● Development status: Millennium ancient temple, with continuous construction and considerable scale. There is management, free tickets.
● Traffic information: The road to Lingyuan Mountain is very easy. From Qingyang, Jinjiang, along Quanan Highway to Anhai, you can see the entrance of Lingyuan Temple on the right side of Lingyuan Street. After entering the mountain pass, take a short walk along the cement road to the foot of the mountain, and a 3.2-kilometer-long winding mountain paved with cement can reach the top of the mountain.
● Main features: the combination of mountain and temple, lush flowers and trees, rugged rocks, overlooking from the highest place of the mountain, cool breeze blowing head on, refreshing, and the best tourist season is generally April-165438+ 10 every year.
Lingyuan Mountain is not high, only 305 meters above sea level. There is a temple on the mountain called Lingyuan Temple, which is one of the thousand-year-old temples in southern Fujian.
Entering the mountain gate, you can see a Guandi Temple on the right side of the road. The temple is small, but there are many believers and the incense is quite prosperous. It's not far from here to Lingyuan Temple, where traffic stops and tourists need to walk up the steps to get in. You can see an ancient camphor tree on the steps. According to the nameplate on the tree, the tree is over 600 years old.
What you visited in Lingyuan Mountain was Lingyuan Temple. This temple is very old, with a history of 1000 years. According to the inscription on the temple wall, the name "Lingyuan" began in the eleventh year of Emperor Yongping of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the first year of Mu Tianzi's accession to the throne in Eastern Jin Dynasty, a man named Lin Xishan built a Lingyuan Pavilion here. Later, in the early years of the Sui Dynasty, in the ninth year of the Emperor's reign, Yi Chen, a monk nicknamed "a grain of sand", expanded Lingyuan Pavilion into Lingyuan Temple and settled down as the abbot.
For thousands of years, Lingyuan Mountain has attracted many famous poets, and many Confucian scholars have built houses here to study. Ouyang Zhan, who first opened Bamin Kedi in the Tang Dynasty, lived and studied in this mountain for three years. Lin, a famous scholar in the Song Dynasty, was buried in Lingyuan Mountain after his studies. His descendants, Lin Wai, a poet who wrote the famous article "When will the West Lake stop singing and dancing outside the mountain", also studied in Ziyun Room of Lingyuan Mountain.