Lumen scenic spot, Xiangzhou District, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province

Lumen Temple National Forest Park

Lumen Temple National Forest Park is located in lumen mountain scenic spot in the southeast suburb of Xiangyang City, 15 kilometers away from the city center.

In 1992, it was approved as "lumen Temple National Forest Park" by the State Forestry Department, named as "provincial key cultural relics protection unit" by the Hubei provincial government, identified as provincial key Nature Reserve in 2000, and approved as "lumen Temple scenic spot" by the provincial government in the same year. In 2019, it was rated as a national AAA scenic spot and one of the 48 key scenic spots in Hubei Province and the top ten scenic spots in Xiangyang City.

Historical evolution

In the early Eastern Han Dynasty, Xi Yu, Minister of Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu, toured lumen mountain and built an ancient temple, lumen temple, with hundreds of halls and couplets.

In the 16th year of Jianwu (AD 40) of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xiyu was ordered to set up a temple on the mountain and engraved two stone deer clip Temple words at Daokou. According to the county annals, "emperor Jianwu of Han Dynasty and Xi Yu both dreamed of the God of suling mountain. Ming Yu temple in the mountains, carved two stone deer Jia Road, people called the lumen temple. Then the temple was named "mountain".

In the Western Jin Dynasty, it was renamed Wanshou temple.

In Tang Dynasty, it was renamed as lumen temple. Famous monks in Tang Dynasty, such as Chu Zhen, Dan Xia and song fadeng, presided over lumen temple.

During the Wei, Jin and southern and Northern Dynasties, the incense was not declining and became the Buddhist holy land of the whole country.

In the Ming Dynasty, during the reign of Jingtai (1450-1456), three high ancestral halls (Pang Tong, Meng Haoran, PI Rixiu) were built here for their statues to commemorate.

It was destroyed by fire in the late Ming Dynasty, and has been repaired and abandoned repeatedly since the early Qing Dynasty.

Since the founding of the people's Republic of China, there are stone deer, dragon fountain, waterfall pool, patio, hall and other ancient buildings and inscriptions

Celebrity origin

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Guangwu emperor Liu Xiu, Minister of Xi Yu, toured lumen mountain and built an ancient temple, lumen temple, with hundreds of halls and couplets. When lumen temple was first built, it was large-scale, and famous monks of all dynasties often presided over Buddhist affairs. Zhenghe period of Northern Song Dynasty was the most prosperous. Lumen mountain is surrounded by many peaks, with dense forests and strange rocks. It has been a Buddhist resort and a gathering place of scholars since Han and Tang Dynasties. Many famous scholars and talents from all over the country gathered here, leaving many poems, and became a literary and artistic exchange center at that time.

Pang Degong, a famous scholar in the late Han Dynasty, was not invited to dinner by Liu Biao, the assassin, and went up to lumen mountain to collect herbs with his family. Meng Haoran, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, was frustrated in his official career and lived in lumen mountain to chant mountains and waters. PI Rixiu, a writer in the late Tang Dynasty, also lived in lumen temple. Zhang Zirong, Baiyun and Wang Jin all lived in seclusion here, and there is a saying that "lumen Gaoshi is proud of the emperor".

Emperor Qinshihuang passed on that sun Taifeng once stationed troops in Bawang mountain. Mr. Shuijing, Mr. Sima Hui, Mr. Wolong, Mr. Zhuge Liang and other historical and cultural celebrities such as Li Bai, Wang Wei, Mi Fu and Zeng Gong once stopped and lingered here, leaving immortal poems and monuments. Zeng Gong, one of the eight great masters of Tang and Song Dynasties, once sighed that he would not step on the stone of Su Ling, but make a virtual trip to Xiangyang.

geographical environment

geographical position

Lumensi National Forest Park is located in the southeast suburb of Xiangyang City, 112 ° 15 ′ 36 "East diameter and 31 ° 54 ′ 33" north latitude.

Geography and climate

Lumensi national forest park tourist area is located in the north subtropical zone with a humid continental monsoon climate. The climate is mild, the four seasons are distinct, the winter is dry, the summer is hot and humid, the autumn is sunny, the light is sufficient, the rainfall is moderate, the frost free period is long 240 days, the severe winter and heat time is short. The annual rainfall is 755.5mm-966.2mm (mean 864mm). The precipitation in summer (may September) accounts for 56% of the whole year, and the precipitation in winter is less, accounting for only 5-9% of the whole year. The annual average temperature is 16 ℃, the annual maximum temperature is 20.5-20.8 ℃, and the extreme maximum temperature is 39 ℃; the annual minimum temperature is 10.8-11.8 ℃, and the extreme minimum temperature is-15 ℃.

natural resources

plant resources

Lumensi National Forest Park is a state-owned forest farm in Xiangyang with dense forest vegetation. Due to the long-term management of the forest farm, all the mountains within the scope of Lumensi forest farm have very high vegetation coverage and rich plant resources, and the forest trees, shrubs and herbs form a good forest ecosystem. However, the forest vegetation types are relatively single, and the tree species are the pioneers of early greening Tree species and fast-growing tree species, generally distributed in large areas of Pinus massoniana, juniper, slash pine, loblolly pine, Chinese fir, oak and Robinia pseudoacacia constitute a single-layer plantation.

According to the preliminary investigation of the forest farm, as of 2013, there are 223 species of plants belonging to 157 genera and 78 families in Lumensi National Forest Park, including 162 species of woody plants, 4 species of lianas and 57 species of herbs. Among the woody plants are Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Eucommia ulmoides and Ginkgo biloba. According to the preliminary investigation in the forest farm, as of March 2013, the common medicinal plant resources are Lily, plantain, Houttuynia, Belamcanda, lichen, Saposhnikovia, Xungufeng, white dragon beard, golden mouse excrement, Panax notoginseng, Prunella vulgaris, Pinellia ternata, Platycodon grandiflorum, Bletilla striata, Bletilla striata, Ganoderma lucidum, purple beijinniucao, Shashen, honeysuckle, Artemisia scoparia, wild chrysanthemum, cat's eye, Ophiopogon japonicus, Weimao Radix Polygoni multiflori and Cortex Phellodendri. Some landscape greening tree species such as pear, peach, apricot, bamboo, peony and Cinnamomum camphora were planted.

Animal resources

animal

According to the preliminary investigation of the forest farm, as of 2013, there are 16 species of wild boar, wild sheep, Swertia deer, grass deer, wolf, hog badger, dog badger, fox, nine section beaver, thorn wretch, hare, pheasant, Python and snake.

birds

According to the preliminary survey of birds in Lumensi National Forest Park, as of 2013, there are 64 species, including woodpecker, owl, grey Finch, long tailed Finch, white faced tit, mountain sparrow, turtledove, oriole, cuckoo, ribbon bird, eagle, cuckoo and myna.

Scenic spot landscape

Lumen mountain, with the highest altitude of 371.7m, is the remaining vein of Dahong mountain. There are altogether 5 scenic spots and 32 scenic spots, namely "Mountain Gate green", "poetic heritage", "lumen Seclusion", "behind dune spot" and "incense burner autumn red". Its core scenic area is surrounded by lumen mountain, Bawang mountain, Xianglu mountain, Shizi mountain and Lijia mountain, with a total area of 29176 Mu and a forest coverage rate of 93%. Lumen mountain is not only famous for its rainstorm pool, patio, Bagua pool and Longtou, but also for its natural arrangement and four points.

Lumen temple is located in Bawang mountain, Xianglu mountain, Lijia mountain and lion mountain. The five peaks are emerald and towering, and the cultural and historical sites are scattered all over the world. There are more than 30 scenic spots and 12 famous scenic spots. The 15 square kilometer sandbank in the Hanshui River Basin echoes the north and south of lumen temple.

The existing memorial buildings of lumen temple include panggong pharmaceutical cave, Haoran Pavilion, Sangao Temple (statues of pangtong, Meng Haoran and PI Rixiu) and more than 100 steles of song, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Honors

In 1987, Xiangyang municipal government named it as one of the "key cultural relics protection units" and "historical and cultural city construction scenic spots".

In 1992, it was approved as "lumen Temple National Forest Park" by the State Forestry Department.

In the same year of 1992, it was named "provincial key cultural relics protection unit" by Hubei provincial government.

In 2000, it was designated as a provincial key Nature Reserve in Hubei Province.

In 2000, it was approved as "lumen Temple scenic spot" by Hubei provincial government.

In 2006, it was rated as national AA scenic spot.

It will be rated as national AAA scenic spot in 2019.

Chinese PinYin : Hu Bei Sheng Xiang Yang Shi Xiang Zhou Qu Lu Men Feng Jing Ming Sheng Qu