The legend of Laoshan Mountain? The origin and history of Laoshan Mountain

Legends and stories about Laoshan (1).

On April 21st, the mountaineering festival, the major mountains are free to open, I believe that many people want to go to Laoshan the most, from the first day of the first month to the present, I went to Laoshan 3 times, each time the feeling is different, especially some attractions that are not open to the public make me feel that Laoshan is really big, very beautiful. I have here some legends and stories of Laoshan Mountain, and I hope you will know more about our Laoshan Mountain. Let's start with the "Eight Immortal Piers" that the children have climbed---

Legend of Laoshan Mountain] The legend of the Eight Immortal Piers of Laoshan Mountain!

Baxian Dun is located on the top of the headland Laoshan in the southeast of Laoshan Mountain. "Laoshan Chronicles" recorded: "Eight immortal piers, there are stone slopes wide several acres, the east is inclined into the sea, the sea water is turbulent, the mountain is moving, the north of it is a cliff thousands, the danger is forcing the sky, the bottom is overlayed, its potential is to tilt, the stone layer is mottled with five colors such as rust, the one who is under it, the immortal pier also.

The big stone is staggered, the face is flat and can sit, the sea waves rush straight up and hit each other with the pier, the waves are reversed several zhang, fly in the sky, such as the jade tree, such as the silver flower, such as the glaze, such as the pearl rock, it is gratifying and palatable, and the extreme view of the strange danger of the mountains and seas is also. It is precisely because the water flow here is turbulent, the waves are stormy, the surging waves, and the stone pier here, the stone wall is all metamorphic rock, red, black, gray, blue, white alternately, overlapping and overlapping, the spotted Lan is very magnificent, so it is called "Haiqiao Xiandun". Ming Dynasty scholar Gao Hongtu said:

The Eight Immortal Dun is like a splendid book, the first strange, the first beautiful".

The wind and waves here are high, after tens of millions of years of wave impact, the bottom of the south side of the cape is gradually eroded and hollowed out, and finally collapses down to become a steep stone wall, the protruding part at the top, the shape is like the eaves of the building, the part of the ground collapses, there are more than 10 more than 10 boulders, or lying or standing, the size is different, the face is flat and can sit. This is the formation of the Eight Immortal Piers.

The Eight Immortals refer to Han Zhongli, Zhang Guolao, Tie Guai Li, Cao Guoshu, Lu Dongbin, Lan Caihe, Han Xiangzi and He Xiangu. There are many stories about the Eight Immortals in the folk, among which the story of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Laoshan Rising Small" is directly related to the Eight Immortals. It is said that the Eight Immortals cultivated in Kunlun, and in order to relieve the plague in the world and save the people, they had to go to the East China Sea to collect herbs, which was from Laoshan Mountain.

Among them, the landscapes such as "Xianggong Hat", "Boot Stone" and the legend of "Eight Immortal Pier" are the immortal traces left by the Eight Immortals.

On the opposite side of the Eight Immortal Pier, there is a flat stone, that is, a money stone for the legendary dragon king. There is also a legend that Zhang Sanfeng once snored and slept on this stone, so it is also called the sloppy stone.

On the seaside between the Taiqing Palace and the Eight Immortal Piers, there is a cluster of towering rock woods, known as Diaoyutai, there is a poem engraved on the reef, it is said that "a lily and a hat, a mustache, a pole and an inch hook, a mountain, a water and a bright moon, a person fishing alone and a sea and autumn." ”

Legend of Laoshan Legend has it that Laoshan was originally called Ao Mountain.

Laoshan was formed in the Cretaceous period 100 million years ago, after a long time of vicissitudes of life, heavenly creation, in the carving of nature, formed a majestic, magnificent, peculiar, beautiful landform form. The mountain range is centered on a giant peak and extends in all directions. According to the natural trend, it is divided into Doumo Jufeng branch, Sanbiao Mountain branch, Shimen Mountain branch and Wushan branch.

From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were monks and sorcerers who practiced in Laoshan Xiaxia, and the Tang and Song dynasties of Laoshan Taoism were prosperous, and the Yuan and Ming dynasties sold potatoes to the peak, and the Qing Dynasty did not decline. Laoshan Taoism has created a new situation due to the entry of the Quanzhen School created by Wang Chongyang. The Quanzhen Dao North Seven Truths set foot in Laoshan Mountain, and Qiu Chuji came to Laoshan three times to explain the teachings, which had a far-reaching impact.

Subsequently, the North Seven True created sects in Laoshan Mountain, striving to build Taoist temples, and reached the peak of the Ming Dynasty, so there was the prosperity of "Nine Palaces, Eight Views and Seventy-two Nunnery", making Laoshan the second jungle in the Taoist world. In the long process of the development of Taoism in Laoshan, there are Li Zhexuan, Liu Ruozhuo, Qiu Chuji, Liu Chuxuan, Li Zhiming, Xu Fuyang, Zhang Sanfeng, Sun Xuanqing, Geng Yilan, Qi Benshou and other famous Taoists who have been enshrined by the emperor.

Laoshan is the highest peak in China's coastline and is known as the "first mountain" on the sea. There is an old local saying that "although Mount Tai is high in the clouds, it is not as good as the East China Sea." ”

Laoshan is bordered by the Yellow Sea on both sides of the east and south, and has the reputation of "famous mountain on the sea", and the peak is a giant peak of about 1,100 meters above sea level.