Where is Wuyue?

Wuyue Mountain is the general name of the five famous mountains in China. Namely Mount Taishan in Dongyue (located in Shandong), Mount Huashan in Xiyue (located in Shaanxi), Mount Hengshan in Beiyue (located in Shanxi), Mount Songshan in Zhongyue (located in Henan) and Mount Hengshan in Nanyue (located in Hunan), among which Mount Taishan ranks first. They are places where feudal emperors worship Zen and set up businesses, and they are also symbols of feudal emperors' orders from heaven and their determination to the Central Plains. The scenery of the Five Mountains has its own characteristics, which is favored by many tourists, and many literati have left a lot of poems.

The misty Huashan Mountain-a fairyland on earth

Snow scene of Mount Tai

The Five Mountains are the product of the combination of the worship of ancient mountain gods, the concept of five elements and the emperor's meditation, which was later inherited by Taoism and regarded as a famous Taoist mountain. They are: Mount Taishan in Dongyue (elevation 1545 m), Mount Hengshan in Nanyue, Tai 'an City, Shandong Province (elevation 1290 m), and Mount Huashan in Xiyue, Hengyang City, Hunan Province (elevation 2 154), which is located in Hengshan in Beiyue, huayin city City, Shaanxi Province (elevation 2016.

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The theory of the Five Mountains first appeared in Zhou Li, Chun Guan and Dazongbo: "Serve the country with blood, and sacrifice five mountains." Zhou Li, now recognized as a book, was written at the end of the Warring States Period, and it was a fusion of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Yin and Yang. Therefore, we believe that the concept of the Five Mountains is a combination of the Quartet God since the Shang Dynasty and the Five Elements concept in the early Warring States period, and the worship of the Five Mountains was sealed by the emperor in the feudal era. "Biography of Historical Records" contains: "The sky is high, and I set up Mount Tai Zen rites to worship it, which is close to the gods." In order to "report the merits of heaven", emperors often regard the majestic and steep peaks as auspicious places, set up altars at the summit and hold amenorrhea ceremonies. The theory of Zen originated from Qi and Lu in the Warring States Period. The first person to hold a large-scale meditation ceremony was Qin Shihuang. The only place where Qin Shihuang personally offered sacrifices was Mount Tai. In the Tang Dynasty, meditation activities became more frequent. Wuyue's position was higher after being touted by feudal emperors for many times. There are many famous mountains in China, and Lushan Mountain, Huangshan Mountain and Emei Mountain are famous far and wide, but it is not unreasonable that these five mountains are honored as "Yue". Take East, West and Zhongshan as examples. They are all located on the banks of the Yellow River, which is the cradle of our Chinese nation and the earliest place where Chinese ancestors settled. Although the Five Mountains are not the highest mountains in China, they are all higher than the plains or basins, so they are particularly steep. There are some poems in The Book of Songs, such as "Mount Tai breaks the ground, Lu Bang admires it" and "Gao Song Yue Wei, sublime the sky", which shows the position of Mount Tai and Songshan in the eyes of the ancients. At the same time, due to some conditions at that time, it was impossible to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the world famous mountains, and of course it was impossible to "choose the best among the best". The five mountains split the ground and skyscraper, standing proudly. For thousands of years, emperors have sacrificed here, monks and Taoists have practiced chanting here, good men and women have burned incense and made wishes here, and celebrities and elegant guests also like to make poems and paintings here, leaving many cultural relics for wuyue, which is even more famous. It's no wonder that when people climb the Five Mountains, they will sigh that "the Five Mountains return without looking at the mountains"

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In ancient times, a group of gods lived in the five mountains attached to the emperor, and held meditation and sacrificial ceremonies in the mountains. The theory of "Five Mountains" began with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Emperor xuanhan of Tang dynasty

Zonghe made the five mountains king and emperor. Ming Taizu regarded the Five Mountains as gods. Among the five mountains designated by Xuan Di, Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, Tianzhu Mountain in Anhui Province is Nanyue Mountain, and Damao Mountain in Quyang County of Hebei Province is Beiyue Mountain. Later, Hengshan Mountain in Hunan was changed to Nanyue Mountain, which became a custom after the Sui Dynasty. Hengshan Mountain in Hunyuan was regarded as Beiyue in Ming Dynasty, and moved to Beiyue in Qing Dynasty. There are many scenic spots in the Five Mountains, among which Mount Tai in Dongyue is the first of the Five Mountains! The "Yue" in the Five Mountains means lofty mountain. In ancient China, high mountains were regarded as "the highest in the sky", and five high mountains located in the east, south, west, north and middle of the Central Plains were designated as "Five Mountains". During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhism and Taoism began to build Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in wuyue for religious activities, and each "Yue" honored a "Yue God" (or "Emperor" or "God King") as the highest god in charge of Yue. The natural scenery of these mountains has also been gradually developed for worshippers to visit. As a result, Wuyue Mountain has become a scenic spot in China with the beauty of natural landscape of mountains and rivers and the victory of Buddhist and Taoist cultural landscape. Before the Tang and Song Dynasties, the five mountains were generally the same as Buddhism and Taoism, and temples and views coexisted. After the Song Dynasty, Buddhism and Taoism competed with each other according to their respective political backgrounds and social forces. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Nanyue, Beiyue and Zhongyue still maintained the situation of respecting Buddhism and Taoism, while Dongyue and Xiyue were dominated by Taoist forces and became the centers of Taoism in China. People in China say that the scenery must have three mountains and five mountains. "Three Mountains" and "Immortals" live in the same place. The Historical Records of the First Qin Emperor contains: "Xu, a Qi man, wrote that there are three holy mountains in the sea, named Penglai, Abbot and Yingzhou", which is the "immortal trace" of Su Dongpo's "the sky is cloudy in the east and the mountains shine all the time"; And "Five Mountains" is the general name of the five famous mountains in China. Namely Mount Taishan in Dongyue, Huashan in Xiyue, Hengshan in Beiyue, Songshan in Zhongyue and Hengshan in Nanyue. They are places where feudal emperors worship Zen and set up businesses, and they are also symbols of feudal emperors' orders from heaven and their determination to the Central Plains. The five mountains split the ground and skyscraper, standing proudly. Although the Five Mountains are not the highest mountains in China, they are all towering above the plains or basins, especially steep. There are some poems in The Book of Songs, such as "Mount Taishan Rock, Lu Bangwang" and "Gao Song Yue Wei, the third runner-up in the sky", from which we can also see the position of the Five Mountains in the eyes of the ancients. Wuyue Mountain deserves to be a famous mountain in the world. On the landscape, the five mountains have their own characteristics: Mount Tai Xiong, Mount Heng Xiu, Huashan Insurance, Mount Heng Qifeng and Mount Song Ao. Mount Tai in Dongyue is majestic and majestic, and is regarded as the first of the five mountains. Confucius once lamented that "Climbing Mount Tai is a small world", while Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote the heroic words of "Climbing to the top, you can reach the other mountains all appear dwarfs under the sky.". . Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue is adjacent to the waterfront of Hunan, with lush trees and beautiful scenery, enjoying the reputation of "the exclusive respect of five mountains". Huashan Mountain in Xiyue ranks first among the five mountains. "Huashan has been a road since ancient times", and climbing a mountain is more difficult than climbing the sky.