Penglai The origin of fairy mountains such as square pots?

The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" of the Warring States Period

Throughout the ages, there is always a sea market in the surrounding waters of Penglai on the Jiaodong Peninsula, and the ancients believed that the mirage is the three immortal mountains on the sea - Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou, and the mirage is also the root of the ancient emperors' pursuit of immortality and immortal activities. The great writers Su Dongpo and Shen Kuo, and the contemporary writer Yang Shuo have also described the beautiful scenery of Haishi.

What exactly does a mirage look like? Why has the myth of the "Three Immortal Mountains" caused by the mirage been circulated and talked about? The reporter came to Penglai Sanxian Mountain Scenic Area with this question.

The name "Sanxian Mountain" comes from the "Historical Records", and it is recorded that "......There are three immortal mountains in the sea, Penglai, Yingzhou, abbot, there are immortals on the mountain, the palace is made of gold and jade, and the birds and beasts are all white ......The legend of "Three Immortal Mountains" triggered the Qin Emperor and Han Wu to visit the east to seek immortals, and "Three Immortal Mountains" has also become synonymous with fairyland and become a holy place that people yearn for.

"Three Immortal Mountain" is a mythical fairyland, and Penglai Three Immortal Mountain Scenic Area is based on the historical legend of the fairy land "Three Immortal Mountain", since 2004, by Penglai Eight Immortals across the sea tourism **** spent 1.2 billion yuan, employing skilled craftsmen in the world, collecting the world's rare treasures, it took 3 years to build, the mythical and legendary fairy source holy land moved to reality, truly displayed in front of the world, and transformed the fairyland in people's hearts into reality.

The whole scenic area of Sanxian Mountain Scenic Area is a metaphor for the East China Sea with clear water, surrounding the three immortal mountains of Penglai Immortal Island, Fanghu Shengjing and Yingzhou Wonderland, and the distribution of Sanhe Hall, Yingzhou Academy, Treasure Hall and other scenic spots is scattered. The main building is magnificent, surrounded by clear water in the garden, ancient trees towering to the sky, strange stones are different, there are both the male of the northern royal garden, and the show of the private garden in the south. Release?

The harmonious concept of "three religions" shows visitors a beautiful picture of harmony between man and nature, and the unity of nature and man.

Inherit the essence of Hanmo garden and create a classical garden complex. The main building of Sanxian Mountain adopts the Chinese classical garden gardening technique of "one pond and three mountains", surrounds the three islands with clear water, and reproduces the beauty of Xianshan. In terms of architectural style, it reproduces the ancient court architectural style, fully inherits and absorbs the essence of Chinese literati painting, and turns the beautiful yearning of ancient literati for fairyland into reality.

Among them, Penglai Immortal Island is based on the Qing Dynasty boundary painting masters Yuan Jiang and Yuan Yao's "Penglai Wonderland"; Yingzhou Wonderland, based on Zhao Mengfu's "Eighteen Bachelors Ascending Yingzhou" in the Yuan Dynasty; The square pot is taken from the square pot scenery in the Old Summer Palace in the Qing Dynasty, and reproduces the beautiful scenery of the square pot in the Old Summer Palace. On the basis of inheriting the essence of the predecessors, the scenic spot has improved and innovated various architectural methods. A number of architectural experts at home and abroad and more than 2,000 skilled craftsmen from all over the country were hired to demonstrate and simulate everything from the overall coordination and the location of the three islands to the arrangement of mountains and rocks and the planting of trees.

There are hundreds of classical buildings in the whole scenic area, but the architectural form is ever-changing, its eaves and corners and roofs are not the same, and the two groups of buildings in Penglai Fairy Island and Yingzhou Wonderland are unique in China.

Yingzhou: The legendary fairy mountain of the East China Sea. Yingzhou is in the east, and Dongying is what Japan is now called.

Historical Records and Feng Zen Book": "Ziwei, Xuan, and Yanzhao make people go into the sea to seek Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou Sanshen Mountain, and their transmission is in the Bohai Sea, and they are not far away. When the trouble comes, the wind of the ship will lead away. Whoever tastes it, all the immortals and the medicine of immortality are there."

The Classic of Mountains and Seas records that there are three immortal mountains on the sea, Penglai, Yingzhou, and Abbot, and the mountain is a fairyland, with elixir. The mirage spectacle that often appears in the Penglai sea area has stimulated people's enthusiasm for seeking immortals and medicines, and ancient emperors such as Qin Huang and Han Wu have come to Penglai to start the immortal search activities.

The historical records of Qin Shi Huang Benji contains: "Qi people Xu City and other books, there are three sacred mountains in the sea of words, the name is Penglai, Abbot, Yingzhou." This is a mythical account of the past.

Dongfang Shuo's "Ten Continents" said: There are Zuzhou, Yingzhou, Xuanzhou, Yanzhou, Changzhou, Yuanzhou, Fenglinzhou, Jugu Zhou, Liuzhou, and Shengzhou. Its Shengzhou and Yingzhou are in the East China Sea, Yanzhou is in the South China Sea, Fenglin Island and Jugu Island are in the West Sea, and Yuanzhou and Xuanzhou are in the North Sea.

It has been on all ten continents. ("Beginner's Notes").

Daiyu, Yuanqiao, Fanghu, Yingzhou and Penglai.

The five land god mountains are called: Wood God Mountain, Jin God Mountain, Water God Mountain, Fire God Mountain, and Earth God Mountain. In a small pan in Fujian Glossy Cattle Field.

Penglai is the name of a sacred mountain in ancient Chinese myths and legends, often referring to fairyland. Penglai City is now a county-level city in Shandong Province and is managed by Yantai City.

Penglai City is located in the northernmost part of the Jiaodong Peninsula, bordering the Bohai and Huanghai Seas, Yantai in the east, Qingdao in the south, Tianjin, Dalian and other cities in the north and the Korean Peninsula across the sea. It is located in the northern protrusion of Jiaodong Peninsula, on the coast of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, and its terrain is high in the south and low in the north, and it belongs to the alluvial and hilly erosion flat land in front of the mountain, with an average altitude of 15 25m.

Penglai in ancient times is also now Penglai City in Shandong.

Penglai has a long history, and there were human settlements in the Neolithic Age. In the second year of Yuanguang of the Han Dynasty (133 years ago), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty toured eastward, "looking at Penglai Mountain in the sea here, and named after building the city".

In the eighth year of Tang Zhenguan (634), Penglai Town was founded. In the third year of Tang Shenlong (707), Dengzhou moved to Penglai, and Penglai was promoted to a county. In the ninth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1376), Dengzhou was promoted to the state capital.

The Qing Dynasty attacked it. For more than 1,100 years from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Penglai has been the political, economic and cultural center of Jiaodong region.

Penglai has two concepts:

1. The mythical Penglai, in the East China Sea, is where the gods live. There are undead grasses on the island. Out of reach, approaching it by boat, it will be submerged or blown away by the wind.

2. Penglai in the place name is on the seaside in the eastern part of Shandong Province. Common mirages, ethereal, unreachable. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty asked for immortals to come here, and built a small city named Penglai.

In the territory of present-day Penglai City. In terms of place names, ancient and modern Penglai is the same place. It's just that the current realm is much larger than in ancient times.

Since Xu Fu sought immortals, there have been many places with the name of Penglai. Many scholars believe that Japan is the destination where Xu Fu went to seek immortals and did not return. "Historical Records: The Biography of Huainan Hengshan" has a record of "Xu Fude Plain Guangze, stop, the king does not come".

In the "Six Posts of Yichu" written by the five generations of Yichu monks, it is said: "Japan is also known as Wa Guo......There is a mountain name 'Fuji', also known as 'Penglai', Xu Fu is here, called Penglai. In Japan, there are also "Kumano Horai", "Itsukushima Horai", "Atsuta Horai" and so on.

In China's coastal areas, there are "Penglai" in Shandong, "Penglai" in Daishan in Zhoushan Islands in Zhejiang and "Little Penglai" in Xiangshan Dancheng in Ningbo. See.

Penglai Mountain. It is also known as Penglai, Pengshan, Pengqiu, Penghu, Penglai Xiandao, etc.

Legend has it that there are three sacred mountains in the Bohai Sea: Penglai, Yingzhou, and Abbot, which are the places where the gods live, and since ancient times it is the place where Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty seek to visit the immortals. Huashi has a taste, and you can live forever if you eat it. There is a sentence in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the North Classic of the Sea" that "Penglai Mountain is in the sea"; "Liezi Tangwen" also has a record that "there are five mountains in the east of the Bohai Sea, one is called Daiyu, the second is called Yuanqiao, the third is called Fanghu, the fourth is called Yingzhou, and the fifth is called Penglai".

In the record, the other two mountains were fished by the legendary giant of the Lombok Kingdom, and therefore sank in the sea.

Penglai is the name of the ancient fairy mountain, which became a place name during the Han Dynasty.

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According to legend"To the east of the Bohai Sea, there are five mountains; One day Daixing, two Yuanqiao, three Fangju, four Yingzhou, five Penglai" "Square pot with a view"It is the fairy mountain in the Bohai Sea.

The scripture says: It is like a round mirror around its face. Shadows in all places.

It's like a fate. Such is a large round mirror. Wisdom is immeasurable.

All good deeds. "The round mirror is empty"It is a Buddhist language that can encompass all scenery and images.

Water and wood from Qinghua, square pot Najing; The smoke and clouds are clear and clear, and the round mirror is a couplet inscribed by Qianlong on the famous spot of Yangzhou.

Meaning: the pond water ripples, the shore trees are swaying, the nature is refreshing and gorgeous, just like the beautiful scenery of the square pot fairy mountain;

The smoke clouds on the water surface, the colorful glow on the horizon, the transpiration correspondingly becomes bright, like the weather of the round mirror, looming.

According to the "Historical Records" and other classics, there are three immortal mountains on the East China Sea, called "Penglai, Abbot, Yingzhou", there are immortals living on the mountain, all the palaces are **** built, and there is a panacea, people can live forever when they eat, so it leads to the story of the Qin Emperor Han Wu Donghai visiting the immortals to seek medicine, and it has been passed down to this day. The Sanxian Mountain Scenic Area is to show the ethereal and fascinating Penglai, Abbot and Yingzhou three immortal mountains in myths and legends in front of the world, so as to meet people's good wishes of worshiping immortals and praying for immortality.