Hello ladies and gentlemen! "Have friends come from afar"! First of all, on behalf of Taishan people, let me welcome you to be Taishan’s distinguished guest! I hope that my service will satisfy you, and I also hope that you can sincerely cooperate with me and let us spend a wonderful time together. Now let me give you a brief introduction to the basic situation of Mount Tai, a world heritage site, and Tai'an, an outstanding tourist city in China.
Mount Tai is located in the east of the North China Plain and in the center of Shandong Province, with a total area of ??about 2,000 square kilometers. The scenic area covers an area of ??426 square kilometers. Its main peak is Yuhuangding, with an altitude of 1,545 meters. Mount Tai has a unique geographical environment. It faces the sea to the east, the Yellow River to the west, Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, to the south, and the spring city of Jinan to the north. Jinan, Tai'an and Qufu form a national tourism hotline - the "Landscape Sage" tourism line, and Mount Tai is at the center of this hotline.
Mount Taishan is known as "the first of the five mountains" and "the only one of the five mountains". It is majestic, beautiful, has a long history and numerous cultural relics. It is not only a symbol of the Chinese nation, but also a part of Chinese history and culture. miniature. In 1982, it was announced as one of the first batch of national key scenic spots by the State Council, and in 1988, it was announced as a world natural and cultural heritage by UNESCO.
As we all know, Mount Tai is profound and has extremely rich connotations. But what is its true value? In short, Mount Tai has important geological scientific value, unique aesthetic value and precious historical and cultural value.
Mount Taishan was still covered by the sea water in the Archaean Era 2.5 billion years ago. Later, it gradually rose out of the sea. It was not until the middle of the Cenozoic Era 30 million years ago that Mount Taishan was affected by the Himalayan Movement. , to form its current shape. Therefore, Taishan Stone is one of the oldest rocks in the world, while Taishan Mountain is the youngest mountain in the world. To this day, it is still growing at a rate of 0.05 mm per year.
The beauty of Mount Tai lies in the organic combination of natural landscape and cultural landscape. The beauty of Mount Tai's natural landscape lies in the height of the mountain and the majesty of its image. Its main peak is abrupt, the mountain is steep, and the mountains are stacked, which creates a strong contrast with the surrounding rivers, seas, and plains, forming a high and vast momentum of "seeing all the mountains and small mountains at a glance". The Taishan Mountains stretch for more than 200 kilometers, with a broad foundation and concentrated shape, giving people a sense of stability and weight, which creates a psychologically natural feeling of "as stable as Mount Tai" and "as heavy as Mount Tai".
The cultural landscape of Mount Tai is in harmony with the natural landscape. The focus of its layout is to start from the Sheshou Mountain where people worship the land at the foot of the mountain, pass through the urban area, along the mountaineering winding road, and go straight to the Jade Emperor Summit, which is the top of the mountain, and the overall conception of the natural space is carried out. This landscape belt is roughly divided into three spaces: the first is the bustling human city centered on Taicheng; the second is the area from Naihe to Haoli Mountain in the city as the "underworld"; the third is Daizong in the north of the city. Starting from Fangfang, we wind along the "cloud ladder" with more than 6,000 steps to the "Heavenly Fairyland" at the top of Daiding.
Due to its superior geographical environment, Mount Tai has become one of the main areas where ancient humans thrived. It is the tallest and largest mountain in the hearts of ancient people, and contains more than 5,000 years of historical and cultural accumulation. In the yang of Mount Tai, the Dawenkou cultural relics of more than 5,000 years ago were excavated, and in the yin of Mount Tai, the Longshan cultural relics of 4,000 years ago were unearthed. This provides detailed and rich historical data for studying the transition from matriarchal society to patriarchal society, the rise of countries, and the origin of civilization.
Due to the cultural accumulation of ancient people, Mount Tai was regarded by the ancients as the source of purple energy, an auspicious place, the home of gods, and the place where all things develop.
The ancients believed that "heaven respects highness, and earth respects thickness" and "the sky is too high to reach Mount Tai." Therefore, all the emperors who were so-called "ordered by heaven" expressed their gratitude to the heavenly father for their "orders". "To show your kindness, you have to go to the top of Mount Tai close to the heaven to build a high altar with earth, which means to increase the height of Mount Tai to worship the sky; then go to the small hill close to the earth in front of Mount Tai to build an altar to offer sacrifices to the earth. This is what the emperors of all ages have been passionate about. The pursuit of the Taishan Zen Ceremony. If an emperor of a generation can ascend Mount Tai, it will be regarded by the people of the world as a symbol of the prosperity of the country and peace of the world. The emperor himself will become the "true dragon emperor" who is "inherited by heaven". Therefore, Mount Tai was raised to the same sacred height as the sky due to the continuous activities of offering sacrifices to the emperor.
With the formation of the Zen Ceremony, Taishan religion also emerged one after another, so Mount Tai was dotted with ancient temples and numerous palaces. Subsequently, celebrities and Confucian scholars came to visit the mountain one after another, leaving behind a large number of poems, songs, couplets and inscriptions, which continuously enriched the connotation of Taishan culture.
Here are the ruins of Zhou Mingtang, where the emperor of the ancient Zhou Dynasty patrolled Mount Tai and made alliances with the princes, and the earliest military defense line in China during the Spring and Autumn Period - the Taishan Qi Great Wall; there are also the former sites where emperors of all dynasties offered sacrifices On the summit platform, there is also the earliest carved stone in the stele system - Taishan Qin carved stone; there is not only the Diamond Sutra inscribed by Jingshiyu, the originator of large characters, but also the inscription of the world's grandest sight - the inscription of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty on Mount Tai.
Five thousand years of cultural accumulation have made Mount Tai a natural history museum and a famous tourist attraction both at home and abroad. Ji Xianlin, a scholar from the East, believes: "Mount Tai is one of the main birthplaces of Chinese culture. If we want to promote Chinese culture, we must first promote Mount Tai culture."
Taishan and Tai'an are mountains and cities. Tai'an means "the country is peaceful and the people are safe", which means "the peace of Mount Tai means the world is safe".