Haixin mountain

Haixin mountain is located in the south of the center of Qinghai Lake, 30km away from the South Bank of Qinghai Lake, commonly known as "Huxin island". It is a rarely visited scenic spot. It is said that Haixin mountain is frozen for half of the year. There are nuns on the mountain. Most of them are Tibetans from all over Qinghai. They come out only once a year when they are frozen. They go to the shore to buy the daily necessities they need for a year, and they never come out again when they return to the island.

Haixin mountain

Haixin mountain is commonly known as Huxin island. In ancient times, it was called Xianshan or Longju Island, and it was called "quexun torohai" in Mongolia. It is located in the south of the center of Qinghai Lake, about 30 kilometers away from the south bank. It is a major tourist attraction of Qinghai Lake.

The island is 2.3 km long from east to west and 0.8 km wide from north to south. It covers an area of 1 square km and is shaped like a spiral shell. The top of the mountain is tens of meters above the lake, with an altitude of about 3300 meters. It is composed of granites and gneisses of the Yanshan system, and is slightly milky white. Sunny day, with a high view, Haixin mountain like snow waves floating, magnificent. The environment of Haixin mountain is quiet and elegant, with green grass, light area, thin cloud, fresh water and clear spring. The White Pagoda of the ancient temple on the mountain is hidden in it. It's like stepping into a fairyland. The ancients once had a poem praising: "a piece of green wave floating snow, nobody knows is the sea heart mountain.".

geographical environment

The peak is about 70 meters above the lake, with an altitude of 3266 meters. It is composed of granites and gneisses of the Yanshan system, and is slightly milky white.

The terrain of Haixin mountain is relatively flat, with jagged rocks, sand bars, weeds and wild flowers. There is a kind of flower, called Buddha flower, which is bright red, shaped like poppy and leaves like rose. It blooms in April every year and has a strong aroma. In addition, there are a large number of wild onion, crane crown grass, pin grass and other fine forages growing on the island. Every summer, the island has lush water and grass, beautiful scenery, and is an ideal natural pasture.

Haixinshan is a granite body in the Qinghai Lake. It is invaded by the lake water, and the island edge is mostly cliff. There are temples on the mountain and by the water, and the buildings are mixed with the scenery of lakes and mountains.

The southern edge of the rock exposed to form a cliff, East, West, North for flat beach. Most of the island is covered by sandy soil, with the growth of Agropyron cristatum, Achnatherum splendens, Oxytropis falcatum, Kobresia, Elymus lanceolata, Polygonatum sibiricum, etc. the vegetation coverage is more than 50%, and birds are concentrated on the edge of the island cliff and gravel beach.

Surrounded by water, Haixin mountain is far away from the world. It is a natural fairyland.

Historical evolution

Historically, Haixin mountain is famous for producing "Longju", so it is called "Longju island". It is said that a good mare was set up in this mountain at that time. When it came to spring grazing, all the horses were pregnant. The foals they gave birth to were called Dragon breeds, so they were called "dragon foals".

During the Tuyuhun period, a group of fat mares were selected to drive into Haixin mountain for grazing when the lake was frozen in winter. In the spring of the next year, the sea dragon was allowed to mate with the mare. The "dragon foal" born by him could travel thousands of miles every day, chasing the wind month by month, and was extremely strong, so he was called "Qinghai Jun". Tuguhun people once got the improved grass horse from Persia, and also grazed on the Haixin mountain. They gave birth to the Dragon seed, which is extremely vigorous and healthy, and is called "Qinghai Oyster".

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty once sent a special person to herding horses on the Haixin mountain in order to breed dragons. After Emperor Gaozong ascended the throne in the Tang Dynasty, nuohobo, king of Tuyuhun, was granted the title of Duwei of his son-in-law. Nuohobo selected a good horse from Qinghai to thank him. Ge Shuhan, a famous general of Tang Dynasty, once built Yinglong city in Haixin mountain. The descendants of Qinghai "Longju" are still all over the Qinghai Plateau today, which are the famous Hequ horse and Datong horse in China.

Travel Tips

At present, no tourist ship can reach haixinshan island. There are only two ways:

Take a monthly supply boat to the island, but the tickets are not on sale, so usually tourists can't take the boat.

Winter across the ice, hiking or driving to the island.

There are three routes for landing on the island from the lakeshore:

Starting from Sha Dao, head southwest to haixinshan island. (about 27 km)

Starting from goujihaitai in Jiangxi Province, we head north to haixinshan island. (about 26 km)

Starting from bird island, head east to haixinshan island. (about 25 km)

Architecture on the island

Building layout

The main landscapes on the island are as follows:

Haixinshan Temple (Lotus nunnery)

Haixinshan temple is now called Lianhua temple. According to the old records, a sea temple was built in chahantuoluohai city (Haixin mountain), known as "Lingxian Qinghai Temple", which was built in the third year of Daoguang.

Since the Han Dynasty, temples have been built in Haixin mountain. The famous Tibetan Buddhist monk xiagaba living Buddha Zun the fifth Dalai Lama turned to Qinghai Lake to chant Buddhist scriptures, stayed in Shatuo at night, performed Buddhist rituals and prayed for the blessing of the sea god in the next morning. During the establishment of Shatuo temple, he practiced hard in Haixin mountain and finally became a generation of eminent monks. From then on, the monks of Shatuo Temple practiced the way of xiagaba living Buddha. Over the years, people went to Haixin mountain to practice the way, which has become the tradition of Shatuo temple. In 1909, the first year of Xuantong reign of the Qing Dynasty, Lin ad, a Belgian, sailed to Haixin mountain. At that time, there was a temple and more than 10 monks and nuns on Haixin mountain. From 1929 to 1942, under the arrangement of the fourth generation of qianhuyebutan and the fifth generation of qianhuhua treasure in Gangcha, sixteen statues, Gu Ri Mei te Ma, were successively built in Haixin mountain. Lianhuasheng No.8, Dabei Guanyin temple and other four temples. In 1943, qianhuhua treasure and GA Lidan, the master of Shatuo temple, jointly presided over the renovation of Dabei Guanyin temple. From 1952 to 1953, the masses in Gangcha area raised funds and invited ang Zhihai, a sculptor of Gangcha temple, and queben, a sculptor of zuoguan temple in Sichuan Province, to jointly create the giant statue of "wujianbaima" white Buddha. In 1953, during his practice in Haixin mountain, teden cheben built the 21dum pagoda temple.

After 1966, during the "Cultural Revolution", most of the buildings were destroyed by wind, sun and human activities. From 1989 to 1990, monks of jiaoshike temple in Gangcha county made lotus peanuts clay Buddha statues on the site of the ancient rimetema temple. Under the leadership of Jiayang jiancuo, the fifth guritan living Buddha, a Bodhi pagoda was built. Today, the maintenance of temples on Haixin mountain is still managed by Shatuo temple.

On the contemporary haixinshan Island, the lotus nunnery has a 30 meter high gold statue of the great master lianhuasheng. In addition, there are only a few simple huts in Lianhua nunnery, which stand alone on the sea mountain in the center of Qinghai Lake. However, it is still a school of Dharma.

Surrounded by water, Haixin mountain is far away from the world and is in a secluded place. Therefore, monks have practiced on the island long ago. As early as the Han Dynasty, there were temples on the island. The monks went out to sea for a year's food when they were in the ice. They did not return all year. This is similar to the contemporary situation. There are 7 nuns living in Lianhua nunnery all year round. The oldest is 53 years old, and the youngest is 15 years old. Get up at six every morning, meditate, meditate, lecture and study together. Only twice a year. Due to the sacred status of Haixin mountain in the minds of Tibetans and believers, it is said that one day of practice on Haixin mountain is equivalent to seven days of practice on earth. Therefore, believers will come to visit or go to the island to practice, or even close up for several months.

The life of Lianhua nunnery is very miserable. In the past, the funds of Lianhua nunnery were all raised by themselves. Haixin mountain is located in the center of Qinghai Lake, and visitors have to take a boat to get there. Haixin mountain belongs to China's National Nature Reserve, and cruise ships are not open to visitors, so visitors can't get there. This dilemma makes the survival of Lianhua nunnery difficult. Nuns in Lianhua nunnery can only maintain the most basic standard of living.

Stories and legends

It is said that a long time ago, Qinghai Lake area was a vast grassland. There is a splendid temple on the grassland. In this temple, there is an old monk with high morality and profound knowledge, leading hundreds of young monks to chant sutras and practice here.

One day, the old monk decided to travel around. Before leaving, he repeatedly told the young monks: don't touch the well in the temple. Young monks have said: please rest assured, master, after you leave, we will never act rashly.

After the old monk left, a naughty little monk thought: what is in the well that makes the master so worried? I might as well take this opportunity to have a look! So he took another young monk to the well, opened the seal on the flagstone, and removed the heavy flagstone. When you look down the well, you can see nothing. Just as he was about to move the slate back, he heard a loud bang from the well, and a huge water column gushed out, throwing the slate and the two little monks far away. The flood soon flooded the temple and the grassland, forming a vast ocean for hundreds of miles.

At this time, the old monk was talking about scriptures and Taoism in Kunlun mountain. Suddenly he felt his eyelids were jumping and his mind was restless. He stood up in a hurry and looked down the mountain. He saw that the water flooded the temple. In a hurry, he picked up some Kunlun stones and threw them to the temple.

The mouth of the well was blocked, but the water could not go back, forming the later Qinghai Lake; and the Kunlun stones that covered the mouth of the well became the Haixin mountain in the contemporary Qinghai Lake. However, the original grassland has become a vast ocean, and thousands of families around have been flooded. Later, people called Qinghai Lake "chixiu Jiemo", which means "the place where thousands of households disappeared", and Haixin mountain was called "the place where thousands of households disappeared"

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