Travel notes of Mount Emei

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On April 10, we went to Emei from Kunming.

Chengdu-kunming railway, where the train passes, is surrounded by mountains. On thousands of kilometers of railways, one kilometer is a bridge and two kilometers is a tunnel. After entering Sichuan from Yunnan, trains frequently pass through tunnels, and the noise of wheels continues to be harsh, which makes people realize the difficulty of a Shu road. When I arrived in Emei at noon the next day, I seemed to have a feeling of relief.

Emei Mountain is one of the four famous Buddhist mountains. There are thirty temples on the mountain, the most famous of which is Guobao Temple. Guobao Temple is located at the foot of Mount Emei, which was built during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. It is the gateway to the mountains and the starting point of Emei Mountain tourism. In the evening, we came back from Leshan and went to Guobao Temple after dinner. Antique mountain gate, double eaves and blue tiles, surrounded by red walls and nan trees. The temple is built on the mountain, rising step by step, uneven, and the four halls are natural and majestic. Under the Seven Buddhas Hall stands a 7-meter-high Huayan copper tower, which is a cultural relic of the Ming Dynasty. Thousands of small buddhas are cast in the tower, and the full text of Huayan Sutra is engraved. The Buddha statue is lifelike and the words are clearly visible. There is a large colored glazed porcelain Buddha under the Tibetan Scripture Building, which was burned in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province during Yongle period of Ming Dynasty. The porcelain Buddha is about 2.4 meters high and is decorated with lotus clothes from Chiba. Full and dignified, reflecting the exquisite craftsmanship. The Preface to the Lanting Pavilion in Wang Youjun inscribed by famous writers such as Zhao Mengfu He, Kang Youwei, Zhang Daqian and Xu Beihong in the Yuan Dynasty hangs in the Tibetan Scripture Building.

200 meters south of Guobao Temple is Hongzhushan Hotel. The hotel is built in the forest, Zhuhong Lake is clear and quiet, and the air is very fresh. Climbing the stairs from the lake, there is a western-style villa hidden in the forest. The villa is condescending, with ivory appearance and all-wood structure, which looks very elegant. This is the official residence of Chiang Kai-shek during the Anti-Japanese War, and now it is the fourth building of the hotel. The waitress in the building was very enthusiastic and showed us around. The official residence is well preserved, with more than ten rooms. In the middle is the bedroom of Song Jiang and his wife, and on both sides are houses close to each other. 1935 After the official residence was completed, Chiang Kai-shek lived here three times, each time for a short time. The waiter opened the room where Chiang Kai-shek lived. She said that it is open to tourists now, and anyone can stay here for one night as long as 13 yuan. There is really some feeling that "Wang Xietang died in the past and flew into the homes of ordinary people".

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The homestay we live in is in Guobao Temple Scenic Area, and behind the house is Tingquan in the west of the lake. In the dead of night, the sound of the dam stream is like a soft lullaby, which accompanies us to sleep. At dawn, the landlord knocked at the door: "Get up, get on the bus and watch the sunrise!" " "I opened the door and saw a minibus parked outside. I quickly put on my clothes, finished washing and got on the bus in a hurry.

With headlights on, CMB drove all the way to Mount Emei. The trees on both sides of the road are still hung with crystal ice flowers. Nearly six o'clock in the morning, the bus arrived at Ping. At this time, Dong Leiping is foggy, like a fairyland in mythology, and the cableway has not been opened. Many people hike up the mountain to get to Jinding to watch the sunrise. The students in our class heard that it was 6 kilometers away from Jinding, and decided to stay in Pingping to watch the sunrise. After about 40 minutes, the fog has not dispersed, and the tour guide clearly told everyone that the sunrise will not be seen today. We got up early in the dark and chased the mountain to watch the sunrise. I didn't expect the weather to be beautiful, and I was a little disappointed. Watching the sunrise on the mountain depends entirely on luck. People can't have good luck every day, and the weather is not arranged by human will.

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I left Dong Leiping, walked through Lianwangpo and Luohanpo, and came to Xiaxixiangchi Scenic Area, where I was drilling Tianpo. Xixiangchi Scenic Area was built in Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty. The temple is relatively short and the roof is covered with lead tiles. Legend has it that in ancient times, when Bodhisattva Samantabhadra rode an elephant to climb a mountain, he bathed the elephant in the hexagonal pool in front of the temple. Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, once spent the night in Xixiangchi Scenic Area to enjoy the moon and wrote "Emei Mountain Moon Song". Since then, "Xiangchi jathyapple" has become one of the ten scenic spots in Emei.

There are often monkeys in Xixiangchi Scenic Area. Although the monkeys here don't hurt people, they also scare many tourists, so the monks in the temple put peanuts in small bags and sold them to tourists to feed. We bought several bags of peanuts and sat in front of the temple waiting for the arrival of monkeys, but there were no monkeys around. No sooner had we left Xixiangchi Scenic Area than a monkey jumped out and blocked our way. We took out peanuts and sprinkled them on monkeys. The monkeys thought we were unhappy, jumped up, grabbed the bag, emptied all the peanuts and ate them up quickly. The monkeys came around again, jumped on us and reached for peanuts. We took out another bag of peanuts and dropped them on the ground. Finally, we shook the empty bag and told the monkey that the peanuts had been eaten. The considerate monkey, no longer pestering, took the initiative to retreat to the side of the road, indicating that we can let go. This kind of communication between people and monkeys adds some fun to the journey, but it also makes people take more precautions against monkeys.

Through Diamond Slope, Jiulinggang and Huayanding, there is a Monkey Mountain below. There are dense forests and rugged mountain roads here. We walked and watched. Why are there no monkeys in the tree? Suddenly someone screamed behind him: "My camera!" Looking back, we saw an uncle chasing a monkey. The monkey grabbed his camera, quickly got into the Woods and ran away in a blink of an eye. My uncle was panting with fatigue, holding an empty camera cover in his hand and looking depressed to the extreme. The stranger immediately stopped to help uncle find the camera. 100 people scattered search and found a large area, but still found nothing. These arrogant monkeys are really hard to prevent!

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On Emei Road, the sliding bar is a traditional means of transportation. Many mountain people make a living by lifting sliding bars and carrying tourists up and down mountains, and earning some hard money by their strength. When passing the old Changping, two young climbers, carrying an empty slide bar, were soliciting business. When they saw one of our girls, they asked her if she would like to sit on the slide bar. The girl asked them the price, and the mountain people said a dollar a mile. While speaking, a pair of sliding bars came along. Two short mountaineers are carrying a fat foreigner. The heavy slide bar made them panting and sweating. The girl said in a sympathetic tone, wouldn't it be a big loss for you to carry such a foreigner? People in the village say that outsiders are big and it costs two yuan to transport a mile.

We girls, also want to experience the fun of sitting on the slide bar, tentatively asked the villagers, can I sit for two miles? The mountaineer smiled and said, Yes! The girl sat on the slide bar and asked her classmates to take a picture of her. The mountaineer who carried the slider quit. They refused to be photographed, thinking it was disrespectful to them. This incident made us realize that although people are high and low, they are born equal, and we should not infringe on their self-esteem. Girls are also reasonable and no longer insist on taking pictures. The villagers carried the sliding bars, shining and walking like flies. In a short time, Erli Road was completed.

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After Chudian, we arrived at Xixin Station, with an altitude of 1, 460m. It used to be a quiet place for laymen and a place for hermits in Emei Mountain to practice. Guanyin and the pharmacist Buddha are enshrined in the temple, and the couplet at the door reads: "All is silent, the heart has a wish, and everything is different from me." This means that at this high altitude, people's hearts will naturally calm down, and all kinds of dust and distractions will be left behind, and they will enter a selfless state of harmony between man and nature. To understand it in the present words is to leave the world of mortals and come here. We should calm down, make an inner adjustment, filter out the evil thoughts in our hearts and supplement the good thoughts of positive energy. It is said that the present resting place is the place where mages and laymen retreat to practice. The house is enclosed in a bamboo forest behind the temple, and only a path connects with the temple. Temples and enclosed houses are separate, do not interfere with each other and do not receive tourists.

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Arrive at Wannian Temple around noon 12: 30. Wannian Temple, built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is the largest temple in Emei Mountain. Looking from the gate of Daguangming Mountain, people will be deeply moved by the exquisite layout and magnificent architecture. The temple is full of worshippers and the incense is very strong. Some devout believers, carrying many bamboo baskets of incense sticks, walked up from the foot of the mountain step by step and went to worship in every temple. After visiting one temple, I hurried to the next. This devotion to faith is very touching. When I was in Chengdu, Sichuan, I once heard a friend who studied Buddhism say that the earliest tourism in China originated from religious worship. There are many famous mountains and monks in the world, where there are temples, there are landscapes, and where there are landscapes, there are tours. The ancestors of China tourists are these devout admirers.

The flat brick halls in the temple have different styles. The top of the hall looks like an inverted round iron pot. There is an arc dome above the hall, surrounded by 24 niches, and the whole building has no beams or columns. It has been more than 400 years since the Ming Dynasty, and it has experienced 18 earthquakes, and it is still safe and sound. A big bronze Buddha in the temple was cast in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty. The giant Buddha is 7.85 meters high and weighs about 62 tons. Bodhisattva Samantabhadra is riding on a white elephant, wearing a double golden crown and sitting cross-legged on the lotus seat. His image is rich and solemn. The six-toothed white elephant he rode was as big as the real one, beautifully carved and lifelike. It is the national treasure of Mount Emei.

On the left side of Wannian Temple, there is a white pool. The water in the pool is as clear as a mirror, and the grass is green. In 725 AD, 25-year-old Li Bai visited Mount Emei, once lived in Wannian Temple, and got to know Guang Jun, a monk in the temple. Guang Jun is knowledgeable and talented, especially good at playing the piano. Li Bai and Guang Jun used to fiddle and compose poems by Baishui Lake, which was passed down as a story of monks interacting with laity. However, the wonderful piano sound and the beautiful scenery of Emei failed to keep Li Bai, who took the initiative to join the WTO. After going down the mountain, he bid farewell to his teachers and friends and wrote a song "Listening to Your Playing the Piano":

The sea embraces the land-melodious songs come from the distant Emei Mountain. When I hear the sound of Matsutani, I wave my hand at will. I heard him in the clear stream, I heard him in the cold bell. Unconsciously, dusk enveloped the castle peak, and the autumn clouds were bleak, covering the dusk sky.

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Come down from Wannian Temple, pass Bailong Cave and arrive at Yin Qing Pavilion. Yin Qing Pavilion is small and exquisite, with dangerous terrain, mountains and waters, dense forests and fragrant flowers and trees. There is Niuxin Pavilion in front of the pavilion, and there is a stone bridge on each side, which spans the stream, hence the name Shuangfei Bridge. The stream on the left comes from Hongchunping, also known as Heilongjiang; The stream on the right bypasses Wannian Temple, also known as Bailong River. Black and white water meet in one place and rush to the bull's-heart stone, causing bursts of gorgeous spray. The gurgling sound echoed in the silent canyon. No matter spring, summer, autumn and winter, no matter day and night, it has never stopped for thousands of years, which constitutes the "double bridges and clear sounds" in the ten scenic spots of Emei. The harmonious integration of mountains, rivers and temples, and the integration of vision and hearing make it a model of Buddhist temple architecture, and it is praised as "the first scene of Emei Mountain" by ancient and modern tourists. The stream flows through the bull's heart stone, becoming shallow and slow. We took off our shoes and socks, went into the water and washed our faces with water in our hands. The cool stream is refreshing, and I feel a lot of fatigue has dissipated.

There is no scenery under the Yin Qing Pavilion. Although this is biased, the scenery below is really hard to compare with here. You should strive for perfection instead of seeking more, just like China's landscape painting method, which pays attention to trade-offs and leaves blank space appropriately. In order to get back to Guobao Temple before dark, we stepped up our pace, passed Zhongfeng Temple, Chunyang Temple and Khufu Temple, and finally returned to the homestay in Huxi at 5: 30 in the afternoon.

It's time for dinner. Count the people. Everyone is here. Unexpectedly, in just one day, we went up and down Mount Emei and walked more than 100 miles. More than 20 students in the group were able to return safely, even the weakest girl did not fall behind.

At 9: 00 am on April 12, the bus from the bus station drove to B&B. We bid farewell to Mount Emei and took a bus to Chengdu, the provincial capital.