Lotus Mountain Scenic Area is located in Laiwu City, 15 kilometers south of the town of Gaozhuang area. Altitude of 994 meters, the scenic area of 17 square kilometers, the top of the mountain to the water as a boundary, the northern foot of Laiwu, the southern foot belongs to the Xintai. There are buses directly, the transportation is very convenient.
Lotus Mountain because the Han Emperor visited the immortal to this, built on the top of the mountain "to welcome the immortal Palace", so it is also known as Palace Mountain. There are thirty-six hills and seventy-two deep valleys. The main hills are Xinfu Mountain, Wanzhang Cliff, Jiming Mountain, Tianzhu Peak, Xiangfu Mountain and Lotus Point. Because of the mountains arched around the lotus flower, the tip is like a lotus flower, so it is called Lotus Hill. For Laiwu City, the first high mountain.
Lotus Mountain peaks abruptly, through the clouds and sky, majestic, magnificent, the mountain jagged rocks, gullies and ravines, strange rocky caves, high waterfalls and dangerous pools abound, can be described as a change of scenery. Mountain pine and cypress, flowers and trees, gorgeous scenery, rich in historical and cultural relics, the famous "Palace Mountain Sunset" and will soon be completed 100 meters of the giant statue of Goddess of Mercy, the top of the lake - the South China Sea, will become Laiwu and even Shandong's unique landscape. "Laiwu landscape Grand View Garden, Qilu first Guanyin" Lotus Hill is a veritable ecological and Fei cultural tourism highlights.
Lotus Mountain has now built a 6-meter-wide highway 10 miles, building climbing steps 3000 meters. There are three major scenic spots, *** more than 120 attractions, consisting of lotus stalk valley, magic valley, sky waterfall valley, Baiyunling.
Lotus Terrier Valley, because the mountain valley curved like a stalk and hold up the top of the lotus flower and named. Valley waterfalls and springs, wildflowers, birds, a different world. Wash the heart of the pool means to wash the heart of the dust, began to step into the Buddha's purity of the meaning of the first view into the mountain. Lotus door, carved on the lotus pattern, carved under the Chinese character "door", a special meaning; group of lions out of the mountain, the turtle probing the head, the path of the book rock, the protector of the door and other strange stones but wonderful vivid. Drip silver ridge, bright as silver under the Chung, magnificent. Jade Lady pool, legend has it that the Han emperor's daughter Xiaoyu adore this pool quiet and bathe in this pool, the pool stone wall with a natural girl nude bathing statue. Jade Maiden Waterfall is about twenty meters high. Flying flowers broken jade in the majesty of the soft beauty. Continue forward, the road has two doors: one is said to be "love door", the second is said to be "wealth and happiness door", visitors can choose one of them, only go a door, showing a philosophy of life, meaning "fish and bear's paw can't get both! ", intriguing. Tianmen, Weihe towering, imposing and beautiful, green and verdant inside the door, like a dream, giving people unlimited reverie, inspire people to enter the door to see the desire for a quick. Tianmen waterfall hanging high on the mountainside, flowing straight down, broken jade stacked beads, the scenery is very attractive. Under the waterfall there is a huge stone, said "waterfall pillar", after a thousand years of impact, smooth and white, so that people are enlightened. Along the steps up is the Dragon King Temple, there are three pools and three waterfalls, really three waterfalls into a string, three pools even beads, people tired of eliminating, and excited. Red Rock Bay and Red Rock Waterfall has a touching story. Legend has it that Emperor Wu of Han bi bi Lotus Hill "Palace", his daughter Xiaoyu obsessed with the mountain color to play around, this day in the "Millennium Elm" on the swing, because of the mountain wind, the daughter of an embroidered red shoes scraped down to this, and then the stones here become red, so called Red Rock Bay. It is said that on auspicious days, if you stand under the red stone waterfall, virtuous people can see the beautiful silhouette of Xiaoyu from the waterfall phantom. Ancient Monument Valley, there is a cliff monument, because of the long years, the handwriting is fuzzy and difficult to recognize, waiting for the insightful people into the mountains to decipher. It is said that this is the site of the Hanging Temple. The story of the Hanging Temple is particularly fascinating. Legend has it that there is an old man in the temple, accompanied by two children, one day the old man to find a friend to play chess back to the temple, see a white child and two children playing, after the old man asked the two children children who are the children are answered do not know, the old man asked the two children: the children to come back to sneak in when he was bolted to the body of the red line, tomorrow, the old man to go along with the line and found that it is a thousand years of ginseng, has been able to transform the human form. The old road dug out back to the temple stew, go about friends *** to taste, the results of the two children due to the pot of ginseng strange aroma unbearable, a taste and can not be collected, when the master heard back, afraid of being blamed for the remaining ginseng even soup splashed off, the whole temple immediately soared into the air and went. This is the origin of the Hanging Temple. Only hit the rice of the ancient stone mortar at the site of the stone beams, waiting silently to this day ......
Den Ladder, over the Lotus Flying Waterfall, that is, up to the Lotus South China Sea. The first alpine lakes in Shandong, the top of the bucket giant Guanyin statue, and called the "South China Sea", the South China Sea area of 16,400 square meters, a total water storage capacity of 180,000 cubic meters, the top of the blue sky, white clouds, green trees, Guanyin, temples reflecting the lake, constituting the unique lakes and mountains of Lotus Hill, sinking the water rowing, fishing, swimming, and other recreation in one; watch the "Gongshan sunset", "radar majestic" in one place, set Lotus Village leisure, vacation in a village, this, how leisurely and happy!
Den Lotus top Laiwu Xintai as far as the eye can see, walk the cloud road, visit the Luzhong alpine radar, see the Lotus Mountain before the aircraft lift. At that time you will experience the true meaning of "infinite scenery".
Baiyunling Scenic Spot: Baiyunling is named after the white rocks of the mountain range, which are like white clouds. Here, the terrain is gentle and deep, but a lot of stone scenery, the famous stone grandmother, according to legend, the nearby villagers worship stone for godmother, can eliminate disasters and diseases for people, may be this time the stone can set the essence of heaven and earth, gathering the sun and the moon due to the spirit of the gas. Seals ask the sky, but also exquisite, very flavorful. Ancient apes look at the sky, the top of the mountain there are huge rocks rising, like ancient apes and monkeys, seem to be looking at the sky, if you think, extremely realistic.
Tianzhuayu scenic area: its famous "frozen frozen platform" waterfalls, waterfalls more than 300 meters long, summer flash floods, like the Milky Way hanging upside down, waterfalls from the sky, like a dragon out of the mountain, swinging his head, swallowing clouds, roaring tumbling, to split the mountain shaking the momentum of the Lotus Mountain, it is really shocking. Winter waterfall into a crystal ice, silver cold shadow, look like inlaid lotus mountain in the sky mirror, very strange and magnificent.
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Lotus Hill in Gansu
Lotus Hill has a long history, rich in ancient cultural relics, from a large number of monuments in the historical evidence, as early as the early Ming Dynasty here for the Taoist-Buddhist mountain, in the long history of the evolution of the long river, created a glorious culture. Now there are more than 50 surviving cultural relics and monuments, the main ones are as follows:
Lotus Treasure Hall
Lotus Treasure Hall: Lotus Treasure Hall is located in Tangfangtan, according to the scale of the Heavenly Palace, the layout is reasonable, the building is majestic. Because of the frequent wars in Longyi, often by fire, between Qianlong, Taozhou Shi Zi Yang Xianyun (No. hole bear) about the collection of the nearby body letter Zhi, chemical recruitment and construction, before and after a few years, so that the Lotus Hill, "full of color, a new." The original construction of the Buddhist Temple "Lotus Treasure Hall" was destroyed in 1943, 1991 built a new "Lotus Treasure Hall", the temple was built on the mountain, hidden in the greenery, from a distance there is indeed "deep hiding ancient temple "The wonderful interest of the valley to clouds, birds and birds seem to be in an ancient Buddhist temple. Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the National Buddhist Association, Zhao Puchu inscribed "Lotus Temple" four-letter plaque, Gansu Provincial Calligraphy Association, Lai Quan inscribed "Lotus Temple" hanging above the main door, celebrity calligraphers write plaques, couplets for the Lotus Temple has added color and interest. Appearance of the temple Department of the former volume after hiatus nine Zagiao (including the meaning of the Lotus Peak) structure, the depth of the hall 5, width 5 sets of 9 rooms, building area of 330 square meters. Surrounded by eaves corridor, high masonry stone base, using Tibetan and Chinese art decoration, symbolizing national unity, profound, structural excellence, carved beams and paintings, flowers and algae painting, making excellent, engraved with five lions, double elephants for the sky, the Eight Immortals to celebrate longevity, plum, orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums, qin and chess, peach pomegranate Buddha's hand with the same two dragons playing beads, the phoenix and sunrise, bats and grapes, etc. rich in mythological allegory of the characters paintings and auspicious motifs. Inside the hall, colorful sculpture of Shakyamuni, Yakushi, Ami, Maitreya Buddha and coercive services of the Bodhisattva, the protector of the pack and other statues, the demeanor of the end of the benevolent, lifelike, wearing celluloid beads, all over the body of the golden light. Whenever the temple fair, good men and women into the mountain pilgrimage, the smoke curls, adding to the charm.
Balang temple wall
Located in Ga Lang bridge south of 2 kilometers, is the legacy of Tibetan Buddhist culture in this, murals in the high 30M wide 40M or so on the cliff, well-preserved, colorful, the content of the main Buddha, including Shakyamuni, Maitreya, Yakshi, Amitabha, the third Buddha, the seventh Buddha, etc.; Bodhisattvas such as Goddess of Mercy, Manjushri, Puxian, Seije, Jizo, co-servant, feed the bodhisattva, etc. The disciples are Ananda, Gaya, ten disciples and Lohan, which are neatly and orderly arranged on top of the cliffs, and are extremely rich in content, which can be roughly divided into venerable statue paintings, sutra change paintings, story paintings, feeder paintings, and paintings of Buddhist historical sites.
Lotus Mountain iron tile
The earliest seen in the Ming Dynasty, "Kangle County Records" records: "Ming Dynasty Lotus Mountain cast iron tile, iron tile 60CM long, about 15CM wide, casting text said: Jiajing twenty-three years of the river state blame Township Chen Wenwu dedication tile twenty pieces of" words, the word for the regular script with scribe, the brushstrokes Road, is the construction of the Qing Dynasty! Huashan golden roof of the ancestor of the temple ridge with tile. Lotus mountain iron tile is now able to see the few historical witnesses, enough to prove the glorious culture of lotus mountain.
Wu Jiaan stone carving
In the turn of the attic behind the ten thousand feet cliff there is a stone cave, within the stone wall carved with eighteen statues of Buddha, the center of RuLai, other difficult to distinguish, according to the examination, is the end of the Sui dynasty Tang dynasty carved.
Golden Top
According to legend, this hall was originally built in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasty, the first year of Zhenguan (628) was completed. The original hall is a turn of three four zhangjiao, exquisite workmanship, structural tight, iron tile roof, glazed animal ridge, four corners of the sky, is the Lotus Mountain high building of a pretty one, really "white rock roof embedded house, over the sky pavilions, clouds high micro dew, just like a picture." Inside the temple color sculpture northern Zhenwu ancestor mixing nine days of ten thousand law god XuanTianJinQue God swings the devil zun, turtle snake two will, pang, Liu, Gou, Bi four big spiritual officer.
Jiudianxia ancient trestle
In Jiudianxia cliffs, there is an existing and pass the ancient trestle, according to evidence, built in the Sui and Tang dynasties, is the ancient Silk Road to Taomin the main trade routes, and then rebuilt.
Lotus Hill Monumental Forest
Lotus Hill Forest Park Tangfangtan scenic area there are modern celebrities left behind the ink treasure, monumental carvings, account joints and gift of 117 pieces of rhetoric. Among them, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the National Buddhist Association President Zhao Puchu in the Lotus Mountain gate above the inscription of the "Lotus Mountain, the first door" five big words, the former Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Mr. Yu Guimin, wrote "Long on the thirty springs, Lotus Mountain, a hundred times line. With the people * * * to build the industry, to benefit the later," the poem is included in the famous calligrapher Lifan's stone "Lotus Hill Tablet Forest Preface" in the Chinese Calligraphy Association Chairman Shen Peng, Hebei Provincial Calligraphy Association Chairman Tao Fo Xie, the former Vice Premier of the Chu Tunan, the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Taiwan Gu Gu Gu Qi Shangyong, Hong Kong calligrapher Tan Shunji, and so on 72 Chinese and foreign celebrities and ink artists 118 handwritten monuments, but also for the Lotus Hill Add an infinite ink poetry, improve the taste of tourism.