Taiyuan Ancient Eight Scenes Taiyuan, a famous cultural city with a history of 2,500 years, was the economic and cultural center of China in ancient times. People say that the scenery in Shanxi is good, and the ancient eight scenic spots in Taiyuan are even more famous all over the world, so Taiyuan has been a place that literati yearn for since ancient times. In ................................................................................................, the "Lingxiao Twin Towers" is regarded as one of the eight scenic spots in ancient Taiyuan. Its influence is so great that even the temple's real name "Shuangta Temple" is little known and has been replaced by "Shuangta Temple". Lingxiao Twin Towers is the tallest building in Taiyuan's existing ancient buildings. It is like a pair of twin sisters, which set each other off and attract every guest who comes to Taiyuan to travel and pass by. Lingxiao Twin Towers, also has a beautiful nickname-writing twin peaks. Historically, many politicians, thinkers and poets who set foot in Taiyuan were amazed by the twin towers of Lingxiao. Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, once praised it. Li Weizhen, one of the seven great literati in the south of the Yangtze River in Ming Dynasty, once recited poems for him. Fu Shan, a famous thinker and artist in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, painted for him. General Yang Chengwu, the famous general of the New China People's Liberation Army, spent a lot of money on this; ..... The list goes on. For hundreds of years, most people cherish the "Lingxiao Twin Towers" of the Twin Towers Temple as artistic treasures and cultural relics. However, it is better to study its story and the reasons for its emergence. These twin sister towers, one is Wenfeng Pagoda built first, and the other is Buddha Pagoda built later. Not only were they not built at the same time, but they were completely different in nature. The so-called "Wenfeng Pagoda" is a Feng Shui Pagoda, that is, a symbolic and ornamental building with superstitious colors in feudal society, where local gentry supplement topographic defects and revitalize regional culture. Although its shape is taken from the floating picture of Buddhism, it has nothing to do with Buddhism and its teachings. "stupa" is a sacred object of Buddhism, a religious building dedicated to Buddhist relics and Buddhist scriptures, and is respected and worshipped by Buddhist disciples. This is the difference between the "Lingxiao Han Pagoda" of the Twin Towers Temple, which is close at hand and far away. Mount Juewei, one of the eight ancient scenic spots, is located 24 kilometers northwest of the city. The mountains are steep, the pines and cypresses are everywhere, the mountain flowers are brilliant, and Qiu Lai is full of red leaves. "Rising red leaves" is one of the famous scenery in Taiyuan. On the top of the mountain are the Duofu Temple and the Seven Pagodas, and there are temple murals and Fumo in the temple. Juewei Mountain Scenic Area is close to the urban area and has a pleasant climate. This is a place for tourists to visit and relax. Each scenic spot in the scenic spot has its own characteristics and the roads extend in all directions. The beaches and famous foods near the scenic spot have Shanxi characteristics and flavors, which are very attractive. In late autumn, the most beautiful scenery here is surrounded by red leaves. Since ancient times, the best place to watch the red leaves in Sanjin is in the most concentrated place of the red leaves in Juewei Mountain. Whenever late autumn comes, under the bright sunshine, the red leaves all over the mountains, like fire, like red waves, like red clouds, like Xia Zi, make Mount Juewei particularly enchanting. Juewei Hongye is one of the eight ancient scenic spots in Taiyuan and one of the top ten scenic spots in China. This plant is cotinus coggygria, a wild shrub. After September, its leaves will turn from green to yellow, then from yellow to red, and finally to deep red. Before it runs out, it will show its most beautiful color. Mr Fu Shan loved red leaves all his life. He invited Gu Heyan, a famous scholar in Qing Dynasty, to come here. Mr Fu Shan has a soft spot for red leaves. I think Mr. Wang used to walk in the mountains, intoxicated and addicted to this colorful color. "Young Hugh want to lean on chardonnay, a cold show provoking here. Spring and autumn can be old, and frosty leaves are spent in Zhen Hong in February. "It can be said that Mr. Fu Shan's preference for red leaves is consistent with his independent, cold autumn, lofty and detached personality. If the autumn leaves stained with frost are redder, which represents Fu Shan's character, then "stopping to sit in the maple forest late, the frost is more red than February" shows people's true love for red leaves. For hundreds of years, every autumn when geese fly south, people from Bingzhou invariably walk into this red cloud-covered mountain and the picture of the eight ancient scenes. The third picture is Silent Temple, where Mr. Fu Shan lives in seclusion in Mount Juewei. This ancient temple was built in the Northern Qi Dynasty, rebuilt in five years in Jintaihe, and rebuilt in Ming and Qing Dynasties. According to the records in Rebuilding the Attic of the Land Hall in the 20th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty, the earth mountain here collapsed and cracked into a cave in the Han Dynasty, and the mound in the cave was as high as 30 meters, like a Buddha statue. The local people said that the landslide was a Buddha, so they built a temple here. Because it is the pure land of Buddhism, the local people also call the Silent Temple the Big Buddha Temple. The giant Buddha in the temple is 9.46 meters high, with a dignified sitting posture and a serene expression. It is the largest native Buddha in China at present. Silent Temple, located in Tutang Village, Taiyuan City, was founded in Northern Qi Dynasty. The temple is divided into two parts: the front yard has the Heavenly King Hall and the East Attached Hall, the middle part is separated by hanging flower doors, and the backyard has the Lohan Hall and the Dizang Hall. On the west side of the temple site, there is a double-eaved pavilion built for one Buddha and two bodhisattvas on the cliff during Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. The ancient cypress beside the temple grows strangely, and the "strange cypress in the earth hall" is a scene in Taiyuan. The "strange cypress in the earthen pond" in Jingying Temple is also one of the eight famous scenic spots in Taiyuan. I don't know if Mr. Fu Shan's favorite strange cypress refers to them, so where is this strange cypress in the earthen pond because of its strange tree shape? For other reasons, no one can tell, but a local folklore is very interesting. It is said that there was a cypress forest around the Silent Temple in those days, and the cypresses grew very luxuriantly, but no one could count the number of cypresses. A general with thousands of troops came here, and he tried to count these cypresses clearly. He counted day and night, and put a note on the counted cypress trees as a mark. However, when I came here the next day, I found that there were still many cypress trees without notes, so this cypress forest was amazing. Unfortunately, we can't see this cypress forest now. We can only appreciate the charm of the strange cypress in the earthen pond through imagination. Simengshi Cold Spring is located in Lancun Village, 20 kilometers northwest of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, on the left side of Fenhe Canyon. The mountain temple stands on the wall, the brook is gurgling, the ancient cypress in the temple is green and the temple is majestic. Dou Shu, a doctor in the state of Jin, pronounced himself calf, and made a fief in Taiyuan. He once opened a canal to promote profits, and later generations set up a shrine here to worship. The shrine is under the fierce stone mountain, so it is also called the fierce stone shrine. In June of the eighth year of Song Yuanfeng, the temple was flooded by water, and the tunnel moved northward for reconstruction. Historic sites have been left over from generation to generation. The existing doors, pavilions and halls were rebuilt in the third year of Yuan Dynasty (1343), and some of them still retain the Song and Jin styles. On the other hand, the Zhongxian Pavilion is very large, and the back eaves column has been replaced by the Ming Gallery column in the main hall. The structure is concise and rigorous, which is rare in Jin and Yuan dynasties. The clear spring next to the temple spewed out from the cliff of Mengshi Mountain, crystal clear, and countless fish were swimming. Because of the low water temperature, it is called "cold spring". It complements the ancient temple of Cangbai, showing elegance. "Mengshi Cold Spring" is one of the scenic spots in Taiyuan. Wutian Gate Xueshuang Longquan and Qianshu Valley, the eight ancient scenic spots, are all places of interest near Jinyang, the northern capital. Shuanglongquan is the south and north Longquan in the northwest of Yangqu County, Taiyuan City. The two springs are only 500 meters apart, with rolling mountains and trees. There is a Daanji by the spring, which was built in the early Tang Dynasty. There is a pagoda in the temple, commonly known as "Tang Priest Pagoda", which was the place where Master Xuanzang handed down scriptures during the Zhenguan period. Thousand (Insect Shu) Valley is a canyon in the northwest of Taiyuan. In ancient times, it was a tunnel connecting Jinyang with northwest countries, and its east entrance was the famous Tianmen Pass. Yang Di once opened up traffic and built a plank road here, hence the name Sunshine Road. The cliffs here are steep and the valleys are deep. "Tianmen Snow" is one of the eight scenic spots in ancient Jinyang. At that time, the secretariat of Bing built a plank road and a red road to the north under the steep cliff and deep valley of Tianmen Pass, which was called the road in history. At that time, Yang Guang, the emperor of Yang Di who traveled northward for the third time, set out from Jinyang, and from this equator, led 100,000 officials and maids to visit Fenyang Palace in Tianchi, Ningwu, and lived there for five months. Fenhe River, the sixth of the eight ancient scenes, crossed the mountain in the evening, crowned it with sunset, and came back like ants. The middle stream rolls and paddles, and geese fly on the sand. Looking back at the cross-flow and jubilant autumn, who could not worry at that time? Where is the flute and drum of today's ship? Polygonum cuspidatum goes to Bai Ou every year. In addition to natural scenery, the ancients paid more attention to artistic conception. Because of this, the late crossing of Fenhe River became one of the eight scenic spots in Taiyuan in Qing Dynasty. Author of this poem: Zhang Yi, a poet in Ming Dynasty. Crowd like ants: it means people are crowded at the ferry. Midstream: In the middle of the river. Scroll: Onomatopoeia, here refers to the sound of sculling. Sand boundary: sand edge. Cross-flow Amusement Autumn: refers to the event that Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, visited Fenhe River. Hey: compared to. Polygonum cuspidatum: Polygonum cuspidatum with red flowers. Down: down. Seven of the Eight Ancient Scenery Mengshan Xiaoyue Mengshan is about 20 kilometers southwest of Taiyuan, Sidi Village, north of Jinci Temple. The main peak is1325m high, and Mengshan xiao yue is one of the eight ancient scenic spots in Taiyuan. In the second year of Tianbao (55 1), Emperor Levin of the Northern Qi Dynasty expanded the Great Zhuang Yan Temple in the Eastern Wei Dynasty into Kaihua Temple, and carved a 200-foot-high Cliff Buddha, which is called Xishan Buddha, slightly higher than Leshan Buddha, and is the largest Buddha statue in China at present. During the reign of Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty, a new Pigai Buddha Pavilion was built. Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian came here to worship Buddha and give robes in the palace. Due to the collapse of the temple, the giant Buddha was submerged in the ruins, and only the chest and neck were seen. The chest width was 25m, the height was17.5m, and the neck diameter was 5m. Mengshan is connected to the top of Mount Tai in the south and Yu Ye and Hua Kai Valley in the north. Limestone mountain and white sand layer. From Kaihuayu to Niujiakou, south of Jinci, the carbonate exposed section is called "underground waterway" (Jinci Spring Fault Zone), which is the main drainage channel of groundwater in Xishan area. About three kilometers long, there are northeast faults in the north of the mountain and east faults in the south of Sidi Village in the middle of the mountain plain. Economic forest trees include Pinus bungeana, Platycladus orientalis, Betula platyphylla and Hippophae rhamnoides. There are claw fence, Bupleurum and other Chinese herbal medicines. Wild ducks, pheasants, eagles and tits fly in the bushes, wild boar, rabbits and roe deer haunt the mountains, and Mengshan is rich in coal, bluestone, lime, gypsum and refractory soil. At the same time, the Hua Kai Valley at the foot of Mengshan Mountain has a traditional pottery firing process since ancient times. Mengshan is one of the eight scenic spots in ancient Taiyuan County, which was called "Mengshan Xiaoyue" in ancient times. Mengshan is a treasure trove of geomantic omen. Since ancient times, emperors and generals have come to Mengshan to build temples and dig holes to make buddhas. According to the historical records, "I took Liu Kun, plundered Jinyang people, and fled over Mengshan to the west." In 55 1 year, the Western Mountain Buddha was carved at Mengyang Mountain in Northern Qi Dynasty in Levin, Wen Xuandi. The Queen Gao Wei of Northern Qi Dynasty carved the Western Mountain of Jinyang into a giant Buddha, "burning ten thousand pots of oil overnight, shining on the palace". The place where the Buddha statue is located is the ancient Dayan Temple. Prior to this, the monks in the Eastern Wei Dynasty practiced the Pure Land Sect, and the Eastern Wei Dynasty honored the emperor and ordered him to live in the Bingzhou Temple. Japan's Pure Land Sect is recorded as "Bingyou Dayan Temple", which is here. Levin in Northern Qi donated money to build Kaihua Temple, and Daochuo, a monk in Sui Dynasty, was the teacher of Kaihua Temple. This is the early Dojo of Pure Land Sect of Buddhism. Yang Zhong, the father of Emperor Emperor Wen of Sui of the Sui Dynasty, was a general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. He led troops to fight against Beiqi in Mengshan. Therefore, Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty built a shrine for his father, Yang Zhongjian, in the second year (582), which was called "Temple of Emperor Wu Yuan" and later called "Shengshouguan". In the first year of Renshou (60 1), Yang Jun, king of Sui and Qin Dynasties, supported Master Huizan to build a giant Buddha pavilion for the "Jinyang Xishan Giant Buddha" carved in the Northern Qi Dynasty. Tang Liyuan and Li Shimin worship Buddha in Jinyang. Tang Gaozong, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian celebrated five years (660). Fortunately, Jinyang worships (this temple and Longshan Tongzi Temple in the south for more than ten miles pay tribute to the Buddha in the second temple). The following year, they sent envoys to give Buddhist robes, and "there are thousands of people with colorful lights, mountains and rivers, and customs" caused a sensation in Bingzhou. Li Keyong, King of Jin Dynasty in the late Tang Dynasty, rebuilt the pavilion and spent 300,000 workers in five years. During the Five Dynasties and the Jin Dynasty, King Peiping stayed in Liu Zhiyuan, a temple in Beijing, and rebuilt Zhuangyan Pavilion, with a height of 130 rooms and a total of five floors. In the Northern Han Dynasty, Liu Jiyuan built a Summer Palace at the top of Mengshan Mountain and a royal bridge in Huakai Valley. In the Song Dynasty, the Jet Li Tower was built in Mengshan, Si Qian, Hua Kai. In addition, there is Ganquan Temple in Mengshan, which was built in the second year of Tiantong in the Northern Qi Dynasty (566). The oldest lake in Taiyuan is Wenying Lake, a children's park. Wenying Lake is two pieces of stagnant water gradually formed by rain in the southeast half after the expansion of Taiyuan City in Ming Dynasty. At that time, it was called Haiziyan, where Chen Yongfu, the Ministry of Li Zicheng, executed 1000 members of the Ming royal family. Two pieces of water in Haiziyan were penetrated in Qing Dynasty, and it was named Wenying Lake because it was close to Gong Yuan, which became one of the eight scenic spots in old Taiyuan. When Dr. Sun Yat-sen came to Taiyuan in 19 12, he gave a speech to people from all walks of life at Wenying Lake. Since then, it has been named Wenying Park, Zhongshan Park, Xinmin Park and People's Park, and finally named Children's Park with 1982.