Niushou Mountain, also known as Niutou Mountain, is a picturesque place in Jiangning District, Nanjing. It consists of Niushou Mountain, Zutang Mountain and Jiangjun Mountain. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Dao, the prime minister, advised Si Marui not to establish a dual imperial power, which cost manpower and financial resources. In contrast, Tianque Mountain and Niushou Mountain were the spectacular peak of confrontation. Niushou Mountain is located in the hilly region of the south of the Yangtze River, with rich landforms and vegetation, often accompanied by rainy season, and different landscapes can be enjoyed in different seasons.
Niushou Mountain has beautiful scenery and is called the Spring Bull Head. In ancient times, there were beautiful scenery of Jinling, such as the smoke from the cow's head, flowers and the vibration of the ancestral temple. There are also many historical sites, such as Yuefei Anti-Gold Base, Cliff Stone Carvings, Hongjue Temple Tower, Zhenghe Cultural Park, etc. It has attracted countless emperors, generals and literati to cultivate self-cultivation, enjoy tea and compose poems here, leaving more than 400 poems.
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Niushou Mountain, a famous Buddhist mountain in China, has a profound cultural heritage and is the origin and birthplace of Buddhist Niutou Zen. There are natural landscapes such as Induction Spring, Tiger Running Spring, Baiturtle Pond, Douluyan, Manjusri Cave, Pishi Cave, Han Xuting, Diyong Spring and Ma Yin Pool, and cultural landscapes such as Hongjue Temple, Hongjue Temple Tower, Zhenghe Tomb and Kangjin Home.
In the fifth year of Liu Song Xiaowu in the Southern Dynasties, there once lived a monk named Bizhi in a cave on the south slope of the west peak of Niushou Mountain. It was in this cave that he became a Buddha, so the cave where he lived is called Bizhi Buddha Cave, also called Buddha Cave. Niushou Mountain was once called Xianku Mountain.
Buddhism prevailed in the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty. A Buddhist cave temple (now Hongjue Temple) was built at the southern foot of Niushou Mountain, and the Hongjue Temple Tower was added in the Tang Dynasty. In the sixth year of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan reign (632), Niushou Mountain became the birthplace of Buddhism Tautou Buddhism (a kind of "Tautou Zen"). That's what Buddhists refer to when they call the river head. There is a monument on the tower, and the inscription "New Tower of Master Rong, the ancestor of Niushou Mountain" was written by the famous poet Liu Yuxi.