Revisit Taixing Mountain

I went to Taixing Mountain in the early winter of last year. It had snowed the night before in the mountains that day, and the snow was thick and frozen on the road up from the dumb mouth, and I stopped at the stone steps of the first peak of Mt. Jungnami. The stone staircase was covered with ice, and it was impossible to climb up again. It's not clear what the scenery is in front, but in the courtyard of the main hall below, I saw that there was a temple above in addition to the iron temple. When I gave up, I decided to do it again in the autumn of the following year to finish the rest of my trip. That trip to Taixing Mountain was also the only time I gave up climbing the mountain halfway, but I gave up without any regrets. Because it's too dangerous, if you don't step on it steadily, you will definitely slide into the cliff. I can't risk my life.

The last time I went there was to find out how the Iron Temple placed the top of the mountain. Although I didn't get close to the Iron Temple, after coming down the mountain, I guessed how to put the Iron Temple up. Later, with the help of photos of Xianyang donkey friends and sheep climbing the Iron Temple, my inference was confirmed. Therefore, the interest in Taixing Mountain was successfully realized last year.

I went here today purely to complete a full climb, and the length of the trail was just right for me.

After parking, I saw the freshly dug potatoes in front of the villager's house, and I remembered that I saw the villager smashing the potatoes in Caolianling last year, and I was about to drool when I was hungry. So I encouraged the fellow to make it for us and go down the mountain to eat. Because of this glutinous rice cake, I always think about it during the whole climbing process, because of this glutinous rice cake, I was the first to go down the mountain, and I ate two bowls in one go, and the feeling: so delicious!

Haha, don't say it, let's climb the mountain.

When we started to climb the mountain, we found that today there was a similar scene from last year: a dog walking with us.

I still like that fawn dog last year. Today it is a Labrador, too big and almost a meter tall, looking like a wolf, I am really afraid and I don't like dogs that look like this. What's more, I couldn't get rid of it all the way, its owner couldn't climb behind us, so it ran back and forth in front of me, and more importantly, the weather was too hot, the dog was panting with its big mouth open, and from time to time it squeezed past me, rubbing its big mouth on my pants to make me make way, and dirty trouser legs made me upset. That's one of the reasons why I was the first to come down when I came down.

When I walked to the mountain where I saw a shark last year, I remembered that my friend looked at the picture last year and said that it looked like Guanyin was clasping her hands together. So, I stopped and looked like a shark. I took a number of photos in different positions, and finally I saw the expressive appearance, which was indeed like a Buddha statue with folded hands, and everyone who accompanied me said that it looked like a Buddha statue.

Last year, I thought the temple with the most fairy scenery was built, and I rested and eat. Today, there is someone in the temple, a middle-aged Taoist priest. This Taoist priest embodies the superiority of socialism, black, fat, and round, so that I don't want to look at him more. At the same time, I felt that there was an element of grievance in the fairy spirit in the courtyard, and I really didn't want to stay here longer.

Find my happiness!Continue up the hill.

Today's ultimate goal is the last temple in front of the Iron Temple. I also learned from the photos of the sheep that there were four temples on the top of the mountain.

When I came to the stone staircase of the last Jungnam Mountain sign, I remembered my anxiety last year. The stone staircase that went up to it reminded me of last year's horror, and at the same time felt how right it was to give up decisively last year. Because after going up this section, I found that the turning junction was so steep, and it was a very shallow stone cave.

I didn't dare to stand up straight, I climbed up on all fours. After arriving at the first temple with a launch tower, the view is infinitely wide. The three stone temples in front sit on the top of the cliff, lined up in a line, rising step by step, majestic and precipitous!

I admired these stone temples built during the Tang Dynasty! I sighed at the perseverance and indomitable will of the cultivators at that time! In such a desolate and uninhabited Qinling Mountains, how much perseverance was required to practice here! At the same time, the stone walls and iron tile 'thatched huts' they built bear witness to what true cultivation is! Because the 'thatched huts' left by the cultivators' ancestors have long been empty. And the temple where the fat Taoist priest lived just now is a modern building, with a large house and a large courtyard and a very good location.

When I sat next to the first temple and looked at the three stone temples above, I imagined the ancient cultivators here, they were in groups of three or five, forming on the top of the cliff, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth and floating here, how chic and heroic!

There are many thatched huts for cultivation in the mountains of the Qinling Mountains, and there are a total of six temples on this line of Taixing Mountain (the iron temple cannot live in people, but it is just a miracle created by the practitioners, not counting the number. These temples are all on the top of a steep hill, which shows how difficult it was to choose a site to build it into a stone 'thatched hut'.

The following two have been renovated into modern buildings, but these four are still original ruins. In the second temple, there are remnants of replaced iron tiles, on which the forged dynasty is clearly visible: Qin iron tiles from the Ming Dynasty.

Going from the first temple to the second temple was a challenge for me. Walking is still the stone steps carved out by the ancestors, the steepness is nearly 80 degrees, the stone steps in some places are not more than ten centimeters wide, only half a foot can be placed in parallel, and the two sides of the stone staircase are cliffs.

I didn't dare to stand up anymore, sitting on the top of the stone staircase in a dilemma, and I was unwilling to give up. The last few male travelers who didn't dare to go said: Don't go if you are so difficult. You said it, don't risk your life.

At this moment, I saw that the old man in front of me had already walked towards the fourth temple, and he walked so easily.

What's more, a large number of people have passed. I put my backpack aside after arguing, and sat down step by step. I am the only one who has passed this staircase so embarrassed today.

The stone steps leading to the third temple were relatively easy to walk, and I climbed up on all fours. The area of these four temples is decreasing with each passing height. This temple is smaller than the first two, about seven square meters, and the top is completely iron tiles. I didn't stay here long, and I was ready to go to the last one without taking pictures. Go to the back and walk from the stone bars erected next to the stone temple to the back of the temple. There were cracks in the stones, and I could clearly see that there was a bottomless bottom underneath. I pretended to turn a blind eye and walked 'bravely' to the back of the temple.

The stone steps leading to the last temple are still steep and narrow. I didn't dare to look at the sides of the stone steps, so I stared at the stone steps in front of me and climbed up.

At last it's time for the fourth! The walls of the fourth temple fill the entire hilltop. Therefore, only this last temple has a door in the front and back, and the stone staircase leading up leads directly to the temple, and the back door is the only exit to the iron temple. This is also the only one of the four temples on the top of the mountain that I walked into the temple, and when I came in, I felt that the walls of the stone temple were impermeable. At this time, the iron tile stone temple of about five square meters was crowded with mountain climbers, and everyone had excited expressions on their faces, looking at the iron temple not far ahead to take pictures. A few people stood outside on the edge of the cliff leading to the Iron Temple to take pictures, but I didn't dare. I didn't even dare to step out of the door of this temple, and I still sat at the door to take pictures, and I didn't dare to stand, which made everyone laugh at me.

Sitting at the door and looking at the iron temple, I have no interest in last year, and today I am only looking here as a record of an expedition. It was also at this close distance that confirmed my judgment last year, because some brave travelers had already walked to the Iron Temple, and they walked with ease. The road to the Iron Temple was too dangerous, and it was from the tip of the stone wall of the abyss, and I couldn't see where I could put my feet down. This section of the road is almost straight, and they hold on to the stone wall and pass through the cracks.

Sitting at the door and looking at the Iron Temple, I thought that the cultivator who built this stone thatched hut at that time was too religious, maybe he was the one who placed the Iron Temple, and therefore he was also a waiter. The cultivator regards the building of the temple as the greatest ## (##那词我说不准, as if it is karma), and he looks at his greatest merit with pride every day, what a great happiness it will be.

Today we also praise him for his feat: a great Taoist priest (monk)!

Little did he know that hundreds of years after his feat, he would attract a large number of people who loved nature and wanted to challenge their physical abilities. It's just that most of us are not cultivators, and we are only here to admire his masterpieces. This may have been something he hadn't thought of at the beginning. I really don't know, if he can see this, will he be relieved or disappointed?

Haha, isn't it a bit far away.

I'm going down the mountain. I'm not interested in the Iron Temple at all today, so I didn't forget to zoom in on the camera and leave a memorial of the closest to the Iron Temple. Because if there were no special circumstances in this life, I would not come here again. It's too dangerous. The process of climbing the four temples today is unprecedented for me. It was the first time that I was so focused, crawling, sitting, and moving my hands and feet to the temples.

Taixing Mountain, before you are immortal in the Iron Temple, will always be the place of yearning for mountain climbers.

2013－9－14