From Jurong White Rabbit drive to Nanjing Niushoushan as long as an hour's drive, to go to the whole more than 90 kilometers, the road condition all the way through, about 10:00 am to reach the destination, about 10:30 into the park.
Niushoushan is a few years in Nanjing fire up a tourist attraction, in the website searched, the Presidential Palace and Niushoushan divided into one or two of the Nanjing tourism, the Mausoleum of Mount Zhongshan in turn ranked in the third place. NiuShuShan's yearning for three reasons: 1, I have long heard people mentioned, said NiuShuShan enshrine the world's largest Buddha's top relics, although I do not know much about Buddhism, but also think that NiuShuShan is a piece of auspicious land. 2, I once served a customer in NiuShuShan opened a specialty store of Buddhist supplies, and later said they also opened a vegetarian restaurant in NiuShuShan, they said, Mr. Li, there is a chance to come to NiuShuShan to see. 3, every spring, NiuShuShan, the Presidential Palace and Zhongshan Mausoleum, on the contrary, the third. 3, every spring Niushoushan will have a marathon, I once won a, but because of the reasons of the training course ultimately did not make the trip, think of the spring blossom Niushoushan marathon track, the heart is always itchy.
There is also an important reason for the first day of the New Year to choose Niu Shou Mountain trip, one is to climb the mountain means to ascend to the distance; two is to pray for blessings of the Buddha.
After entering the park there is a large square where some red and pink New Year's decorative panels have been made, and visitors are taking photos in twos and threes. The real view requires going around a pool over this bridge. After crossing this bridge, you will see the wall painting of "Ten Cows", engraved on the stone wall with copper characters and copper paintings, starting from the search for cows to see the signs to the end of the market place (chan) dropping hands, probably meaning that it refers to the process of a person's Zen enlightenment, interested students can go to learn about the story.
After crossing a large lawn, we arrived at the only temple in the whole Niushoushan Mountain where we can burn incense - Buddha Ding Temple. Asked the price of incense, 158 yuan a box, I think the price is still a little expensive, compared with Suzhou's Cold Mountain Temple, Xiyuan Temple are a little inflated. Over the years, one after another read some Buddhism Buddhism books, Buddha said, why do you need to come to worship me, in fact, everyone is their own Buddha, so the Buddha has no appearance. Whether or not to burn incense at the temple is also a matter of fate. I didn't buy any incense this time, and I don't recommend that many temples set the price of incense too high. Buddhism guides the heart to goodness, the more life is difficult, the more the heart is not strong enough people need the blessing of Buddhism, from this point of view, the temples in my great Suzhou is really compassionate, a few dollars to thirty-four yuan of tickets, Lingyan Mountain Temple for so many years have insisted on one or two yuan of tickets, is really conscience of the price.
Out of Fodong Temple turn right fifty meters, there are tour buses on the mountain, you can also choose to walk, also about two kilometers can be reached, we chose to walk up the mountain. There is a small square on the mountainside before the summit of the Buddha Dome Pagoda, because it is the Spring Festival, more than one Spring Festival bazaar, on the left hand side is some freshly fried rice cakes, fried stinky tofu, Guan Dong Boiled and other kinds of snacks, and on the right hand side is to sell all kinds of scented pouches, jewelry and other kinds of knickknacks stalls, so this kind of bazaar can be seen in many attractions, and there is not a lot of surprises. The only surprise is that at 2:30 p.m., there is a small performance, the first program is to welcome the spring drums, four girls dressed in red to play the drums, a girl dancing on the drums. The second program is more popular with children, ancient magic, a tall, thin young man wearing a blue coat, with a red cloth in front of a cover, continuously out of two small fish tanks filled with goldfish, and then take the cloth to cover another two fish tanks. There was an uncle beside me who kept telling the people around him that this kind of trick had been revealed a long time ago, and that he had taken it out of his clothes, and that the buttons of his coat had not been fastened. I think the uncle is really quite boring, a small performance of a scenic spot, a group of small children to see quite energetic, an adult always beside the demolition of the stage, he thought that others will be high on him, that he is knowledgeable, omniscient, but do not know just the opposite, we listen to him so that they all feel quite boring, was quite happy with the things he made especially spoiled the fun. We don't like people who deliver bad news, so how to tell people bad news is also something we need to learn and practice. We are surrounded by many such people, who are calculating for petty gains without much improvement in their cultivation and practice. The third program is a shadow play, because it is the daytime performance effect is not very good, and compared to the shadow play I saw in my hometown is much inferior, the shadow play in my hometown is sung while acting, the shadow play singing voice is soulful, the kind of cadence out of the whole night can make the whole night seem ethereal, so full of vitality, full of all kinds of ghostly stories, so that people can not put down can not let go.
From this square to the top of the tower is required to take the elevator, convenient is indeed convenient a lot, but I think it is these modern facilities modern decoration style, so that Niu Shou Mountain lost the true meaning of Buddhist culture, where there is no follow the fate of that calm and practice. If you walk up the hill from this square at least three to five hundred steps, if the rain and snow weather hold a small umbrella Xu up the hill, look back and look down, the stone city of a smoky willow color, what kind of a mood and state of mind it. Not waiting for me to finish writing this text, has been from the small square to the top of the tower tower, this is the rhythm of modern society, we have seen a lot of scenery, walked through a lot of roads, and finally nothing left. Just like we turned over a lot of books, do not write annotations do not write notes do not do thinking, turned over a lot of books can not be equated with read a lot of books.
I always feel that the style of the Buddha's Peak Tower is a bit like Japanese architecture, compared to the ancient style of the large and small Wild Goose Pagodas in Xi'an, the Buddha's Peak Tower is still too new and too modern. We look at the size of the Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, the first look is disappointing, the tower is not very high ah, and so after climbing the tower is to stand in awe, you think about it, the pagoda on a brick and a piece of tile or even a grain of ash and a blade of grass are likely to be there for hundreds of thousands of years, your feet are walking in the footprints of the predecessors, a lineage of culture, the same mountains and rivers of the years, when you suddenly realize that the individual's smallness of the human race is great, time is instant and the years of the great. The time of the moment and the age of the ancient. And the Buddha Tower, you think it is very tall at first glance, when you really touch him, there is no sense of vicissitude that sense of awe. I told my children, the monk in the Journey to the West is along the tower channel step by step to climb to the top of the tower to clean. After saying this sentence, I feel that I said particularly unreliable, the kind of wreckage in the mind of the tower, creaking stairs, hanging all over the stairway cobwebs, paving the dust, bright and dim candlelight, and the darkness of the wilderness in the sound of the wind from time to time high and low ......
Standing in the top of the tower to look down, you can see a number of high and low The hills further down are spread out villages and rivers, roads, only those white walls and black tiles of the houses more in line with the temperament of the city of Jinling. We always like to make our own houses colorful, but we don't know that when put into the picture of nature, white and green are the classic and eternal colors. Between the two hills, there is a section of railroad track showing its traces, like a snake through the cave, like a sword cut the peaks.
The most spectacular and worthwhile attraction of the whole Niushou Mountain should be regarded as the Buddha Ding Palace. Circular arc-shaped building, and outside the addition of a steel structure of the half-face arc-shaped cover, it is because of the design of this cover let me have the idea of pearl shells, and will not let people immediately think of the grave. So, from this point of view, the architectural design of Niushou Mountain is full of inspiration from modern design.
The first floor of the Buddha Palace is a great view of the Zen realm, just walked into about ten meters, there is a projection technology to do out of the "Heart Sutra" scripture, like writing on a piece of crystal clear jade. The center of the hall is a giant reclining Buddha, walked along the reclining Buddha's surroundings, the sound of the Buddha mellifluous, water mist.
Out of the Zen landscape of the Grand View of the elevator down the underground palace, the underground palace has five or six layers of the way, the bottom layer of enshrinement of the top of the Buddha's relics, the Chinese New Year period did not have an appointment we have no chance to look forward to. The second underground is a thousand Buddha Palace, this Palace is very worth seeing, said to have a thousand Buddha's various statues statues. The other floors of the ground floor are also a variety of Buddhist stories and portraits of Buddha.
While visiting these underground palaces, it was found that there are still a lot of people who like to take photos of Buddha statues and bodhisattvas with their cell phones, which is a very taboo practice. It is a matter of basic etiquette not to take pictures, not to make a lot of noise and not to eat when visiting temples. Of course, even if you take pictures, neither the Buddha nor the Bodhisattva will blame you.
Out of the Buddha's Palace on the left there is another attraction Niutou Zen Cultural Park, look at the time is already about 16:30 in the afternoon, dragging the family has no time to visit again, had to stop.
In my concept, Niushoushan is not really a Buddhist shrine, but for the general public, to the Buddha's wish expect everything to go well, but can come to Niushoushan, after all, there are too many statues of Buddha. A day is too short, there are many attractions did not have time to visit, just like in the Niushoushan see the slogan "with fate" "as you like".
When I left the underground palace, I saw a lot of cultural and creative stores, and the client I served, "YINAN QIBAO", had two stores, and the posters written in front of the stores were notices of eating tea, writing and meditating, etc. It was very nice! I wish every friend in 2022 to try to live in the present moment, with the fate of the happy.