Longmen Cave is one of the five suspended Taoist temples in China, a national AAA-level scenic spot, a provincial forest park, and a key cultural relic protection unit in Shaanxi Province. It is the ancestral hall of Quanzhen Longmen Sect. It started in the Spring and Autumn Period, was built in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties. Because Qiu Chuji, a real person in Changchun, one of the Taoist Quanzhen School, secluded here, he founded the Longmen School, which is known as the "Longmen Ancestral Court". The county has invested 82 million yuan to upgrade Longmen Cave scenic spot with high quality and great efforts, and built Shangshan Square, Longtan Square and other characteristic landscapes. This year, another 17 million yuan was invested, focusing on the implementation of projects such as the Temple of the Ancestors and the node landscape. The geological structure of the scenic spot is complex, the landform is diverse, the ancient trees are towering, and it is a typical karst landform landscape, which combines danger, strangeness, beauty and quietness.
the Longmen cave landscape is famous for its strange dangers, and it enjoys the reputation of being the second Huashan Mountain in Guanzhong. It faces Wu Shan, a "western town", east and west, and reflects each other. It is the birthplace of the Dragon Sect of Taoism, and is the ancestral home of worshipping Taoists, so it is famous far and near. The peaks of Longmen Mountain are stacked, the forests are dense, waterfalls and flowing springs abound, and there are even cold pools and caves all over the mountain, which are the wonders of Guanzhong landscape. In the Qing Dynasty, Luo Zhangyi, the governor of Longzhou, said in the Monument to the Permanent Residence of Longmen Cave: Longmen Cave is an Austrian region of heaven and earth, which is hidden at the foot of Donglong, with a gentle and deep, secluded and quiet, endless mountains, no path to pass, a single staircase and stone treads, and the layers are down, and the peaks are steep and chopped by ghosts and axes. Cliff waterfalls, sometimes stormy, hidden dragon changes, suspicious and unpredictable. In this strange land, there is a tiger and leopard cave and a dragon cave until now, except for djinn, a magical instrument. (The Continuation of Longzhou by Qianlong, Volume 8)
Longmen Cave, the ancient name of Lingxian Rock, is a land full of aura and geomantic treasures, which has long been loved by hermits in past dynasties and is the place where Taoists travel. According to the monument, Longmen Cave "began in the Spring and Autumn Period and was built in the Western Han Dynasty". According to legend, in the Western Zhou Dynasty (now Hanguguan Town, Lingbao City, Henan Province), Hanguguan ordered Yin Xi to help Laozi write the Tao Te Ching for 5, words, then he left his post and returned to the mountains to live in seclusion, and was named Lingxianyan. During the Warring States Period, it was renamed Doutan Cave. At the time of Emperor Jingwen of the Western Han Dynasty, Mr. Hou Loujing, a former official of the Emperor Langguan, abandoned his official position and went into Taoism. In his later years, he lived in seclusion and practiced here and changed his name to Jingfushan. Sun Simiao, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, avoided imperial edicts and lived in seclusion, applying drugs to help the world. During the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Ma Danyang and Qiu Chuji, the "seven real people" of Taoism, practiced and preached here, and Qiu Chuji came to live here from Panxi, Baoji, and practiced here for seven years, which was called Longmen Mountain. At the foot of the back mountain, there was only a Yuwang Temple dedicated to Dayu's water control. Later, the name of the mountain was changed to Longmen Cave, and after the landscape was added, the Longmen Sect of Taoism was founded, and Qiu was also the founder of the Longmen Sect of Taoism, becoming the most successful Quanzhen Gaodao in the history of Taoism in China. Qiu Chuji was revered by the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, and was summoned by Jin Shizong and Yuan Taizu for many times. He was appointed as a national teacher by Genghis Khan and took charge of Taoism in the whole country. Since then, Longmen Cave has gained great fame, stepped into glory and reached its peak. His disciples relied on mountains and waters, took advantage of the scenery, built temples, built grand mountain gates and expanded their scale. Since then, Longmen Cave has been renovated and expanded by a group of military and political dignitaries, including Yang Hucheng and Sun Weiru, and has been repeatedly looted and burned by soldiers, and finally formed today's style.
According to the Yuchen Palace Monument in the Yuan Dynasty, in the 52 years after the death of Qiu Chuji, the founder of Longmen Daoism School, Hezhi, the founder of the Sect, really agreed to build the old residence of Qiu in the third year of Yuan Shizu to Yuan Dynasty (1266), and it was completed in the sixteenth year (1279), and its scale is unknown. He Zhizhen and others followed the Quanzhen Taoist rules, left home and settled in the forest to practice, overhauled the temple and the grand mountain gate. In addition, Qiu Chuji was appointed as a national teacher by the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, and he always led Taoism in the country and was respected by Taoism both inside and outside, and the reputation of Longmen Cave was greatly shocked. Later generations built palaces and temples, adding color and scenery, and the Taoist temple pattern gradually enriched and became a big jungle of Taoism in northern Shaanxi, and the scenic spots of Jiangshan could last forever. Longmen Cave is located in the border area between Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. The mountains are stacked with obstacles, the water in Shan Qi is beautiful, the caves are deep and deep, the trees are lush, and the scenery is fascinating. On a beautiful day in the spring and autumn, the mountains are covered with green flowers, the mountains are full of flowers, the sun is clear and the moon is bright, the purple fog is lingering, the clouds come out of the mountains before the wind and after the rain, the crows are noisy at night, and the streams are ringing, which is a landscape wonder in Guanzhong. People come here for a swim, which is refreshing. Although it was severely damaged during the Cultural Revolution, the renovation of temples and roads in recent years solved the problem of water supply and power supply, which not only restored the old concept, but also increased the charm. In 1984, the People's Government of Shaanxi Province approved Longmen Cave as the first batch of tourist spots open to the outside world in the province, and the number of tourists increased year by year, reaching more than 1, in 1989, and it has become one of the important tourist destinations in western Guanzhong.