Jiuhua Travels
2000/6/20
This summer, I travel with two colleagues Jiuhuashan, I had heard that nine Huashan is one of the Buddhist holy sites, I have several times through the nine Mountain, but do not have the opportunity to enjoy her style.
At 7:00 on June 16, we start from Shanghai, take the K2 sub-Express. Perhaps a coincidence, I am from home, when met usually rare in Shanghai, a nun, on the bus after we sat opposite one another in recent years, Liu Xun-old monk, his benign countenance, armed with a string Buddha bead, mouth mutter prayers, which is probably not yet reached the temple, monks vision bar. As the train time earlier, so eating breakfast in the car, we have brought from the supermarket bought pork, grilled fish, seeds, bread, tempeh and fish food, brazenly eating, speaking, laughing, but when suddenly remembered the opposite When the old monk sat on the immediately restrained, self-conscious distance migration to the meal. Eat, we began to self-entertainment, the preferred poker, I was less likely to play, the old monk sitting next to me take the initiative to Minato over, the same as preaching, teaching master he has mastered the kind of poker play, the monk are pairs of poker also has a special affection, and thus we say open, when know that he is a monk Jiuhua after (in fact, we already are several), we asked this question of curiosity that, he was very familiar camel, 11 answers of our problems, in his view Jiuhuashan under the influence in the modern atmosphere, a lot of progress, but also a lot of civilization, you can see, he loves there. After a nearly seven hours before the Tongling.
In Tongling, we switch cars to the nine Mountain, even though the driver said that only three hours away, but we spent nearly four hours before reaching their destination half-way change tires once, and others once, parking pick-up several times, each a very long period of time. Experience in the car 2 9 Huashan hotel "business representative", one claiming to be the general manager of a hotel, another one is introduced through acquaintances stay in a market economy under the influence of atmospheric Hou, They for undercut, each telling their own in front of us on how how well the hotels, but also with big suddenly a small voice suddenly attacked each other, the first time I personally experienced the "snipe and the clam, encouraged mischief" in the classic sense. Outcomes are predictable, we have chosen the same criteria, the lowest price of that home, was very cost-effective.
Buy a ticket into the gate, in the residence to rest a little, we began to familiar surroundings, do not know when, we followed behind in a middle-aged woman claiming to be guides, and her being a tour guide at the cost of our dinner at her home resolved, the original enthusiasm for this kind of thing is often used to meet certain conditions.
Before coming to Jiuhuashan, colleagues advertised, there is a major feature of Jiuhuashan, and that is a step a temple. Her words were quickly proven, from the starting gate first entered, you can see several temples. We stayed at the center of the region Jiuhua - jiuhuajie, where a small, but the banks, public security bureaus, schools, cinemas, hospitals, etc., 11 counts really sparrow may be small, fully-equipped one. Buildings on the street are only four colors, brown and yellow with the Buddha-related, the yellow alert symbol walls, but most are not particularly solemn temples, the temple architecture and the local residential areas almost embodies the temple public sex. Black and white people is related to the house long ago short and small, with the development of tourism have emerged out of a number of two three-story buildings, most of them are private for hotels and restaurants. On the street wearing a cassock short hair steady stream of monks and ordinary people. I wonder is why there are some monks and ignore the bald, his head did not fragrant scars, perhaps there are some problems not fit to ask why I still do not know one, is not that they are issued with a self-cultivation, or the foot of the Buddha College Students , or to monks as a career?
Zhan Tan Lin is our first national priority to visit the temple. Its door is composed of three cornices from the white marble arch, in the middle on both sides of the door and side door and the Forbidden City palace gate, as composed by red and yellow, the tall and dignified brass knocker on the door was placed on top of one large The heavy, it is conceivable in the ancient temples and palaces enjoy the same treatment. Into the door was greeted on the stone steps stood two Dabei palace, stone steps on the vertical front of the hall with two large white marble sculpture of the Dragon. A symbol of good weather of the four kings stood stone steps from the main entrance to the avenue on both sides, powerful and serious. Into the house and a Buddhist goddess Guanyin statue placed in the central hall, the walls around the sculpture the Goddess of Mercy life skills map. Visits to the Yasukuni temple must be a clockwise direction, it is the rule. Later we also went to the Heavenly Lake Temple, Temple in the Tianchi springs beneath a very clear, very cool, legends Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Changyin.
As jiuhuajie in the hillside, walking in the street can clearly see the white summit of Mt Jiuhua Piedmont centenary Palace, yellow Dong Ya-Yun Fang and fly Hongqiao. I have a mystery on their feeling, which further increased my curiosity.
9 Huashan is located in Qingyang County, Anhui Province in the south bank of the Yangtze River, during which the Vatican brake everywhere, Xiushui around. The legend is Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva practice, and thus he has an irreplaceable Jiuhuashan position. With the Wutai Mountain in Shanxi Province, Mount Emei, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Putuo Mountain and said the four Buddhist mountains. Emerald mountain ridges and peaks, rugged rocks, tall bamboo Qiu Song, Glen Shen Jian, River Tam, waterfalls, sea of clouds and fog-lan.
Had heard that there are many specialties Jiuhuashan, my very greedy, like the taste of local food. Jiuhuashan are stone fish, chukar, civet cats, pheasants, Umbilicaria, Sun Zi, Huang Jing, etc. specialties, I heard that Wong Jing was then Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva eat a plant, sweet, like ginger, but better than ginger large, long life is said to eat more to achieve results. As we all know, travel places, and everything is very expensive, I generally do not look at the menu, and who voluntarily serve as our guide, women, now became the hotel's proprietress. Now always like to exaggerate, a total of only ten square meters of business area of shops, called big hotels, big restaurants and the like, and even today we Jiuhuashan from Tongling to this road, is a large restaurant, restaurants, hotels Lin than the big cities even more. After nearly 40 minutes to bargain the price of the original menu, hit 12 off, and our appetite and therefore decrease should have been very tasty game, by their blind Daoteng become with our imagination in the taste is quite different from far.
Although it is summer, not sleep at night, no access to air conditioning, a cool breeze blowing, looking at bringing a moon, the mountain temple where the lights are mysterious and dark black silhouetted against the mountains, like the lighthouse on the ocean, guided Tomorrow we have a way forward. Monks on the night class is very rhythm of the bell, we have heard from a distance, accompanied by the sound of gurgling water safely asleep.
The sun does not rise from the horizon, the distant bell has been sounded. We started hiking along the many local people put the stalls, mainly selling more toilet paper, Buddha incense, souvenirs and so on. After the net with disabilities Um, Wuliang Temple, clean Vihara, big like Mao Peng, Sands spring came on the body palace, which is the location of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva flesh, we are climbing a steep stone steps and came to the month-long Body palace back door, bypassing the palace, came to palace's front door, into the house and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva of flesh placed inside the six-party wooden pagoda, the pagoda placed around six identical Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue, a large number pious faithful homage, smoke-filled, wooden fish sounded, scripture ears, incense is very strong.
Came Dianwai, standing on the platform of white marble overlooking to the distance, peaks and ridges in the Mangmangyunhai when hidden, at times, like the Jade Pool, Lotus, and some Hanbaoyufang, some or Huagu Duo, like entering Wonderland.
Read the map, we're going a hundred palaces, despite the hands of a map, but extending in all directions of the mountain can not make their choice in the right direction, on this point, I think Jiuhuashan less than some other scenic areas, although some places have a very simple sign , but can not meet the needs of tourists. This is also on the other hand generated a lot of amateur tour guides, "free" tour guide, as we slim, when a young man wearing a red T-shirts can get us to propose, and later learned that his condition is to give his 150 tour guides RMB or is to their home to eat lunch, we tactful him quit. In the rugged mountain path, from time to time come across a few kids, they wear a more simple and plain, begging tourists to and from "school money" suddenly remembered Jiuhuashan is planning to spend more than 400 million yuan to build what is 99 meters Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva copper Like these a waste of manpower, material and financial resources of the plan is not redundant?
The original route to a hundred years old palace as the center of the arc is jiuhuajie, we take a very long time. If Jiuhuashan still under construction and development phase, there are several still built呀repair呀, such as the back-Xiang Ge, which some chefs are busy, engraved plaque, painting, and to the statue rimmed. One of my colleagues is from the north, may be rarely seen south of the mountain, she was very interested in Castle Peak gentle, hilly landscape, in the case of Anhui and Jiangxi Province is the case everywhere, Castle Peak. After a return to Xiang Pavilion, walked the quiet mountain Road, went to Dong Ya-Yun Fang, Yun-Fang Feihong in front of a kiosk, they are built on a steep cliff in the middle with the artificial construction of concrete steps to connect and look Yun-Fang and pavilions, giving a superior feeling, 2 rocks door lions, carved very beautifully. Cornices, Qiao Shi, grass, stone balustrades, Castle Peak form a beautiful landscape painting. Followed by Zhong Ting, inside a big clock, an old monk from time to time his sixtieth knock clock, loud bell transmitted to the distance, standing near deafening. Zhong Ting Palace from the road to a hundred years old, a monkeys and contacts with visitors to frolic, they compete for visitors in the hands of food, we seem to have returned to the natural.
Palace came to a hundred, I mainly want to see the old monk who has passed away the flesh, he lived for more than one hundred years, hundred years old palace is probably for this reason named after the bar. Hundred years old palace consists of three parts, Front Hall, Middle Temple, and the rear. Front Hall sitting the middle of the huge statue of Buddha, on both sides of his disciples. Hall neatly placed on the table and used to worship with the mats, there are sequence arrayed on the table by the open book, the book is available through the thick of the auspicious patterns embroidered satin fabric covered square, and some also put on the table a number of musical instruments. Hall is a palace in the center of centenarians, the old monk who had a hundred gold-plated body of flesh and placed in a glass cabinet. Closer look, see the flesh is very thin and small, left and right arm hanging mid-air, as is the same as the support legs sit cross-legged, because it is gold, so I saw his facial contours. The rear, also known as Hall's death, very dark, is still alive, people who died of salvation, and we abruptly entered, and was seen as tourists stop signs, turn it flew away.
When we were about to leave when the centenary Palace, see a little monks Satisfy forward to a tasty meal from the Front Hall of the side room out, I saw that he solemnly will be lined up meals with rice as the center placed at for the case of the Buddha, when sitting in the corner of a monk from the slow to fast beat of the drum. In the Buddha's monks also have the right of the congregation stood up to wear a red cassock embedded in Phnom Penh, neatly lined up. Buddha is the opposite of the believers have also donned a black cassock as the kind of attire. Obviously, the funeral service activities soon begin. Shaped like a monk knocked a bit like the rice bowl, but better than a big bowl of rice musical instruments, sonorous voice, pronounced by a monk collar tune, everyone started chanting, almost no one could understand. Then an old monk who led the faithful into a column of 11 to knock before the Buddha worship, and then return to standing. Monks in a rhythmic sound of the instrument carrying scriptures, they are familiar with very few people read through the book, in the middle there is only a few monks chanting, it may be to adjust the consistency, updating some surprising is that during the ceremonies Buddhist monks and understanding of the opposite sex say hello, some monks take out mobile phone, into the 21st century, some things really changed. Ceremonies after the monks gradually dispersed.
500 Rohan Palace Hall and close to a hundred, is a two-storey building, 500 gold-plated Rohan lifelike, they look different. From a hundred years old palace back to back Xiang-ge, go to the post-9 Huashan Mountain. All the way down, we have seen gambling Hing monk, smoking monk monks and flowers. Listening to the tourists came back, said the mountain landscapes better than the previous hill.
Down is very easy, soon came to the foot of the mountain. Into the nun Street, an alley on both sides of the compact, there are nearly a dozen blocks to build a nunnery, they are there in Buddhism, and some in meditation, and some in the procedure. We came to Phoenix Song, the so-called "Phoenix Song" is only a pine tree looks like a phoenix, the human imagination is great, no matter which tourist attractions, there are quite similar to the shape of things, what it is什么. Sun face, we eat lunch, rest a moment after the mountain.
After the mountain temple with a mountain quite, but the mountain should be advantageous compared to the previous mountain steep, winding stairs upward, upward from the station at the steps to see there are tens of meters of the drop, after a long life hole Fuguang Um, Chaoyang Temple, to bridge Um, it built on a stone bridge, the bridge spans are tens of meters, mountains, the bridge is below the cliffs, deep bottomless. Beyond it is the Goddess of Mercy peak, the peak shape of a long journey to the Goddess of Mercy, back toward us, her skirt wind Lueqi, head cloth with color cover, color fabric in the wind elegant, really very good-looking, I really do not understand such a strategically located and difficult of the stone, which is how the Department of fabric color up to? Is not a devout heart and with courage and insight in return.
The units are being renovated ancient worship, standing on the square in front of the stage through the ancient prayer and looked to the distance, the sea of clouds rolling in front of an empty heart, is very pleasant. We even go with a big bang came to the altitude of 1321 meters of the roof is the top, attracted to those older climbers roadside appreciation and admiration. Top of the roof is also in construction, the required material can only rely on the gravel shoulder mud people to choose, pick workers for every pick nine yuan a jin earns money, they earned a hard-earned money, but authentic, dark skin, strong body is their characteristics. They step by step of the mountains, along the shed sweat, Tarzan-like gallop down the mountain, this is more than some money in order, hard-working and great working people.
We came to bid farewell to the rooftop thin strip of sky, this section of track was not very good away all too easy to slide down the possibility of there. Jiuhua the thin strip of sky very small and very short, perhaps the Buddha to inspire us, apply a broad mind to deal with things, rather than narrow-mindedness. In the peak of iron chain, a number of bolt locks, where lock is entrusted with the owner's expectations and prayers. From its peak afar, we saw the beetles towards Beidou, immortal flower drum and dreams pens and other attractions, including the immortal drums still as realistic, it is by the two stand on a rock cliff composed of a thin close to the monks sit cross-legged in the dark side, that in general a high drum and a monk, then as in a hundred monks playing, like the palace to see.
At about 5 pm, we take the cable car down the mountain, in the way down the mountain, see the welcoming Huangshan pine, almost to the pine tree out of a rut. There is a small episode, because it is one-way cable car, so when a cable car arrival time, in the way of all moving cable car are to be stopped or traveling slowly, the body hanging in the air, a gentle breeze, dangling, If Wengzhongzhibie is, indeed, let us a false alarm.
No pre-mountain so many temples, there is not the beauty of the mountain scenery. Is silhouetted against the mountain scenery of the mountain before the temple, the temple or the solicitation of the former mountain the mountain scenery, is not known.
Phoenix came loose, car rental return jiuhuajie looking zhaitang. In the Su-Xiang Chai, we taste made from konjac prime lamb kidney, green peppers Xianggan, spicy tofu, Youchao water spinach, vegetarian floss, salty seaweed, vegetarian three soup, which though very common home-style cooking to burn out of very good taste. Had eaten, we are in the sweet melodious voice of the Buddha, the tour jiuhuajie sale crowds of souvenir shops, the roadside hotel crowded, the crowd break out in laughter.
On the third day we would leave Jiuhuashan, before leaving, we came away from the jiuhuajie distant, inaccessible Longchi waterfalls, flowing water far away I heard the sound of running water, but not seen. Escorted rusty iron chain, went down 100 steps, where the steps are very interesting, they are leaning against a cliff tightly crafted, very advantageous, in some places waist to bend ninety degrees in order to barely passed, in some places should be carefully The sideways through it, really Kazuo when closed, Wan Fu Mo open. On one side are rocks hills hills, one side is a cliff faint. Standing on the high stone steps and looked to the distance, a river meandering forward, from the mountain stream, to the canyon to go. Passed a stone bridge, came to the end of stone steps, is a pool of clear green water, water fish freely in play. Because it is put water season, the big stones on the riverbed exposed at the surface, above the moss has been a spotless sun. We still do not see the waterfall, only to hear her voice, curiosity drives us to continue to move forward. Climbed over a few large stones, eyes an open, water is more green, a stream flowing down from above Fei Liu, a few stones at it from the middle of flow becomes more turbulent, like a dragon descending from the sky. Encountered protruding stones on the higher spray splashes. White spray hit the surface of the lake, Dang Qi Zhen Zhen-water waves, to spread out to four weeks, fog, like air rushing toward the water, spirit are inspired by and quiet ease, self and nature mixed into one. This is a good place for self-cultivation, where scenery is fine!
To always leave a little regret every place, when we came to the city Qingyang County, we found just the development of a new King introduced Jiuhuashan. Because of the time, we did not go, they are nine sub-rock, large caverns and other natural landscapes, and their beautiful only rely on themselves to think, perhaps to be able to make up for the regret.
We finally left the nine Mountain, where the chuong Drum, Fine reiterated myth, where the Lingshan Xiushui, ancient flowers, where the Land Delicacies game, allspice Buddha tea, there settled in the deserted temples, houses pagoda, where the Qifeng rocks, cliffs cliffs , have all left me with a deep image Jiuhuashan really deserves to be called "Lotus Buddha country"!
Author: SHXIEHUA
