Tianmu Mountain

Tianmu Mountain

Tianmu Mountain, a famous mountain in eastern Zhejiang Province, is located 10 kilometers away from ruao Town, Xinchang County, Shaoxing City, with a circumference of 30 kilometers. According to the records, "it was sent from Kuocang to Guanling, with mountains and peaks in the sky. It is the main mountain of the city.".

Li Bai's song "sleepwalking with Tianmu chanting goodbye" makes Tianmu Mountain a magical fairyland that literati yearn for. It is called the 16th blessed land by Taoists. Tianmu Mountain has become a famous historical scenic and cultural mountain. Indeed, as Li Bai said, "Tianmu stretches across the sky, pulling up five mountains to cover Chicheng "The most dangerous scenery is Tianmu Longtan. It's best to choose the next day after the heavy rain. The mountain stream water, through the numerous rocks, turbulent and diarrhea, just like ten thousand horses galloping general, its potential is very spectacular.

Original name

The name of Tianmu Mountain comes from the "Queen Mother". It is the main mountain in Xinchang. It is composed of the main peak, beidoujian, poyunjian, Xijian and Dajian. It is a rolling and majestic peak. Tianmu Mountain is not well-known in modern times, but it is a highly respected peak in the minds of ancient intellectuals. As early as before the Tang Dynasty, Tianmu Mountain was already a famous cultural mountain that Chinese literati yearned for. Poets of the Tang Dynasty, such as Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi, admired the footprints of their predecessors, visited Tianmu Mountain and left behind such masterpieces as "sleepwalking, Tianmu's farewell" and "Zhuang you", which pushed Tianmu Mountain to a lofty ideal state and made Tianmu Mountain a paradise for poets to pursue spiritual freedom.

Recommendation of the ancients

Take the road of Tang poetry and review the dream of ancient culture

Due to the successive visits of Tang Dynasty poets, the famous "road of Tang poetry in eastern Zhejiang" was formed. At the same time, Tianmu Mountain became a magical fairyland that later generations yearned for. However, it was such a magical mountain, but it was silent in the following thousand years, and then it was buried in the rolling dust of history. Relevant experts believe that the "loss" of Tianmu Mountain is a mystery, which is a strange phenomenon in the evolution history of China's famous mountains. Other famous mountains respected by ancient celebrities have maintained considerable popularity since ancient times, but Tianmu Mountain disappeared in the world's vision for some unknown reason, thus moving towards loneliness.

After more than 20 years of painstaking research, Zhu Yuebing, who is 70 years old, has become an expert on the road of Tang poetry. Zhu Yuebing pointed out: "before the Tang Dynasty, in the eyes of Chinese scholars, Tianmu Mountain was higher than Mount Tai. Because Mount Tai was the place where the rulers held national memorial ceremonies out of political needs, and Mount Tianmu was a famous cultural mountain, one of the fairylands most admired by cultural celebrities at that time. "

The "road of Tang poetry" discovered by Zhu Yuebing has found a pair of eyes for the world to re-examine this landscape. Through these eyes, people can know that Xinchang, a small mountainous county in eastern Zhejiang, is the breeding ground of Chinese landscape poetry and painting, the center of Buddhism sinicization and Taoism consolidation and enrichment period, and the paradise of Tang Dynasty poets. Zhu Yuebing's academic views have been affirmed by contemporary famous scholars, especially the article "Shanxi -- the road of Tang poetry", which has aroused strong repercussions in academic circles at home and abroad. Some people think that he restored the glory of Tianmu Mountain and recovered a precious cultural heritage for the Chinese nation.

Integrating modern ideas to continue the legend of Tianmu Mountain

Xinchang has set up a tourism leading group headed by the main leaders of the government to specifically guide the declaration of the "road of Tang poetry in eastern Zhejiang" as a world cultural heritage site and the overall planning of Tianmu Mountain National scenic spot.

According to Director Wang Weiping, it has become the first move of Xinchang tourism to launch the cultural tourism brand of Tianmu Mountain. In order to apply for Tianmu Mountain National Scenic Spot and work out the overall planning of Tianmu Mountain tourist area, Xinchang County invited experts to carry out preliminary investigation on relevant work with the requirements of high starting point and high-grade construction, conducted a general survey of tourism resources in Xinchang County, and set up a leading group for planning.

In addition, Xinchang has compiled and printed the "Tourism Investment Manual", which has achieved good results in project investment, and has initially formed an upsurge of social capital and foreign capital investment in tourism. Tianmu Mountain development framework agreement has been signed, qianxijiang development, Sanjing Longtan and other projects are under investigation; while Tianmu square, dalifa silk's "Jiangnan Silk source" Park and a number of enterprises related to tourism and leisure industry have been put into operation, which has played a leading role of tourism in the industry.

Under the premise of building Tianmu Mountain scenic spot, Xinchang is expanding and upgrading the scale and level of tourist hotels and other reception and supporting facilities, Xinchangjing new botanical garden is under construction; Athens palace, King's club, heaven and earth and other high-grade entertainment places have opened; Titan International Hotel, green city Radisson five-star resort, Tianci hot spring resort and other high-end facilities are under construction. Xinchang tourism has significantly improved the reception capacity and improved the supporting elements.

Xinchang has set up a tourism marketing center. Through theme friendship activities and network marketing activities with travel agencies, it has increased the publicity of Tianmu Mountain brand in an all-round way, expanded the tourist market, and achieved satisfactory results. The ticket revenue of major scenic spots has reached a record high, and the number of teams has made a great breakthrough.

Xinchang also continues to promote Tianmu Mountain tourism to brand and scale with various festival activities. Since spring, a series of festival activities have been held continuously, such as Dafosi 2008 Olympic Games, Wozhou Lake Peach Blossom Festival and so on. On April 20, Xinchang held the first "Zhenglin Chuanyan 19th peak mountaineering Festival". The event opened with a hot and thrilling motorcycle stunt performance, followed by a series of elegant and popular "walking into Tianmu Mountain" activities, which gave tourists a preliminary understanding of the charm of Tianmu Mountain culture. Tourists may walk through the forest in the deep valley, listen to the guzheng played by the girl in ancient costume on the Qingxi River, or stop at the bamboo fence cottage of the farmer's house, enjoy the tea performance, taste the famous tea of the Buddha and Longjing, and experience the leisure of the ancients

At present, the fog that has been shrouded in Tianmu Mountain for a long time is dispersing. This magical and famous mountain that makes people "search for her in their dreams" is coming with the call of the vast number of tourists, and her figure is becoming more and more clear.

Tianmu Mountain -- grandma rock

Tianmu ancient post road comes from Kuaiji, from Huangni bridge in Shengzhou to Xinchang, and from the old east gate of Xinchang city to the boundary of Tiantai county. The total length of Xinchang ancient post road is 90 Li. The long street traversing bamboos, the stone step road in huishuling, and the mountain road from Tianmu temple to LENGSHUIKENG still preserve the tired appearance of the post. The small stone Buddha shop and Guanling shop on the post road can also show the old appearance of the post shop. The post road passes through Tianmu via Taoyuan, and the first section of Tianda guanlingtou is 35 km long. This road was opened up by Xie Lingyun, a poet of the northern and Southern Dynasties, so it is also called "Xie gongdao". There are many ancient relics on this ancient post road, such as Taoyuan cave where Liu Ruan met immortals, Sima regret bridge, etc. roughly parallel to this ancient post road is national highway 104.

Wanmadu

Tianmu Mountain ancient post road Banzhu ancient post road Taoyuan Tianmu spring Tianmu baitianmu Basin

Wanmadu is located in ruao Town, Xinchang County, 40 kilometers away from the county. It is located in the valley between the two mountains. There is a big stream full of round and smooth stones. The weight varies from nearly 100 kg to tens of thousands of kg. The color is different, golden yellow, reddish brown, and mostly bluish white. Tens of thousands of gigantic antiques are in great groups, winding two or three kilometers from top to bottom. Every rainy day, standing on the top of the mountain, you can see the torrent rushing, the impact of boulders, white waves splashing, clattering, the sound like a thousand troops shouting, the shape like ten thousand horses galloping, majestic and magnificent. The environment here is also very elegant, green mountains and green waters, small bridge out of a beautiful landscape painting. Distant Tianmu Mountains, rolling, red maple green bamboo, sparse dense. Among the trees, there was a huge rock. The isolated peak stood upright, and the top of the peak was leaning against a huge stone. It looked like a bird's mouth. It was called "bird's mouth rock". The villagers also called it "wind rock". Because the strong wind blew, the huge rock also shook. It seemed dangerous to get down from half a day. The brave can climb to the top of the mountain and push the stone hard, but the stone can shake. But the strange thing is that the bird's beak rock has always stood on the top of the mountain after thousands of years of stormy weather. Wanmadu also has stone scenes such as chaobanyan.

Under a small stone bridge, there is a large natural flat stone block, carved with three red lacquer Lishu characters: "wanmadu". Each word is as big as Tuanbei, strong and powerful. It was inscribed by Wu Xianchen, a native of Putian, Fujian Province, in November of 1593. It was engraved here three years later. In the sunshine, the three characters are shining, monopolizing the scenery. Tourists come here to take photos on the inscription stone.

geographical position

On the general map, it is almost impossible to find Tianmu Mountain. Geographically, Tianmu Mountain is just an ordinary mountain range in Xinchang County, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, so that some people who once passed Tianmu Mountain did not realize that it was the holy mountain in the dream of Li Bai, Du Fu and others. After participating in the mountaineering festival held in Tianmu Mountain, many tourists told the media that they always thought Tianmu Mountain existed only in the dreams of ancient poets, and never wanted to live in the mountains There is such a mountain in the real world.

Fairyland of Taoyuan

Taoyuan is on the east side of the island, and it is the essence of the "East Zhejiang Tang poetry" road. According to legend, it is also a relic of Shan's entry into LIUCHEN and Ruan Zhao's entry into Tiantai Mountain to collect herbs and meet immortals in the Han Dynasty. Such as caiyaojing, Xianren cave, Qipanshi, melancholy stream, etc. And Sima at the entrance of Banzhu Village

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