Taiping Palace

Taiping Palace

Taiping palace was originally named Taiping Xingguo yuan, also known as Shangyuan. It was built by Taizu of Song Dynasty for Liu Ruo Zhuo, a real person in Huagai, and rebuilt during the reign of Jin Mingchang (1190-1195 A.D.). The main hall is named Sanqing hall, and the auxiliary halls are Sanguan hall and Zhenwu hall. It is located at the north foot of Shangyuan mountain and Yangkou Bay in the east of Laoshan mountain.

brief introduction

Taiping palace is said to be 8.5km away from the seat of Yanchihe town government. Taiping palace is located in a deep mountain gorge, surrounded by many mountains and hills, and a winding path leads to the entrance of Taiping palace. Two miles from the entrance of the palace, the sound of the flowing water in Taiping palace can be heard. The sound of the water reverberates in the mountains. Entering the entrance of the palace, listening to the sound of the water, I saw a forest of strange stones looming in the white fog. It is a bottomless pool with an area of more than 100 square meters. In the middle of the pool stands a round stone column more than ten meters high, surrounded by three strange stones like toads. It is said that these three strange stones were originally a whole Boulder, occupied by a crab spirit. Every morning, she turned into a enchanting beauty, lying on the boulder and crying. When someone followed the sad cry to find her, she showed her true colors and ate up the comer. Over time, she brought disaster to hundreds of families. Later, the Jade Emperor sent the thunder god to get rid of the demons. With a huge thunder, the demons turned into ashes, and the huge stones were also hit into several pieces. Since then, it has been peaceful here, so people call it "Taiping Palace". If you look at the pool, it turns out that the water is pouring down from the cliff tens of meters high. It's like a big pile. It's like thunder. It splashes more than two meters high water column on the pool, tens of thousands of spray, and the splashed water drops fall on people like a lot of poplars. It's like entering a fairyland in the world when you are in it.

Taiping palace is above Laoshan, which was called Laoshan and Laoshan in ancient times. It is located in the southeast of Shandong Peninsula, adjacent to Qingdao in the West and the Yellow Sea in the southeast. With an area of 386 square kilometers, laoding Jufeng is 1133 meters above sea level. It is not only a famous Taoist mountain in China, but also a famous summer resort. Laoshan Scenic spots include Taiqing palace, Taiping palace, beijiushui, Hualou palace, Heshan and laoding Jufeng. Strange peaks and rocks are all over the mountain, such as lion peak, sheep Stone, etc. Shifeng, known as Junshan, is a "natural granite group sculpture". As a result of the sea, the mountains and waves against each other, forming a purple clouds and even "mirage" strange scene. In addition, the world-famous Laoshan springs, such as "Jinye" and "Indigo VAT bay", constitute a unique natural landscape of Laoshan. As Qi Ji says, "although Mount Tai is high in clouds, it is not as good as Laoshan in the East China Sea." Laoshan Mountain has been known as "shenzhaixian cave" and "the first fairy mountain on the sea" since ancient times. The capital of Qin and Han came here to seek immortality. Since the song and Yuan Dynasties, temples have been built for the second time, with the peak of "nine palaces, eight temples and seventy-two nunneries". There are still Taiqing palace, Taiping palace, Hualou palace and so on. Most of these buildings are stone walled and tile houses, which are simple and unadorned, with Taoist and tranquil colors. Among them, the Han cypress and Tang elm in Taiqing Palace are still luxuriant and green. The famous Taoism such as Qiu Chuji and Zhang Sanfeng, the literati Li Bai, Su Shi and Pu Songling all came to the mountains to practice or roam, and most of them were inscribed and chanted, which added a bit of literary beauty to the picturesque landscape.

Historical changes

Among the existing temples in Laoshan, Taiping palace is the most ancient Taoist temple with historical materials. According to the inscriptions on the restoration of the Taiping palace in the 45th year of Jiajing (1566) of the Ming Dynasty and the 10th year of Shunzhi (1653) of the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping palace was built by Zhao Kuangyin (960-976) of the Song Dynasty for Liu Ruo Zhuo, the Huagai immortal. Because it was completed in the period of Taiping rejuvenating the country, it was originally named Taiping Xingguo yuan and later renamed Taiping palace. At the same time, Taiqing palace and Shangqing palace were built or rebuilt as its other courtyards.

Liu Ruo Zhuo was born in 924, the second year of Tongguang in the late Tang Dynasty. He came to Laoshan from Sichuan Province to build a Maoan temple, named quhu temple. After Zhao Kuangyin became emperor in "Chen Qiao mutiny", he was summoned and granted the title of Huagai immortal, one of the famous Taoists in Laoshan. Liu Ruo Zhuo died in Jimo in the second year of Chunhua of Song Dynasty (992) and was buried in XuanZhen palace in the suburb of the city.

natural landscape

Taiping palace is located at the foot of Shangyuan mountain on the Bank of Yangkou Bay. It has a beautiful scenery. There are strange peaks and rocks, ancient woods and secluded caves. It has been fully built. It is one of the main tourist areas of Laoshan Mountain and the first scenic spot to visit Laoshan Mountain in the South since then.

Visitors get off from Yangkou and climb along the newly built stone steps. On both sides of the road, there is an ancient pine with crisscross twigs and needles. It is said that it was planted in the early Song Dynasty when the palace was built. It is second to none among the ancient pines in Laoshan mountain. There are two huge stones on the side of the pine, on which the word "doubting is a mirage" was engraved, and a poem by Yang Ze, the magistrate of Wuyi County in the Qing Dynasty, is inscribed: "the pine array in the upper court, the palace in the middle of the mountain. The craggy and deep caves are covered with flowers and hairpins. Cliff text, moss seal, * rock music, bird sound. When Xianren bridge goes into the water, the sound is playing the piano This scene is called "Shuangshi Changsong".

Taoist philosophy divides the formation of the universe into three stages: Hongyuan, Hunyuan and Taichu. Hongyuan means that the whole universe is in the stage of undetermined Yin and Yang, chaos and invisibility; later, "the Qi of Qing Yang rises and becomes the sky, and the quality of heavy turbidity drops and becomes the earth", and the universe has just been shaped, which is the stage of confusion; Taichu is the stage when human beings and the earth begin to have life. As we have said before, Taoism compares the height of self-cultivation with three different stages and levels. "Hunyuan" is a realm of "no one and no self". It is conceivable that it is not a general height to reach the level of "Hunyuan", which is also the theoretical basis of the thought of "returning to the nature to achieve the unity of heaven and man" in modern Qigong Science.

In the past, there were no stone steps on this round stone, so ordinary Taoists couldn't go up. Those who could easily go up could practice on it according to different seasons, different directions and different stars. They could receive a lot of life materials from nature, which are beneficial to human health and fitness. It is said that these star charts were left by Liu ruozhou when he practiced martial arts. They have a history of more than 1000 years.

Youlong cave and Hunyuan stone

In the Taiping palace of Laoshan, not far up the mountain along the back wall of the palace, there is a huge round boulder. Supported by two other boulders. One of them is very much like a giant turtle. Three huge stones form a natural cave. The stone wall outside the cave is engraved with four big characters "Ao Lao long Cang" with double hooks. The cave is deep, wide and spacious. It can hold 20 or 30 people. Inside, there are statues of Wang Chongyang, the leader of Quanzhen sect of Taoism, and his seven disciples Qiu Chuji, Liu chuxuan, Tan chuduan, Ma Danyang, Hao Taigu, Wang Chuyi and sun Buer. Before Ming Dynasty, this cave was dedicated to Laozi and was called Laojun cave. During the Qinglong period of the Ming Dynasty, Zou Shanshu, a student of Shandong Province, visited Laoshan. He felt that the name of the cave was too vulgar. Yang Fangsheng, the county magistrate of Jimo County, who accompanied him, changed the name of the cave to "Youlong cave" according to the words "Lao Jun, you long Ye" in the historical records, and wrote and engraved stones to record it. On the forehead of the cave, he engraved four words "unique cave heaven". On the stone wall on the right side of the entrance is engraved the cliff carving stone of Tao Te Ching written by Zhao Mengfu, a famous calligrapher of the Yuan Dynasty. The strokes are fluent and the skill is profound. It is a rare calligraphy carving stone. The top part of the cave is carved with three groups of constellations, representing "nine stars", "nine palaces", "five elements" and "six instruments" respectively, as well as "Hunyuan stone".

places of historic figures and cultural heritage

The temple of Taiping palace is in the shape of "pin". On the screen wall of the gate, four characters of "Palace on the sea" are engraved. The structure is rigorous, upright and full. It is said that it was engraved when the palace was built. The main hall was used to worship Sanqing and Yuhuang, and the auxiliary hall was used to worship Sanguan in the East and Zhenwu in the West. There is a teahouse in the West courtyard. There is a well named "ambergris" in the courtyard. A poem written by Zoushan, a scholar of Shandong Province in Ming Dynasty, is engraved on the stone beside the well. There is a Bell Pavilion in the east courtyard, with a new cast antique iron bell hanging inside. It is listed as a scene, which is called "Shangyuan Xiaozhong".

Characteristic scenic spots

Out of the gate of the east courtyard, you can see the famous strange stone "sheep Stone" and the strange peak "Lion Peak" in Laoshan.

Sheep Stone is made of several natural boulders. After hundreds of millions of years of weathering and denudation, it looks like a man-made sheep kneeling on the hillside. When you look at it from a specific angle and light conditions, it not only has a similar appearance, but also has eyes and mouths. Among the pictographs in Laoshan mountain, this is the most important.

Shizifeng is located in the north of yangshishi, on the back of haihaihaishan mountain. It is engraved with "mountain and sea wonders" written by Zou Shanti in Shandong Province of Ming Dynasty, with a diameter of 40 cm. Near the peak, there is a cave building shaped like a lion's kiss, which can accommodate more than 10 people. There are inscriptions on the walls of the cave in 1553 (the 12th year of Jiajing reign of Lantian and Chenyi in the Ming Dynasty) and 1194 (the 5th year of Mingchang reign of a tourist in the Jin Dynasty).

In the west of Taiping palace, there is a stone cave, which is engraved with the calligraphy of Shen Peng, a contemporary calligrapher. On the side of the cave is a feldspar plagioclase, which is named mianlong stone. In the center of mianlong stone is a stone inscription with a diameter of 5cm. The article reads: "the green trees are vaguely accompanied by wild geese, while the jade spring falls into the water. Heaven and earth this hole to stay in its territory, wind and rain danger engraved even giant pine. The lion's mouth is soaked with stone milk, and the immortal tree is covered with a building. He Dang does not fully ascend to the Xing, the Xia Man Song Yun, the moon man window

Lantian, named Yufu and Beiquan, was a Jinshi in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. He once served as a censor in the south of the river. He was honest and upright. He dared to admonish but had nothing to avoid. His voice was straight for a while. In his later years, he retired to his hometown lanjiazhuang (now Laoshan county). Chen Yi, whose name is Zonglu and his name is shiting, was a Jinshi in Zhengde period of Ming Dynasty. He was once a political participant in Shandong Province. He was good at poetry, painting and seal script. He was one of the "three heroes of Jinling" at that time. When he was in Shandong, he visited Laoshan many times. lion

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