Why is Mount Putuo called "Haitian Buddha Country"

Mount Putuo, located outside Hangzhou Bay, Zhejiang Province, is an island with an area of only 12.76 square kilometers. The island has undulating terrain and winding coast, with strange forest, tidal sand, huge waves and misty seamount scenery. The beautiful island scenery has won the reputation of "the first seamount" and "the fairy mountain on the sea". Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, all kinds of myths and legends of "Thousand Hands Guanyin" and the rewards and gifts of emperors in previous dynasties have made it a Guanyin Bodhisattva Dojo with the highest incense, thus gaining the nickname of "Haitian Buddha Country". Historically, Mount Putuo, Mount Wutai in Shanxi, Mount Emei in Sichuan and Mount Jiuhua in Anhui are listed as four famous Buddhist mountains in China. Although it has been destroyed and experienced vicissitudes, the scenery is still there, and the incense is endless. Nowadays, with the implementation of religious policies and the development of tourism, the main temples and scenic spots on the island have been restored one after another, and various tourist facilities have been improved day by day. An island resort featuring a famous Buddhist mountain appeared in front of people. Mount Putuo is long and narrow, with a longitudinal length of 8.6 kilometers from north to south and a width of 3.5 kilometers from east to west. The highest peak, Foding Mountain, is 29 1 m above sea level. Geologists believe that Putuo Mountain is a part of Cathaysian ancient land, which has been in the process of uplift for a long time since Paleozoic. By the end of Mesozoic, influenced by Yanshan movement, a series of NE-trending and NW-trending fault structures appeared, forming horst-type and graben-type fault blocks, which formed the embryonic form of Zhoushan Islands in China. Since the late Pleistocene (6.5438+0.9 million years ago), it has been submerged in seawater for three times to varying degrees. The last sea immersion occurred in the middle of Holocene, and the Chinese coastline moved from Ryukyu Islands to its present position. It turns out that some valleys in Tiantai Mountain have become sea areas, while some peaks and ridges have emerged from the sea, forming Zhoushan Islands including Putuo Mountain. The island rocks exposed in Putuo Mountain are mainly composed of Yanshanian acid feldspar granite magmatic intrusions, with quartz diorite on the edge as an early neutral intrusive body, which is distributed in Fanyin Cave and the northwest of the island. Due to the gradual rise of the earth's crust, the development of fracture joints, the erosion of seawater and the collapse of debris, typical weathering, marine erosion and marine landscape have finally formed in the whole island, shaping strange peaks, strange rocks, different caves and different sands. Mount Putuo is surrounded by mountains in the northwest, blocking the cold wind in the north; The beach in the southeast is flat, overlooking the blue waves of the East China Sea. There are many steep rocks and winding streams on the mountain, ancient trees and fine trees, and there are many cliffs and caves and clean beaches on the seashore. The whole island has ups and downs, delicate outline, warm climate in winter and cool climate in summer, which is very pleasant. Due to the rendering of religious myths, every grass, tree, stone and hole on Mount Putuo is covered with the coat of "Guanyin miracle". Temple buildings on the island have been built, rebuilt and expanded since the Tang and Song Dynasties, forming a system of "Haitian Buddha Country" centered on three Buddhist temples: Puji, Fayu and Huiji. In its heyday, there were more than 200 large and small temple buildings and more than 2,000 monks and nuns on the island.