Top 10 most beautiful religion mountains in China
Posted: May 3rd, 2009 | Author: xiaochong | Filed under: place of interests in china | Tags: WUDANG MOUNTAIN | No Comments »WUDANG MOUNTAIN
Located in Hubei Province,one of the most famous Taoist Holy Land in China.
EMEI Mountain
One of the four major Buddhist mountains,located in EMei SiCuan Province.
Mount Wutai
Mount Wutai; literally “Five Plateau Mountain”, also known as Wutai Mountain, located in Shanxi, China, is one of the Four Sacred Mountains in Chinese Buddhism. Each of the four mountains is viewed as the abode or place of practice of one of the four great bodhisattvas. Wutai is the home of the Bodhisattva of wisdom. It takes its name from its unusual topography, consisting of five rounded peaks (North, South, East, West, Central), of which the North peak, called Beitai Ding or Yedou Feng, is the highest, and indeed the highest point in northern China.
Mount Putuo
Mount Putuo.It is one of China’s four Buddhist Sacred Mountains has a long history in 916 A.D. it began toenshrine Guanyin ,and in1214,it was designated to perfom Buddhist rites especially enshrining Guanyin.The main scenic spots are three large temples named PujiFayu and HuijiPurple Bamboo Forost Da Cheng Monastry Guanyins Footstep and mount Luojia. There are Over 50O monks and nuns In the mountain.and pilgrims over one million evey year. On Guanyins Three Festivals(19th of Februarv, June and September In Chinese lunar calendar),pilgrims gather here like tide.
Mount TianTai
Tiantai Mountain has the ancient name of “Dong Meng Mountain” because of its unusual box shape on the slope and is called “ascending heaven tower”. The scenic area covers an area of 110 square kilometers with the center area occupying 40 square kilometers. Its prominent peak, Jade Clouds Peak has an elevation of 1,801 meters.
Longhu Mountain
Longhu Mountain (Dragon and Tiger Mount) in Central China’s Jiangxi Province is not as famous as Taishan or Yellow Mountains. But everyone who has visited it seems impressed by the experience. If it is not quite a journey to heaven, it is said to be something close.
Relics of Daoism and ancient tombs are two features of Longhu Mountain, but the natural scenery is also eye-catching, and even more interesting to some visitors.
Jiuhua Mountain
Jiuhua Mountain is dotted with temples and misted with the smoke of burning joss sticks. It is a sacred place for Buddhist pilgrims. Noted for its beautiful scenery and favorable climate, the mountain is an ideal summer resort. With a unique appeal, Jiuhua has been established as one of the four most important Buddhist mountains in China and is known in and out of the country as “the most worshipped sacred place” and “the first mountain in Southeast China”.
Kongtong Mountain
Sanqingshan Mountain
Sanqingshan Mountain is located in the northeast of Shangrao in Jiangxi Province. Has been called the “number one in the world Xianfeng, the world unparalleled blessed land,” his reputation. Beijing peak-peak 1816.9 meters above sea level, because of jade in Beijing, Yuhua, Yuxu three peaks such as the three-ching (Yuqing, the supernatant, Taiqing) sit in the top of the mountains, Gu Ming. Sanqingshan Mountain has experienced changes in 14 million years of geological movement, wind and rain a lot, and formed a unique landscape of granite peaks, “Feng weekends, old trees were flowers, waterfalls Water Flowing Down, clouds fog-tao,” and that four absolutely natural.
Mianshan
Mianshan, a site with Buddhist and Taoist history tracing back 2,500 years, is about 800 kilometres southwest of Beijing, and 20 kilometres west of Jiexiu City, Shanxi province.
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