Tiantai Mountain , Zining Mountain Scenic Area

 

Zining Mountain Scenic Area.

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Ziningshan 紫凝山

Zining Mountain in Tiantai, Taizhou.  Zhejiang Province

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“Tiantai Mountain, Zining Mountain, is known as "Little Zhangjiajie" because of its strange  row of peaks.

 

 

 Yijinjing Town

A bird's eye view of Zining Mountain in Tiantai, Taizhou. [Photo/taizhou.com.cn]

 

Yijinjing Town is situated on Zining Mountain in Tiantai, Taizhou.

The village just above the town has many stone houses, bridges and persimmon trees scattered around. Walking along the footpaths, visitors are able to overlook the entirety of Zining Mountain.

 

Tiantai Mountain , 天台山 1,138 m (3,734 ft)

 

Tiantai Mountain (also Tí Taî in the local language) is a mountain in Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Its highest peak, Huading, reaches a height of 1,138 meters (3,734 ft).  The mountain was made a national park on 1 August 1988.  One of nine remaining wild populations of Seven-Son Flower (Heptacodium miconioides) is located on mount Tiantai.

A view of Mount Tiantai and the Guoqing Temple Ancient Tower, constructed during the Sui Dynasty.

 

 

Legends

In the mythology of Traditional Chinese religion, the creator goddess Nüwa cut the legs off a giant sea turtle (Chinese: 鳌; pinyin: áo) and used them to prop up the sky after Gong Gong damaged Mount Buzhou, which had previously supported the heavens.  A local myth holds that Tiantai was on the turtle's back before and Nüwa relocated it to its current position when she had to remove the turtle's legs.

 

A panorama of Tiantai Mountain.

Guoqing Temple

Guoqing Temple on the mountain is the headquarters of Tiantai Buddhism,  and also a tourist destination. Tiantai, named for the mountain, is an East Asian Buddhist school of Mahāyāna Buddhism that developed in 6th-century China and focuses on the Lotus Sutra.  The most prominent teacher of that school, Zhiyi, was based at Guoqing Temple.  Over many years it has been an important destination for pilgrims, especially from Japan. The mountain was visited by Saichō in 805 CE, who went on to found the related Japanese Buddhist school, Tendai. A Korean offshoot, the Cheontae school, was also established during the 12th century.

Guoqing Temple on Tiantai Mountain, originally built in 598 CE during the Sui dynasty, and renovated during the reign of the Qing Yongzheng Emperor (r. 1722–1735).

 

Ji Gong Temple

The mountain has a famous temple to the Song-era Chinese Buddhist monk Ji Gong at the Cave of Auspicious Mists that was associated with early modern fuji or "spirit writing" movements.

Scenic Area

Tiantai Mountain was designated a scenic area in 1985, with an area of 105 km2.

 

 

Tiantai Mountain Waterfall in east China's Zhejiang province is admired 

米浙江天台山大瀑  (325 meters or 1066 feet)

 

Tiantai Mountain has been included on the first list of 20 Zhejiang Culture Marks. Situated in Tiantai county, Taizhou,

 

Huading National Forest Park, situated on the 1,138-meter-high Huading Peak, the highest peak of Tiantai Mountain

 

Guoqing Temple on the mountain serves as the center of Tiantai Buddhism and also as a tourist destination.

 

Tiantai Mountain is also home to Tongbo Temple, an important Taoist site which can be traced back over 1,700 years.

 

Pagoda of the Guoqing Temple at Tiantai Mountain