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| The South Mountain (Mount Hengshan), one of China's Five Sacred Mountains, is situated in the Heangyang city, Hunan province; its 72 peak group has layers of mountains and is majestic. For a long time, it is famous for ¡¸Hengshan Mountain scenery is the best of five mountains¡¹¡¢¡¸religious famous scenic spot¡¹¡¢¡¸civilization special area¡¹¡¢¡¸Shou Mountain of China¡¹. Now it is the national scenic spots and historical sites, model of national civilized scenic spots and the AAAA- grade tourist destination. |
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 Hengshan Mountain scenery is the best of five mountains:
The South Mountain has always been the scenic sports for tourism, summer resort, and leisure for its large trees, natural and human landscapes. There are more than 1200 kinds of natural plants, 9 primary forests, more than 150 kinds of precious trees in the scenery. Ginkgo of the Ease Jin Dynasty, the old pinaster of the Ming Dynasty, the rare seen gleditsia vestita, the ready source of money and two branches of different trees twined together in nature with fable colour are all existed in the scenic area. Zhurong Peak, Water Curtain Cave, Fangguang Temple and Sutra Collection Hall are called the four excellences of the South Mountain for their height, strange, depth and elegant. South Mountain has pleasant sceneries, you can appreciate the strange flowers in spring, the cloud sea in summer, the sunrise in autumn and the snow in winter, which makes you forget to go back. | |
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 Religious famous scenic spot:
Both Buddhism and Taoism are in the South Mountain, which forms the specialty of the mountain and is an excellence in famous mountains of China. In the history of China¡¯s Buddhism and Taoism, the Buddhism and Taoism of South Mountain have an important position. As early as the West Zhou Dynasty, Taoism had opened the blessing spots in South Mountain, and to the Tang Dynasty, there appeared the prosperities of ten large forests and eight hundred bamboo houses. Since the second year of the South Dynasty, large groups of famous monks appeared in the South Mountain, they established the Weiyang Sect, Linji Sect, Caodong Sect, Yunmen Sect, and Fayan Sect, which are called the ¡°five leaves passing¡± in the buddhisam history, and had a significant impact in the whole Southeast Asia area even in the world. Buddhism and Taoism have the sutra of doxy, and finally formed the characteristics respected by all the Buddhism. | |
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Civilization special area:
The South Mountain has a long history and profound content. All the ancient China¡¯s emperors had close connections with the South Mountain, Yan, Huang, Yao, Shun and Yu all went to the mountain. About after the East and West Jin Dynasty and the South and North Dynasty, Taoism Buddhism and came to the South Mountain successively, thereafter the mountain became the center of the Buddhism in the south. After the Song Dynasty, more than 20 colleges were established successively in the South Mountain, forming a unique college culture. The rising Hu-Xiang school still has a big influence on the modern school. It is the vice minister Guan Daxun of the Ming Dynasty that first favored the South Mountain by combining ¡°civilization¡± and ¡°special area¡±. | |
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Shou Mountain of China:
The Shou culture of the South Mountain has a long history, the Xingjing records: the South Mountain corresponds the Zhen star of the 28 Star Mansions, and Zhen star manage the lives of people in the world, therefore the South Mountain got the name ¡°Shou Mountain¡±. Song Hui Zong inscribed the ¡°Shou Mountain¡± for the large carved stone of the South Mountain and now it is still in the Emperor Rock of Jinjian Peak of the South Mountain. Restore the temple stone of South Mountain written by the Emperor Kangxi had the records: South Mountain is the large town in the east sky, it corresponds the North Star Yuheng, so it is called the Shou Mountain. He named it Shou Mountain again. The history records of each dynasty often respectfully called the South Mountain as ¡°mountain to compare life¡± and ¡°mountain of charging life¡±. It is explained in Ciyuan: Shou Mountain is the South Mountain. Therefore, the South Mountain (Mount Hengshan) is called the Shou Mountain of China. | |
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