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What are the historical and cultural values of the Five Mountains?

Mount Tai, the head of the five mountains in China, is the place where the emperor set up an altar to pray for the prosperity of the country and the people, and held a meditation ceremony. The first person to hold a large-scale meditation ceremony here was Qin Shihuang. In Mount Tai, meditation sacrifice is regarded as an auspicious "Fu Rui", which forms the tradition of sacrifice in Mount Tai. In ancient times, people of all dynasties held closed-door ceremonies and sacrificial activities in Mount Tai, and temples were built up and down Mount Tai to carve gods and stone carvings. Ancient literati admired Mount Tai. They came here to travel and write poems. There are more than 20 ancient buildings and more than 2,200 stone tablets on the majestic Mount Tai.

Huashan Mountain is one of the famous five mountains in China, with an altitude of 2 154.9 meters. Located 65,438+020km east of Xi, Shaanxi Province, in huayin city, a famous historical and cultural city. It is bordered by the magnanimous Weihe Plain and the roaring Yellow River in the north and the Qinling Mountains in the south. It is a granite mountain on the north side of the Qinling watershed ridge. Emperors of past dynasties regarded offering sacrifices to Huashan Mountain as an indispensable event. The emperors either held a grand ceremony to worship Yue Temple in person, or sent envoys and local officials instead of the imperial court to worship Yue within the specified date. Because the emperor worships Huashan so much, there are temples, courtyards, palaces and shrines everywhere in Huashan, and Huashan Taoist priests and pilgrims from all directions believe in it.

Songshan Mountain. The lowest altitude is 350m, and the highest altitude is 15 12m. The main peak, Ji Junfeng, is located in Taishi Mountain, with an altitude of 149 1.7 meters ... There is a bird's eye view of the Yellow River Luoshui in the north of Songshan Mountain, Shui Ying and Jishan in the south, five generations of side beams in the east and Luoyang, the ancient capital of the Nine Dynasties in the west. Known as "the two famous cities of Bianluo and the famous mountain of Guinea". It is the first famous mountain in the Central Plains, because it has strange peaks and many temples. More than 30 emperors and 150 famous literati visited Songshan Mountain, which is a paradise for immortals to meet and talk. There is a famous saying in The Book of Songs, "Gao Song Yue Wei was the third runner-up".

Hengshan culture in Nanyue has a long history and rich contents. The emperors in ancient myths and legends in China are closely related to Nanyue in Hengyang. Yan, Huang, Yao, Shun and Yu all left footprints in Nanyue. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, Taoism and Buddhism were introduced to Nanyue successively, and a number of eminent monks emerged, establishing Luyang School, Lin Ji School, Cao Dongzong School, Yunmen School and Fayan School, which were called "Five Leaves Flow" in the history of Buddhism. In the Tang Dynasty, Mount Hengshan in Nanyue became the center of southern Buddhist culture. After the Song Dynasty, more than 20 academies in Nanyue were established one after another, and the academy culture was unique. The rise of Huxiang School still has great influence on modern times. During the Anti-Japanese War, Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue once became the political and military center of the National Government. There were many colleges and universities and an endless stream of celebrities and scholars, which attracted the attention of Chinese people. The inclusive cultural tradition of Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue has a long history. Huxiang School was founded in Nanyue, where Huairang, the seventh ancestor of Zen Buddhism, carried forward the practice of "epiphany" with grinding bricks as a mirror, and Mrs. Wei, a master of Taoist Shangqing School, soared in the daytime in Huangtingguan, all of which were nourished by this fertile soil. It is the broad mind of Mount Hengshan in Nanyue that provides a suitable environment for the prosperity of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and fertile soil for the breeding of various cultures.

Hengshan Mountain is located in the south of Hunyuan, Datong City, Shanxi Province, 62 kilometers away from Datong. Liu Heng, Emperor of Chinese, was renamed "Changshan". According to the Book of History, during Shun Di's northern tour, Yao Zeng sacrificed Beiyue and made Beiyue the founder of Wanshan. Later, when Dayu controlled the water, he recorded that "Hebei belongs to Hengshan Mountain"; Qin Shihuang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Taizong, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Song Zhenzong successively made Beiyue king and emperor, and Ming Taizu honored Beiyue as the immortal god. In the eyes of emperors, the Five Mountains have always been regarded as a symbol of mountains and rivers, so they attach great importance to the sacrifice of Mount Hengshan. "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" contains: As early as BC 1000 years ago, Zhou Chengwang, the second emperor of the Western Zhou Dynasty, "toured Beiyue, and the northern princes confronted Tang Ming"; "Historical Records" contains: "Qin Shihuang revisited the sea in the twenty-ninth year, went to Langya and crossed Hengshan"; According to the Book of the First Han Dynasty, in the spring and March of the third year of the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (AD 98), he went to Mount Tai to repair the seal, and then sacrificed to Mount Heng to hold a ceremony of "burying Yuan Jade", which made Mount Heng a god for the first time. After that, emperors continued to worship Mount Hengshan.