Mount Emei is like a huge green screen, standing in the southwest of Chengdu Plain. From a distance, the curved and soft mountain outline looks like a girl's face and eyebrows are trimmed, so people have long called it "Emei". Mount Emei spans more than 200 kilometers and is connected with Qiongxia Mountain, a branch of Kunlun Mountain, the backbone of Asia. The whole Mount Emei consists of four mountains: Da 'e, Er 'e, San 'e and Si 'e, which are visited by ordinary tourists, mainly Da 'e Mountain, where there are many strange peaks and scenic spots. This is what people usually call "Emei Mountain" today.
Mount Emei has a prominent flat area, majestic, beautiful, ancient and magical. It is famous for its beautiful natural scenery, long Buddhist culture, rich animal and plant resources and unique geological landforms. Known as "Fairy Mountain Buddha Country", "Plant Kingdom", "Animal Paradise" and "geological museum", it is also known as "Emei is the best in the world". Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "There are many fairy mountains in Shu, and Emei is hard to beat"; Zhou Hongyi, a poet in the Ming Dynasty, praised: "The beauty of the three pagodas is the best in the world, so why go to the sea to find Penglai"; Guo Moruo, a contemporary writer, inscribed Mount Emei as "a famous mountain in the world". Throughout the ages, Mount Emei has always been a resort for people to worship Buddha, visit, enjoy, make scientific investigations and recuperate. Mount Emei has enjoyed a flourishing incense for thousands of years, and tourists have been weaving, which has always maintained its charm.
Emei Mountain is also a famous Buddhist mountain. According to legend, it is the Dojo of the Great Bodhisattva of Pu Xian who appeared beside Sakyamuni. It, together with Wutai Mountain in Shanxi, Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang and Jiuhua Mountain in Anhui, is called the "Four Bodhisattvas" Dojo of Buddhism in China. Mount Emei was originally a religious place where Buddhism and Taoism coexisted. At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was the first "first temple" in the mountain with the medicine farm house as the temple. Later, after the continuous construction of Jin, Tang and Song Dynasties and the development of Ming and Qing Dynasties, more than 200 Buddhist temples were built successively, with thousands of monks. With the prosperity of Buddhism and the decline and extinction of Taoism, Mount Emei has become a Buddhist holy land centered on "Bodhisattva belief". Due to historical changes, there are still more than ten ancient temples such as Guobao Temple, Wannian Temple, Xianfeng Temple, Xixiangchi Scenic Area and Jinding in Emei Mountain Scenic Area. Buddhists in temples still maintain a normal religious life.
Emei Mountain is rich in animal and plant resources. Because of the great temperature difference between mountains, the temperature difference from mountain to top is about 15℃, which provides good conditions for the growth of various plants. There are more than 5,000 kinds of plants growing in the scenic spot, far exceeding all plant species and genera in continental Europe. Among them, 29 varieties of azaleas are known as "the beauty of flowers". There is also an ancient ornamental tree species "China pigeon tree"-Davidia involucrata; There are more than 2,300 kinds of wild animals such as butterflies, red pandas, buzzards, wildebeests and white fairy birds in the scenic spot, especially naughty monkeys in the mountains, which often beg or play with tourists, attracting attention. 198 1 year, when an expert group of the British international arboretum society composed of scholars from Britain, America, France, Germany and Japan visited Mount Emei, the experts led by botanist Tom Setti unanimously praised Mount Emei as the most beautiful national park in the world, a rare treasure house of plants and a paradise for plant lovers all over the world. With the change of seasons, different mountains, towering old trees, waterfalls with flowing springs, and the noise of overcast, sunny, wind, rain, clouds, fog, frost and snow, the scenery of Emei Mountain is more beautiful and unique.