Chapter 13 (Taihua Mountain)
The next day, Taihua Mountain Tourist Scenic Area. (Date: April 23, 2010)
Mount Taihua is located in the east of the entire Taicang Mountains, with an altitude of more than 6,300 meters, although it is not the highest mountain in China, but it is one of the top ten tourist attractions in China. This mountain has many pines and cypresses, highlighting its solemnity, majesty and lushness. Many streams of springs, set off its beauty, multi-colored and entangled. Soft. It is cloudy and misty, and the ethereal changes make it add a bit of mystery and mystery.
It has beautiful and tall peaks, quiet and lush forests, majestic ancient buildings, illusory and misty sea of mist and clouds, as well as deep and deep lakes, and bottomless deep pools. At the dawn, you can also see the natural landscape when the sun rises in the east, and its beauty can be called the creation of heaven and earth, and the hearts of the people are swayed. Its scenery stands there like a natural landscape painting, which is immortal for hundreds of millions of years, and it looks simple and vicissitudes.
This situation and this scene are evidenced by poems, "E'e Dongyue is high, and Xiuji rushes to the sky." The middle of the rock is empty, lonely and mysterious. Non-workman, non-craftsman, cloud structure is natural. What is an elephant? So I moved repeatedly. The word will be gone, and you can live all your days. ”
The majestic Taihua Mountain is like a desolate ancient beast sleeping there, showing its majesty and vastness. There seems to be a faint coercion on the mountain, so that when people look at it, they can't help but feel an impulse to bow and worship.
Li Xiaoyu stood at the bottom of the mountain and looked at it for a long time, and then couldn't help but sigh: "It's really worthy of Taihua Mountain, it has both the spirit of beauty and the sense of vicissitudes, this is really a great mountain peak that conquers the world and creation......" As she spoke, she couldn't help but stretch her arms, slightly tilted her head to make a gesture of taking over the sky, and the moving appearance was like a fairy who was about to fly away, looking so charming and detached.
Looking at the delicate face like a celestial person, Ma Yi couldn't help but be a little stupid, and after a long time, she reacted and said: "Let's go, let's go up, I think the scenery above will be more charming." As she spoke, she naturally took Li Xiaoyu's little hand, and walked up with joy.
Taihua Mountain is one of the top ten natural scenic spots in China, so the corresponding tourism supporting facilities are still very complete. The mountain road is not the kind of winding mountain path, but the kind of artificially built wide avenue, even if a dozen people walk side by side, it will not seem too crowded.
On both sides of the mountain road, there are some small stalls set up by local mountain people, selling some fresh mountain goods and small handicrafts. In the distance, in the clearing, there are several large shops that look like they are selling jade or specialty goods. On the mountainside, there are also some pavilions for tourists to stay, and some shops selling goods. Of course, toilets are essential everywhere, and the tourism development department has clearly done a good job of this.
Ma Yi and Li Xiaoyu walked on the main road up the mountain, holding hands and looking very happy. The two of them walked around and looked around, and from time to time they would run to the roadside stalls to buy a small handicraft or two, and then go to the more famous places of interest to take pictures.
Mount Taihua itself is not just a beautiful scenery, the majestic handsome mountain, it also has an extraordinary position in history, the towering ridge of Mount Taihua has been the place of worship of the emperors since ancient times, and is often evaluated by the world as the closest place to the sky.
The closest to the sky here does not mean that the mountain is very close to the sky in height, but that the people who can stand on the top of the mountain can be closer to the nature of heaven and earth in their state of mind. According to rumors, there is an academic department that has made a very professional analysis and investigation on this statement. For this reason, they have also specially visited all parts of the country, and tourists who have been on the towering mountains to investigate and analyze.
Most of the visitors who have been interviewed have said, "Yes, it's magical. When I stand on the altar at the top of the mountain, I feel like it's amazing. It seems that the voice of heaven can be heard, and the voice of heaven is poured out. At that time, I felt that I had become very close to the sky all of a sudden, and I would have a magical feeling of merging with the heavens and the earth. ”
If it's just one or two people, that's not a big deal. But the fact is that about 40% of the respondents will have this wonderful feeling, which proves that there is indeed a certain reason why the emperors of the past chose to worship the heavens here. Therefore, it is understandable that the towering ridge of Taihua Mountain is evaluated as the closest place to the sky.
In addition to some small places of interest and the altar of worshipping heaven in the towering mountains, there are also eight major scenic spots and historic sites standing in a scattered manner on Taihua Mountain. These places of interest are all palaces built by the emperors of previous dynasties. The reason why these palaces and temples were built here is because during the worship period, the emperor and the accompanying princes and ministers can have a resting place.
These places of interest and the natural wonder of Taihua Mountain itself, 'Tianxuantan', together with the towering mountains, are known as the top ten scenic spots of Taihua Mountain.
The top 10 scenic spots are: Tianxuantan, Santianling, Xuantian Palace, Shoutian Palace, Jitian Palace, Pudu Temple. Heavenly void view, worship heaven hall, peace hall and blessing hall. These ten scenic spots are all the country's use of a lot of manpower and material resources, as well as huge funds, which are fortunate to be protected, each of which is equivalent to a splendid history of ancient civilization.
And the most amazing of them is the Tianxuantan that belongs to the natural wonders of Taihua Mountain. This deep pool is located just below the towering ridge, standing on the towering ridge and looking down, the Tianxuantan at the foot is like a round mirror, lying quietly on the earth, on its mirror surface and from time to time there will be bursts of light to look good.
This day the Xuantan is extremely deep, and no one knows how deep it is until now. Again, no one knows exactly where the underground waterways beneath it lead. In short, all this is still a mystery.
But the most peculiar thing is that this Tianxuan Tan will fly out of the lake from time to time colored points of light, and these colored points of light will gradually disappear and dissipate between heaven and earth soon after flying out of the water. Especially at night, the scenery is so beautiful from a distance that it feels like a void and an illusion.
According to legend, this wonder has been around for a long time, and it has existed for an unknown number of years when the mountain people first moved here in Taihua Mountain. At first, the local mountain people thought that they were fireflies in the mountains, but after checking them, they learned that they were not fireflies, they were just floating points of light, and these strange points of light would disappear on their own shortly after leaving the water, which was really weird.
Such a discovery really scared the mountain people at that time, and they all thought that they were making trouble with monsters, so they also invited the mage on the mountain to come and do it, but it naturally had no effect. Later, the mountain people found that these points of light were not harmful to people, so they ignored them. After a long time, this matter will naturally be over.
In these long years, it is not without strange people who have discovered the strangeness here, and even the Taixu Master of Kunlun Mountain has personally come to check it out in person. But the result was that before he could get close to the waterhole, he was startled away by the sudden appearance of a powerful aura, and he never dared to come any closer to this place again. Since then, this place has been established as a forbidden place in the cultivation realm, and no monk has dared to come to explore this place since then. It's just that ordinary people in the world don't know the inside story of all this.