Fifteen kilometers northwest of Nanyang City and southwest of Tianying Cemetery, Xiezhuang Town, Wolong District, there is a mountain called Tazi Mountain.
Tazi Mountain, known as Jingshan in ancient times, is made of granite weathered stone. It spans an area of 1 square kilometers and has an altitude of 277 meters. It runs north-south, with the north high and the south low. There is a valley in the middle, which looks like a lying white tiger. The towering Beishan It is like a tiger's head, the valley is like a tiger's neck, and the large area of exposed white stones in Nanshan is like a strong tiger's body.
Real view of Tazi Mountain
The mountain has a single peak, towering from the ground to the sky. The mountain looks like a black pagoda. In addition, there is a pagoda (Buddha) on the top of the mountain. People also call this mountain Tazhi Mountain.
According to the "Nanyang County Chronicle", the pagoda on the mountain was built in the "Three Years of Song and Yuanfu". An old man from Tianying Village told an ancient legend about this pagoda.
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According to legend, there was a monk named Mulian who traveled around the world in order to find a treasured place where he could attain enlightenment and become immortal.
When I arrived at Tazi Mountain, I found that the mountain looked like a lying white tiger, which was very spectacular, so I chose to concentrate on practicing here. During her practice, Mulian built a meditation room on the top of the mountain, grew vegetables and grain on the mountainside, and lived a simple, self-sufficient life. She also often helped the people down the mountain, preaching sutras, chanting Buddha, praying for rain, worshiping ancestors, and teaching children to read and read.
Mulian’s good deeds have become a good story in hundreds of miles around. Later, he achieved enlightenment and became a Buddha. In order to commemorate him, the villagers built a pagoda on the top of the mountain and named it "Mulian Pagoda".
The most beautiful Tazishan
The old man said that this tower is a solid tower, facing south, with 23 floors and an octagonal shape. There are not only three Patriarch Temples next to the pagoda, but also the Jade Emperor Temple and Nainai Temple at the "Tiger Head". In the 1930s, the Tazishan Temple Fair was famous far and wide, and people from a hundred miles away came to attend it. It was very lively.
Over the years, wind and rain eroded, the blue bricks of the tower were peeled off and taken away one after another. One rainy night in 1952, the tower collapsed...
Tianying Village, Xiezhuang Town
"There is another saying, that the mountain When it was first formed, it grew one foot a day. The villagers were worried that it would affect people's livelihood in the long run, so they built a stone temple on the ridge. Strangely, the mountain that was pressed by the stone temple really stopped rising. " The old man from the camp added.
History books also record: The Yellow Turban Uprising occurred in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Tazishan was the base of the rebel army. It was later surrounded and suppressed. After several days of fierce fighting, the rebel army was completely wiped out due to being outnumbered.
In the 1960s, computer rooms, dormitories, canteens, microwave communication buildings, wireless carrier devices, dish-shaped receiving antennas with a diameter of about ten feet were built on the mountain, and they were abandoned in the 1990s.
A corner of Tianying Cemetery
For hundreds of years, Tazishan has been bare and uncared for. In the new era, it is advocated that clear waters and green mountains are mountains of gold and silver, and Tazi Mountain has become the base of plum blossoms. Whenever spring comes, hundreds of acres of plum blossoms bloom here, gorgeous and enchanting, and filled with fragrance.
Flowers and grass are the surface of the mountain, while humanities are the soul of the mountain.
The pagoda, in traditional culture, represents the sixty numbers including thirty-seven levels .
Leifeng Pagoda on Xizhao Mountain on the south bank of West Lake in Hangzhou has been passed down through the ages because of the legend of the White Snake. In 1924, Leifeng Pagoda collapsed. After 76 years of ups and downs, in March 2000, the plan to rebuild Leifeng Pagoda was put on the agenda.
The newly built Leifeng Pagoda is the first colorful bronze pagoda in China. As a result, "Leifeng Sunset", one of the ten scenic spots in the West Lake, can be reproduced.
A corner of Tianying Cemetery in Xiezhuang Town
We can’t help but wonder: Can the pagoda on Tazi Mountain be rebuilt?
If it can be rebuilt, the cultural tourism craze of visiting Tazishan to appreciate plum blossoms and pray for blessings every year will become a new landscape of humanistic Nanyang.
