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As a time-honored gorgeous Buddhist shrine, Mount Cangyan has been glorified as “Mount Cangyan gathers all beautiful scenery of the Five Sacred Mountains of China, and it is the most famous one among several peaks in Taihang Mountain Range” from time immemorial.

The question is always haunting me when I visit Mount Cangyan that why Princess Nanyang, the daughter of Sui Emperor, decided to abandon the palace to become a Buddhist nun here in her prime when she can enjoy endless wealth and extravagant life? Is it just because she is tired of palace life, so that she wants to convert to Buddhism and seek for ease and free in the beauty nature?

Recorded by The Annals of Sui Dynasty, Princess Nanyang, who was the eldest daughter of Emperor Yang in Sui Dynasty, got married with Yuwen Shiji at 14, the second son of Yuwen Shu. With elegant appearance, high aspirations, filial piety and decorum, she was generally appreciated… So I think it must be the corrupt court life, her incompetent royal father and the people's sufferings that make her see through capricious life, the execrably world and cruel interpersonal relationships. Thus a firm faith rose in her mind: to build a merciful Buddha land by herself.

Her “Birth” is for “Entering into Religion”? Otherwise, she would not live in caves, plant trees and flowers, suffer hard days, and spend 62 years in such a desolate and uninhabited place. She died in the Mount Cangyan when she was 80 year old and into the “Nirvana” level finally. She also would not go climbing adventure, collect herbs everywhere, and treat common people. She would not mission beings, so that they can build the Bridge Tower Temple. No one can thought that, 1400 years later, Mount Cangyan has become a National Key Scenic Spot combining tour, sight-seeing, vacation, scientific research and many other features. Bridge Tower Hall is one of the most famous suspended temples in China.

As tender Buddhist nun, she shouldered the challenge of building bridge and temple like a heroine, in brambly boondocks in war chaos. It wouldn’t be easy, while her thought was so firm that moved the ten thousand things. Not only the bhiksuni but local people assembled to help her. Even the Tathagata Buddha came, as well as Luban and Eight Immortals according to the folklore. In former years, I was told the story of rainbow palace. It’s said that when Nanyang Princess napped she dreamed a bull, bearing a bundle of firewood, walked to the building site, dilated as it nearing and finally chocked up the gully. inspired from the dream, she and local people bunged up the gully with firewood, fill it to arch and built Rainbow Bridge. With meticulous design, a nine ridged double-eaved loft-style architecture was built on the bridge which was five-room in width, three-room in depth and surrounded by corridor.

From a distance, Princess Nanyang and the people of the Sui Dynasty saw that the building naturally against the mountain and fusing into surroundings with glazed tile roof, ingenious red columns, and sound colorful eaves, which has rational layout and novel structure. Although this is the artificial construction, it looks like the thing that the God created. I am afraid that, even now, such a difficult construction would need tens millions of investment, and also high-altitude helicopter or cable, cranes, and something like that. We then go back to that time. The Princess Nanyang and her followers jubilated for the crystallization of their wisdom and further molded three Buddha statues in it, with the Tathagata Buddha in the middle, Medicine Buddha on the left and Maitreya Buddha on the right, and the Eighteen Arhats with variety expressions on both sides. As the founder of Mount Cangyan, Princess Nanyang is a great woman going through monkery, sila, ksanti, virya, dhyana, prajna. She named the temple as “Xingshan Temple” to express that she wants to relieve the people who are suffering hard life. Later, the local people, thanking for her grace, built temple and tower, modeled metal body for her and consecrate her as “Mount Cangyan Goddess” after her obtaining the Buddha-hood. Mount Cangyan, mingling delicateness in majesty, serenity in splendor, just reflects the character of Nanyang Princess. It is the right general principle of the world and the end of life and art that human lift being in a highly harmony with nature.

In the year of 1002 (five years of Emperor Xianping reign, the Song Dynasty), an eminent monk named as Yuequan who lived in Huayan Temple, Mount Wutai, admired Mount Cangyan very much. He has seen that Xingshan Temple is built in the halfway of the mountain, the gorge was filled by lush trees, the gully weaved in the mountain, and however, the temple has been abandoned. So he decided to inherit the behest of Princess Nanyang, living in a stone house, building the road in the mountain, re-painting the temple, and repairing statues. Finally, the temple was made an entirely new look. Quanyue is the second founder of the Mount Cangyan. He wrote to the emperor to request the emperor re-name the temple. Then, the emperor named the temple as “Fuqing Temple”. In the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Guangxu canonized the Princess Nanyang as “Ciyou Buddha”.
 

According to experts’ research, since ancient times, the number of Buddhist monks and nuns who enter into religion on Mount Cangyan is 20 to 30 per year when there are fewer people, and around 100 per year when there are more people. In recent years, the local government has done a lot of things in order to develop tourism industry of Mount Cangyan and make it become a bright pearl of Taihang Mountains.

Standing at the peak of Mount Cangyan, looking down the hustle and bustle world, a poem of Zhou Mengdie, a famous Taiwan Poet, comes into my mind:

Neither thriller nor chaos

The flower blossoms and wilts In six decades

You rise from a solitary crest of peak

Embracing a sea of lamps

Mirroring peaceful soul in each

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Mount Cangyan is always lenient and understanding. There are sixteen famous sceneries here while the first one you will enjoy is “Green Locking in Cliff Pass”.

When you come through hardships under the Mountain Gate anxious glance Cangyan beauty, you first have to see where they stand is a huge barrier, the two East-West confrontation on the peak, a north-south along the ridge below. At first sight, but Yibidanya, the mountain is covered with Shigeki. And a vague bit puzzled or disappointed. It does not know that this is the unique talent of Cangyan Shan Jia Miao. Whether it is permitted temples, Hongqiao Joan Tower, the ancient temples Buddhist temple, or a quiet mountain stream winding paths, hanging Fei Bao-Quan, the stream Koike, the rich different wood, it's all taken in the embrace of possession in the Valley, verdant green, the vast Unpredictable, so you have to explore. As the saying goes:

Getting across thousands of gullies and cliffs

I found abode of immortals

Deep in the green mountain

And visional cloud and mist

The ethereal Buddha land appears.

Next, give your Cangyan Shan will be the "Bi Jian Ling Tan" ( "Bridge Hall of Feihong", "Cooper pilgrimage," said Cangyansanjue), the vast green unwittingly embrace you , You drowned. In the days of high trees, green video shop, soft like water, like the hazy fog, like, too cool Merry Green, Green Yitaiwanfang of this is from the green life Xianjie from you! You now, are not only heat dissipation, and also trace all the way Dianpei Lawton, Dunjue sane and happy, do not think outside the complex, Chongru are forgotten. In a carefully taste it, and some well-weathered, Laotailongzhong, but open-minded, youth are not old, is still a green light from a flame tree; have to root for the arm, and Bouldering Health, expressed the love and attachment to rocks;

Some of the deposit without the steep prices are extremely high on its huge Zhualao roots of the mountains, to the love of it Cangyanpengchu a dark green; some even from the same root Ke, leaned to embrace, such as tenderness lovers Feelings, expressed great Loyalty and love ... ... This is not correct that the Cangyan lived while you're the Wizard of people to demonstrate a life of struggle you? This is not correct Tan described the tree with the wisdom, strength and spirituality what?

"Having Xianjia cents in the bone, stone on the kind of longevity really soul," Maybe that is why Nanyang Princess and the indomitable ancestors of the Sui Dynasty Poetic Masterpiece life. It is said that there are many weak and sickly tourists come here inadvertently accepted the nature of the "green treatment" and realize the true meaning of life and struggle, then, of course, very few days, it will eliminate disease-health.

When you enter Lin Tan, head of a look, but see Liangbi cliff, the first Heaven, the three vacant single stone and frame, a cross-yun table, you want to see the "Bridge Hall of Feihong" seat on the stone floor in the wind Winds moving clouds, Huangruo dream, as the old saying that "Wang Chien Zhang Hongqiao alleged assaults, the sky clouds were flying F" from a poem, was written to make the bridge floor of the Hall of Qi Jue and beautiful. However, you really want to be real close to it, and still climbing 365 stone steps, this philosophy is the sense of the upward climb.

You are the legitimate walking sweating and panting, the bridge side of the hall floor, "Shuilian Dong," the holy water in the spa waiting for you, you Jiefa heat. This was a Shuilian Dong deep into the foot of the grotto, however, continue to water all the year round, sweet-BUZZ, thousands of years, no matter how many people drink to lift the spirits, or filled as before, do not over do not dry up. I looked toward the water, the kind of clear and transparent as if people can peep into the origin of life. Princess Nanyang history and Buddhist monks and nuns are drinking this water, the quality of this clean. According to experts, research, which is to contain a variety of useful minerals in mineral water. There are many thousands of miles away off Cangyan to a pot of water. Cang Yanshan there is another little-known miracle. Get on top, from the southbound Gongzhu Fen Bai Yumi, such as arm-shaped section of the detour, visitors now, half a minute ride to see the two arms become yellow green Jiao, such as the earthworm Qing Jin, one flashing a green fluorescent , All comfortable. From the monks and scholars agree that this is the best line of a thousand miles too gas field, a wide range of diseases have a very good effect.

Of course, the "green therapy", or "holy water cure" or "practice one's vitality," or we have to be made to better explain the science. Cang Yanshan but as a famous tourist destination, has revealed her unique characteristics and charm!

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Cangyan Shan temple in the calendar year, from Beijing Guang Jisi the auspices of Master Sheng Hui, Miao Guan presided over the Mountain Master Chong Shansi, Mount Hua Si Pu Miao-chaired by Master Sheng, presided over the Temple Mount Zhenhai sad Master Kyrgyzstan, Bristol Temple Mount Master Hui presided over the net, and so attained a high priest, goes without saying that there will be many people to look for the Buddha's visit, to explore the true meaning of happiness in life. To see those pious incense and pray for the souls have Yao You, Master, a smile turn a blind eye to the people chanting Nianliaoyiju philosophical terms like the Buddha：
 

  Beyond my touch the Buddha is far in the Soul Mountain

  Reverentially absorbing in adhyacara

  A Soul Mountain

  With the holly soul tower standing on

  Is budding in my mind
 

What an enigmatic and inspiriting reply!

When we follow the Millennium fallen into the embrace of the great Cangyan Shan, do you feel that the broad nature of its own and small, feel that it's time for a long time and short life? Nanyang Princess grace and still outstanding youth sit in the first cloud, sitting on top of your mind, about the past, Yuyufengfeng, she never let you feel young, as young as Cang Yanshan forever ...

Look at the mountains out of the mountains, swim out of view of the water flow again, Hill is still, still water, mountain water ring around the video still. After the retreat, you will suddenly wake up, the original creation of heaven and earth to not own things, Nanyang Princess Sanikidze generations who are silent, and we own it? But for their own selfish desires and toil sector, that is, of course, on a short-lived and small. In the way of life, whether it is a clear loss of the soul or the backbone, should know that when we are being perceived Feifen between secular and the sickness and death caught all kinds of difficulties, with its Cangyan Shan Women's Aura, the atmosphere and emboldened , Quietly walked forward and walked ... ...