Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain Scenic Spot

Tianmen Mountain is 1518.6 meters high. It was called Yunmeng Mountain in ancient times, also known as Yuping mountain. Later it was named after Tianmen cave, a natural wonder. It was approved as National Forest Park in July 1992.

Tianmen Mountain has a profound historical and cultural heritage, known as "the first holy mountain in Western Hunan" and "the soul of Wuling". Tianmen Mountain is divided into four scenic spots: Tianmen dongkai, Tianjie Buddhist kingdom, Biye Yaotai and Miaoxian Wonderland. Tianmen cave is dense and steaming all the year round, and the scene is unpredictable. Sometimes there are clouds pouring from the cave, and sometimes there are rays coming out through the cave. It's magnificent and magical, just like a dreamland, which seems to contain the infinite mystery of heaven and earth.

Tianmen cave has not only inherited the aura of heaven and earth for thousands of years, but also become a spiritual place for people to pray and make wishes. Tianmenshan temple, a thousand year old temple on the top of the mountain, was once prosperous. The custom of climbing the ladder and worshiping the gate of heaven has become one of the ways to express people's wishes for good luck and peace. You can also take Tianmen Mountain ropeway, the longest passenger ropeway in the world, to experience the magical feeling of flying in the air.

Tianmen Mountain Scenic Spot

synonym

Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain scenic area generally refers to Tianmen Mountain scenic area

Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area, located in the southern suburb of Zhangjiajie City, is a national 5A tourist area and a mountain type natural scenic area. The total area is 96 square kilometers, and the peak area is 2 square kilometers. The main peak of Tianmen Mountain scenic spot is 1518.6 meters above sea level. It is the highest mountain in Zhangjiajie. In ancient times, it was called Songliang mountain, also known as Mengshan mountain and fanghu mountain.

geographical environment

geographical position

Tianmenshan National Forest Park is located in Yongding District of Zhangjiajie City, only 2km away from the city, with a total area of 3037.3 hectares. It is the second National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie City, with the highest altitude of 1518.6m and the lowest altitude of 161 M.

topographic features

Tianmen Mountain, with an altitude of 1350-1500m, is a complete synclinal structural unit geologically, with a typical mountain karst platform peak forest Canyon landform. On the top of the mountain is karst platform cliff landscape, and on the bottom of the mountain is karst peak forest canyon landscape. Karst hills, stone buds, depressions, funnels and caves are widely distributed in the whole mountain.

Climatic characteristics

Tianmen Mountain belongs to the prototype monsoon climate of the middle subtropical mountain, with the climate characteristics of warm and cool, humid and foggy, and no obvious summer. The daily temperature is about 6-8 degrees lower than that in the urban area, but the sunshine time is 12-14 hours. Because of the difference of height and temperature, the four seasons of daily life have evolved into two seasons in Tianmen Mountain. There is no hot summer here, only the warmth of spring. Every year from May to October, Tianmen Mountain is shrouded in a strong sense of spring. From November every year, Tianmen Mountain has entered winter.

natural resources

A total of 1649 species of seed plants were recorded in Tianmen Mountain Park, belonging to 701 genera and 161 families, including 6 families, 8 genera and 12 species of gymnosperms and 1637 species of 693 genera and 155 families of angiosperms. Carpinus davidianus and Rhododendron Tianmenshan are new tree species discovered in 1985 and 2006 respectively.

Main attractions

Tianmen dongkai scenic spot

Tianmen dongkai scenic spot is located in the middle and upper part of Tianmen Mountain, with an altitude of 1300 meters. It is the only scenic spot not on the top of the mountain. Tianmen cave is the most representative scenic spot in Tianmen Mountain.

As a natural karst cave with the highest altitude in the world, Tianmen cave is like a gate to heaven inlaid in the sky.

Huang Jinxiang, a famous scholar, once wrote a poem "a tour of Tianmen Mountain": "the precipice is full of thousands of peaks, and the winding plank road leads to the cloud platform. Tianmen fog lock, sunny rain, hole Yu smoke dial not open This poem praising Zhangjiajie has been widely read so far.

Ladder to heaven

A total of 999 steps of the ladder to heaven, is a way to access the gate of heaven, but also a spiritual place to pray.

Tianmen cave

Tianmen cave is a natural karst cave with the highest altitude in the world. In the sixth year of Wu Yong'an of the Three Kingdoms (263 A.D.), the cliffs of Songliang mountain, with a distance of 1000 meters, burst open like a gate to heaven inlaid in the sky. It became a rare wonder in the world, and Songliang mountain was also renamed Tianmen Mountain.

Tianmen Mountain cableway

Tianmen Mountain ropeway, the longest Alpine passenger ropeway in the world, has 98 cars and 57 ropeway supports (including 3 rescue supports), all of which are imported from POMA company of France.

Tongtian Avenue

Tongtian Avenue is named for its access to Tianmen cave, with a total length of 10.77 km and a winding 99 bend. There is a stone tablet as a Peugeot at every 9 Bay. 99 Bay is one of the top ten scenic spots in Tianmen Mountain.

Stone Forest in the air

Tianmen Mountain is a complete synclinal tectonic unit, with typical mountain karst platform peak forest Canyon landform.

Biye Yaotai scenic spot

As a National Forest Park, Tianmen peak has a complete primeval forest, and the core reserve of primeval forest is in Biye Yaotai scenic area. Here, mossy stones can be seen everywhere, rare tree species and precious medicinal materials can also be found from time to time. The whole scenic spot is like a natural bonsai. Tourists can enjoy the fun of nature when they walk on the winding road. Located in the east of the top of the mountain, Biye Yaotai scenic spot is characterized by natural scenery and has more than 20 scenic spots, which is the largest of the four scenic spots in Tianmen Mountain.

hippocrene

Lingquan is called "Shenquan" by the local people. It gushes out from the crevice of the rock and never dries up for years. It is cool and sweet. Lingquan courtyard, named after Lingquan, was built in the Tang Dynasty. Zhou Pu, a scholar, once lived in seclusion here.

Yunmeng xianding

Yunmeng xianding is one of the sixteen peaks of Tianmen Mountain.

Primary secondary forest

Tianmen peak has a complete primary secondary forest, which is full of wild interest all year round. It is a rare "primitive sky garden".

Overlooking Tianmen from the North

The North overlooking Tianmen is opposite to the South overlooking Tianmen, which is also an excellent angle to clearly overlook Tianmen cave.

Cherry bay

Cherry bay square is the intersection of the three scenic spots on the top of Tianmen Mountain, the meeting point of the east line, the west line and the temple tour line on the top of Tianmen Mountain. It is also one of the two service areas on the top of Tianmen Mountain.

Fairyland

Located in the west of the mountain top, it is the birthplace of "hermit culture" and "Xianshan culture" of Tianmen Mountain.

Qiuer cave

Qiuer cave is one of the sixteen caves in Tianmen Mountain. According to folklore, Guanyin, the goddess of mercy, shows his holiness here and prays for his children.

Watch ghost Valley cave

Guigu cave is one of the sixteen caves in Tianmen Mountain. Guiguzi, a political strategist, once lived here to study Yi.

Maneuver

The core attractions of the west line.

Lingxiao terrace

Together with Yunmeng xianding, it is one of the two landscape platforms of Tianmen Mountain and the core scenic spot of the west line.

Ghost Valley plank road

The plank road is 1600 meters long with an average altitude of 1400 meters. It starts from yihongguan and ends at xiaotianmen. Different from other plank roads, ghost Valley plank road is neither on the top of the cliff nor on the side of the cliff, but on the middle of the cliff.

Glass plank road

The glass plank road is 60 meters long and the highest altitude is 1430 meters.

Tianjie Buddhist scenic spot

Tianjie Buddhist kingdom scenic spot is located in the south of the top of Tianmen Mountain. It is the core area of "Buddhist culture" in Tianmen Mountain. The main scenic spot is Tianmen Mountain Temple.

Suzhailou

Located near the Tianmenshan Mountain temple near the Buddhist temple of Tian Jie, it is a catering service project specially built for Tianmenshan Mountain temple. It will collect the essence of temples vegetarian Zhai.

Human history

In the early years, it was not called Tianmen Mountain, but Songliang mountain. Because the mountain looks like a copper pot, it is also called Hutou mountain. Therefore, the mountain rises like a screen on the South Bank of the Lishui River, so it is also called Yuping mountain. The reason why it is called Tianmen Mountain is that the stone wall of the mountain is open. After opening a Tianmen gate, it is renamed Tianmen Mountain.

As early as in the Three Kingdoms period, Zhangjiajie had no county. There was only one Acropolis named dayongwei, which was under the jurisdiction of Cili County in Wuling county and belonged to the territory of the state of Wu. Songliang mountain is a famous scenic spot of Wu state. In the sixth year of Wu Yong'an of the Three Kingdoms (263 A.D.), the cliff of Songliang mountain suddenly collapsed and a heavenly gate appeared. As soon as the people of Dayong saw the opening of Songliang mountain, a heavenly gate appeared, and there was a lot of discussion. People in the city think that this is a auspicious omen. They think that Songliang cave is open and Ziqi is coming to the East, and Dayong will surely be blessed. So many people prostrate on the ground, begging for auspicious omen. When a Taoist in the city saw the opening of Songliang cave, he turned pale with fright. He fell on the ground and wailed bitterly, shouting that heaven was angry. Songliang collapsed, and Dayong's good fortune flew away. From then on, Dayong will be restless. The owner reported the news to Wu Wang and sun Xiu. Sun Xiu came to the scene to have a look and said with a smile: "this is a sign of auspiciousness. "That is to say, half of Wuling county will be cut off and Tianmen county will be set up in Dayong. From then on, Songliang mountain was renamed Tianmen Mountain.

Traffic routes

Public transportation

Take bus No.6 or No.5 at the railway station, and you can get to the next station of Tianmen Mountain ropeway in 5 minutes.

Take bus No.4 at the airport, and you can get to the next station of Tianmenshan cableway in 8 minutes.

Take 4 at the bus station

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