areas nearby. Tiantai Mountain itself has a lot of beautiful scenery, and it is also a Buddhist resort. Therefore, Shiliang waterfall is even more famous. Talking about the Tiantai Shiliang waterfall, we can't help but think of a long poem singing about the Tiantai Shiliang waterfall, which is Wei Yuan's song of watching the waterfall after the rain. The whole poem is as follows:

"Yanqiu waterfall is full of smoke, Zhongtiao waterfall is full of thunder, and kuanglu waterfall is as vast as river. Only the waterfall on the rooftop is not unusual. The waterfall is on the stone beam: if a man lies on his side with one arm stretched, he can stretch 84000 feet and release nine Milky way frost. I come at the time of Lianchao rain, the two cliffs force the wind more angry. Thousands of insects rush into the pines, rushing to the spring and seizing the way of tourists. Chonggang and Sihe are like Chongcheng, which is full of energy and energy. Shantou plants think of others, but there are tiger roaring and Canglong chanting. In a moment, the rain is as wet as the moon, and the moon waterfall is more tranquil than the rain waterfall. There is only one sound in thousands of mountains, and all the sounds are resting. In the quiet, I suspect that it is Qu Jiangtao, and this cloud is hanging over the sea. I used to watch the tides and the waterfalls, and Haoran's heart was filled with two things. If you don't see with your eyes and listen with your ears, you'll be in heaven for three days. The creation is good, but not thrifty. The mountain monk turned around and laughed: "xiudao rain waterfall and Yuebao waterfall know the beauty of the ice waterfall. The broken jade and cracked Qiong do not flow, and the black light is shining in the middle line. A layer of ice accumulation suddenly destroyed, the sky collapsed, the sky was clear, the front ice had cracked, the back ice was riding, and one day Yushan was decaying. It's time for the woodcutters and herdsmen to travel in silence. The old monk's staff is poor and secluded. The victory in the mountains is not passed on to the outside. It's hard for Wuling to tell Yulang! " After the words, the moon falls on the vast mountain, but I feel the smoke and thunder under the stone beam, carrying the wind and rain, as vast as the river

In addition to the Shiliang waterfall in Tiantai Mountain, there are also waterfalls such as shuizhulian waterfall and Tonghu dilou waterfall. They are 3 kilometers away from Shiliang waterfall, each with its own characteristics. Among them, the copper pot drip is a natural abdominal expansion; the narrow stone at the mouth is about 45 feet high, and the bluish black basalt is a whole, just like a big copper pot. The roaring water falls into Weng, like thunder, and then spirals out of the rock gap in the shape of the pot mouth, straight into the Bitan below.

The best in all the land is the "day and night storm". The stone lovers have been pouring down all over the ages. Apart from being known as "the most amazing sight in the world", they are also regarded as the essence of the "Tang Poetry Road" in eastern Zhejiang.

Main attractions

Ancient Guangsi Temple

The ancient lower Fangguang temple on the left side of the waterfall bottom is the Tiantai Sect, covered by luxuriant forests and bamboo trees. It is the place where five hundred Arhats of Buddhism should be true. There are five hundred Arhats in the temple. The Guangsi Temple below is the "treasure land of five hundred Arhats". It is a precious place to preserve the gold-plated five hundred Arhats carved in nanmu during the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the oldest in China.

Tiantai Mountain is the general Taoist center of five hundred Arhats, which has been recorded in Buddhist books for a long time.

"Records of the western regions" says: "the Buddha's words, the fangguangsheng temple in Sinian, the residence of five hundred Arhats." The biography of eminent monks written by Liang Daihui Jiao records the process of five hundred Arhats' telepathy in Tiantai Mountain. When Yan Tanyou passed the Shiliang bridge, he saw that five hundred Arhats "either walk or sit, or wave, or lie and sit. In a moment, they changed a lot."

Zhongfang Guangsi

Zhongfangguang temple is located on the side of Shiliang bridge. Inside the temple is a copper pavilion built by Xu Guidu, the eunuch of Jiumen in the first year of Tianqi in Ming Dynasty. Inside the pavilion are carved miniature statues of 500 Arhats, which are lifelike. The pavilion is about 4 feet high and more than 2 feet wide. It was originally placed at the head of Shiliang bridge opposite to Zhongfang Guangsi. It is said that in the past, monks of Guangsi temple in China wore straw sandals every day all the year round and walked through the stone beam to the bronze pavilion to offer incense. It is unthinkable that a little monk could somersault and erect dragonflies on the stone beam.

Tanhua Pavilion

Tanhua Pavilion is located in Zhongfang temple. It was built by Jia Sidao, the prime minister in the reign of emperor LiZong of Song Dynasty. It lasted for 700 years. The world has gone through many vicissitudes. It has been destroyed and built many times. According to the old records, when the Tanhua pavilion was completed, it offered tea to 500 Arhats. It was found that there were many Tanhua flowers in the tea ou, and the word "Dashi Yinggong" was shown. This is the origin of the name of tanhuating. There is a long couplet on Tanhua Pavilion, which is well-known. It says: the sound of wind, water, insects, birds and chants, together with 360 beating bells and drums, is silent; the color of moon, mountain, grass, tree and clouds, as well as the color of 48000 Zhang peaks, all colors are empty. It is very appropriate to express the artistic conception here.

Tanhua Pavilion in front of the hall was first built by Jia Sidao, Prime Minister of Tiantai in LiZong period of Southern Song Dynasty. It is said that after the completion of the pavilion, when the temple monks were offering tea, exotic flowers appeared in the tea cup and disappeared, so it was named "Tanhua Pavilion".

It was destroyed by fire in 1972 and rebuilt in 1980.

Waterfall Pavilion

Walking up to the viewing Pavilion at Xuxia waterfall, you can see that a waterfall falls from the sky with three folds, and a natural stone beam stands horizontally in the air.

Xu Xiake once stopped on the xianraft bridge to look at the Shiliang waterfall on his way back from the mountain tour, but he forgot to return. He even forgot his fatigue of climbing and wading in the water. He said: "stop foot fairy raft bridge, view Shiliang Wolong, waterfall spray snow, few want to return."

Its beam is about 7 meters long, and its surface is not full of feet wide. It is like the ridge of a black dragon. It lies on the cliffs of the two mountains. It is a rare thing in the world. Liangshangjinxi and daxingkengxi confluence here, flying straight down, forming a waterfall with a drop of more than 30 meters and a width of more than 10 meters. In case of torrential rain, the waterfall water rushes over the beam, and the water power flies down. The sound is like thunder, which is magnificent. The ancients have the sentence "3000 feet of ice and snow, 12 hours of wind and thunder" to describe the spectacular Shiliang waterfall.

50 meters upstream of the stone beam, there is a waterfall like the tail of a dragon, which echoes with the stone beam in the shape of a black dragon. It is like the tail of a dragon. The landscape is fantastic and imaginative.

Fahua Chenguang

Turning to the right from the intersection of Jinxi and Yinxi, there is a huge stone seal about 200 meters upstream of Yinxi, which is engraved with the word "fahua Chenguang". This is a giant stone seal standing on the stream, which is a combination of natural and artificial. It is estimated to weigh hundreds of tons, which can be called the largest seal in the world. It is the largest seal in China. Now it is preparing to apply for the "China Guinness" record. The length of the seal is about 6 meters, the side length of the seal is 4 meters, and four characters of "fahua Chenguang" are engraved on it.

"Fahua" refers to the Sutra of miaoha Lotus Sutra of Tiantai Sect, which is a masterpiece of Mahayana doctrine; "Chenguang" means that mount Tiantai was the first mountain to bathe in the light of Mahayana Buddhism, which is the ancestral mountain of Tiantai Sect.

Before the grand printing, a stone lying on one side can stand for more than ten people. The stone is covered with natural colorful cloud patterns. It is a rare "colorful cloud stone" and an ideal "viewing pad". Not far from the seal, the hexagonal stone pavilion is named xinxinxiangyin Pavilion, which can be interpreted as "appreciating the seal with heart" and "heart to heart" of the sweetheart.

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