Longtan Mountain is a place where many friends may not be very clear about where it is, in fact, it is also a great tourist attraction.
Where is Longtan MountainLongtan District, Jilin City, Longshan Road (east bank of the Songhua River)
With Zuqiao Mountain's steep and strange different, with the Jilin City, one of the four famous mountain Longtan Mountain more than a few points of seclusion and heavy historical and cultural atmosphere. On June 10th, which is not yet a full month after the return of Zhujiao, our "Hiking 100%" fitness club came to Longtan Mountain again in a cloudy weather.
This day coincided with the start of the 2018 Jilin International Marathon, which was themed "Happy Horse River City Embracing Landscape", and whose route was 100% along the river, which is a perfect fit for the Manchu name of the city of "Jilin". Walking along Longshan Road on the banks of the Songhua River, we were fortunate to see enthusiastic runners coming from Longtan Bridge, surrounded by a jam of spectators, with occasional bursts of applause and cheering, which was very lively. Whether inside or outside the field, people are in different ways to vent their own part of the joy.
From the feng shui point of view, Longtan Mountain is one of the four famous mountains, "the left dragon", the mountain is not large, dense forest cover, Longtan Mountain is like a green dragon coiled in the banks of the Songhua River.
Since the Longshan Road, looking south, a book with the words "Longtanshan Ruins Park" tall gate standing in front of the eyes, the gate is imitation of the style of pre-Qin architecture, simple and heavy, extraordinary temperament.
I and Qingge race to find the ticket office to buy tickets, to our surprise, in recent years, Longtanshan, Beishan and other city parks actually do not charge any admission.
Inside the courtyard, we were immediately infected by a strong local cultural atmosphere. Whether it is the square in front of the people dancing or practicing figure skating amateurs, and even the west side of the second floor of a small dog probing the head to watch the tourists, have highlighted the park's incomparable vitality.
Front of the square on the west side of a group of relief wall, eight pieces of relief from south to north in order to show the city of Jilin from the Neolithic era of knife farming to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the genesis of the Manchurian regime for thousands of years of the vicissitudes of wind and rain, a strong sense of history comes to the fore.
Square center, a giant bronze sword standing diagonally on a tall pedestal, look at the description of the sword for the 1981 excavation of the Han Fuyu country when the relics of the "back to the double bird head" model of the bronze sword. In the open plaza, the sword leaning against the sky and stand, looks incomparably cool and lonely, let a person's heart heroic Dengsheng. When I was about to take a picture of Chun Mu near the sword, a middle-aged man playing roller skating came and kindly told me that it was not appropriate to take pictures with people under the sword. I suddenly remembered some taboos in our traditional culture about taking photos, such as not taking photos with monuments, not taking photos with graves, not taking photos with temples, not taking photos with old trees and old houses, not taking photos with Buddha statues and holy images, etc. Folklore is that if one breaks the rules, it will bring all kinds of misfortune to the person who takes the photo. I was just thinking of the sword's function of warding off evil spirits, thus ignoring these taboos, thanked me, and then came east to the Qing Gaozong (Emperor Qianlong) Dengzai monument. Tablet in the nineteenth year of Qianlong (1754) Qianlong Emperor's eastern tour to this sacrifice Longtan, sealing the sacred tree, visit the white masters of the action.
South side of the square, a huge bas-relief more comprehensive display of the history of the Jin Dynasty since the rise of the northeast. The center of the relief, holding a bow and arrows of the female Genghis Khan's national hero Bonyta across the steed, majestic, looking down on the world. Atmospheric relief, looking at the northeast people, especially the Manchu people's sense of national pride.
Following Qianlong's Royal Road, we soon arrived at the site of the ancient city wall.
The main reason why Longtan Mountain was made into a ruins park is that the mountain holds the ruins of a Goguryeo mountain fortress from more than 1,500 years ago. The Goguryeo regime began in 37 B.C. (during the Western Han Dynasty) and ended in 668 A.D. (in the early Tang Dynasty), and in its heyday, its sphere of influence included southeastern Jilin, east of the Liao River and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. It was once one of the more influential minority regimes in Northeast China and played an important role in the historical development of Northeast Asia.
The traces of the ancient city wall are not very clear today, except on both sides of the mountain road there are more abrupt high packs, we climbed up, did not find anything in which can be associated with the history and the ancient people, but see the wall site of the low-lying area, there are traces of tourists as a makeshift toilets.
A few dozen meters below the ancient city wall is the famous landscape of Longtan Mountain, "Water Jail", Water Jail that is, "Longtan", Longtan Mountain is named after this. After examination, Longtan is Goguryeo era (another said for the Liao and Jin dynasties) soldiers guarding the mountain city to use the mountain springs to build a backup reservoir. Regardless of the weather drought and flood, the water level in the pool does not change much, through countless summer and winter has never dried up. Legend has it that the subdued dragon was chained to the bottom of the pool, and the existing chain is tied to the trunk of a tree next to the pool, and the other end hangs deep down to the bottom of the pool. Next to the tree stood a book with "eight scenes of Jilin - Longtan Yin Yue" monument, in fact, if it is not subdued this beautiful legend of the evil dragon and Qianlong came here to worship, in front of this is not a big square pool really can not say what beautiful scenery. This shows that many ordinary things in the world, once linked with the legend and celebrities, will greatly add to its mystery, raise its popularity.
The mountain turns around, we came to the mountain of the Longfeng Temple, the temple is a combination of Guanyin Hall, Guandi Temple, Mile Temple and other small-scale temples. Compared to the northern mountain of the temple's incense, here to pay a visit to the good men and women are very few, and did not see half of the monks and nuns, which makes the temple to restore the original Buddhist quiet.
We continue to move forward, because the slope of the mountain road is gentle, we have no trouble stepping on the newly repaired trestle to the highest point of Longtan Mountain Nantianmen. It's the highest point, but it's actually just 388.3 meters above sea level. Nantianmen was originally Goguryeo mountain city of the south platform, climbed here, looking out, Jilin city as far as the eye can see. But after all, the mountain's elevation is slightly lower, the distant view and photo shoots are far less than the Jubilee Mountain. On the north side of the square, the tall three-story double-eaved landscape pavilion Qinglong Pavilion rises up, climbed to the view of the perspective must be good. However, it is disappointing that the pavilion is under repair and not yet open. South of the square there is a monument to the site of the Resistance League, unfortunately, the monument has been mottled, inscribed inscription is also really not complimentary. Nantianmen area is more concentrated tourists, people either leaning on the fence, enjoy the beautiful scenery of the river city, or choose to sit on the trestle to take a break, leisure and easy life. According to our initial plan, like the last time we climbed Vermilion Bird Mountain in the top of the name to enjoy the scenery. However, we searched for half a day, but also failed to find an elegant and quiet place to drink tea, had to regret to bring the tea set and boiling water back down.
On the way down, we passed by another famous landscape of Longtan Mountain, the "Dry Jail". "Dry prison" for a diameter of more than ten meters deep six meters deep pit, and "water prison" of never dry the opposite, "dry prison" for years and years without water. Folklore has it that the "Dry Jail" is a place to hold prisoners, but in reality it is a cellar for storing military supplies.
After climbing here, my thoughts went back to the morning 24 years ago when Qingyi and I traveled here under the guidance of Master Wang Zhenmin, a chemical engineer from Ji'an, we met by chance in Changbai Mountain in the middle of the sea of people, but Master Wang was able to treat us with all the warmth he could muster, and I have always believed that this chance encounter was the most beautiful encounter I have ever experienced in my life. The warmth and touching feelings we had are still vivid in my mind, forever engraved in the depths of my memory. Whenever I remember, I am always grateful.
Wishing all those who are watching or running around on the journey of life all the best!