Mount Emei, Leshan Giant Buddha, Sanxingdui, early spring worship, feel Zen poetry

Number of days: 5 days
Time: March
Average cost: 4000 yuan
With whom: With friends
Updated: 2019.12.26

Tourism in Sichuan is generally centered on Chengdu. On the early spring trip in March 2011, we first went to Chengdu, then south to Leshan, visited Mount Emei and Leshan Giant Buddha, and then went north to Deyang to visit Sanxingdui Museum and returned.

In Mount Emei, a heavy snowfall brings the most beautiful poetry

The jade tree and jade branches, wrapped in silver and white, are like a fairyland. In the Leshan Giant Buddha, the mountain is a Buddha, and the Buddha is a mountain, tall and majestic, solemn and serene, full of Zen. In the Sanxingdui Museum, cultural relics such as bronze sacred trees, bronze Dali people, and longitudinal masks are rare in the world, showing the thickness and mystery of ancient Shu culture.

[Mount Emei]

Emei Mountain is located in Emei Mountain City, Leshan, Sichuan Province, a famous tourist attraction and Buddhist mountain, and a national 5A-level scenic spot. In December 1996, it was inscribed on the World Natural and Cultural Heritage List.

This is one of the four famous Buddhist mountains in our country, the dojo of Puxian Bodhisattva, and the temples on the mountain are all over the place. The scenic spots are mainly Buddhist temples and natural scenery, including the Golden Dome, the Ten Directions Puxian Statue, Qingyin Pavilion, Wannian Temple, Huazang Temple, Baoguo Temple, as well as the sea of clouds, sunrise, Buddha's light, sacred lamp, etc. We encountered heavy snow this time and mainly visited the Golden Peak.

Drive from Chengdu in the morning, eat at the Shanmen Hotel halfway up the mountain at noon, and go straight up the mountain.

Ice and snow, silver wrapped in white, white and

white

Qiongzhi and jade leaves, pink jade masonry, like a silver world.

rime

The

Ten Directions Golden Statue, 48 meters high and weighing more than 600 tons, was completed on June 18, 2006, and is currently the largest and tallest statue of the Ten Directions in the world.

"Ten directions" symbolizes the ten directions of east, south, west, north, southeast, southwest, northeast, northwest, upper and lower in Buddhism, and also means the ten vows of the universal sages. It can complete the Buddhas of the three generations of the ten directions and all sentient beings. The ten avatars are divided into three layers, with different demeanors, representing the ten mentalities of the world.

Golden-roofed copper hall. There is a special feature here, the gates of ordinary temples face south, but the gates of Mount Emei face east, but the gates of this golden-roofed copper hall face west as an exception. It is said that believers from Tibet only worshipped the Golden Dome because Shakyamuni's hometown was in the Western Regions.

White is the color of divine purity and gives a deep sense of awe.

Golden Peak, located on the main peak of Mount Emei, at an altitude of 3077 meters, is the end of the Emei Mountain Tour. Above is Huazang Temple.

Heaven favors Emei and gives it a dreamy wonderland; It also prefers tourists to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the sacred mountain. Stopping at this moment and taking a closer look is really a blessing in three lives.

Take the cable car down the mountain

[Leshan Giant Buddha]

Leshan Giant Buddha, also known as Lingyun Giant Buddha, full name "Jiazhou Lingyun Temple Great Maitreya Stone Statue", is located on the east bank of the Nanmin River in Leshan City, Sichuan Province. It is a seated statue of Maitreya carved by the cliff of Qixia Peak in Lingyun Mountain.

Tang Dynasty Kaiyuan famous monk Haitong monk, founder of Leshan Giant Buddha. Leshan is located at the confluence of the Dadu River, Qingyi River and Minjiang River, where ships are prone to capsize. For the sake of Purdue sentient beings, Monk Haitong vowed to repair it. It was built in the first year of Kaiyuan (713) of the Tang Dynasty, lasted 90 years, and was completed in the nineteenth year of Zhenyuan (803).

Quercus, an ancient fern, is a national first-class protected endangered plant and is known as a "living fossil".

Three rivers flow together. On the left and right are the Min River, and in the middle are the Dadu River and the Qingyi River.

Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area is a national 5A-level tourist attraction and an integral part of the world cultural and natural dual heritage of Mount Emei - Leshan Giant Buddha.

The Big Buddha Pass is 71 meters high and is the world's largest stone carved seated Buddha. The posture is well-proportioned, the expression is solemn, the head is at the level of the mountain, the feet are on the river, and the hands are on the knees. The head is 14.7 meters high, the head is 10 meters wide, and there are 1,051 buns. The ears are 7 meters long, the nose is 5.6 meters long, the eyebrows are 5.6 meters long, the mouth and eyes are 3.3 meters long, the neck is 3 meters high, the shoulders are 24 meters wide, the fingers are 8.3 meters long, from the knees to the instep of the foot is 28 meters, the instep is 8.5 meters wide, and the top of the foot can sit around more than 100 people.

The

Buddha has a cleverly designed and hidden drainage system behind its ears and head, which plays an important role in protecting the Buddha.

Lingyun Temple, built during the reign of Li Yuanwude of the early Tang Dynasty (618-626), predated the construction of the Leshan Giant Buddha, and is one of the oldest temples in our country. After several winds and rains, it has been repaired many times, and now it is built in the sixth year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1667).

[Sanxingdui Museum]

Sanxingdui Museum is located in Guanghan City, Deyang, is a Shu cultural site from the Neolithic period to the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the treasures of the town hall include bronze sacred trees, bronze longitudinal masks, bronze Dali people and other cultural relics. The name of Sanxingdui comes from three huge loess mounds on the plateau on the south bank of the Mamu River in the west of the city, undulating and connected, looking like stars in the sky.

Stone wall

Jade Cong

Jade Zhang

Yuge

Gold mask

Bronze Sacred Tree. Bronzes from the late Xia Dynasty, the first batch of cultural relics prohibited from being exhibited abroad. It is 3.96 meters high and has a trunk balance of 3.84 meters. There are three layers of branches, and the flowers and fruits of the branches are either upturned or drooping. On the tree stand nine sun god birds. There is a dragon hanging in the lower part, with the dragon's head facing down and the tail on top, enchanting.

Money Tree

Bronze Face

Bronze Beast Face

Bronze longitudinal eye mask. Shang Dynasty bronzes, the overall shape is square. The eyebrows are inverted figure-eight shaped, the tips of the eyebrows are raised upwards, the eyes are slanted and long, and the eyeballs are extremely exaggerated. The tips of the ears are peach-pointed. The hooked nose, the corners of the mouth are deep and long, and the shape is a mysterious smile.

Bronze longitudinal eye mask. It is 1.38 meters wide and 0.645 meters high, and its eyes are columnar and convex outward. A pair of carved ears are fully spread out to both sides, with a majestic shape and majestic four instruments, which is the earliest and largest bronze mask in the world.

Bronze Man Head

These cultural relics unearthed from the Sanxingdui site have high noses and deep eyes, prominent cheekbones, wide mouths and big ears, and look like foreigners, arousing the curiosity and inquiry of countless people. Many archaeologists believe that the Sanxingdui civilization is very similar to the Mayan civilization and the ancient Egyptian civilization. Many cultural relics such as naked figures and other sacrificial items, sun wheels and other astronomical utensils are similar to those found in Mayan ruins; Gold masks, bronze masks, etc., are similar to the cultural relics unearthed in Egypt and Central Asia.

Bronze head wearing a gold mask. Shang Dynasty bronzes. The gold mask is pounded into gold skin with gold nuggets, and then according to the shape of the avatar, the forehead is level, the chin is covered, the left and right sides are covered with ears, the earlobes are pierced, and the eyebrows are hollowed out. According to analysis, the adhesive method is to use raw lacquer and lime as the adhesive and attach the gold mask to the head.

Bronze Dalit Figure. With a height of 260.8 cm, a height of 180 cm, and a weight of about 180 kg, it is the tallest and most complete bronze statue in existence, known as the "king of bronze statues in the world".

Bronze beast head crowned figure. The balance is 40 cm, and only the upper body remains when it was unearthed.

Bronze Dragon and Tiger Honor

Bronze Bird

Bronze Chicken

Bronze Birdfoot Figure

Bronze Sun Wheel

Bronze altar. It is divided into four floors, the bottom floor is the beast-shaped seat, which is the pedestal of the entire altar; the second floor is inhabited by four Dali people; the third level is high mountain; The top layer is the most mysterious, it seems to be a square box with five ancient Shu people carved in it.

Where do Sanxingdui people come from? Where does their smelting technology come from? After preliminary research, experts believe that this place of civilization, which was very prosperous before the Shang Dynasty, must be the capital of a country. But the strange thing is that after the Shang Dynasty, this civilization suddenly disappeared, and all historical materials were not recorded, which can be described as coming and going without a trace, and is still shrouded in mystery.