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How about Wutai Mountain?

The scenery is beautiful. It is a tourist destination. It is a tourist area integrating natural scenery, historical sites, ancient buildings, Buddhist culture, folk customs and summer leisure. Wutai Mountain is also one of the four holy places of Buddhism and the Dojo of Manjusri Bodhisattva. There are thaw lakes, ice hills, rocky sea and rock streams, dragon turning over rocks, writing cliffs, Buddha caves and other scenic spots. This is a very interesting place.

Wutai Mountain in Shanxi (together with Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang, Emei Mountain in Sichuan and Jiuhua Mountain in Anhui, also known as the four famous Buddhist mountains in China) is located in the northeast of Shanxi Province and belongs to the northern end of Taihang Mountain system. It spans more than 500 miles across Wuzhou, covering Wutai County, Fan Shi County, Daixian County, Yuanping County and Dingxiang County. Taihuai Town in the central area is 78km away from Wutai County, 50 km away from Xinzhou City/KLOC-0, and 240km away from Taiyuan City, the capital of Shanxi Province. Mount Wutai in Shanxi, Mount Putuo in Zhejiang, Mount Emei in Sichuan and Mount Jiuhua in Anhui are also called the four famous Buddhist mountains in China. Together with Lambiki Garden in Nepal, Naga in India, Rokuyan in India and Bodhgaya in India, it is also known as the world's five Buddhist holy places, or the world's five famous Buddhist mountains. In the list of summer resorts in China in 2008, Wutai Mountain ranked first among the top ten famous summer resorts in China. Wutai Mountain is one of the earliest lands on the earth. Its gestation can be traced back to Archaean 2.6 billion years ago. The Sinian experienced the famous "Wutai Uplift" movement and formed the most magnificent mountainous area in North China. In Quaternary, glaciers covered Wutai Mountain, leaving precious periglacial landforms. Wutaishan Formation is complete and rich. Precambrian strata, in particular, have typical development and have become the key areas of national research and correlation. Most of the strata in Wutai Mountain are named after the mountains, waters and villages in this area, which fully shows its role in geoscience.

The biggest feature is that Mahayana Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism are together!

Wutai is said to be the earliest site of Taoism. In Taoist classics, Wutai Mountain is called Zifu Mountain, and there was once a Zifu Mountain. According to the records in Liangshan, Liang Qing, when Manjusri Bodhisattva of Buddhism first came to China, she lived in a cave with a stone basin in the metaphysical view of Taoism, indicating that Wutai Mountain was occupied by Taoism at that time. When Buddhism was first introduced into China, only a few people practiced it. In the second year of BC, Yi Cun, the envoy of the King of Dayue State (a minority in the Ili Valley in western Xinjiang, China, which was established after moving westward to Central Asia), came to Chang 'an (now Xi 'an), the capital of China at that time. He dictated Buddhist scriptures to a doctoral disciple named Lu Jing, which is the earliest record of Buddhism being introduced into China in China history books. Buddhism was introduced into Wutai Mountain, which generally began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to historical records, in December of the 10th year of Yongping (AD 67), the messenger sent by Emperor Han Ming to the Western Regions to seek dharma came to Luoyang with two Indian monks Morton and Zhu Falan. In the 11th year of Yongping, a temple was built for these two Indian monks in the west of Luoyang, south of Yong Men. To commemorate the White Horse Negative Sutra (Chapter 42 Sutra), it was named White Horse Temple. In the 11th year of Yongping, Mo Teng and Zhu Falan came to Wutai Mountain (then called Liang Qing) from Luoyang. They wanted to build a temple here because there was a pagoda of Asoka on the mountain for a long time, and Wutai Mountain was also the place where Manjusri Bodhisattva lectured, but because Wutai Mountain was a Taoist base at that time, it was quite crowded out, so they learned about Emperor Han Ming. In order to distinguish Buddhism from Taoism, the Han court invited monks and Taoists to perform, explain and verify, so the two sides reached an agreement to burn scriptures to distinguish the authenticity (it is said that the place where scriptures were burned is in Xi 'an today). As a result, all the Taoist scriptures were burned, but the Buddhist scriptures were intact, so they got the right to build temples. There are many mountains and rivers in Taiwan Province, where is it suitable to build temples? "Liang Qingshan Zhi" contains: "On the left side of the Great Buddha Pagoda, there are footprints left by Sakyamuni Buddha, which are one foot six inches long and six inches wide, with thousands of wheels and ten fingers." According to legend, they not only found this footprint, but also found the Buddha's "relic". In addition, Fangying Village has majestic mountains and extraordinary weather, which is similar to the Indian spiritual jiusan (the practice place of Sakyamuni Buddha). For these three reasons, we decided to build a temple here. After the temple was completed, it was named Lingjiu Temple after the mountain shape. Liu Zhuang, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, added the word "Dafu" (meaning "Hong Xin") to express his belief in Buddhism, so the full name of the completed temple is Dafu Lingjiu Temple. Dafu Lingjiu Temple is the predecessor of Xiantong Temple. Since then, Wutai Mountain has become the center of Buddhism in China. The Dafuling Vulture Temple in Wutai Mountain and the Baima Temple in Luoyang are the earliest temples in China. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the development of Buddhism in Wutai Mountain reached its first climax. Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty expanded the Lingjiu Temple on a large scale, and built twelve monasteries around it, such as Mountain View Temple and Rong Zhen Temple. During the Northern Qi Dynasty, the number of temples in Wutai Mountain soared to more than 200. In the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wendi wrote to build a temple in each of the five terraces. Namely Wanghai Temple in Dongtai, Fosaiji Temple in Nantai, Farei Temple in Xitai, Ling Ying Temple in Beitai and Yanjiao Temple in Zhongtai. Because Mount Wutai is the place where Manjusri Bodhisattva lectured, all the temples on the top of Wutai are dedicated to Manjusri Bodhisattva, but the names of the five Manjusri Bodhisattva are different: Wanghai Temple in Dongtai is a wise Manjusri Bodhisattva, Fuzhai Temple in Nantai is a wise Manjusri Bodhisattva, Farei Temple in Xitai is a lion Manjusri Bodhisattva, Ling Ying Temple in Beitai is a spotless Manjusri Bodhisattva, and Manjusri Bodhisattva in Zhongtai is a child. From then on, anyone who goes to Wutai Mountain to worship will go to the five temples at the top of the platform to worship. This is the so-called pilgrimage to Taiwan Province. At this time, the name of Wutai Mountain has appeared in a large number of history books in the Northern Qi Dynasty. During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the development of Buddhism in Wutai Mountain reached its second climax. According to Gu Chuan, during this period, there were as many as 300 monasteries in the whole mountain with more than 3,000 monks. At this time, Wutai Mountain is not only one of the famous Buddhist mountains in China, but also a veritable Buddhist holy land, which is known as the first of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China.

Wutai Mountain is a summer resort, the first of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China, and has just been listed as a world cultural heritage. The scenery is very good, especially after the rain, the vegetation on the mountain is green, the clouds are lingering on it, and the air is beautiful, so you can feel it.