2. Snow Temple
Fengxue Temple is located in Fengxue Temple National Forest Park, 8 kilometers northeast of Ruzhou City, 2 kilometers away from Guaipo Scenic Area. The temple was founded in the Northern Wei Dynasty, formerly known as Ji Xiang Temple, and renamed Qianfeng Temple in the Sui Dynasty. It is a Buddhist Tiantai Sect resort with a long history of 1500 years. Together with Baima Temple, Shaolin Temple and Suoguo Temple, it is also called "the four famous temples in the Central Plains". According to the Brief Introduction of Wind Tunnel, there are large and small wind tunnels on the sunny side of Longshan Mountain, which are dozens of miles deep. When the weather changes, the wind in the cave is unstoppable, hence the name Fengxueshan, and the temple is named "Fengxue Temple" because of the mountain. Although Fengxue Temple is a temple in the north, it is not laid out along the central axis, but built on the mountain, with the landscape of Jiangnan gardens. The surrounding landscape is dotted with eight scenes, seventy-two small scenes and thirty-six blessed places. More importantly, Fengxue Temple has preserved the splendid cultural heritage of the motherland. There are more than 40 buildings in Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties 140, which are called "Museum of Ancient Buildings" by experts. Among them, the Seven Ancestors Pagoda in the Tang Dynasty, the Hanging Bell Pavilion in the Song Dynasty and the Chinese Buddhist Temple in the Jin Dynasty are called the three national treasures of the Snow Temple. The Seven Ancestral Pagoda, built in the 26th year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, is one of the seven existing pagodas in the Tang Dynasty in China. There is a bell cast by Song Xuanhe in the Hanging Bell Pavilion in the Song Dynasty, weighing 9,999 Jin, and it is known as the "first clock in the Central Plains". The Chinese Buddhist Temple is a building of A Jin Dynasty, with a single eaves and a beam structure that is scientific and rigorous. The Tallinn of Fengxue Temple is one of the three Tallinns in China. There are a large number of inscriptions in the temple, or notes or poems, with different styles of regular script, cursive script, official script and seal script, Nitara mantras in Tang Dynasty, classic buildings in Song Dynasty and tower inscriptions in Yuan Dynasty. Fengxue Temple and Tallinn are both national key cultural relics protection units.
The four characteristics of Fengxue Temple: 1, the ancient temple in the deep mountains, my road has twists and turns, passing through a sheltered depression; 2. Wind tunnels in the Nine Dragons and ancient temples in Liantai; 3, true mountains and true waters, suitable for all seasons; 4, built on the mountain, patchwork.
Bus route:
1. You can take bus No.7 from Ruzhou downtown to get there directly.
2. Depart from Ruzhou city by car, and go north through Fengxue Road for 9 kilometers.
Weizi Scenic Area is located 25 kilometers northeast of Ruzhou City, with steep mountains, strange water and strange rocks, dense vegetation and numerous scenery. Extremely interesting, dangerous, hidden, absolutely interesting. The outstanding feature is that there are various scenic spots such as "mountains, temples, lakes, rocks and Gorges", and the lakes and mountains set each other off. Sunset with Ziyun makes people look at the peak and relax, and it is ideal to peek at the valley. Qing Daoguang's "Records of Ruzhou, Zhi Li" records: "Wei Zi is shaped like a screen, with thousands of walls, lush pine and bamboo, surrounded by water, jade belts in front, and Kannonji at the foot of the mountain, with eight views inside." Weizi is a famous Buddhist mountain, known as the "Little South China Sea". Legend has it that Guanyin Bodhisattva once drove Ziyun to this mountain while practicing, but when she saw the beautiful scenery, she stopped to practice here. This mountain is also called Wei Zi. Weizi is about 5 kilometers from Ziyunkou to Kannonji, and there are dozens of scenic spots such as Ziyun Lake, Ziyun Gorge, Camel Peak, Qingshi Cliff, Leigutai, Black Dragon Pool, Jiangjunshi, Cangshan Snow, Kannonji, Juxiantang, Yunjinbai, Ziyun Cave and Ladder.
Weizi is also a natural geological museum, with Archean, Proterozoic, Paleozoic and Cenozoic strata exposed; The development of folds, faults and joints is complex; Songyang movement, Zhongtiaoshan movement, Wuwang movement, Jinning movement, Shaolin movement and other ancient tectonic movements. It's all displayed. These structural relics are the witness of great changes in this area, and also the foundation and motive force for creating Wei Zi's magnificent natural landscape, which endows Wei Zi with more profound scientific connotation. . There are fantastic mountains, many strange rocks, quiet ancient temples, beautiful and elegant lakes and picturesque scenery in the scenic area.
Traffic conditions: Wei Zi is located in the northeast of Jiaocun Town, Ruzhou City, about 20km away from Ruzhou City. The Houfan line in the province and the Jinma line in the county all pass by nearby, and can be connected with tourist attractions such as Fengxue Temple, Guaipo, Shaolin Temple and Sansufen in Jiaxian County by highway.
Gu Jiangshan belongs to the Funiu Mountain system, with the main peak at an altitude of 787.4 meters. It is named after the Gu Jiang Temple built on the main peak. Qing Daoguang's "Zhi Li Ru Zhou Zhi" records: "Gu Jiangshan (also known as Jiaogu Mountain) is shaped like a green screen, towering over thousands of walls, surrounded by green pines and bamboos, with Gu Jiang Temple on the top and luoquan Temple on the bottom." Gu Jiang has well-developed strata and obvious outcrops of rocks. In the process of its formation, Gu Jiang has formed a peculiar surface landform, with many strange peaks, overlapping mountains, ravines, waterfalls, deep pools, deep caves, rugged rocks, lush vegetation, misty clouds and attractive natural scenery.
Jianggushan Tourist Area consists of three parts: (1) luoquan moraine. Luoquan moraine is one of the four major glacial sites in the world, which belongs to Proterozoic Sinian system and is an independent stratigraphic unit in geology. The moraine layer in luoquan is relatively thick, with a total thickness of 306 meters, 2 kilometers wide from east to west and 2 kilometers long from north to south. Since 1950s, moraine has been paid attention by geologists at home and abroad. 1958 after the investigation here, geologists put forward the viewpoint of moraine origin for the first time; From 65438 to 0959, geologist Lin of China Academy of Sciences made a special study on the moraine layer here and named it luoquan layer. After that, experts from Britain, the United States, Canada and other countries came to inspect; China geologist Li Siguang personally visited the site. 1976, Henan Institute of Geological Sciences designated its age as Sinian. (2) Shiren ditch. Shirengou is a canyon deep in Gu Jiangshan. There are two stone man ditches on the right side of the ravine. From a distance, a man and a woman are tall and short. The man is very tall and looks straight ahead; The woman is petite, slightly leaning forward, and the two stone statues are lifelike, so the ditch is named husband and wife stone. Shirengou has dense vegetation and beautiful scenery, with luoquan Temple, Gu Jiang Temple and other scenic spots nearby. (3) Bat Cave. Bat Cave is a large group of caves gradually formed through millions of years of natural creation, which is a rare karst landform phenomenon in the north. Therefore, bats live in caves all the year round, hence the name Bat Cave. The entrance of the cave is located on the cliff 10 meters high in the west, and can only accommodate 1 person. After entering the cave, there is a hall 5 meters down, which can accommodate more than 100 people. All kinds of stalagmites, flowers, stone pillars, stone waterfalls, turtles and stone clocks in the cave are scattered and interesting. In particular, the jade pillars, turtles, the roof of the Temple of Heaven and various stalactites that are being generated are amazing and applaud. There are several small holes extending transversely around the cave. The spring in the cave gurgled and there were many strange stones. It can be said that there are holes and scenery, which is both a tourist attraction and an adventure paradise. Li Yintao, an 80-year-old man from Muchang Village, passed through this cave with a depth of more than 3,000 meters, extending southward from Muchang Village in Mangchuan Township to Lushan County. As a geological engineer said, Bat Cave is the first cave in the Central Plains. Nearby, there are Shimen Canyon, Emperor's Tomb Temple, Crescent Lake, Laopozhai and other scenic spots.