China's Shouyue - Hengshan (III) After Wang Henian Shi Tou Xi passed away, his body was buried below Nantai Temple, which is the only remaining ancient Tang Dynasty tomb in Nanyue. The surroundings of Nantai Temple are covered with green shades, and the ancient trees are lush and

China Shouyue—— Hengshan (III)

　　Wang Henian

After Shi Tou Xiqian passed away, his body was buried below Nantai Temple , which is the only remaining Tang Dynasty ancient tomb. The surroundings of Nantai Temple are covered with green shades, and the ancient trees are lush and extremely quiet. On the Ruiying Peak on the back of Nantai Temple, there is a 48-meter-high Vajra Relic Pagoda with nine floors and eight sides. Although it is a new structure from the 1990s, it has two Buddha Relics placed on the top of the pagoda, so it also has a considerable weight in the minds of Buddhists. Founded in the first year of Chen Guangda in the Southern Dynasty (567), the Fuyan Temple was built by Zen Master Huisi of Buddhism. The seven ancestors of the Zen Buddhism once used it as a Zen temple, so it was regarded by later generations as a Dharma-spreading place by later generations and was called the "Tianxia Court". The temple is built against the mountain, and the courtyard hall is the mountain gate, the living room, the Yueshen Temple, the Great Hall and the Ancestral Hall in turn. There is a rare exception to the temple here: the four heavenly kings were disqualified from sitting in the temple, but the statue of the Yue God was sitting in a Buddhist temple in a dignified manner. Yueshen Temple is a temple dedicated to the statue of Yueshen. The reason is that it is said that Zen Master Huisi won the game chess with Yue Shen and he got this incense treasure land. To thank God Yue for giving the land, he specially built a hall in the temple as a place where God Yue rests and enjoys the incense on earth.

　　The Zhusheng Temple , Fuyan Temple, Nantai Temple, Shangfeng Temple , and Dashan Temple are also known as the five major jungles of Nanyue, especially Zhusheng Temple, which is the largest in scale and is the "Crown of the jungle of Hunan". According to legend, when Dayu controlled the flood, he visited here and built a cold palace to worship Emperor Shun . Chengyuan, a high-ranking monk in the Tang Dynasty (712-802 AD), founded a Buddhist temple here, named Amitabha Platform. It was successively renamed Amitabha Temple, Baoguo Temple and and Shengye Temple. In the 44th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1705), the governor of Hunan, Zhao Shenqiao, built a large-scale construction here to expand the temple into a luxurious palace in order to welcome the southern tour of Kangxi. Unexpectedly, Kangxi did not come here, but his grand scale laid the foundation for his first battle in Hunan. In order to show the loyalty of the ministers, this temple was renamed "Zhusheng Temple". The main buildings are related to the temple, the Great Buddha Hall, the Medicine Buddha Hall, the Dharma Hall, the Arhat Hall , etc. The five hundred arhat statues carved on the left and right walls of the Arhat Hall are said to be from the hands of Xinyue, a monk from the temple during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. The entire creation took three years. These Arhats, either frowning or smiling, sad or happy, have different expressions and no one is the same; every move of the characters, every beard and eyebrows, is also vivid and vivid.

　　In addition to temples, the mountains and rivers of Nanyue are also quite distinctive. Although Banshan Pavilion , located halfway up the mountain of Nanyue, is just a hexagonal pavilion with no stunning appearance, the "half-word poem" that has been passed down from the people has won it an immortal reputation. It is said that there was a Banyun Temple here in the old days, which was the only way to go up and down the mountain. At that time, a fire-burning monk carried a load back to the temple and rested here. He wrote an impromptu poem with the title of "half": "Half a mountain, half a temple, half a cloud, half a mu, half a celestial, half a mountain, half a mountain, half a rock, half a wall, half a wall, half a wall, half a wall, half a wine and half a poem, half a fairy, half a Buddha, cultivate good intentions, half a house, half a cloud, half a house, half a cloud, half a pine, half a piano." The poem was passed to the abbot of the host, and he looked at him differently from him.

　　Yehou Academy, north of Banshan Pavilion, was the place where he lived in seclusion in the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, Li Mi . Li Mi, whose courtesy name is Changyuan, is , Jingzhao . During the reign of Emperor Suzong, he entered the state affairs. Because Li Fuguo was afraid of , he lived in seclusion in Hengshan and built a room to read. During the reign of Emperor Dezong, he became the prime minister and was granted the title of 家家 . His study place was originally under the "extremely brilliant" stone carving of Fuyan Temple. It was named Duanju Room, also known as Mingdao Mountain House. Later, his son Li Fanjian Academy was on the left side of Nanyue Temple, named Nanyue Academy. It was moved to its current location in the Song Dynasty and was renamed Yehou Academy. Both the Yuan and Ming dynasties were rebuilt, and the existing buildings were rebuilt in 1922. The stone wall cylinder tiles is ancient and elegant. There is a couplet engraved on the stone pillar in front of the door: Thirty thousand scrolls are not left, and I enter the room to remember the name of the prime minister; nine thousand feet of clouds and mountains do not change, and I carefully recognize the ancient mist and clouds by the railing.This couplet not only cleverly uses the poetic meaning of "Yehou's family has many books and thirty thousand skewers", but also cleverly embeds the topography of the academy - "Yanxia Peak" into it, leaving more room for imagination and taste.

Not far west from Banshan Pavilion, you can see Yiping Bridge. There are three waterfalls under the bridge, which is the famous Jiangzhu Waterfall. Going up is the Jiangzhu Pool. The fairy standing on the stone in the pool holding a peach pot is Magu . She is leaning on the fairy deer and seems to be flying away in the sky. Magu is a legendary fairy who gathers Ganoderma lucidum in Hengshan to make wine every year in order to celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West on the third day of the third lunar month. It is said that Jiangzhuchi is where Magu brewed wine. It was from here that Magu ascended to heaven to pay her birthday to the Queen Mother. The Nanshan Mountain that is often used in birthday greetings, "Blessings are like the East China Sea, and longevity is as long as Nanshan Mountain" refers to Hengshan Mountain. Therefore, the legend of "Magu's birthday greetings" has become an extremely important part of the longevity culture of Hengshan. The natural scenery of Magu Wonderland is extremely beautiful, with clear streams and secluded forests, green shade everywhere, and strange stones such as Crouching Tiger Stone and Monkey Stone dotting it, adding to its elegance.

The Ganoderma lucidum spring adjacent to Magu Wonderland is also a place that attracts people to linger. The giant Ganoderma lucidum stands standing beside the pool, adding an extraordinary charm to the clear landscape surrounded by green trees and clouds. Once the spring water gushes out from the Ganoderma lucidum, the scene of rain and mist covering the Ganoderma lucidum becomes even more picturesque and poetic. The Huangting Temple under Jixian Peak is the only place in the mountain where Mrs. Nanyue is worshipped. Mrs. Nanyue is Mrs. Wei Wei, named Huacun. She is the daughter of Situ Wei Shu in Jin Dynasty. She always admires the gods. It is said that he meditated in Nanyue for 16 years. Legend has it that the Queen Mother of the West once invited her to Zhuling Mountain to eat spiritual melons together. She also received four volumes of the "Yu Qing Yin Shu" given by the Queen Mother of the West. "At the age of eighty, she still looks like a girl." Later, he obtained the "Tai Shang Huang Ting Nei Jing Jing" and left in the 9th year of Xianhe (334) in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Du Fu " Looking at the Mountains " has a poem about this legend that says "I respectfully hear about Mrs. Wei, and the immortals are soaring among them". After Mrs. Wei ascended to heaven, she was named "Mrs. Nanyue" by the Jade Emperor. She and the Queen Mother of the West jointly managed the fairy caves in Tiantai Mountain, Gou Mountain, Wangwu Mountain, Dahuo Mountain and Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue. Chinese women began to practice Taoism with Mrs. Wei. She set a precedent for female Taoist priests in my country. Therefore, Mrs. Wei and Huang Tingguan have a very high reputation in Taoism . The temple was built in the first year of Wude in Tang Dynasty (816) and was originally located under Tianzhu Peak. During the Five Dynasties, King Chu Ma Xisheng rebuilt the building and named it Wei Pavilion. Later, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty gave it the name "Huang Ting Guan", and it continued unchanged. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the temple was moved here.

Huang Ting Guan is built on top of mountains and ravines, with stacked stones. It has two entrances and three compartments, with the pavilion running horizontally in the front and the temple connected vertically at the back. The buildings in the temple are all masonry structures, elegant and elegant, with unique charm. There is a stone statue of Mrs. Wei in the pavilion. A 10-foot-square stone on the right side of the view is said to be the place where Mrs. Wei ascended during the day. It was originally the altar where Mrs. Wei worshiped the sky. Later people called it the "Flying Immortal Stone". The top of the stone is flat like a platform, and the bottom is sharp, but it stands firmly on the rock. It is said that if someone accidentally touches it with their fingers, it will tremble slightly; if someone pushes it intentionally, it will not move even if hundreds of people push it with all their strength. Legend has it that the Queen Mother came here on a cloud and a white cloud fell down. Looking around, there are jagged rocks, dense pines and maples, and criss-crossing roads.