What are the interesting places in Dengfeng tourist attractions?

Dengfeng City has a very long history. It is the core of the Central Plains civilization. Everyone can feel the rich humanistic and historical feelings. Here, you will face a series of challenges. Here, I will share with you the introduction of specific tourist attractions.

Dengfeng City is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhengzhou City, the capital of Henan Province. It was called Yangcheng and Songyang in ancient times. It is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains and at the southern foot of Songshan Mountain in Zhongyue. Dengfeng has a rich history and splendid culture.

Yangcheng was the capital of the first dynasty in China in the Xia Dynasty, that is, Dengfeng was successful today. Dengfeng and Chenggong were named after Wu Zetian's "climbing Songshan Mountain" and "sealing Zhongyue Mountain" in 696 AD, and the imperial edict was issued to change Songyang County to Dengfeng County and Yangcheng County to Gaocheng County. The Jin Dynasty merged the two counties into Dengfeng County.

Shaolin Temple

Shaolin Temple is located at the foot of Wuru Peak at the northern foot of Shaoshi Mountain, 13km northwest of Dengfeng County. Founded in the 2th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (496), the temple was built in the dense jungle at the foot of Shaoshi Mountain, hence the name "Shaolin". As said in Shuo Song, "Shaolin is a forest with few rooms".

Shaolin Temple is a world-famous Buddhist temple and the ancestral home of Zen Buddhism in Han Dynasty. It occupies an important position in the history of Buddhism in China and is known as "the first temple in the world". It is famous all over the world because of its dedicated research and development of Shaolin Kung Fu by Shaolin monks in past dynasties, and is known as "Shaolin Kung Fu is the best in the world".

Songshan Mountain

Songshan Mountain was called "foreign country" in ancient times, called "lofty" and "worshipping mountain" in Xia and Shang Dynasties, called "Yueshan" in the Western Zhou Dynasty, with Songshan as the center, left Dai (Mount Tai) and right Hua (Huashan), and named it as Zhongyue Mountain.

Songyang Academy

Songyang Academy is located at the southern foot of Songshan Mountain in Dengfeng City, Zhengzhou, Henan Province. Founded in the eighth year of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 484), it was called Songyang Temple. It was changed to Songyang Temple in the Tang Dynasty, and was converted into Taishi Academy in the Five Dynasties.

Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, the founders of "Luoxue" of Neo-Confucianism in Song Dynasty, both gave lectures in Songyang Academy, and since then, Songyang Academy has become one of the birthplaces of Neo-Confucianism in Song Dynasty. At the end of Ming Dynasty, the Academy was destroyed by soldiers and rebuilt in Kangxi of Qing Dynasty.

Songyang Academy has undergone many additions and repairs from generation to generation, and its scale has gradually taken shape and its layout has become increasingly strict. The organizational system of the academy is simple, elegant and generous. Songyang Academy, Suiyang Academy in Henan (also known as Yingtian Academy), Yuelu Academy in Hunan and Bailudong Academy in Jiangxi are also called the four major academies in China.

Sanhuangzhai

Sanhuangzhai is a natural cottage hanging on the hillside of Shaoshi Mountain. The whole scenic mountain is steep and slippery, and the top of the mountain is flat and wide. It has the characteristics of being the hero of Mount Tai, the danger of Huashan, the wonder of Northern Heng and the show of Southern Heng, and is famous in the Central Plains for its strange peaks, dangerous roads, strange rocks and beautiful scenery. It was named to commemorate the pioneering work of ancestors san huang (Emperor, Dihuang and Ren Huang) in Songshan area.

Zhongyue Temple

Zhongyue Temple is located at the foot of Taishi Mountain at the southern foot of Songshan Mountain, 4 kilometers east of Dengfeng City, Henan Province. It is backed by Huanggaifeng in the north, facing Yupan Mountain in the west, facing Chaoling in the east, surrounded by mountains, with careful layout, grand scale, red walls and yellow tiles, resplendent and magnificent, with a total area of 11, square meters. It is the highest temple in Zhongzhou, the largest existing and well-preserved ancient architectural complex among the Five Mountains, and the largest and most complete ancient architectural complex in Henan Province. Such a grand and elegant and solemn temple is also rare in the country.

Stargazing Observatory

Stargazing Observatory was built in Yuan Dynasty, and Guo Shoujing observed and calculated the most advanced calendar in the world at that time, which was only 26 seconds different in accuracy from the current Gregorian calendar, but it was created 3 years earlier.

Huishan Temple

Huishan Temple was founded in the period of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 471-499). There are 9 existing buildings in the temple in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, which was the place where astronomers and a group of monks in the Tang Dynasty became monks. The existing buildings in the Yuan Dynasty were the most typical and precious representative works at that time (AD 1279-1368). Huishan Temple is a Buddhist monk and his party who participated in astronomical activities and the study of the evolution history of China's ancient cosmology, and is the witness of the representative figures of Buddhism and the concept of "heaven and earth".

Music Ceremony

The Music Ceremony of Zen Shaolin is a large-scale cultural performance project, and the project is located in Daixiangou, ten kilometers west of Dengfeng City and seven kilometers away from Shaolin Temple. By the artistic director of Tan Dun's outline and music originality who won the Oscar original music award; Produced by Marshal Mei, a famous planner who successfully planned Impression Sanjie Liu; Yi Zhongtian, a professor at Xiamen University, is a Zen consultant; Shi Yongxin, abbot of Shaolin Temple, is the cultural consultant of Shaolin Temple; Huang Doudou, a famous dancer, is the choreographer.

The Grand Ceremony of Zen Shaolin Music is a large-scale performance, with sound and pictures integrated. Nearly 6 people perform Zen martial arts, Shaolin monks sing live, and the landscape changes in spring, summer, autumn and winter directly point to the Zen sound of Buddha music, which synthesizes the brilliant symphony of Songshan Mountain in Zhongyue. The regular performance at 8: every night has become a highlight of cultural tourism in the Central Plains.