Because of Mingyue Mountain

It is a national AAAA tourist scenic spot, a national key scenic spot, a national forest park, and a national geological park. It is located 18 kilometers southwest of Yichun City, Jiangxi Province. It is easily accessible from Shanghai-Rui Expressway, National Highway 320 and Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway. It is 210 kilometers away from Nanchang and Changsha. It is a mountainous scenic spot with "charming natural scenery, rare selenium-rich hot springs, and long-standing Zen culture" as its main features, integrating "ecological tourism, leisure vacation, popular science education and religious tourism". As early as the reign of Liu Heng, Emperor Wen of the Western Han Dynasty (179 BC - 156 BC), the Yangshan God (Dragon King) Temple was built here. In the first year of Huichang in the Tang Dynasty (841), Zen Master Huiji, the founder of the "Weiyang Sect", founded Qiyin Temple (Taiping Xingguo Temple) here. The hot springs at the foot of the mountain have a development history of more than 800 years.

The Mingyue Mountain Hot Spring Scenic Area has a total area of ??136 square kilometers and is composed of 12 peaks with an altitude of more than 1,000 meters. The main peak, Taiping Mountain, is 1,735.6 meters above sea level. Because the entire mountain is semicircular, it looks like half a bright moon. , hence the name Mingyue Mountain. ***There are six major scenic spots: Tanxia Scenic Area, which is mainly characterized by waterfalls such as Yungu Waterfall, Taiping Mountain Scenic Area, which is characterized by Taiping Mountain sunrise and alpine meadows, and Wuyun Cliff Cliff and "God Frog Leaping Stream" The Wuyunya Scenic Area is mainly characterized by wonderful meteorological landscapes and thousands of acres of Huangshan pines; the Yangshan Scenic Area is mainly characterized by Zen culture, Zhenggu Reading Hall, Yangshan God Shrine and folk customs; the Jade Scenic Area is mainly characterized by rare animals and plants. Jingshan Scenic Area and Wentang Hot Spring Resort. The scenic spot is known as a "natural zoological and botanical garden". There are only two rare and endangered plants in the world - Chinese deciduous magnolia, which are unique to Mingyue Mountain. The Mingyue Mountain camellia tree with red leaves, named after "Mingyue Mountain", has a beautiful shape and The flowers are brightly colored. The original style of the scenic spot is well maintained, with lush vegetation and extremely high negative ion content in the air, reaching more than 70,000 per cubic centimeter, which is 35 times the national standard. It can be called a "natural oxygen bar." The five waterfalls with different shapes and characteristics are breathtaking. Among them, the "Yungu Fei Waterfall" waterfall is the first of the eight ancient scenic spots in Yichun. It is 119.57 meters long and is the tallest waterfall in the south of the Yangtze River.

Mingyue Mountain Wentang Hot Spring gushes out from the granite 470 meters underground. The water temperature is 68-72°C all year round. It is colorless and odorless, with fine water quality, low sodium, rich in selenium and high metasilicic acid content. It can be used with It is comparable to the famous "Aix" mineral spring in France, where you can drink and bathe. According to national identification and testing and experimental analysis by the Chinese Academy of Medical and Defense Sciences, it contains more than 20 trace elements that are beneficial to the human body. Among them, rare selenium-rich elements have significant anti-cancer and anti-tumor health care effects, and are beneficial to cardiovascular, digestive, urinary and other system diseases. Obvious curative effect.

Mingyue Mountain has a long history and rich cultural landscape. In the Western Han Dynasty (179 BC - 156 BC), the Yangshan God (Dragon King) Temple was the birthplace of the famous Yangshan Dragon King Incense Land and the Dragon King Bodhisattva across the country. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it is said that the founders of Taoism, Ge Xuan and Ge Hong, practiced immortality and alchemy at Jiyun Peak of Yangshan Mountain. Wen Tianxiang, the national hero of the Song Dynasty, personally wrote a book and presented a giant plaque with the name "Gexian Temple" to him. In the first year of Huichang in the Tang Dynasty (841), Qiyin Temple (Taiping Xingguo Temple) became the birthplace of the "Weiyang Sect", one of the five sects of Zen Buddhism. ), Japan and other overseas monks who came to study and practice Buddhism are also countless. "The benevolent enjoy the mountains, and the wise enjoy the water." Many historical celebrities have visited the Mingyue Mountains and Rivers, leaving behind "Don't travel to Yichun because the mountains and rivers are far away" (Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty), "I traveled to the fields of Yichun and looked around at the many wonderful mountains" (Southern Song Dynasty) *Zhu Xi), "Looking at the sun, the scenery is like gold being smelted, and tourists walking among colorful clouds" (late Ming Dynasty *Xu Xiake) and many other popular and moving poems.

Wentang Selenium-rich Hot Spring: Located in Wentang Town at the foot of Mingyue Mountain, surrounded by mountains and flowing water, it has a beautiful environment. "Zhengde Prefecture Chronicles" of the Ming Dynasty records: "The temperature is like soup, you can bathe in winter, and you can put in raw chicken eggs and they will be cooked." There are 14 large sanatoriums, and multiple hot spring swimming pools and bathing pools have been developed, which can accommodate thousands of people at the same time. Recuperation and vacation, especially the Tianmu Mingyue Mountain Hot Spring Resort with an investment of nearly 200 million yuan and an area of ??500 acres, is the highest-end hot spring resort center in the park and was rated as a national AAAA tourist attraction in 2007.

Yangshan Qiyin Temple: a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangxi Province. Located in the deep valley of Yangshan Mountain. In the first year of Huichang in the Tang Dynasty (841), Zen Master Huiji founded the "Weiyang Sect", one of the five sects of Zen Buddhism in my country, here, which became a Buddhist jungle resort in ancient China.

There is a thousand-year-old ginkgo tree on the site; there are many tablets, cliff inscriptions and more than 100 tomb towers of Zen monks in the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties; there are also Zhenggu Reading Hall, Yangshan God Shrine, Folk customs and other attractions.