The Heavenly Southern Gate

--Nantianmen is winding up the mountain road after Nanyue temple, passing through banshanting and not far from yehou Academy.

--The memorial archway is divided into the middle gate and the left and right Sichuan gates. The banner above the middle gate is engraved with three red characters "Nantianmen". The left and right lintels are engraved with "Xingyun" and "Shiyu", and the handwriting is correct and eye-catching.

--In the position of Nantianmen, you can see from afar. There are many mountains and verdant trees. This is also the best place to view "Hengyue Yanyun".

The Heavenly Southern Gate

The South Tianmen gate of Mount Tai is also known as the three Tianmen gate. Nantianmen is located at the end of Shibapan, which is the top of climbing path. It is located in the pass between feilongyan and xiangfengling. Looking up from below, it is like a palace in the sky, which is the gateway to Mount Tai. Founded in the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1264), it was rebuilt many times in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and twice after the founding of the people's Republic of China. The architecture keeps the style of Qing Dynasty.

geographical position

The South Gate of Mount Tai

The South Tianmen gate of Mount Tai is at the end of the 18th plate of Mount Tai in Tai'an City, Shandong Province. It was formerly known as Santianmen and Tianmenguan, with an altitude of 1460 meters,

Top is the top. It is built in the low depression between feilongyan and xiangfengling, with two peaks, as if the gate of heaven opened itself. In 1264, Zhang Zhichun, a Taoist of Bushan, was founded. The door is a loft style building, with stone arched door opening and the title of "Nantianmen". Red wall embellishment, yellow glazed tile cover top, magnificent momentum. There is a couplet on the side of the door, which says, "the door opens up to the nine clouds, and the three-day walk is magnificent; the steps rise to ten thousand levels, and the thousand peaks are spectacular.".

Mengshan Nantianmen

Mengshan, Feixian County, Shandong Province. Feixian Mengshan tianmeng scenic spot is located in the Yang of Mengshan mountain, Linyi City, Shandong Province. There are more than 1100 kinds of plants and 142 kinds of wild animals in Feixian County, also known as "natural zoo". The nature reserve covers an area of 203 square kilometers, with an altitude of 1001.2 meters. It starts from Yunmeng Yuzhu peak in the west, ends at wanghailou, Daqingshan and wucaishan in the East, stretches more than 50 kilometers from east to west, spans more than 20 kilometers from north to south, and has a forest coverage rate of 95%. Mount Mengshan tianmeng scenic spot in Feixian County includes Qianlong palace, zhidongshi and Tashan Forest Park in Wansong mountain. Mount Mengshan tianmeng scenic spot in Feixian County is one of the three scenic spots of Catholicism, Taoism and Buddhism The mountain cover of teaching as a whole.

historical origin

In the Yuan Dynasty, Du Renjie once wrote and engraved "Tianmen Ming" to record his story, which said: "there is no room in the Tianmen gate of Mount Tai. It's the first time that master Zhang Lianshi of Bushan has constructed the Scriptures for him The carved stone is still in the stone chamber on the west side of Tianmen, well preserved. "A short history of Mount Tai" also praises the South Gate of heaven "in the eighteen dishes, high inserted Xiaohan, two mountains confrontation, ten thousand high school bird way hundred fold, dangerous level thousand dishes. Pine sound cloud, blurred between the eyes and ears, clothes. If you look down at the lower boundary, the mountains are like hills, the river is like a stretch, the sky and the earth are empty, and there is no name for it. " Nantianmen is the pride of Mount Tai. The area around the top of Mount Tai above Nantianmen is called Daiding scenic area, covering an area of about 1.6 square kilometers.

Due to the influence of air pressure and temperature, the landscape of Daiding is quite different from that at the foot of the mountain, which can be called "wonderful area". When you are in Daiding, you can only feel that the sun is near and the clouds are low. The "fairyland of heaven" constructed by human society for thousands of years and the strange scenery endowed by nature complement each other, making people feel illusory and ethereal. I don't know whether it is heaven on earth or heaven on earth. In 2010, Wang Keyu, a scholar, wrote a historical and intellectual prose "memory of Nantianmen", which was published in domestic media and reprinted by the world Chinese weekly. This paper expounds the origin of the historical and cultural rise of Mount Tai, and also shows the natural scenery of Mount Tai.

Other explanations

In the virtual Taoist mythology, the South Gate of heaven is the entrance to the human and divine worlds. In the fairy tales, most of the stories are related to the human world, so the South Gate of heaven is the most popular. To the west, it's Buddhist territory. To the north, it's Mount Buzhou. To the north, it's Tianzhu. When Gonggong stormed mount Buzhou and collapsed the sky, it led to the story of Nuwa mending the sky. To the East, it's Fairy Island. It's where Sanxian lived. According to Shanhaijing, it turns out that those fairy islands were all carried by big turtles. Some giant country fished a few turtles and sank There are two, and the one left is Penglai. Because of this, the giant Kingdom offended the emperor of heaven and was punished for shrinking its body to the size of an ordinary person.

Nantianmen is mentioned in many Chinese myths, such as journey to the west, Eight Immortals crossing the sea, Fengshenbang, Nezha making trouble with the sea, baoliandeng and so on.

Address: Nanyue Hengshan, Nanyue District, Hengyang City, Hunan Province

Longitude: 112.701874

Latitude: 27.286214

Traffic information: Nantianmen is located in Hengyang City, about 8 kilometers away from Nanyue town

After passing banshanting, you can get to Nantianmen not far from yehou Academy. If it's not climbing, you can choose to take a cableway or tour bus from banshanting to Nantianmen. It costs 40 yuan for one-way cableway and 10 yuan for tour bus.

Ticket information: no ticket required

Included in Nanyue Hengshan pass 100 yuan.

Opening hours: peak season (April October): 8:00-18:00

Off season (November March): 8:30-17:30

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