The natural landscape here is strange and spectacular.
It has formed a pattern with Sanping Canyon as the main body, snake-shaped valley surrounded by two streams as the central scenic spot, and featuring "mountains, springs, forests and caves". Lion Peak, the main peak of Huwei Mountain, is 903.6 meters above sea level, towering and straight, shaped like a lion's head. Many peaks form a strange snake-like landform, facing the turtle mountain thousands of meters away in front, which is called "underwater snake" and "water turtle" The Tiger Climbing Spring on the left side of the tower hall of Sanping Temple is quite legendary, with unique landscape and excellent water quality. What is particularly rare is that Sanping still retains many rare species and ancient and famous trees, and some plants have unique medicinal value; Shi Mao Cave, one of the eight ancient scenic spots in Sanping, is round and muddy, about 3.5 meters high and 4 meters wide. There is a stone building on the top of the stone, and the stone building is engraved with spells. According to legend, this is the place where Sanping's ancestor Gong Jian exorcised demons.
Here, Buddhist culture has a long history.
Sanping Temple is a famous Buddhist Zen temple in China and a provincial cultural relic protection unit. The word "Sanping Temple" at the main entrance of the main hall was inscribed by Zhao Puchu. Located at the foot of Sheshan Mountain, facing south, the temple covers an area of more than 30,000 square meters with a total construction area of 3,300 square meters. It was founded by Yang Yizhong in Xian Tong in the seventh year of the Tang Dynasty. After the change of dynasty, it was destroyed and repaired repeatedly, and the temple was rebuilt in the forty-ninth year of Qing Qianlong (AD 1783); In the 23rd year of Jiaqing (A.D. 18 17), the Tower Hall was rebuilt; 1982 Rebuild ancestral halls and mountain gates, 1984 Rebuild Daxiong Hall, 1988 Rebuild Tower Hall. Temple buildings adopt the traditional symmetrical layout of the central axis, which is followed by the mountain gate, the Ursa Major Hall, the ancestral hall and the tower hall, commonly known as "three entrances and half exits". On the wall of the right gallery of Ursa Major Hall, there are inscriptions on the reconstruction of Sanping Hall and the revival of the Central Hall, which were carved by Cai Xin, the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty. In the middle of the back wall of Sanping Temple Tower, the "Wang satirized the tablet" was satirized by Wang, the assistant minister of the official department in the Tang Dynasty. In the 13th year of Xian Tong (AD 872), he was demoted to the secretariat of Zhangzhou because of Du Nan's case of making Yu Zong, and became friends with the founder of Sanping. After the Zen master died in Zhong Yi, he wrote the Preface of the Founder of Sanping in Zhangzhou for him. The inscription records the life experience of the founder Yang Yizhong. Therefore, "Wang Inscription" is one of the most important cultural relics in Sanping Temple, with exquisite inscription, which is called Mo Bao. The "Shigong" Buddha statue on the back wall of the pagoda is said to be the true face of Sanping's founder. Stone carvings are like quaint Gu Zhuo, with the style of Longmen Grottoes. It is also the only remaining cultural relic of the Tang Dynasty in Sanping Temple.
Here, the red culture is rich in connotation.
The Red Army Memorial Hall is located at the foot of the ninth floor of Sanping Temple Scenic Area, about 500 meters away from Sanping Temple. It is called the Red Three Regiments and the Hong Jiu Regiment Memorial Hall. 1988 165438+ The museum was built in 10, covering an area of about 600 square meters, including historical sites and exhibition rooms. The museum was built to commemorate the victory of the third and ninth independent regiments of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army in July 1935. It is one of the eight memorial buildings in Pinghe County. The museum treasures historical materials and cultural relics of the Sanping Victory Battle, and is an excellent base and teaching material for revolutionary tradition education and patriotism education.
Sanping Temple has a long history and profound traditional culture. It has many contents and forms such as historical culture, Buddhist culture, red culture, green culture, medical culture and folk culture, among which religious culture is the most abundant. For a long time, there are many folk stories about the ancestors of Sanping, which reflect the people's admiration for their ancestors' fighting evil spirits and helping the world. These legends cast a strong color of religious mythology on the scenery of Sanping Scenic Area, which greatly aroused the interest and imagination of tourists, and attracted thousands of good men and women, overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots to offer incense, seek money and seek medical advice, thus forming Sanping Scenic Area. At present, the scenic spot receives more than 500,000 tourists every year, and the direct income from tourism reaches more than 20 million yuan, which has become the supporting force for our county to build a strong mountain tourism county.