Southwest of Dujiangyan, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Qingcheng Mountain is located southwest of Dujiangyan, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. It is surrounded by undulating peaks and lush green trees. It enjoys the reputation of "Qingcheng Tianxia" reputation. Qingcheng Mountain is a world cultural heritage and one of the four famous Taoist mountains in China.
Qingcheng Mountain
World Cultural Heritage Qingcheng Mountain - the main scenic spot of Dujiangyan, a national key cultural relics protection unit, a national key scenic spot, a national AAAAA tourist attraction, a holy site of the Quanzhen Longmen Sect, one of the top ten One of the caves, one of the four famous mountains in China, one of the five fairy mountains, and one of the ten scenic spots in Chengdu.
Qingcheng Mountain is located in the southwest of Dujiangyan City, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, 68 kilometers east of Chengdu City, and 10 kilometers southwest of the Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project. The scenic area covers an area of ??200 square kilometers. The highest peak, Laojun Pavilion, is 1,260 meters above sea level. Qingcheng Mountain is divided into front mountain and back mountain. Surrounded by undulating peaks and lush green trees, it enjoys the reputation of "Qingcheng is secluded in the world".
The whole mountain has verdant trees, evergreen all year round, and is surrounded by peaks that look like a city outline, hence the name Qingcheng Mountain. There are thousands of steps on the elixir ladder, and the winding path leads to secluded areas, which are won by their purity. Inside and outside the scenic area, the tranquility of Tianshi Cave and Yuanming Palace is a major feature of Qingcheng Mountain.
Main Attractions
Natural Picture Gallery
Natural Painting Gallery is located on the ridge of Longju Mountain Archway. It is a pavilion with ten corners and double eaves. It was built during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty (1875-1909). The scenery here is beautiful, and visitors here feel as if they are in a painting, so it is called a "natural painting". The natural landscape is located between Jianfu Palace and Tianshi Cave, with an altitude of 893 meters and two peaks. When visitors come here, they can see the pavilions standing among the green cliffs and lush greenery, as if they are in a painting. Behind the pavilion is Zhuhezhuang, where there are often groups of red cranes chirping in the mountains; on the right there is a horizontal stone lying on the cliff between the two mountains, which is called the "Celestial Immortal Bridge" and is said to be a place where immortals gather and play.
Jianfu Palace
Jianfu Palace is located under Zhangren Peak. It was first built in the 18th year of Kaiyuan of the Tang Dynasty (730). It has been restored many times over the years, and now only two halls and three courtyards remain. The existing building was rebuilt during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty (1888). There are three main halls, which are dedicated to Taoist celebrities and gods respectively. The 394-character couplet on the pillars in the hall is praised as "a unique thing in Qingcheng". Jianfu Palace is built under a cliff with extraordinary magnificence. On the left is the ruins of the Princess of Mingqingfu. Walking west for one thousand meters, you will reach the "natural picture" of towering rocks and shrouded clouds. The Song Dynasty poet Fan Chengda once prayed for the Song Emperor here, and the emperor named it "Huiqing Jianfu Palace". The poet Lu You described in a poem that the Liangjianfu Palace at that time was "a golden gate with golden seal scripts, a road lined with giant bamboos and a canopy of clouds. The rock ridges are like dividing the sky and the earth, and thousands of pillars are staring at its walls." There are ancient wooden rockeries, Zhixin Pavilion, the ruins of Princess Mingqingfu's dressing table, as well as murals, couplets and other cultural relics.
Laojun Pavilion
Laojun Pavilion is located at the top of the first peak in Qingcheng (i.e. the top of Pengzu Peak, also known as Gaotaishan and Laoxiaoding), with an altitude of 1260 meters. There is the Yingying Pavilion, which means "climb high and call out, and all the mountains will respond." In the late 1980s, the pavilion was renovated and a pavilion was built. After the damage caused by the "5.12" earthquake in 2008, the reconstructed pavilion is now 33 meters high, with nine floors. The lower part is round and the upper floors have octagons, symbolizing the round sky and the earth, Tai Chi and Bagua. The appearance is tower-shaped, with a spire and three circles in the middle. Treasure means the three talents of heaven, earth and man. Inside the hollow pavilion, there stands a majestic lotus statue of Taishang Laojun. The statue is 7.3 meters high and the platform is 10.37 meters high. The open terrace outside the pavilion is built according to the situation and is built with white marble. The sea overflows the sill, twists and turns, moves back and circles up to the top of the pavilion. On a clear day, you can see the scenery of Minqiong Qing'e for hundreds of miles and the beauty of Tianfu Pingchuan for hundreds of miles. It can be said to be the most spectacular in the world.
The reconstruction of the former Laojun Pavilion statue is based on Xu Beihong's posthumous work "Purple Air Coming from the East" (the picture of Laozi crossing the green ox to leave the customs) in Qingcheng. It has been refined by many scholars, artists and connoisseurs. It was researched, drawn and shaped by fellow Taoists from Qingcheng Mountain. The statue of Laojun is 13.6 meters high, and even the body of the ox is 16 meters high. According to the classical building regulations, it is cast with reinforced concrete and clad in fine copper, with a dazzling golden light and lifelike appearance. Since ancient times and now! Unique, it is a glorious statue of the founder of Taoism that integrates Laozi as an ancient thinker, philosopher and ancient simple materialist dialectical relativist. The Laojun Pavilion complex includes Donghua Hall and other places.
Among them, the Donghua Hall is 100 square meters and has five rooms. The center is dedicated to Emperor Donghua, and the left and right niches are dedicated to Lu Chunyang and Zhong Liquan. Laojun Pavilion was built in the autumn of 1992 and took three years to complete. It creates another magnificent spectacle for the eight-hundred-mile Qingcheng holy land.
Shangqing Palace
Shangqing Palace is located on the first peak of Qingcheng Mountain, about 500 meters away from the peak. Shangqing Palace was built in the Jin Dynasty. The existing temple was built during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. There are cliff stone carvings on it such as "The Fifth Famous Mountain in the World" and "The First Peak in Qingcheng". The three characters "Shangqing Palace" on the palace gate were inscribed by Chiang Kai-shek. The palace is dedicated to Li Laojun, the founder of Taoism. There are statues of Laozi and 5,000-character woodcuts of the Tao Te Ching, as well as legendary relics such as Magu Pond and Yuanyang Well. Behind the Shangqing Palace is Laoxiaoding, with a echoing pavilion built. A perfect place to watch the sunrise, magic lanterns and sea of ??clouds.
Tianshi Cave
There are statues of "Tianshi" Zhang Daoling and his 30th generation grandson "Tianshi Xujing" in the Tianshi Cave. Traveling two kilometers north from Jianfu Palace, you will arrive at Tianshi Cave, the main point of Qingcheng. Tianshi Cave was built during the Daye Period of the Sui Dynasty. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces a stream on one side. It has towering ancient trees and is very quiet in ancient times. The existing palace was built in the late Qing Dynasty. It is magnificent in scale, finely carved, and contains many precious cultural relics and ancient trees. According to legend, Zhang Daoling once preached here in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The main hall inside the temple is the "Sanqing Hall". Behind the hall are the Huangdi Temple and Tianshi Cave and other historic sites. There is a small hall in the lower right corner of Tianshi Cave, called the Hall of Three Emperors, which contains stone statues of Xuanyuan, Fuxi and Shennong. There is an ancient ginkgo tree in front of the cave door, which is about 50 meters high, 7.06 meters in chest and 2.24 meters in diameter. It is said that it was planted by Zhang Tianshi and the tree is more than 1,800 years old.
In the summer of 1943, Mr. Xu Beihong, an outstanding painter and art educator, came to Qingcheng Mountain to sketch. He lived alone in a room in Tianshi Cave, and successively created many works such as the illustrations "National Sorrow" and "Mountain Ghost" in Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", and the "Galloping Horse" and "Tianma" pictures that were given to Qingcheng Taoist priests. Made into stone carvings for display.
Taian Ancient Town Tai'an Ancient Town has been an important town on "Huaping Laoze Road" since ancient times, which is the only post road from Chengdu to Jinchuan in the west. Weijiang Town was established in the Song Dynasty, and was renamed Tai'an Town after the ancient Tai'an Temple in the Qing Dynasty. Tai'an Temple is located in the center of the ancient town. There are many restaurants and hotels in the ancient town for tourists to rest.