Many tourists immediately think of Mount Tai, Huashan, Songshan and Hengshan.
Huh?
Where is the other one? What's your name? I can't seem to remember at the moment.
It is Hengshan Mountain located in Hunyuan, Datong City, Shanxi Province. It is the least famous of the five mountains and the only national 4A scenic spot. The other four mountains are national 5A-level scenic spots, and Mount Tai is also a dual natural and cultural heritage of the world.
Hengshan Mountain in a narrow sense was called Xuanwu Mountain in ancient times, and it was only in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties that it was identified as one of the five mountains. The elevation of the main peak is 20 16.8 meters, which is not high, mainly because the average elevation of Hunyuan is above 1000 meters, and the basic elevation determines the majestic degree of the mountain.
Today, Mount Hengshan is not well-known. In addition to being later recognized as the Five Mountains, a big reason is that the traffic was relatively inconvenient in the past, the local population density was not high, and the distance from big cities was not as close as Mount Tai and Huashan. From the natural scenery, Hengshan Mountain is slightly inferior to the other four mountains, but it has humanistic characteristics that the other four mountains do not have. The famous Hanging Temple is also a big selling point.
Hengshan Mountain, which straddles the northern Shanxi Plateau and the central Hebei Plain, is a battleground for military strategists in history. There are Zijingguan, Pingxingguan, Daomaguan and Ning Wuguan around the mountain range, which is the transition zone and throat from the Great Wall Plateau to Taiyuan Basin and Jizhong Plain. Many famous emperors lined up or fought bloody battles here, and many ancient passes, beacon towers and castles showed the world that this land was once a bonfire.
There were traces of Taoist activities in Hengshan Mountain in the Western Han Dynasty, and the Northern Wei Dynasty began to flourish. A big reason is that the Northern Wei Dynasty once made Datong its capital, and the imperial capital effect boosted the development of various cultures. In addition to Hengshan Taoist culture, Yungang Grottoes, located at the southern foot of Wuzhou Mountain in Datong, also started a wave of excavation at this time.
Hengshan Mountain is the holy land of Taoism Quanzhen School.
Yes, it is the Quanzhen school that frequently appears in The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Condor Heroes, but the novel mainly describes Mount Zhongnan, and this is Mount Hengshan.
More than two thousand years ago, during the Western Han Dynasty, there was an alchemist in Hengshan. In the early Tang Dynasty, there were many Taoist temples in the mountains, and in the Qing Dynasty, there were also many Taoist temples that integrated the three religions. The most famous example is the Hanging Temple.
Hanging Temple is an online celebrity in Hengshan Scenic Area. Many tourists come to Hengshan to travel, not because of the name of one of the five mountains, but because? Cliff temple? Stunts.
The temples in this temple are not spacious. The fence of the pavilion is extremely narrow. In some places, only one person can pass. From the lower floor to the upper floor, the steps are extremely steep, and there is no guardrail at the exit. You must walk carefully, walking on the long corridor of the pavilion, rubbing your feet against the wooden floor? Cleisthenes? Although the promenade has a high guardrail, standing on the edge of the promenade overlooking the cliff still has the illusion that a gust of wind can blow itself down.
The history of the Hanging Temple can be traced back to 1500 years ago. The whole temple is built close to the cliff, and the pavilions and the main part of the temple are deeply embedded in the hard cliff and supported by only a few slender pillars. Miraculously, it is still intact after years of change, which not only makes people lament the ancestors' superb architectural aesthetics and body analysis ability.