How much is the ticket to climb Mount Tai on New Year’s Day?

115 yuan/person

Taishan religion has a long history, and Buddhism was introduced to Mount Tai in the mid-4th century. In the second year of Zhao Yongning (351), the eminent monk Langgong first went to Daiyin, Mount Tai, to build Langgong Temple and Lingyan Temple. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the larger temples in Taishan included Gushan Yuhuang Temple, Shenbao Temple, Puzhao Temple, etc. The famous Taishan Jingshi Valley is where the Buddhist classic "Diamond Sutra" was carved by the Northern Qi people.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Lingyan Temple was extremely prosperous. Li Jifu, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, called Lingyan Temple in Taishan one of the "four wonders" in the world. As early as the Warring States Period, Taishan Taoism had alchemists living in seclusion in Daiyin Cave; after the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were many temples, including the Queen Mother Pool (Qunwang Temple), Laojun Hall, Doumu Palace (Longquan Temple), Bixia Temple, and Houshiwu. Temple, Yuanshi Tianzun Temple, etc.

Among them, Queen Mother Pond is the earliest, founded before the 25th year of Jian'an (220 years) in the Eastern Han Dynasty; Bixia Temple has the greatest influence. Mount Tai is the birthplace of the myth and legend of the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother Pond Taoist Temple was built as early as the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Queen Mother Pond is located at the east end of Huanshan Road at the southern foot of Mount Tai. It was called "Qunyu Temple" in ancient times, also known as "Yaochi". Cao Zhi of the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms had a poem about "passing eastward to the Queen Mother's House", and Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty had a chant about "drinking from the Queen Mother Pond in the morning".

The poet Wang Xinjian also wrote in the poem "Mountain Climbing": "You travel leisurely and enjoy the refreshing breeze, and ride on the roaring Dai Mountain. Han cypresses bow to the flowers in the morning, and Qin pines bid farewell to the dusk mist. The sea of ??clouds washes away the dust in the heart, and the heavenly road fades away from madness. "You come here to visit a beautiful place, this is the pinnacle of the universe."