Yes, the Longmen is really beautiful. As early as the Tang Dynasty, it has become a tourist attraction with beautiful scenery, pleasant scenery, Buddhist statues and hot springs. Last August, I went to Longmen for an interview. It was in the rainy season. The trees in Dongshan and Xishan of Longmen are lush and green, rich and fresh, as if soaked in oil. But to be honest, the beauty of these mountains is often concealed and diluted by the beauty of the grottoes, because all the tourists who come to Longmen are paying attention to the Longmen Grottoes and the 100,000 Buddha statues, and the cameras are also snapping at the Lushe Buddha. How many people can enjoy the scenery of Longmen Mountain?
I saw the grottoes, crowded; Above the aisle, there is an endless stream of tourists. Dongshan Xiangshan Temple, the morning bell and the dusk drum, tourists wander; At the top of the Longmen West Mountain, there are thousands of pines and cypresses, but it is difficult to see one person. It's really strange that no one appreciates the color of Longmen Mountain. Because not many people visit Xishan, in autumn, there are people digging ancient tombs here, and the ground in some places is dug like honeycomb coal.
But the ancients knew how to appreciate the beauty of the mountains here long ago and summed up the best viewing angle of Longmen. Liu Zongyuan in the Tang Dynasty once summarized the beautiful scenery of Luoyang as Longmen Mountain, the bell of Masi Temple, Jingu Chun Qing, Luopu autumn wind, Tianjin Xiaoyue, sunset rain of bronze camel, night view of Mangshan Mountain, and swimming in Pingquan. He thinks that to appreciate the scenery of Longmen Mountain, you should stand on a high place and overlook a song, so that you can see the panorama. Bai Juyi doesn't think so. The old man lived on Dongshan Mountain in Longmen in his later years. It is said that he never looked at the grottoes in the western hills, saying that it took time to dig these grottoes and carve these Buddha statues. However, he did not refuse to appreciate the color of Longmen Mountain. He loves Xiangshan (Longmen Dongshan) and calls himself a Buddhist in Xiangshan. When he appreciated the colors of Longmen Mountain, he did not overlook or overlook it, but carefully observed it from many angles. Bai Juyi was an official in Jiangnan in his early years. The scenery of Hangzhou West Lake is excellent, and the scenery of Jiangtou (now Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province) in Xunyang, Jiangzhou is also good, but Bai Juyi still loves Longmen and Xiangshan best. In the second year of Huichang (AD 842), Bai Juyi was 7 1 year-old, and he also formed an incense club with the monk Ruman of Xiangshan Temple, wearing a dove staff, wandering around the Longmen and reciting poems. Tang Dynasty poets Wei and Liu Changqing also admired the scenery of Longmen Mountain and were fascinated by the blue waves of Yishui, leaving many stories and poems here. What's more, Wu Zetian of that generation led ministers to Xiangshan, facing the scenery of Longmen Mountain, and held a poetry competition, so that ministers could recite poems on the spot, hand in papers on the spot, decide the outcome on the spot, and rank them, and the first one could get a royal robe.
It seems that the ancients took the task to appreciate the scenery of Longmen Mountain, not just to see, but also to write, to use their brains, to engage in literary salons and to engage in poetry competitions. Today, when people appreciate the scenery of Longmen Mountain, the "task" they bring is just a camera.