Jiuhua Mountain Scenic Area

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"Jiuhua Mountain is located in the southwest of Qingyang County, Chizhou City, Anhui Province, and the northwest of Licheng, Putian City, Fujian Province.

Jiuhua Mountain, located in the province of Anhui, was a mountain-type national scenic spot with Buddhist culture and natural and cultural scenic spots. It was one of the four famous mountains of Buddhism in China. There were 99 temples here, nearly 1,000 monks and nuns, and more than 10,000 Buddha statues. Since the Tang Dynasty, 16 bodies had naturally formed, and there were currently five for viewing. The planned area of the scenic spot was 120 square kilometers and the protected area was 174 square kilometers. It was composed of 11 scenic spots, including Tiantai Temple, Sandalwood Forest, Dongya Zen Temple and other temples, as well as natural landscapes such as Tiantai and Flower Terrace, as well as seasonal landscapes such as sea of clouds and sea of flowers. There are more than 2000 existing cultural relics, more than 500 poems and songs of famous people and scholars in the past dynasties, and more than 20 ruins of academies and book halls. Among them, the palm-leaf scriptures of Tang Dynasty, the Tripitaka of Ming Dynasty, the blood scriptures, the imperial edict of Emperor Wanli of Ming Dynasty, and the ink of Kangxi and Qianlong of Qing Dynasty are more famous. The main body of Jiuhua Mountain is composed of Yanshanian Jiuhua Mountain granite rock mass. There are mountain, low mountains, hills and other geomorphological types. It belongs to the north sub-tropical humid monsoonal climate zone. The four seasons are distinct, the climate is mild, the light is abundant, and the rainfall is abundant. The annual average temperature is 16.1 ° C. There are 1528 species of vegetative plants (including sub-species) belonging to 175 families and 727 genuses. There are 253 species of animals distributed in the area, including deer, black muntjac, white-necked long-tailed pheasant, etc., which are Class I protected animals by the state. The macaque was a national second-class protected animal. In 2022, it received a total of 7.9329 million tourists, with a total tourism income of 9.858 billion yuan. It was a national civilized scenic tourist area, the first batch of AAAAA-level tourist attractions, a national natural and cultural heritage site, and Yinghua Taoist Temple. On April 17,2019, it was approved by the Executive Board of the United Nations, Education, Science and Technology Organization as a world geological park.

Jiuhua Mountain in Fujian Province was the main peak of the Beigan Mountain Range. It was the location of Jiuhua Pinnacle, one of the 24 scenic spots in Putian. The mountain was shaped like a pen rack, 741 meters above sea level. The mountain was green all year round. The nine hills were clustered like nine lotus flowers, which was called "Jiuhua Pinecui". In 2014, Putian City invested 15 million yuan to build a leisure park at the foot of the mountain to develop tourism. The park covered an area of more than 20 mu and was composed of an entrance square, parking lot, leisure wooden house, characteristic covered bridge, etc. The large lotus platform in the center of the square was a landmark building, echoing the "Jiuhua Verdant" landscape on the mountain. It was said that a Taoist surnamed Chen came here to choose a place to live in the Han Dynasty. In ancient times, it was also called "Chen Yan" and "Chen Yan Mountain". It had a strong historical and cultural atmosphere, and there were many couplets about Jiuhua Mountain.

In addition, if you want to travel to Jiuhua Mountain in Jiangxi Province, there are some temples that are worth visiting. For example, the Zhiyuan Zen Temple, built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, is the head of the four forests of Jiuhua Mountain. Its mountain gate is crooked and the road is slanted. The Centenarian Palace worships the body of the flawless monk of the Ming Dynasty. The temple is a Hui style building with white walls and black tiles. The Tonghui Zen Forest worships the body of the first nun of benevolence and righteousness in Jiuhua Mountain. The Sandalwood Forest was the largest temple in Jiuhua Mountain. Inside, one could see the body of a sweeping monk. Huacheng Temple was the main temple of Jiuhua Mountain, and also the dojo where Jin Qiaojue, the king of Ksitigarbha, cultivated for the latter half of his life. There were rare treasures such as the Dafang Guanghua Yan Sutra (a blood scripture written by Monk Wuxia of the Centenarian Palace who had pierced his tongue and finger for 28 years), Diting (the mount of the king of Ksitigarbha, donated by the followers of Gusu in the Qing Dynasty), and the Vairocana hat and tiger-headed boots of the king of Ksitigarbha (made according to the footprints left by the king of Ksitigarbha in Jiuhua Mountain in the Tang Dynasty).

However, it should be noted that Jiuhua Mountain was crowded with people. It might be crowded during the tour. For example, there would be a large number of people on Jiuhua Street and the main scenic spots. There might be people collecting tickets on the roads between the temples.

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