Pass the Xiaoguan, pass through the Beiling, enter the Qinglong Mountain with lush trees, and go up along the steep winding mountain road. The higher the mountain, the denser the forest, and the fog is everywhere, the Ciyun Temple with yellow walls and green tiles and flying eave

pic and text/Huamingshi (original)

In autumn, you are worth seeing the red leaves of Ciyun Temple in Gongyi.

Ciyun Temple is located in Dayugou, Gongyi City, 50 miles west of Zhengzhou. Starting from Zhengzhou, heading west, pass Hulao Pass , and enter Gongyi . Pass the Xiaoguan, pass through the Beiling, enter the Qinglong Mountain with lush trees, and go up along the steep winding mountain road. The higher the mountain, the denser the forest, and the fog is everywhere, the Ciyun Temple with yellow walls and green tiles and flying eaves and corners will arrive.

Ciyun Temple has a very long history. It was built in Han , and has been around for nearly two thousand years. According to historical records, it is the earliest official Buddhist temple in China, known as "Shaolin Communist ancestors and Baima people's hometown". If you look deeper, it is longer than the famous Luoyang White Horse Temple and Dengfeng Shaolin Temple. During the Northern Wei and the Tang and Song dynasties, it was more prosperous than their incense, with a larger scale and a higher status. However, due to various reasons, it is currently in a state of being hidden in the deep boudoir.

Ciyun Temple is very well located. First, it is hidden in the canyon of Qinglong Mountain, surrounded by mountains, and the environment is extremely quiet. Second, the canyon is dammed into a lake, and the ancient temple is dependent on the clear water, adding to the scenic spots. The lake is called Qinglongtan. The lake is extremely deep. The water comes from the mountains and streams, and it is naturally very clear.

If you come to Ciyun Temple Scenic Area to enjoy the fragrance, see a lake, and walk a mountain road, you will feel pure and comfortable, but if late autumn comes, you will be shocked. The scenic area that is usually as quiet as a virgin has been re-painted by the most wise painter of nature in autumn. The mountains around Ciyun Temple, all of them have been dyed into various reds.

The mountains around Ciyun Temple are very interesting. The trees only grow to the hillside, and further up, there is a smooth stone wall. Usually, these trees and grass are mixed together, and the green color is of varying shades below the mountainside, just like girls wearing green robes, which is quiet. But when late autumn comes, all of these girls will change their clothes and wear embroidered red brocade robes.

The scenic area has mountains and peaks confrontation. The mountains and valleys between the mountains are in harmony, and the heights between the peaks are in harmony. Because of these valleys, the peaks wearing red brocade robes have many shadows. Under the sunlight, these reds become reds of different depths, textures, and thicknesses. Some are like jade, some are like copper, some are like brocade, and some are like satin. Some are surrounded by large patches of green pine, and the red under the shadows actually appear clusters of particularly delicate golden reds in the dark black, which shines in the sunlight. So overall, it looks like a deep and shallow red, with bright red mixed in the dark black, and vivid red in the dark green. There are thousands of different shades and reflections in the red. Facing the most natural, vivid, warmest and quiet red all over the mountain, it really makes people admire the majestic masterpiece of nature.

And then you look at the water surface of Qinglongtan again, and there is another scene. The vast red of the mountains on both sides of the canyon reflects the water. The blue water surface is like a mirror, reflecting the red of the peaks one by one. When the breeze blows, the water surface blows some wrinkles. At this time, the red of the peaks is mixed with the jasper color of the water, and the reflection of the water waves and stars, the entire water surface becomes a piece of diamonds inlaid with red and green Suzhou rust, and this rust is dynamic. Those diamonds and different red peaks keep jumping and flowing on the water surface, deforming and dancing, reflecting with the red on the surrounding mountains, echoing each other...

And right by the water, all kinds of trees that stretched towards the water for the sake of sunshine, large leaves, small leaves, thick branches, shabby branches, dark brown bark, and light blue bark. Under the call of the autumn wind, the leaves all became all the color spectrum from yellow to red.Transparent yellow, transparent red, matte yellow, matte red, reflective yellow, reflective red, deep yellow like gold, light yellow like pink, dark red like blood, light red like jade, deep and shallow yellow and red are reaching towards the water surface, forming reflections on the water surface. From a distance, it looks like beauties wearing various yellow and red silks washing by the water, or talking to the water. The wind blew, the water surface rippled, the leaves rustled, and the branches swayed gently. At this time, it seemed that these beauties were talking softly with Ciyun Temple, sitting in a distance, singing happily, telling affectionately, and expressing their feelings in a daze...

At this time, you, standing by the water, were intoxicated. You seemed to have forgotten where you were, and you only felt that you were in the fairy world that was 30,000 miles away from the world. You have forgotten time, space, and yourself, and you have become the peak, water, and a leaf among the red leaves of the Ciyun Temple Scenic Area.

Facing this ancient temple, the clear clear water and the red leaves all over the mountains, you will sigh deeply, sigh the ancient temple in the deep mountains, sigh the red leaves in the deep mountains, sigh the loneliness of the ancient temple, sigh the passion of the red leaves, sigh that the once extremely glorious ancient temple is now so desolate, and sigh that such beautiful red leaves can only grow in the deep mountains. Then I sigh that the ancient temple is blessed, and there are such passionate red leaves to accompany me. The red leaves are fortunate to be able to be with this thousand-year-old ancient temple. I changed my mind and thought that the responsibility of the temple should be to stay away from the world. Now I am hiding in the deep mountains, why bother? The mission of red leaves is to dress up the golden autumn and let the dazzling red bloom in the autumn wind. How can you be wrong now?

From then on, this mountain, this water, this Ciyun Temple, and the red leaves of this Ciyun Temple have grown in your heart. When it is late at night, it grows and grows quietly. Slowly, your whole heart is covered with red leaves. When you are idle, sad, helpless, and lost, you will think of the morning after autumn, the mountains, water, trees, and the mountains and leaves of the trees in late autumn.

Source: Xingfu Gongyi (original)