If you go hiking in Wudang Mountain, you can take a bus to Nanyan Wu Yuling in the tourist center, about 40km, then climb to Jinding for 2-4 hours on foot, and then walk down from Jinding to Qiongtai, which takes about 1 hour. After visiting Qiongtai, you can go down by bus.
Get on and off the cable car in the direction of Qiongtai (you can also walk up and down, there are hiking trails, and your physical strength is not too great. It takes two or three hours to get up and down the mountain); There are also hiking up and down in the direction of Nanyan; The third type is hiking (or hiking) in Nanyan, Qiongtai Cable Car; The fourth is to go up the Qiongtai cable car (or on foot) and go down Nanyan on foot.
In short, there is only a cable car (also a mountain road) in Qiongtai direction and only a mountain road (no cable car) in Nanyan direction. It takes about three hours to walk from Nanyan to Jinding, and there are too many steps uphill. If you are in poor physical strength, it is recommended not to walk from Nanyan.
Wudang Mountain, a holy place of Taoism, is located in Danjiangkou, Shiyan City, Hubei Province. Wudang Mountain, also known as Taihe Mountain, Xieluo Mountain, Shenshan Mountain and Shixian Mountain, was called Taiyue, Xuan Yue and Da Yue in ancient times.
Up to 20 13, Wudang Mountain has 53 ancient buildings with a building area of 27,000 square meters, 9 architectural sites covering an area of more than 200,000 square meters, and 5,035 pieces of various cultural relics have been preserved in the whole mountain.
In the Ming Dynasty, Wudang Mountain was named "Da Yue" and "Xuan Yue" by the emperor, and was regarded as the supreme "Royal Palace View". Wudang Mountain is famous for its prominent position as the "crown of five mountains". The four famous mountains are all arched, and the five immortals worship the Sect.
Wudang Mountain is one of the world cultural heritages announced by the United Nations. It is a national key scenic spot in China and a national AAAAA scenic spot. Wudang Mountain is also the birthplace of famous Taoist mountains and Wudang martial arts, and is called "the unparalleled scenery in ancient times, the first fairy mountain in the world".
Wudang Wushu is an important school of China Wushu. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Zhang Sanfeng, a Taoist, combined with his achievements, founded Wutangmen, which has an influence to this day.
Taihe Mountain, called Wudang Mountain in ancient times, is one of the famous Taoist shrines in China. It not only has strange and gorgeous natural landscape, but also rich and colorful human landscape, so it is known as "the first fairy mountain in the world, unprecedented in ancient times".
Wudang Mountain is a unique mountain peak. There are both the heroes of Mount Tai and the dangers of Mount Hua. Cliffs, deep streams and valleys, caves and clear springs are scattered all over the place. Since ancient times, Wudang Mountain has been an ideal place for Taoism to pursue fairyland. Taoist architecture has spread all over the mountain on a large scale. It is said that Xuanwu gained enlightenment here in ancient times.
Folding jingling palace
The first of the Eight Palaces in Wudang Mountain is the Jingle Palace in Wudang Mountain, which was built in Yongle 1 1 year in Ming Dynasty. 1958 was submerged in Danjiangkou reservoir. A number of cultural relics, such as the archway in the palace and the tortoise shell monument, were moved to Danjiangkou. In 2002, danjiangkou city invested 70 million yuan to fully restore Jingle Palace.
After more than two years of construction, the first phase of the project square, the mountain gate, the Imperial Monument Pavilion, the three main halls and the attached halls have begun to take shape, reappearing the grand momentum of Jingle Palace. It has become an example of the relocation and restoration of above-ground cultural relics in Danjiangkou South-to-North Water Transfer Project.
Folding Xuan Yue door
It is a stone building, commonly known as the "Rule the World Xuan Yue" archway, which is called three rooms, four columns and five floors. The archway of "Governing the World, Xuan Yue" was built in A.D. 1552, in the thirty-first year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty. Located at 4000 meters east of Wudang Mountain, it is the first portal of Wudang Mountain, also known as Xuanyue Gate.
The stone chisel imitates the big wooden building structure. On the fifth floor, three four-column archways are12m high and14m wide. The ratio of the Ming dynasty to the second dynasty was 53. The square column is 6 meters high, and there are clamps around the column to reinforce it with iron hoops. The lower light room of the gantry at the top of the column is a large and small relief room, the upper part of which is rolled with grass flowers to support the relief petition, and the lower part is inlaid with hall flower boards, forming three doorways with high light opening rooms and slightly lower sides.
The main building is installed in Longmen Square, and rectangular horizontal plaques are embedded in the left and right vertical columns of the Ming room. In the second time, two floors were erected on the side building, and the cloud board and the second floor formed a broad and towering main building. The side building was spread out layer by layer from top to bottom, showing a three-hill-resting square building, in which a horizontal brand maker carved the forehead of "ruling the world" given by Emperor Jiajing.
The structure of this workshop is simple and diverse, and the components are assembled by tenons and mortises. The workshop is beautifully decorated and carved. People, animals and flowers are carved by line carving, round carving and relief. It is a masterpiece of the southern stone archway and a treasure of stone carving art in Ming Dynasty.
Folding jade palace
The full name of Yu Xiu Palace in Wudang Mountain is "Yu Xiu Palace in Tian Xuan". Founded in the 11th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, 2,200 temples were built in 14 13, and rebuilt in the 31st year of Jiajing. It is the largest unit among the ancient buildings in Wudang Mountain. Later, most of them were destroyed in the ten years of Qing Qianlong. In 1745, four pavilions weighing100t were built in some existing buildings and sites.
Folding needle grinding well
Also known as Chunyang Palace. The existing grinding well is located at 12km south of Laoying, which was built in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty. It was rebuilt in 1852 and 1984 in Xianfeng period of Qing dynasty. There are more than 50 rooms with an area of 1700m2.
Folding Taizipo
Also known as the concept of truth. At present, it has basically maintained the scale of that year, and it is considered as a larger unit in Wudang complex. The concept of restoring truth was built in the tenth year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the 22nd year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty 14 12. Located in front of Lion Peak, there are 20 existing buildings with a building area of 3,505 square meters and an area of 60,000 square meters. The 9Jr ramp on the side of Guanmen Mountain looks like Youlong.
There are Zhaobi, KATTO Furnace, Longhu Hall, Daxiong Hall and Taizi Hall on the central axis. On the left side of the Taoist temple, the Imperial Classics Hall, the Wisdom Classics Pavilion, the Dian Pavilion and the Zhai Room are scattered along the mountain. The 12 beam is erected on the wing corner column on the fifth floor of Wuyun Building, which is a rare structure in large wooden buildings and is called one column and twelve beams. [ 1]
Folding Southern Yan
The "holy land" mentioned by Taoism is the most beautiful place among the 36 rocks in Wudang Mountain. Southern Yan Palace was built from the 22nd year of Yuan Dynasty to the 3rd year of Yuan Dynasty (1285- 13 10), and was expanded in the 10th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (14 12).
Located at the foot of Duyangyan, this mountain flies like wings hanging in the sky and is famous for its beautiful peaks. The existing 2l building has a building area of 3,505 square meters and an area of 90,000 square meters. There is a motion saying that Tianyi Zhenqing Palace Stone Room, two instrument halls, the Royal Classic Hall, the Feng Ba Pavilion, the Dragon and Tiger Hall, the Great Monument Pavilion and the Nantianmen Building.
The main building, Tianyi Zhenqing Palace Stone Hall, was built in the third year of Yuan Dynasty. It was 13 10 years ago. Its width is 1 1 m, its depth is 66 meters and its height is 68 meters. Beams, columns, doors and windows are all carved with blue stone carvings.
The front slope of the roof is a single-eave mountain-resting type, and the back slope is a hanging eaves bucket according to the rock. Longtouxiang is 3 meters long and only o33 meters wide. It is very artistic and scientific to pick out the faucet facing the deep valley and put a small incense burner.
Folding Qiongtai view
Located at the southeast foot of Tianzhu Peak, it is about10km, with a vertical distance of1.350m. It can be divided into top view, middle view and bottom view. The Yuan Dynasty was called "Qiongtai Palace". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 24 Taoist temples and hundreds of temples were restored and expanded. In the sixth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty, 1856 was destroyed by fire. Some temples have been restored. This is the starting point of Wudang Mountain passenger ropeway. It has become an important tourist distribution center.
Folding taiji lake landscape
Taiji Lake is located at the northern foot of Wudang Mountain in the northwest of Hubei Province, relying on Wudang Mountain, the world heritage of China, and Danjiangkou Reservoir, the largest artificial lake in Asia. After water storage, it will be built at the water diversion source of the middle route project of South-to-North Water Transfer in China.
Focus on the construction of Taiji Lake, Yunyang Island in Yunxian County and Danyang Lake in Xichuan.
Among them, Taiji Lake Eco-cultural Tourism Zone covers an area of 80 square kilometers, with a total investment of more than 20 billion yuan, including three major regions and 2 1 group, focusing on creating more than 80/kloc-0 projects such as Taiji Legend Scenic Area, Taiji Lake Upper Reaches, Taiji Health Valley and New Heritage Park. Will be completed on 20 14.
After the project is completed, it will become a world-famous first-class tourist destination integrating sightseeing, leisure and vacation. Innovating and refining the regional comprehensive value development model of balanced development of "industry, culture, ecology and people's livelihood" has become the regional development model of ecological civilization and people's livelihood development in China.
Folding Zixiao Palace
Zixiao Palace is backed by Zhanqi Peak, facing Zhaobi, Santai, Wulao, candles, hats and incense burners. On the right is Raytheon Cave, and on the left is Yuji Pool and Baozhufeng. The surrounding mountains naturally formed a treasure chair with two dragons playing with pearls, which was named "the land of Ziyun" by Emperor Yongle, the founder of Ming Dynasty.
Zhanqi Peak, located in the southeast of Wudang Mountain, was built in the Xuanhe period of the Northern Song Dynasty (119-125), rebuilt in the 11th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (14 13) and in the 31st year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (/).
There are 29 existing buildings with a building area of 6,854 square meters. On the central axis, there are five terraces, namely Dragon and Tiger Hall, Monument Pavilion, Tang Shifang, Zixiao Hall and Shengwen Mudian, which are built from top to bottom. The two sides were divided into three courtyards by buildings such as houses, forming a group of palace buildings, which are row upon row with clear priorities. The ground was washed and polished with purple stone patterns. The characteristic of the roof is "pushing the mountain".
In front of the screen on the back wall of the temple, there is an altar carved with a statue of the great warrior. The golden boy in the left assistant holds a book, and Duan Bao, a jade girl in the right assistant, will hold a flag and a sword to guard the hatchback. The next statue of Xuanwu under the altar is a combination of gold and ten thousand. There is an incense burner in front of the altar. On the goldsmith's forehead hanging from the altar, the words "golden light and wonderful phase" written by the holy father Michelle Ye are clearly cast.
The word "Golden Temple" is vertically cast on the forehead of the gold medal distilled by a dragon hanging from the eaves of the temple.
All parts of the temple are cast by lost wax method, and the whole body is gold-plated. No matter the structure of tile-wood components is rigorous and precise, it is still brilliant after more than 500 years of cold and summer, which shows that the height of China foundry industry is a bright pearl in existing ancient buildings and casting technology.