Maoshan is located in the southeast of Jurong City, Maoshan has the reputation of "the first mountain in the south of the Yangtze River", is the national 4A level scenic spot, the birthplace of Taoism Shangqing school, one of the six mountainous base, the monument to the victory of the war of resistance in the south of the mountain, the memorial hall of the New Fourth Army has been listed as the provincial moral education base.
Maoshan is rich in botanical resources and abounds in medicinal herbs. Li Shizhen, a famous pharmacologist in the Ming Dynasty, used to collect Chinese herbs in Maoshan, and there are more than 380 kinds of Maoshan medicinal herbs written into the Compendium of Materia Medica.
Mao Shan was originally called Jiuqu Mountain, the sentence of the sentence, the song of the song, Jiuqu Mountain, as to why it is now called Maoshan, I'll sell a secret for the time being, and wait until after the Taoyuan Baodian, I'll unveil this mystery to you.
Mao Shan is the holy place of Taoism in China, in which many sects have been nurtured and emerged, among which the famous ones are the Shangqing School founded in the middle of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Lingbao School founded in the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Maoshan School founded by Tao Hongjing in the Southern Dynasties and Liang Dynasty, and all of them are attributed to the Zhengyi Dao after the Yuan Dynasty, which is the place of origin of the Shangqing School, the Lingbao School, and the Maoshan School of Taoism, and it has a very high status and a great influence in Taoism. It has a high status and great influence in Taoism.
Buddhism is a foreign religion, Taoism is China's indigenous native religion, to the worship of many gods, with the practice of magic in pursuit of immortality, cultivation of immortality and sacrifice, fasting dipping in order to pray for blessings to avoid disasters as the main content of the religious system, simply put, Taoism Taoist practitioners cultivation in pursuit of Taoism, immortality, and the Buddhist belief that people are alive is suffering, and the pursuit of the pursuit of the West can be to the Western world of bliss.
Taoism originated in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Tang and Song dynasties Taoism developed to its heyday, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the gradual decline of Taoism since its emergence of more than 1,800 years, not only in China's continent has a huge impact, but also spread to North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia and the North and South America around the region, becoming one of the world's religions.
The main festivals of Taoism are Laojun's Christmas, Jade Emperor's Christmas, the Peach Festival, and Lv Zu's Christmas. The above festivals are all held in honor of the birthdays of Laozi, Jade Emperor, Xiwangmu, and Lv Dongbin on the 15th day of February, the 9th day of the first month of the lunar year, the 3rd day of the 3rd month of March, and the 14th day of the 4th month of the 4th month of the lunar year.
Taoism is divided into Zhengyi school and Quanzhen school, Maoshan belongs to the Zhengyi school, the founder of Zhengyi school is Zhang Tianshi. The founder of the Quanzhen school is Wang Chongyang, he has seven disciples is the seven sons of Quanzhen, everyone is familiar with it. The Quanzhen school focus on internal alchemy training, do not Shang RuLu and yellow and white art, yellow and white art means smelting gold and silver, the provisions of the Taoist priests must be out of the house to live in the palace, do not get married, vegetarian, there are strict rules and precepts, and the ZhengYi school do not need to be out of the house, more engaged in RuLu Buns, RuLu Buns is the meaning of the painting of symbols of the law, in order to pray for blessings and avoid disasters, especially the Maoshan Mountain is the one of the three mountains of the Rune Records, three mountains of the Rune Records is the Jiangxi Lunghu Mountain, GeShiShan, the mountain! The three mountains are Longhu Mountain, GeShu Mountain and Mao Mountain, so FuLu is an important practice for Taoist priests in Maoshan. There are Taoist priests who specialize in drawing talismans on Maoshan Mountain, so you can see with your own eyes the process of Taoist priests drawing talismans. There are about six types of talismans: those that can be used to calm the house, protect the body, promote birth, harmonize, spread the word, and collect demons and destroy monsters. Usually painted on damask cloth, white bamboo cloth or rice paper, this charm can be invited, and those who need it can ask the Taoist priest to paint one on the spot and take it home.
The difference between the Quanzhen school and the Zhengyi school can be described in eight simple words: hair, do not marry, vegetarian, robe, that is, to keep your hair, hair buns, do not marry, can not marry, can not eat meat, you must wear a robe, and our Zhengyi school does not have so much purity, do not need to store the hair, you can get married, you can eat meat, you do not need to live every day in the palace, you do not need to wear a robe, as long as you wear a lab coat! It's all right. Nowadays, most of the Taoist temples in the country are Quanzhen school, Zhengyi school is relatively small, mainly distributed in some areas south of the Yangtze River and Taiwan.
There are three monsters in Maoshan:
The monument to the victory in the war in Southern Jiangsu Province, the strange phenomenon of "firecrackers under the monument, sounding the bugle in the air," is still an unsolved mystery, so there is a miraculous monument to the name. This is a strange Maoshan.
Laozi palm honeycomb Tiancheng, known as Maoshan another monster.
The third monster is the Hiker's Spring, where visitors clap their hands on the edge of the spring, and the water inside the spring will boil and splash.
Now, the road we are walking on is Maoshan Avenue, which is 22 kilometers long and 20 minutes drive from the city to Maoshan.
Almost to Maoshan, we can now see Maoshan, we can guess how high Maoshan is about? This friend's guess is very accurate, which means it is very close to our Taoism. Maoshan is 372.5 meters above sea level. As the saying goes, "A mountain is not high, but a fairy is famous; water is not deep, but a dragon is spiritual." Although our Maoshan Mountain is not high, but it is famous for many celebrities here.
Now we sit on the scenic transportation, the road we take is the disk road. There are three ways to Maoshan, one of which is to take the scenic transportation, the second is to climb up the mountain from the path, because Maoshan is not high, climb up the general fast, if forty minutes, slow, if an hour is enough. The third is to take the cable car in Jintan.
There are six attractions in Maoshan Mountain, and today we first visit Jiuyao Wanfu Palace, then Yuanfu Wanning Palace, Immortal Cave, Xikai Spring, Monument to the Victory of the Southern Sudanese Resistance War, and finally the Memorial Hall of the New Fourth Army.
Now we have come to the main peak of Maoshan Mountain, Damao Peak, and this Taoist temple in front of you is called Nine Nights Wanfu Palace, which is also known as the Top Palace because it is situated on the top peak of Maoshan Mountain. She was built in the Western Han Dynasty, more than 2,100 years ago, in more than 2,000 years of wind and rain, this ancient Taoist temple suffered a lot of natural and man-made destruction, we are now seeing is restored in 1985. We look at the "Imperial Edicts JiuXiao WanFuGong" these words, this Edicts is the meaning of the Emperor's Royal Gift, this plaque is the Ming ShenZong ZhuYiJun Royal Gift. We then look at the palace door written on both sides is: "What is the Road to live forever, ten thousand lifetimes". Guess what word is behind the Tao? This word for the Taoist unique way of writing, that is, the meaning of the first heavenly breath, after the heavenly breath, the top of a no below the four-pointed water, let's remember. JiuXiao WanFu Palace *** there are four halls, respectively, is the LingGuanTemple, ZongShiTemple, TaiYuanBaoTemple, the two saint of the temple, the following please follow me into one tour.
Friends of the tourists, we came to the Lingguan Hall, this is the Wang Lingguan, also known as the Jade Center Fire House Generals, he is the guardian of the god of the mountain gate. We look at his face has three eyes, the middle eye in Buddhism is called the Eye of Wisdom, in Taoism is called the Eye of Goodness, that is, can distinguish the true goodness and beauty of the earth, so he is also known as the King of Goodness. Let's look at his right hand holding the divine whip *** has nine sections, why nine sections? Because the word nine in Taoism is the most auspicious number, is also the largest number, that is to say, his hands of the divine whip is the world's longest divine whip. As the saying goes, "three eyes can recognize the world, a whip to wake up the world". Left-handed pose is Lingguan know-how, interested friends can do it, if you can do it, is in our Taoism is very close. In his surroundings are the East Green Dragon, West White Tiger, South Vermilion Bird, North Xuanwu, the four directions of the God, respectively, on behalf of the four directions of the southeast, northwest and north.
After seeing the Hall of Spiritual Officers, we now come to the Hall of Patriarchs, which enshrines the generations of Taoist patriarchs. Above is the building of the hidden scriptures, the building of the hidden scriptures is the place where Taoism hides and puts the scriptures, and there are 5840 volumes of scriptures here ****. Let's see this one enshrined in the center is Wei Huacun, Wei Yuanjun, also known as Lady Wei, Lady Nan Yue, she was the founder of the Shangqing Zongtan, and her famous classic is Huangting Jing, which mainly talks about the human body's veins, acupoints and structure, with a focus on the art of health maintenance. We can see that she is a woman, in feudal society there is the phenomenon of male superiority and female inferiority, while in Taoism it is equal for men and women, so she is enshrined here to receive the worship of future generations. This is her disciple Yang Xi, who was the second generation master. The Shangqing sect was founded by Mrs. Wei and developed by him. Taoism is divided into Quanzhen School and Zhengyi School, we Maoshan belongs to the Zhengyi School, this is the founder of the Zhengyi School, Zhang Tianshi, also known as Zhang Daoling, who is also the founder of Taoism, between the end of the Northern Song Dynasty and the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wang Chongyang in Shaanxi Province, Zhongnan Mountain, the establishment of the Quanzhen School, Lao Zi is the founder of Taoism, but Zhang Tianshi is the founder of Taoism. The sword in his hand is called the Demon Beheading Sword, which is capable of cutting down demons and eliminating devils. All of you here today are good people, and if there are any bad people, this sword of his will cut them down. This person with a capsule of elixir in his hand is Ge Hong, a famous alchemist, or chemist, at that time. I feel extraordinarily close to him when I see him because he is from my hometown, Jurong. In the past, Taoist priests pursued immortality, so they all refined elixir, they think that the grass and trees themselves will decay, so the elixir made of people eat it is impossible to live forever, and then Ge Hong refined mercury, because mercury buried in the soil will not decay, put into the fire a hundred refining does not go away, so the Taoist priests think that the elixir made of mercury people eat it will live forever, so it is said that a lot of emperors are mercurial chronic poisoning and death, such as the famous Tang Taizong Li Shimin is one of them. Our Maoshan is known as the "Qin and Han Immortal House, Liang and Tang Chancellor's House", the Chancellor is the important heir to the Maoshan School of Shangqing in the Liang Dynasty, the founder of the Taoist Maoshan Sect, Tao Hongjing. At that time, Liang Wu Di and his friendship is quite deep, very appreciate his talent, want to ask him to join the dynasty as an official, but because Tao Hongjing aspires to a life of idleness and refused him, because the emperor asked him well, he is not easy to refuse directly, at that time he was painted a picture to Liang Wu Di, painting above the painting of the two cows, a cow is relaxing at ease in the river to graze, and the other head of the cow set with a gold cage was ridden by the people, Liang Wu Di looked at the painting, understood what he meant, and he was very pleased. Painting understood his meaning, he likes to live freely and do not want to be controlled by people although the brocade clothes and food, although so, but whenever there is a major conquest, Emperor Wu of Liang still want to ask him to participate in the discussion, to seek his advice, almost every month there are a number of letters exchanged, and later, Emperor Wu of Liang also sent the Prince of Tao Hongjing to study with the mountain, so in fact, Tao Hongjing in the mountain hermitage in fact, not hidden, for a long time, the people So, in fact, Tao Hongjing in the mountain is actually not hidden, and over time, people called Tao Jing Hongjing "mountain prime minister".
Now, we came to the Kanli Palace, Taoism is based on the study of gossip, Kanli is the gossip in the two hexagrams, representing the water and fire, where the fire has incense burner, the water has a dragon pool, symbolizing the balance of yin and yang, equality between men and women. Everyone to touch this incense burner, touch can relieve back and leg pain, bless you a year of peace and security.
Now, we have come to the largest hall of Maoshan Taoyuan Baodian, where we have to talk about the origin of Maoshan, Maoshan originally called the sentence of the Qu Mountain, and then due to the three Maoshan Zhenjun cultivation in this immortal, the descendants in order to commemorate them and the sentence of the Qu Mountain changed to the three Maoshan, or Maoshan for short. The one in the center is the Grand Master Damaoshan, also known as Damaoshan Zhenjun and Damaoshan Dijun, or Damaoshan Jun for short, who was surnamed Damaoshan, named Ying, and Shushen, a native of Nanguan, Xianyang in the Western Han Dynasty, and was born in the fifth year of the Middle Ages of Emperor Jingdi of the Han Dynasty (145 years B.C.). At the age of eighteen, he entered Hengshan Mountain to cultivate, at the age of forty-nine, he said goodbye to his master and went back to his hometown to visit his parents, his father was very angry with him for being away from home for thirty-one years without any filial piety, so when he saw that he came back, he picked up a stick and wanted to teach him a lesson, and he said that I was no longer a mortal, you can't beat me, his father didn't believe him, and when he hit him with a stick, the sticks broke off one after another, and when he saw this, his father believed that his eldest son was indeed a devoted and hardworking cultivator. Seeing this scene, his father believed that his eldest son had indeed been practicing hard, so he forgave him, and he came to Jiuqu Mountain to practice after paying respect to his parents, healing the sick and saving the people, accumulating good deeds and practicing hard, and finally attained the Way to become an immortal. On his left is his second brother Maogu, also known as Zhongmao Zhenjun, Zhongmao Dijun, Zhongmao Zushi, Ermao Zushi, Zhongmaojun and Ermaojun for short, with the character Jiwei, born in 143 BC. On the right is the third brother Mao Zhi, also known as Xiao Mao Zu Shi, Xiao Mao Di Jun, Xiao Mao Jun for short, San Mao Jun, with the character Si He, born in 141 BC. They were officials, heard that their elder brother had attained immortality, so they asked their elder brother for the secret of cultivation, and came to Ermao Peak and Sanmao Peak respectively to cultivate hard for years and cure people's illnesses, and finally they also attained immortality respectively. Because of their three brothers in the process of cultivation, wide accumulation of goodness, for the people to cure, so the people in order to commemorate them to the sentence of the Qu Mountain renamed for the three Maoshan, referred to as Maoshan, which is the origin of the name of Maoshan. We can see that the elder brother Mao Ying is the youngest of the three, why? Because Mao Ying cultivation time is only 18 years old, or child body, after the cultivation of the same face, while the younger brother cultivation is relatively late, so instead of looking older than the older brother. Enshrined in the three Mao Zhenjun front of the left and right sides of the four value of Gongcao, that is, the value of the year, the value of the month, the value of the day, the value of the time of the four heavenly deities, their duty is to specialize in recording the merits of the heavenly realm of the gods and goddesses, to the Jade Emperor, and is responsible for the presentation of the earth to the heavenly court of the burning of the table text. In Buddhism, there are the Four Heavenly Kings, while in Taoism, they are called the Four Marshals. The ones enshrined around the Hall of the Treasure of Taiyuan are Marshal Wen Liang, Marshal Ma Shan, Marshal Yue Fei, and Marshal Zhao Gongming, and the one with the black face is Zhao Gongming, the God of Wealth, who is also known as the God of Fortune, there are the God of Martial Fortune and the God of Literary Fortune, and this one is the God of Martial Fortune. They can defend the dojo here to strengthen the majesty.
After seeing the first half of the hall, we look at the second half of the hall, this is the three hearts of the land god Liu Fu, Liu Fu in the three Mao Zhenjun to come here before the cultivation has come to Maoshan, he is in the Maoshan mountain to the northeast to see not far away from the nine peaks as if nine small dragons in the coiled, thought if you go to the cultivation of the not better, but when he rushed to the there and then looked back to the south, but found that the whole big Mao Peak is like a huge green dragon! But when he got there and looked back to the south, he realized that the whole Damaoshan Peak was like a green dragon, and the top of the peak was like the head of the dragon, and the purple gas was all over the sky, and the golden light was all over the place, which was really a feng shui treasure! So back again, but, the Mao brothers have built a grass nunnery, so he told his search for the treasure land of the Mao brothers, the Mao brothers mercy, for him to build a grass nunnery halfway up the mountainside, Liu Fu in the grass nunnery within the meditation training, and finally became an immortal - land god, was enshrined by the descendants of the land temple where they practice, enjoying the good men and women who come to worship the land. He was enshrined in the Temple of the Land where he practiced and enjoyed the first incense of the pilgrims who came to worship him. Later, when the temple was destroyed halfway up the mountain, the Taoist priests in the palace erected a seated statue of Liu Fu here for the world to worship. On both sides are the left magistrate, the right Secretary Bo.
Here is the island of immortality, the island of immortality *** divided into four layers, *** there are 32 immortals, we look down from the top, the first layer is the highest god of Taoism, "the three gods": the beginning of Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun, Dao Dao Tianzun; in the center of the beginning of Tianzun, the beginning of Tianzun, the beginning of the beginning of Tianzun, the beginning of the beginning of the sides of each side of the establishment of an attendant, the beginning of the beginning of the day, the left of the beginning of the day for the spirit of the sky, and then left is Lei Gong, the beginning of the day, and then left is the beginning of the day. To the further left is the Duke of Thunder, to the right of the First Heavenly Father is the Heavenly Father of Virtue, and to the further right is the Mother of Thunder. The second floor is the Jade Emperor, heaven, earth, water officials, seeking bitterness Tianzun, Jiang Ziya, the White Star; the third floor is dedicated to the women and children know the Eight Immortals; the fourth floor is dedicated to the folk worship of the gods, there are land god, god of the city god, the king of the dragon god, the dragon prince, the dragon king, the dragon queen, the night fork god, the good fortune child, CiHangDaoHuoMan. This CiHang Taoist does not look a little familiar? She is the Goddess of Mercy in Buddhism, known as the Taoist Cihang Taoist, we see that he is standing on top of the head of the ao, some people say that it is the meaning of the exclusive ao, in fact, it is not so, according to legend, the ao is a very powerful animal, the nodding of the head will bring disaster to the earth, so he stood on the head of the ao in order to reduce the disaster on the earth. This is the God of Wealth, Zhao Gongming. The God of Wealth is divided into two categories: the God of Wealth and the God of Martial Arts. The God of Wealth and the God of Martial Arts is said to be Zhao Gongming and Guan Gong. Here enshrined is the god of wealth Zhao Gongming, statue before the left station to attract wealth, the right standing into the treasure.
Now, we came to the three heavenly gates, describing it as high into the clouds in the sky meaning, according to legend, this is the place where the grand master of Maoshan got to become immortal, in ancient times, for the Maoshan Jiuyao Palace Taoist priests to worship on the table, so it is also known as the ascension platform. In the Yuanfu Wanning Palace, there is also a three heavenly gates, which is the place where Mao Ku and Mao Zhi became immortal. It is said that on a moonlit night, Grand Master Mao was carried away by a crane and became immortal. This is also the highest point of Maoshan Mountain, 372.5 meters above sea level, we walk up to feel the feeling of becoming immortal!
Now, we come to the last hall of the two holy hall, here is enshrined in the three Mao Zhenjun's parents Mao Zuo and Xu's, the descendants in order to thank them for teaching their children well, so they are enshrined here, so that they logically enjoy the holy father and mother of the title of honor, there is a couplet in Maoshan, "at home is not filial to the parents, why the spirit of the mountain to see the world's father? There is a couplet on Maoshan that says, "If you are not filial to your parents at home, why should you see the World Honored One on the Spirit Mountain? This couplet is a warning to incense burners to be filial to their parents. Among all the Taoist monasteries in the country, only we at Maoshan worship our parents, because the Shangqing sect of Maoshan is very concerned about filial piety. Worshipping them can bless one's parents with a long and healthy life.
Let's look at the left side of this is the vision of the Queen Mother, the right side is to send the child Queen Mother, this is why they are enshrined here with the past medical undeveloped, people in the past got eye disease can not be healed, can only ask the vision of the Queen Mother blessing. It is said that the vision of the Queen can bless people's ears and eyes, eliminate eye diseases, myopic friends may wish to go to worship her. This send a son of the Queen, she can not only send people children, but also bless the child's healthy growth, the past medical backwardness of the birth of a child as if over the life and death, life is in the hands of the hand, so the birth of a child before they have to come here to pay a visit. It is said that her hands original nine children, now only one, is for him to respond to the national policy of only one good.
After visiting the temple, please follow me to visit the four treasures of Maoshan's Zhenshan: Jade Seal, Jade Gui, Ha Yan, Jade Runes. It is said that Song Huizong's mother mistakenly took an embroidery needle, and many imperial doctors are helpless, and later, is our 25th generation of Maoshan's masters Liu Mix Kang Taoist using Maoshan's herbs and talismans recorded into a talismanic water, so that the Empress Dowager spit out the embroidery needle, the emperor's dragon face is very happy, gave him eight treasures, due to the loss of years of tradition, and now there are only four survivors, which is the four four treasures of the town of the mountain, the Jade Seal, jade kuai, ha ink stone, Jade Talisman. One of the most famous is the jade seal, the jade seal is engraved with "Jiu Lao Xian Du Jun seal" six characters in seal script, it is said that this seal is a part of China's Heshi Bi engraved, there is "night eating four two vermilion sand, the day cover a thousand yellow table" of the magic of the magic, that is, at night can be sucked in the four red-colored vermilion sand. Four two red-colored cinnabar, daytime one-time cover a thousand sheets of yellow table paper, do not have to dip the cinnabar. As long as you can carry a piece of this seal with you, you will be able to pray for blessings to avoid disasters and good fortune in distress. Legend has it that during the Hongwu years of the Ming Dynasty, the jade seal was brought into the imperial palace, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, wanted to change it into the emperor's jade seal of "Fengtian Chengyun's Treasure", but the engraver made the seal into the "Fengtian Chengyun's Treasure" on the first day, and the next day on top of the seal surface, it was strangely changed into the "Jiu Lao Xian Du Jun Jun". "Nine old Xanadu Jun seal" six words, so three carving three tries, the seal is still "nine old Xanadu Jun seal" six words, the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang helpless, thinking that this is not a royal thing, so he sent the jade seal back to the hands of the Taoist priests of the Maoshan Mountain. Previously, the jade seal is placed in the Yuanfu Wanning Palace, Maoshan incense, to Maoshan must go to the top of the Palace to burn a pillar of incense, and then go to the Palace of India to cover a seal, over time, the incense on the "Yuanfu Wanning Palace" for the Palace of India, has been passed down to the present day. This is why the Yuanfu Wanning Palace is simply called the Palace of India.
Dear tourists, we have now come to the Yuanfu Wanning Palace, Yuanfu Wanning Palace is located in the south waist of the Maoshan Jijin Peak, I have already introduced the Yuanfu Wanning Palace referred to as the Indian Palace. Everyone please look at the east side of the door for the Chinese Taoist Association President Min Zhiting Taoist writer of the couplet "Star should be the Bullfighting Mountain Kunlun lapel Taihu Lake with the Yangtze River, natural bells and knots of the lungs; the Qin and Han Immortals Liang and Tang Xiangshi vertical science and technology Guang Xuanhua Qing scriptures out of the sentence qu." The plaque on the mountain gate is "Gate of Wonder" written by Kang Youwei, and on the west side is "The origin of Taoism is like the clouds hanging over the mountain, and the clouds are even farther away when we walk up to the mountain; the mystery of Xuanmen is just like the moon reflecting on the water, and the moon is still deep when we turn away from the water." The plaque at the mountain gate reads "Purple energy comes from the east". These two couplets and plaques fully illustrate the historical status of Taoism in Maoshan.
Let's look back, there are two misspellings here, find out which two? One is the word "virtue", less a cross, one like a knife, less a knife in the heart, to persuade people to the meaning of good. The other is the word Ming, more or less a cross, is to persuade people to shine their eyes to see the road.
In 1996, Maoshan Taoist Hospital in order to promote Taoist culture, while in order to develop Jurong tourism, by the State Religious Bureau of special approval, in the Yuan Fu Wanning Palace investment of more than 20 million yuan, to build up to 33 meters high open-air Laozi statue of God, is now selected as the world Guinness Book of Records.
Yuanfu Wanning Palace **** is divided into four squares up and down, the following tourists please follow me on the tour.
Friends of the tourists, now, we came to the first square to see the Stargate Square, this stone plaque is to see the Stargate, is the past Palace of Taoist priests stargazing and look at the gas place, in layman's terms is to watch the heavens, it is said that human astronomy may be the origin of this. Please look at the left and right walls are engraved with "the eighth cave, the first blessed land", which was written by Wang Shu, a great calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, has a very high value of calligraphy and the art of stone carving, and is the historical relics of our Maoshan Taoism. Here we can also do a little game, stand here, close your eyes and turn around in place three times, and then walk forward, if you can touch the first blessing in the blessing of the word will be happy forever, this is an ancient game passed down to the present day.
Friends, please look upward, this is the Lingguan Hall, the door above the engraved "Royal Decree of the Yuanfu Wanning Palace" seven words. And the door is slanted, why is it slanted? Here is the reason, before the temple door in the south, that is to say, is facing the top of the Palace, the front is not said? The top of the palace is located in the dragon's head, so this hall often fire, there is a fire three times a year, every year fire, and then changed into a slant, until now there has been no fire. There is a pair of stone lions in front of the door, is a symbol of status, male lion feet on the Qiankun, the ball on behalf of the Qiankun, symbolizing the unity of the universe and supreme power, the mother lion feet on the lion, representing the progeny of successors and grandchildren. In front of the door there is a pair of discs opposite each other, which represents the pair of households, the door above the previous pair of door when, now has been destroyed, when the door is the pair of households is the reference to these two things, in the past, the door of the big families have these things.
Please go inside, please see the hall is enshrined in the Wang Lingguan, you must be asked, why is here also enshrined in the Wang Lingguan, the reason is very simple, Wang Lingguan is the guardian god of Taoism, under his protection, the Taoist temple will be prosperous and stable, so no place can not be missing him. In the Lingguan Hall of the east and west is enshrined in the South Dipper and the North Dipper, South Dipper is the main life of the main life of the God, the North Dipper is in charge of the death of the God, Taoism believes that mortals believe that the North Dipper will be able to remove the name of the book from the book of the dead, and from now on can live forever, so we can be with him to pull a good relationship so that you have the opportunity to live forever. The temple around the enshrinement of the sixty nativity Azi God, you can according to their own genus to find their nativity God, worship him, pray for his shelter.
Now, we came to the second square of the Three Heavenly Gates Square, which is the Wanshou Terrace. Wanshou Terrace is divided into three layers, there is no up and down steps in the middle, the steps are from the southeast corner of the upper, from the northwest corner of the lower, before the emperor and the empress worship chapter on the table of the place, and only the emperor can ascend to the Wanshou Terrace the rest of the ministers can only stand in the surroundings, is now different, we can come up to taste a taste of the high on the top. Wanshou Terrace on the stone is the three heavenly gates, this three heavenly gates are carved from the lapis lazuli, 2.4 meters high, both sides of the stone columns as high as 6.5 meters, the stone columns engraved on the couplet is "immortal music through the nine heavens wishing a person of the celebration, the heavenly incense beckons five cranes praying for the four seas of the same spring." We look at the back, the horizontal engraving is Wanshoutai, left and right couplets are "Cuiyue hold pumping platform Huayang real gas, DanYaFeiKonyu hall on the river XuanFeng", this is our Maoshan history of important Taoist buildings. It is said that where there are three heavenly gates, there are people who have become immortal, and this is where the two brothers, Mao Ku and Mao Zhi, ascended to heaven.
Now, we went through seven seventy-four nine stone steps to the third square Taiji Square, this is the Taiji Pond, the bottom of the pool is the symbol of Taoism, black and white yin and yang fish to form the Taiji Diagram, white represents the Yang, black represents the Yin, Taoism believes that Taoism connotes yin and yang, yin and yang and the gas of the generation of all things.
Visitors, the east and west of the pool are the Bell Pavilion and the Drum Pavilion, interested visitors can go to ring the bells and drums to pray for peace and happiness.
Now we are going to cross the Nine Dragons Royal Road and climb up to the highest square of Yuanfu Palace, the Laojun Square, and you can see that the words "Taoism is the law of nature" were written by Zhao Puchu, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and Chairman of the Religious Association of China.
Now, we have come to the Laojun Hall, through the Laojun Hall we came to the statue of God at the base of the shrine, which is octagonal architectural design, alluding to the eight trigrams of Taoism, which is displayed in the Maoshan Taoism in the past, present and future.
Here is the gallery, the colorful part of the "Xu Qui cultivation map" tells the story of the third generation of Maoshan master Xu Qui cultivation. Stone carving part of the display of Tao Hongjing, Wang Anshi, Su Dongpo, Liang Wu Di, Tang Bohu, Lu Xun, Zheng Banqiao, Gu Shi and other poems handwriting. The mural part is the Twenty-four Filial Piety Picture, which tells the story of the Twenty-four Filial Piety, which is widely spread in the folklore. The plate carving part is engraved with the full text of Laozi's Tao Te Ching.
After the tourists visited the gallery, we look at this statue of Laozi, Laozi surnamed Li, Muzi Li, the name of the ear, the ear of the ear, the word Dan, the ear next to a Ran Ran, the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty was born in the State of Chu. Laozi called Li ear why call him Laozi? There is such a legend: Laozi is the Tai Shang Laojun in Taoism, Laojun's mother is Yuanmiao Jade Woman, absorbing the essence of the sun, pregnant for 81 years, from the left armpit to give birth to Laojun, Laojun was born with white hair, so he was called Laozi. Tao Te Ching, written by Laozi, is the basic classic of Taoism. This marvelous book contains many aspects of natural science, social science and human science. Laozi is honored by Taoism as the ancestor of the religion. The statue of Laozi, which rises up from the ground, is 33 meters high, weighs 106 tons, and is welded with 226 pieces of purple copper plates. The statue is in a seated position, with a kind, dignified, natural, friendly and realistic demeanor, holding a taiji fan, as if he is preaching to us. This statue of Laozi has been included in the world Guinness Book of Records, so far the world's highest and largest statue of the same kind.
In the construction process of the statue of Laozi, there are many people now can not solve the mystery. 1997 March 23 (Lunar February 15), the statue of Laozi, the day of the commencement of work, is responsible for the construction of the Laojun God Terrace of the construction team, especially in the construction site to hang up the six banners with black characters on a red background, in order to show the celebration, it is not expected that the weather suddenly changed, the wind is raining heavily, the banners are all hanging torn, hanging in front of the God Terrace! All the banners were torn and hung on the ginkgo tree in front of the altar of God, and the project could not be started. Everyone was shocked and puzzled. At that time, the old Taoist priest arrived with a finger in his hand, revealing that Taoism honors yellow. The construction team realized that, in a hurry to rush to make six yellow banners with red lettering on the background, said that the spirit of the moment, the wind stops raining, the clouds dispersed, the sun shines brightly until the completion of the altar, for twenty-two consecutive days within the no rain.
97 years on April 28, Laozi like the completion of the acceptance, the next morning, the statue of the palm of a huge honeycomb. Wasps, folk regarded as auspicious, implying that tourists flock to the area. Accumulation of gold peak, meaning accumulation of gold, silver and treasure of the peak, and later, there are careful people accidentally found that Accumulation of gold peak elevation of 159.8 meters, "to me on the hair" meaning, another good omen.
This monument to the victory of the war in Southern Jiangsu is located on the peak of the mother of hope, a total height of 36 meters, the name of the monument is the former Minister of Defense Zhang Aiping book. It was built in 1995 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the victory in the war of resistance against Japan. In front of the monument, there are 317 steps, 16 meters wide, a **** there are six steps, each group of 50 steps, meaning the 50th anniversary of the victory of the war of resistance, while six groups of symbols of the month of June, the last 17 steps on behalf of the 17th, which means that June 17, 1938 is the date of the victory of the New Fourth Army Weigang maiden battle.
In 1997, the discovery of the "monument under the firecrackers, the air sounded the trumpet" phenomenon, is still an unsolved mystery, experts in all aspects of the scene, it is difficult to explain the reason, more explanation is *** vibration. According to the local people said, the sound of the bugle is the soul of the New Fourth Army martyrs of bravado, firecrackers sound like gunfire, they hear gunfire in the bugle sound inspired by the courage to kill the enemy. Because in Maoshan anti-Japanese base buried more than seven thousand fallen New Fourth Army soldiers. This explanation expresses the people of Maoshan's praise for the anti-Japanese base and their remembrance of the martyrs of the New Fourth Army! This is the last of the monsters of Maoshan that we see today.
Now we come to the last attraction, the New Fourth Army Memorial Hall, which comprehensively demonstrates the historical facts of the anti-Japanese base area of Maoshan in that year's military and civilian resistance to the Japanese invaders. The museum is now the Central Propaganda Department named "National Patriotism Education Base". The museum exhibits more than 2,000 pieces of cultural relics, the use of sound, light, electricity, multimedia high-tech display means, reproducing the New Fourth Army and the people of southern Jiangsu anti-Japanese struggle of the historical situation.