There are two versions of the origin of the name Lutaishan. One is from the Ming Dynasty's Unified Record, "Lutai Mountain is twenty miles north of Ruzhou, Nanyang Prefecture, and there is a platform-shaped deer squatting." ; According to a popular local saying, Lutai Mountain is undulating, with numerous peaks and cliffs. Only the top of Lutai Mountain is flat and looks like a platform from a distance. Lutai Village is located in a ravine in the south of Shannan. From the village to the main peak of Lutai, there are five terraces connected. The hills are flat-topped like Lutai Mountain, and there are six platforms together with Lutai Mountain. Ruzhou dialect with the word "six" is also pronounced with deer sound, so it is called Lutaishan.
Located at the southern foot of Songshan Mountain, Lutai Mountain belongs to the remnant vein of Songshan Mountain, with an altitude of 75 1 m, which is the highest mountain in northern Ruzhou. Standing on the top of Lutai Mountain, looking north, Shaoshi Mountain and Taishi Mountain float in the sea of clouds, just like a mirage. The three peaks in the west, north and east are connected, such as a screen and a plush chair. Lutai Mountain is like an old man sitting in a plush chair. Lutai Mountain is 4 kilometers south of Mengzhuang Village, Lingtou Township, Ruzhou City, Henan Province, and there is a cement road leading to the front of the mountain. Lutai Mountain is located in the administrative village of Heshangmiao, Lingtou Township, Ruzhou City, Henan Province. In the past, the mountains were high and the roads were dangerous, and the traffic was inconvenient. There are more than 500 people in the village, distributed in three natural villages. Meng Family Temple in Tianxinzhai Ruzhou Meng Family Temple was built on a flat land at the top of Lutai Mountain. Meng Jia Temple has long since ceased to exist, and it has been replaced by the newly-built Panlong Palace built by the people nearby, where "God" is enshrined, and Taoism and Buddhism meet, and even Sun has become the patron saint. Panlong Palace was built by villager Mao and other old people in Beitanggou. The statue alone cost more than 15000, and I don't know how they transported these building materials up the mountain. On the same day, it was Mao's son Mao who took care of Panlong Palace. Lutai Mountain looks like a dragon, and the mountain surface is covered with red and white wind fossils, and the stone hardness is not great. Montessori Temple covers an area of about 65,438+0,000 square meters. There are no impurities such as sand and stones, and the cotton and vegetables grown are gratifying. This land is surrounded by a prominent circular stone foundation, which is filled with mud and gradually thickens from the outside to the inside, with the thickest part exceeding 10 meter. Outside the base is a stone slope with only a thin layer of sand attached to the grass. Tianxin village is naturally formed. In ancient times, the walls of this village were very high. After liberation, the trees on the mountain were cut down, and soil erosion became what it is now. Legend has it that the village here was very high in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and lanterns hanging on the village can be seen in Ruzhou City, Henan Province. Tianxinzhai used to be a crater, and the lava from the volcano accumulated radially around, forming a round stone village. Later, the volcano stopped spewing and became an extinct volcano. During the big flood, the flood overflowed this place, and the sediment it carried was continuously deposited, leveling the crater and becoming a whole. After the flood, the mountains reappeared. After the continuous erosion of rain, the mud in the crater was preserved, and the outside world came to the foot of the mountain with the torrent of mountains and rivers, which became what it is today. Imagine that Tianxin Village in the Tang Dynasty must be high enough to stop the invasion of wild animals. The steep mountains around can be isolated from the outside world and are a good place to live in seclusion. There are countless herbs for Meng Ao to enjoy in the surrounding forest of hundreds of square kilometers. The fertile land in the village can grow flowers, grains and vegetables. A hill not far from the northwest blocked the flow of the wind, making Tianxinzhai less disturbed by the cold wind. A traditional Chinese medicine called Acorus calamus is produced near Lutai Mountain. Meng Xintang once told a legend in The Legend of Immortals: "When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty went up to Songshan Mountain, he suddenly saw a man, two feet long, with his ears hanging over his shoulders. Ask it politely. Yue:' I suspect people in Jiuyi Mountain, and I heard that there are calamus on the stone in Zhongyue, with nine knots in one inch. You can live forever after eating it, so I picked it. "Suddenly disappeared. The emperor summoned his courtiers and said,' He doesn't want to take food as a metaphor for my ears. Wang Jingmei, a poet in the Song Dynasty, said, "Acorus calamus becomes a treasure with nine knots. Tiger beard looks good, but it is expensive in Jiangxi. Nature likes shade very much. Cut it after Qingming and build an altar in winter, which will not only improve your eyesight, but also help you. " The Biography of Li Bai records that in the first year of Tang Tianbao, Li Bai was called to Chang 'an by Xuanzong under the recommendation of Wu Yun, a Taoist priest in Songshan Mountain. At that time, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was giddy and arrogant, and ignored political affairs. He called Li Bai to Beijing just because he loved his poem title and asked him to worship the Hanlin and become a literary jester. Li Bai's arrogant and unruly personality led to the slander of powerful ministers. In the third year of Tianbao, Li Bai left Chang 'an in anger and began to travel. He crossed Luoyang, went out of Longmen and came to Ruzhou. When he heard that Lutai Mountain in northern Ruzhou was once Meng Ao's seclusion, he gave up the idea of going to Nanyang and decided to go to Lutai and visit Songshan Mountain. At that time, Li Bai came to Lutai Mountain and rested in Tianxinzhai. Standing on the top of Lutai Mountain, he was very excited to see the rolling sea of clouds on Songshan Mountain. The next morning, I walked along the mountain road to Songshan. In a valley on the north side of Lutai Mountain, he saw a childe wearing a straw hat, undershirt and thick-soled cloud shoes, with a sharp shovel in his hand, gentle and gentle, dancing with a sharp shovel, as if he were digging something. Li Bai saw that the man was distinguished, so he stepped forward and asked, "What are you digging?" Without looking, the son said, "Acorus calamus!" " Li Bai asked again, "What's the use of picking it?" The son said, "Take it to prolong life." At this time, Li Bai also found several calamus growing in the cliff cracks around him. He went over and pulled up a tree. After careful observation, he found that the height of this plant is one and a half feet, the leaves are sword-shaped, arranged in two rows, the roots are surrounded by each other, and the top is full of green flowers, emitting a faint fragrance. Li Bai looked at Acorus calamus and asked, "What's your name, son? Where do you live? " He asked for a long time, but no one answered. Looking back, a piece of white fog came, and there was no childe. In the evening, Li Bai came to Qingshiling in the north of Lutai Mountain and lived in Daoyuan, Chengtiangong. He told the Taoist that he met his son who picked calamus on the mountain. The Taoist priest told him that this son is the son of the keeper. He is knowledgeable and has won prizes, but he refuses to be an official. Mu Mengfu lived for a long time, and also came to the south foot of Songshan Mountain to live in seclusion by the He Ying River. Hearing that Meng Wei loves calamus, he chose calamus growing near Lutai Mountain as a tonic. Hearing this, Li Bai was awed, lit an oil lamp, and wrote "Picking Acorus calamus in Songshan Mountain": Immortals have many ancient faces, with earlobes and shoulders. When Song Yue met Hanwu, he was filled with nine doubts. I choose calamus, which can prolong life. The words suddenly disappeared and the shadows disappeared in the clouds. Yu Di didn't realize this, but in the end, Mao was gone. Two days later, Li Bai came to a Dojo at the southern foot of Songshan Mountain. Everyone was saying goodbye to a hermit named Yangshan. Yangshan people have long heard of Li Bai's name, so they gave Li Bai to the chairman. During the dinner, when talking about the son of picking calamus, Yangshan people said that his son was Yuan Danqiu, a native of Changzhou Prefecture. He is very close to Yuan Danqiu. Yuan Danqiu often stays in his cabin. He hopes that Li Bai can make friends with Yuan Danqiu. When Yangshan people left, Li Bai wrote "Send Yangshan people to Songshan": I have a house forever, Songshan Jade Girl Mountain. Live for a month and hang it in dongxisong. I went to Xiancao, and the cattail flowers were all purple. At the end of the year or visiting relatives, riding a white dragon. A few days later, Yuan Danqiu came to my humble abode in Yangshan. Knowing that he met Li Bai in Lutai, he asked where Li Bai had gone. Yangshan people said, "The poet is looking for you." Hearing this, Yuan Danqiu got on the dragon horse and went to find Li Bai. The two sides searched for each other for more than half a month, and finally met at Xuyou Palace in Heying River (now Xi 'er River) between Lutai Mountain and Fengxue Mountain, and had a good talk. When talking about the story of Xu You washing his ears, Li Bai wrote: Jun Shuiqing suddenly returned to Songling. Don't wash your ears when you come back, wash your heart for me Wash your heart, wash your ears and buy a name. Xie Gong will be together eventually, and he will help the people. Li Bai came to Yuan Danqiu's residence, and they "shared a bed with Emperor Xi" and lived in peace as much as possible. Li Bai saw Yuan Danqiu's Angelababy Mountain Residence, with Maling in the north, Lianfeng Songqiu in the north and Lutai in the south. He was very envious and longed for Yuan Danqiu's seclusion, so he wrote several poems, such as titled Yuan Danqiu Mountain Residence, titled Yuan Danqiu Angelababy Mountain Residence, Viewing Yuan Danqiu's Wushan Screen and Song of Yuan Danqiu. One of the most famous is Yuan Danqiu's song: "Yuan Danqiu loves immortals. In the morning, I drink the clear stream of Yingchuan, and at dusk, I return to Song Cenzi smoke, which is 30 peaks long. Long-term rotation, Nie Hongxing, riding a flying dragon, get the wind. Crossing the sea, I know that my heart is endless. "