It is necessary to have tickets+ticket prices. Charges will be charged from 20 17. The reform and innovation of tourism system and mechanism of Mengshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area in Shanxi Province has been basically completed, and the scenic area will fully enter the stage of marketization and corporatization. According to the decision of the leading group for the restructuring of Mengshan Scenic Spot in Jinyuan District, the scenic spot is scheduled to start trial operation on August 20 17 and officially put into operation on August 0 1 0. Ticket price: 70 yuan/piece.
Traffic route 1. From Taiyuan, you can take bus No.5, No.308, No.463, No.839, No.848 and No.858 to Luocheng. If you are at Taiyuan Railway Station, you can take bus 1 and get off at Xiayuan Station, then transfer to bus No.5 and get off at Luocheng Station.
2. When you drive along Laojinci Road and arrive at Luochengkou, a high-speed toll station, there are obvious signs on the roadside leading to the scenic spot. 、
Mengshan Buddha is a cliff Buddha, located in the northwest of Sidi Village, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. It is a cultural relic protection unit in Taiyuan. Mengshan Buddha was excavated in Tianbao period of Northern Qi Dynasty. It turned out to be the cliff Buddha statue behind Mengshan Kaihua Temple. Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, Wu Zetian, the late Tang Emperor Li Keyong and the late Emperor Gaozu Liu Zhiyuan all came here to worship Buddha. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, Mengshan Buddha was destroyed. During the census of Taiyuan geographical names from 65438 to 0980, the Mengshan Giant Buddha was rediscovered. When it was discovered, the Buddha's head had disappeared, and the Buddha's body was buried by earth and stone, which was severely weathered.
Since 2007, Taiyuan has protected and developed the Mengshan Giant Buddha, reinforced the Buddha's body, and built a new Buddha's head with a height of 12 meters with reference to the Beiqi Buddha's head unearthed in Taiyuan. June 5438+October 2008 10, Mengshan Giant Buddha was opened to the public.
This ancient stone bridge across Meiyukou, Hua Kai is called "Yu Jia Bridge" or "Dragon Bridge". Because every time the emperor worships the Giant Buddha in Mengshan, he has to cross this bridge, hence the name Yu Jia Bridge. According to textual research, Tang Gaozu Tang gaozu, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi, Wu Zetian, Wang Jin Li Keyong, Emperor Gaozu Liu Zhiyuan after the Five Dynasties, Northern Han Emperor Liu Jiyuan and other emperors all visited Mengshan to worship the Buddha and passed through this ancient bridge, praying for the Buddha to bless them or dominate Kyushu, or make the country long-term stability. After thousands of years of natural weathering, Yu Jia Bridge still maintains its simplicity and solemnity.
The severely damaged original temple was restored in 2006. The temple is not big, as soon as you enter the yard. The three-character plaque "Kannonji" on the hill gate was inscribed by Mr. Yuan, chairman of Shanxi Calligraphers Association, and the local people called it "movable type plaque". This is because when the original intaglio font is gilded, it will be reflected into people's sight by sunlight, and your vision will feel that the font is concave and convex for a while. In the center of the main hall, Guanyin Bodhisattva is enshrined, with a blessed boy and a little dragon girl on the left and right. Eighteen arhats of Buddhism are all around Guanyin Bodhisattva. According to Buddhist scriptures, Lohan is a disciple of Sakyamuni Buddha, who lives in the world to promote Buddhism and has won the support of the world. Therefore, Buddhist programs can be used to bind when shaping. There are eighteen arhats and five hundred arhats in the temple.
Temple incense has always been good, and many believers come here to burn incense, which is said to be very effective.
Opposite the temple is Sidi Village, which used to be the place where educated youth went to the countryside. The following four rows of caves were built by educated youth. You can look at the photos of that year on both sides of the road, but it has been changed into a restaurant, and you can eat farmhouse meals in summer.
Before you see the Buddha, you must pass through Kaihua Temple, in front of which is a flat open field with a peach forest. The bright sunshine shines around the temple, and the sky is high and the clouds are light.
In the past, Mengshan Kaihua Temple was divided into two houses, namely Si Qian and Housi. At the peak, there were more than 300 monks. It is not difficult to imagine how many Buddhist believers come here to worship Buddha and meditate. What we are seeing now is the Si Qian of Kaihua Temple, which is east-west. It used to be a three-step courtyard with magnificent buildings. Due to the war in the Yuan Dynasty and the turmoil of the "Ten-year Cultural Revolution", Kaihua Temple suffered great losses. The only existing buildings are the Jet Li Pagoda in the Northern Song Dynasty and the Sutra Pavilion in the Houdian. The newly-built Iron Buddha Hall houses the iron Buddha in the early Tang Dynasty, and the murals in Wulong Cave retain the style of the Ming Dynasty. Most of the colored sculptures in the temple were created in recent years. There are still relics such as the mountain gate, bell and drum tower, hall, main hall, wing and ear room in the temple, which need to be repaired as appropriate in the future. In addition, dozens of stone tablets and tomb towers of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties, Song Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty were found inside and outside the temple, which recorded the glorious history and vicissitudes of this ancient temple.
There are the Twin Towers of Jet Li in the temple, which is called "Nigumu Pagoda" in local chronicles. It looks elegant and beautiful at close range, but looks like two unopened flower buds at a distance. It is a single-story brick tower with two towers, and the bases of the two towers are connected together, so it is called Lianlian Tower, which is rare in all parts of the country and is the oldest tower in Taiyuan.
The two towers are side by side, facing east, with a distance of three meters. The south tower is "incarnation stupa" and the north tower is "Dingguang stupa". The two pagodas have the same shape. The plane of the pagodas is square, both 8 meters high, and the base of Xumi Mountain is 3.3 meters high. The side of the tower is 3 meters wide and 2.5 meters high. There is a bluestone shutter door on the front, and grass and petals are engraved in the shade. The couch was decorated with flames and inscribed with questions. There are half-open straight chess false windows on the other three sides, and the tower eaves are stacked with eleven layers, with the eaves height of 0.5 meters and the height of 1 meter. The top of the tower is folded layer by layer to form a square base. The tower brake is an octagonal pavilion, and the top decoration has collapsed. After investigation, the original tower was built by three layers of Dysosma petals and one layer of small Buddha heart, and the top of the tower was octagonal beads, which was made from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. It is a high-level precious architectural example in the architectural history of China, and the only existing "Flower Pagoda" in Taiyuan. Founded in the first year of Song Chunhua (990), it has a history of101year. It has not been rebuilt, and it is the oldest existing stupa in Shanxi.
From the architectural point of view, the pavilion column, railing, cattail leaf fan, bucket arch and carved flowers of the tower are all fine works of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, this unique and well-proportioned "Flower Pagoda", as a transitional tomb pagoda building since the Tang and Song Dynasties, is still brilliant and beautiful despite the mottled cracks left by the Millennium and the severe weathering of the upper pagoda. It is a rare example in the architectural history of China ancient pagoda, and it has high academic and artistic value. In recent years, the upper part of the tower has been repaired.
The wishing platform for ancient Sophora japonica flowers in front of the Jet Li Tower is mostly where couples come to make wishes. Many people take photos as a souvenir, which means to grow old together.
Standing in front of the temple and looking to the left, two miles away, a giant Buddha was born, that is, the Mengshan Giant Buddha with great honor and great sorrow. The restored Mengshan Giant Buddha is 40 meters high and 66 meters high, which is located between the stone cliffs at the southern foot of Mengshan Mountain. The Buddha sat cross-legged, with his ears shoulder to shoulder and his back against the mountain. The newly added Buddha's head is12m high, 8m in diameter and weighs about140t. His broad shoulders and slender arms can be exposed from the stone cliffs on both sides at any time.
China Mengshan Giant Buddha has been favored by the royal family and monks since it came out, which has played an important role in promoting and spreading Buddhist culture. However, with the change of dynasties and years, the once famous Mengshan Giant Buddha has unconsciously faded out of people's sight. After the destruction of war and the erosion of nature's wind, frost, rain and snow, the pavilion finally collapsed at the end of the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1368), and the head of the giant Buddha had collapsed before the Yuan Dynasty. Since then, the remains of the stomach, hands, legs, feet, pedestals and pavilions have been buried in rocks, residual bricks and mud, which is unknown to future generations. It was not until A.D. 1980 that the Geographical Names Office of the Southern Suburb of Taiyuan City accidentally discovered the remains of the Giant Buddha during a geographical name survey. In recent years, the provincial and municipal governments and Jinyuan District have attached great importance to the development of Mengshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area. Through hard work, the restoration of Mengshan Giant Buddha has come to an end, road construction and scenic spot greening have been completed, and running water and lotus pond are being built, which can not only reflect the local geographical and cultural characteristics, but also meet the religious needs of the masses, and will soon meet tourists.