Notes on Wanghai Temple in Dongtai, Wutai Mountain
After a quick breakfast, we set off. It's only half an hour's drive from sha he to the Hongmen Banquet, but every time I go there in the last two years, I feel: Wutai Mountain is a world-famous Buddhist shrine, why not build this road? This road is full of potholes, and some sections even show obvious signs of collapse. Although the opening of Xinfu Expressway allows most vehicles to go from Xinzhou to Wutai Mountain, the road from sha he to Taihuai Town is still very busy, at least vehicles from Inner Mongolia, Datong and Beijing have to take this road. Therefore, whenever I walk on this road and feel the real bumps, as a local, I will feel guilty and feel sorry for so many long-distance guests. But after all, I am just a right person, and I can only sigh.
Half an hour later, we arrived at the Hongmen Banquet, from which we could go to Dongtai Ding. Looking at the long road, I recoiled a little before I started walking. I really want to drive up, but I don't know when it started. Private cars are not allowed on the road to Dongtai Top, so I have to walk up.
Walk a short distance along the main road, and you can turn into a path. The so-called path is actually a path that people walk out on the hillside in order to cut corners. It was not until I took this road that I was glad I didn't take the main road. Because you can see all the green mountains and waters, it is really Qian Shan, a green garden, thousands of miles away, with green grass and green. The eyeful of green is dotted with yellow, red and white wildflowers. There are few red and white wildflowers, mainly yellow flowers, and there are dandelion flowers that people are familiar with, but more are small yellow flowers that can't be named (there is no signal on the mountain, and Baidu knows that this flower is called Potentilla when it gets home). Halfway up the hill, I looked back and saw far away. In the distance, the endless green hills are shrouded in lingering clouds, and the towering north platform is hidden in it. The road to Taihuai Town winds in the middle of the green hills, just like a jade belt. Wandering in this world of green grass and yellow flowers, I sometimes forget the final destination of this trip.
In this way, we stopped all the way and finally climbed to the top of Dongtai. The first thing I saw was the archway of Wanghai Temple in Dongtai. It is said that you can overlook the Wanghai Building, which is near Fuping, Hebei Province and far away from Bohai Sea, Shandong Province. The ancients said, "climb to the top of Dongtai and enjoy the sea." Therefore, it is famous for the Temple of the Sea. Behind the archway is a tall tower. It can be seen that the tower is still under construction, or rather, the whole roof of Dongtai is under construction. Because trucks pulling civil works pass by from time to time, there are several forklifts, road rollers and other machines roaring on the periphery below. It seems that the roof of Dongtai may be expanded several times with the mountain.
After crossing the archway into a spacious place similar to a square, a stone about two or three people high stands on the left, on which the words "watch the sunrise" are written in red font. Unfortunately, it was almost noon when we came up, so it was impossible to watch the sunrise. However, it is said that the sunrise in Dongtai is the natural landscape of Wutai Mountain. Whenever the sun rises, Wanghai Temple is completely immersed in a cloud and sea fog, and with the rich morning bell, it becomes more and more solemn.
Before climbing the high steps leading to the tower, there was a big stone that said "Buddha shines brightly". Here we met two cyclists, one from Zigong, Sichuan, and the ultimate goal was Mohe in the northeast. Another team of three foreigners came from Beijing and rode motorcycles all the way. Perhaps it is hard to find a bosom friend, and the two teams actually started a dialogue. Foreigners spoke a few words of proficient Chinese, while Sichuanese spoke a few words of English learned from brain searching. They even talked about the feeling of meeting each other and took photos as a souvenir. Perhaps it is the courage to challenge yourself, perhaps it is an optimistic attitude towards life, and it was suddenly moved by such a group of people.
Climbing up the high steps, what stands in front of us is the landmark building of Dongtai, a tall tower. In the process of climbing the mountain, it appears and disappears, guiding our direction at any time. When we saw it, we felt that hope was just around the corner. When we can't see it, we feel that the road ahead is long. Now it is in front of me, but looking at the unfinished window above, I suddenly lost interest in understanding it, just counting its height, one * * * seven floors. Then I went around the back of it. I didn't expect to hit by mistake. I found the oldest and most primitive thing on the top of Dongtai. In a temple much lower than the tower in front, several statues sit or stand, which is obviously different from modern statues. Most modern statues are fat and look kind, but these statues are much thinner and ferocious, which makes people shudder at a glance, and they dare not look carefully and quit in a hurry. Perhaps in order to better protect these ancient things, it is forbidden to take pictures here, so I can't share my fear with you.
Walking down the high stone steps and entering the gate of the temple, the damp and cold, cramped space set off the greatness of the four kings. Coming out of the mountain gate is a relatively wide place. There are two very tall statues facing south, with incense burners in front. It can be seen that incense is not very prosperous. This space is surrounded by a red wall less than one person high. Standing on the wall overlooking, you can see that there are two such walls below, which enclose two wide places respectively. Excavators and road rollers are busy, and I don't know what will happen in the future.
Wandering in the open space surrounded by red walls, it is already noon, and my stomach has been growling. Here and now, I suddenly want to eat a bowl of bean vermicelli tofu and golden soft glutinous fried cake stew. At worst, a plate of jiaozi will do. Unfortunately ... Maybe after the temple is completely completed, the managers can consider cooking some vegetarian meals every day, which not only meets the needs of tourists, but also creates income for the temple. Isn't it killing two birds with one stone?
Seeing plum may quench your thirst, but you can't solve your hunger by imagination. Fortunately, we came prepared and brought two apples and two steamed buns. The two of us are eating apples and bread in the open space of Wanghai Temple. After being honest, it suddenly occurred to us that when we first came in, there seemed to be a sign next to the stone watching the sunrise, which said there was another Luoyan Cave to visit. So we cheered up and followed the road signs to learn about this mysterious cave.
On the east bank of Wanghai Temple, you walk down the stone steps for about 600 meters, and then you arrive at the entrance of Nryana. As soon as I entered the low hole, I felt a chill. The feeling of damp and cold is extremely uncomfortable even in midsummer. No wonder the ancients recorded that the atmosphere in the cave was awe-inspiring and there was ice in midsummer. Climbing the muddy and slippery steps in the cave, there are some statues with different shapes in the narrow space, nothing else. Indeed, cold and damp is its outstanding feature, just like the Wannian Ice Cave in Ningwu.
Walking out of the cave, we were once again held back by wild flowers all over the mountains. When going up the mountain, the protagonist on the slope is that kind of small yellow flowers, but this slope is colorful, not only yellow flowers, but also many red and purple flowers. In the sea of flowers, I suddenly found a familiar flower. I thought there were many flowers in the park near my home. That kind of flower was called wild poppy. Every time I see those flowers so gorgeous and charming, I always want to keep them for myself, but because they are in the park, public morality is indispensable, so I have no regrets. This time I came across them in Shan Ye, so I dug up some plants with my bare hands and prepared to go home and plant them in flowerpots to enjoy them alone.
There are some wild flowers in a plastic bag full of apples. We feel full of food and we are glad that you have come. When I was preparing to go down the mountain by the original road, I suddenly looked up and saw the mountains in the north cascading in the middle of the mist, like an ink painting. Unable to resist the temptation of beautiful scenery, we walked dozens of meters along the road in order to avoid the road pier and take perfect photos. The photo was taken, but as soon as I turned around, the raindrops as big as beans fell. It was sunny just now. The weather in this mountain is really cloudy or rainy! Fortunately, we are right in front of the mountain gate, and there is a small hall with white marble structure next to it, which can shelter from the rain. At this time, we are glad that we didn't go down the mountain just now, otherwise we would have been soaked. I thought the rain in the mountains would come and go quickly, but I didn't expect more and more dark clouds in the sky. At first it was raindrops as big as mung beans, and later it turned into hail as big as peas. In a short time, several rivers formed by rain and soil appeared on the road, flowing along the mountain. The rain hasn't abated at all. At this time, four young people crowded into the small hall. Although the small hall was in emergency, the rain was blown into the small hall by the wind, and everyone's shoes and half a trouser leg were soaked. At this time, everyone's feelings can only be described in two words, that is, wet and cold. In this way, it has been raining for more than half an hour. When it rained a little less, four young people left with umbrellas. At this time, I regretted not listening to my husband and left my umbrella in the car. When the rain was about to stop, we finally decided to go down the mountain. On the way down the mountain, there are green cars carrying tourists back to Taihuai Town from time to time. We waved several times before we stopped one, and finally we returned to our parking place safely.
We arrived home safely in half an hour. As soon as I get home, I don't care about my stomach protest or my trouser legs getting wet. I am anxious to plant the dug wild flowers in flowerpots, for fear that they will smell like jade if I am a second late. After all, this is what we can really see and touch on the trip. Unfortunately, however, they are used to the wind and rain in Shan Ye, but they can't adapt to the care in the greenhouse after all, and they dried up completely after two days. So the flowers in the greenhouse can't stand the wind and rain, and the flowers that have experienced the wind and rain may not be able to adapt to the greenhouse!