Travelogue (IX)
Going out, not like at home, love to sleep lazily, wake up and don't want to get up early, always willing to lie down for a while. On that day, before dawn, I got up, simply packed up, washed my face, soaked in boiling water and ate two large pancakes brought back from Qufu, decorated my bags, a small brown pocket, in the pre-dawn darkness, pushed open the store door.
Descending more than ten steps, looking back at the piece in the neon flickering: "Jade Liquid Spring Binfang" Big signboard, thoughtful: Goodbye, Tarzan's one-night stand, can you have a chance to revisit the old land in this life? Difficult, a small episode in the memory of life, just stay here.
The sky has not yet brightened. There were already many pedestrians on the street of Zhongtianmen, and they could not see each other's faces clearly, only the lights in the small shops shone like daylight. This time is the busiest time in the snack department, and the climbers are eager to eat. Buns, dumplings, pancakes, chaos, as long as it's not too expensive, you can eat whatever you want.
There is a company selling crutches next to the road, which is a popular commodity for mountaineering, yesterday got off the car and came here to ask for 30 yuan a stick, this morning I went to buy again, it rose to 50, I want to let the owner cheaper, cheap not to sell. If you don't sell, you don't sell, right? If you don't take crutches, you can still go up the mountain.
Zhongtianmen is half the height of Mount Taishan, the altitude is 847 meters, and the altitude of the Jade Emperor Peak of Mount Taishan is 1545 meters. To climb this section of the road to climb more than 5,000 steps, from the South Heavenly Gate to the top of the Jade Emperor, there are more than 1,500 steps to go up, if there is no sufficient physical strength is not enough to eat. My stamina is okay, right? Don't worry, walk slowly, sit down and rest for a while when you are tired, and you are not a young person, so what is the point of competing and winning? Along the road, you have to pass through several stone squares, several scenic spots, Yunbu Bridge, Wudafu Pine, Wangren Pine, and you will reach the Eighteen Plates of Sheng Xian Fang. Along the way, in addition to the tourists up and down, there are also mountain pickers carrying flat ropes, these people carry daily necessities up the mountain at the bottom of the mountain, and then pick up some garbage and waste products from the mountain, for thousands of years, the mountain pickers have not been interrupted, look at their negative weight, and the pace of up and down the mountain, really practiced, we ordinary people can not do it, do not dare to imagine.
While walking, I watched the stone carvings and pavilions on both sides of the road, and stopped to watch for a while when there was a good place, took a photo, recorded a video, and then sent the information to relatives and friends through WeChat and uploaded it to the circle of friends. The road up the mountain is not straight, sometimes turning left, sometimes turning right, sometimes steep, sometimes parallel, looking down, cliffs and ravines, flowing water, deep and bottomless. Looking up, the strange rocks are rugged, the pines are evergreen, the clouds cover the sun, and the beauty of the Scenery of Mount Tai cannot be described in words.
To the eighteen plates, that is, the steepest section of Taishan Road, look at the tourists breathless, when walking and stopping, you know the difficulty of climbing this road, this road is straight, do not turn, look up at the top of the mountain can see the attic on the South Heavenly Gate. There is a small archway at the bottom of the plate, and the three words "Sheng Xian Fang" are written on it, and tourists must rest for a while before leaving. I sat on a stone wall under the archway, pulled out my phone, and took a few photos before I said. At this time, the phone rang, clicked to answer, it was a joke about life, he knew that I was going to climb Mount Taishan today, asked me where I was? He also begged me for one thing, asking me to bring him a stone back to the top of Mount Tai, the new house he built in his hometown this year, it is better to have a Taishan stone to dare to be a good, of course, I agreed with my mouth. There are a lot of them on this road, and there are a lot of them, and I wonder, I came early enough today, how did they all turn back? Later, I learned that some people came to climb the mountain in the middle of the night to grab time to see the sunrise, and some people stayed on the mountain the day before.
I climbed a few steps and stopped to rest, which was laborious enough. Many people are on crutches, three legs are always more energy-saving than two legs, met an old man from the northeast 78 years old with his son accompanied him, I envy him so old and have this courage, in a stone carving next to him to take a few pictures of him, left in my photo album. A young man walked by my side to see that I could be his grandfather at my age, and I wondered if it was admiration or pity? I said to me, "Old man, give you this crutch, you can save yourself some effort when you go up the mountain." There are such well-meaning people who do not recognize it, I even say thank you, thank you! The young man also responded politely: "No thanks, no thanks, you always go slowly." I watched this young man who met go down the mountain and walk far away, disappeared into the crowd, and said to the old man in the northeast who was walking with him: "There are still many good people in this world."
Climbing to the South Gate of Heaven and looking at my watch, it was already 8 o'clock in the morning, and this road took about three hours. Under the red-walled and blue-tiled attic of the South Tianmen Gate, I carefully looked at it for a while: See the introduction: This building was built in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty and was founded by Zhang Zhichun, the abbot of Dai Temple, and has a history of 500 to 600 years. There is a pair of couplets embedded on both sides of the door opening, and the photo is taken with the mobile phone, the upper link is: "The door opened the nine heavens and walked up for three days, and the lower link is: the steps of the ten thousand levels overlook the wonders of a thousand zhang." Above the door opening, there are three golden characters of the horizontal book "South Heavenly Gate". The South Heavenly Gate is the top of Mount Tai, but it is not the highest place, along this east-west ridge, continue to ascend the highest peak, should be the Jade Emperor Peak. South Tianmen is a large platform, there is a Tianjie Arch, there are many pavilions, is a commercial street outside the sky. Most of the stone carvings on the top of Tai Mountain are concentrated here, the most famous of which is Tang Xuanzong's Taishan Sealing Zen Monument, a 1008-character autograph inscription carved on the cliff, which has been preserved intact for thousands of years in wind and rain to this day. The ink and stone carvings of other celebrities are even more numerous, hanging all over this entire cliff. Crossing the sky street, along the ridge stone road to the east, a magnificent building stands tall on a small hill not far away, this is the Taishan Bixia Ancestral Hall, the god of Taishan's grandmother is enshrined here, the Bixia Ancestral Hall was built in the Sui Dynasty, the Song Zhenzong years carried out expansion and renovation, and now the incense is exuberant, and the people who come here to worship are endless, and the cigarettes are rolling and spreading far and wide. Walk out of the Bixia Temple out of the east gate to continue to climb upwards, in front of which is the Riguan Peak, which is the best observation place for Taishan to see the sunrise, and the cliffs in front of it are already the end of this ridge. At the end of this ridge, to the left, there is an inflection point protruding outwards, there is a football field so big, a naturally formed boulder protruding from the cliff stretching out of the north flat, the name of this boulder is the Gongbei Stone. If measured by altitude, do not calculate the degree of construction on the ground, refuse to visually detect that here may be more than the top of the Jade Emperor, it should be said that this is the highest peak of the Taishan Mountain Range. I have not forgotten my friend's advice to laugh about life, I want to find a few stones here to bring back. I climbed up and down the edge of the cliff to look for it, all of which were several tons of large stones, not even a gap, and there was no way to get it. I climbed a small hill. Here the rocks are prominent, steep and difficult to climb, the place is small, no one wants to come here, here the rocks have been blown and rained for hundreds of millions of years, the surface layers are somewhat weathered, I carefully observed, and finally found a crack, this crack has been extending downwards, I used my hand to pull the wrench, some loose, and found a stone to knock for a while, and finally a few small stone slabs were brought down by me. These stones are the real Tarzan stones. After hundreds of millions of years of weathering, although it is not as beautiful as the granite rocks mined inside, after hundreds of millions of years of sun and moon, wind and frost baptism, there will be a real Taishan stone dare to be spiritual, which is incomparable to those Taishan stones sold on the counter.
The Jade Emperor Peak is located in the northwest direction of Riguan Peak, and the giant stone carving of "Five Peaks And The Only One" and "Holding High Heaven" is within this distance. This megalith is one of Tarzan's iconic relics. Since the advent of the camera, most tourists like to use this as a backdrop to leave the most beautiful moments here. I was single that day and no one took pictures of me. I was not idle, and raised my hand to leave a few Korean tourists in my camera.
Jade Emperor Peak is the highest peak of Mount Taishan, the altitude is 1532.7 meters and the height of the logo is 1545 meters a little gap, the Jade Emperor Temple on top of the Jade Emperor, is the place where the jade emperor is enshrined, from the beginning of Qin Shi Huang, successive emperors have come to Mount Taishan to worship the heavens. I came to walk around the main hall, and there was nothing to see except for confessions, incense burners, and some good men and women who worshipped. I retreated to the platform of His Highness, where the scenery was so beautiful. Look around, unlimited scenery. The rolling hills are covered with pine and cypress trees into a four-season green, the ravines are long, the peaks are magnificent, and there are a few white clouds floating in the clear sky, which is so beautiful! There are a lot of tourists here, almost everyone is a machine, not to take pictures, or photography, so it is not lively. Here is the highest peak of Mount Tai, looking at the sea in the east and the Yellow River in the west, with unlimited scenery in full view. I clicked on the camera and slowly moved as the camera moved. September 27, 2018 at 10:11 am. At this moment, the scene blended, frozen in the video, and sent live to my relatives and friends, as a precious souvenir, forever recorded this moment.
Behind the jade emperor's peak, a ridge extends northward, where the mountain is undulating, the view is wide, the cliffs and cliffs are 100 meters, and the drop is frightening. Large and small mountains, endless, stretching into the distant sky in the ethereal white clouds, highlighting the broad mind of the Taishan Mountains. The poem "Wangyue" by du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty... Will be the top of the mountain, overlooking the mountains, perhaps it was written under the touch of this landscape. The tall stone carving of "The First Mountain under heaven" stands here.
It was nearly noon, and the first to come up was going to return one after another. Sightseeing is like this, it is good to see it, and there is not much difference between looking at one glance and looking at ten eyes. I asked for a bowl of noodles at the Tianjie Snack Department. 25 yuan a bowl, although it is a little more expensive than the mountain, but in this special environment to be able to eat a full meal, it is also worth it. As the saying goes, it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down the mountain, if you don't understand the norms, let each step fall heavily, your thigh muscles will not be able to stand it. Although there was not much reaction at the time, within five days after the break, the insurance will make you remember the pain. I already had this experience when I first climbed Mount Taishan, and experience told me, how to do the posture of going down the mountain is correct? With a stick in one hand, he leaned over and let each step fall gently. Do not be too anxious, try to reduce the inertia of weight drop. Although it can be said to go down the mountain in this posture slower, it is still useful to prevent excessive force and physical exertion. On the steep mountain road of eighteen plates, I was on crutches in one hand and pocket in the other, don't forget that there are still several stones in my pocket, taking a few steps to rest, it is also quite tired, tourists nod to each other and encourage each other, all leaving the true, good and beautiful side to each other.
It was more than two o'clock in the afternoon when I went down to Zhongtianmen, and most of the tourists who came here chose to flock to the station, and few were willing to go anymore. Is it to walk or take the car? I sat on the stone steps on the side of the road and thought for a while: "Go, you can't take the car." It's not just a matter of 30 yuan in pain. I felt that if I took the car back along the original road, half of the mountain view would be wasted. "Why are you coming, afraid of being tired and staying at home, how good is it not to come out?" Although it is so motivating to yourself, in short, I feel that my physical strength is OK, if I am really tired of climbing, I am afraid that I will not be able to walk again. The road continues to go down, and there are indeed many fewer tourists in the same industry." A climbing road in Nuoda, I really didn't see a few figures. I think I'm also a little afraid, not afraid of ghosts or gangsters or anything, I'm afraid that I'll suddenly get sick, or if my legs and stomach twist a tendon or something, then it's trouble. The mountain view of this section is not as good as the previous section, that is, the general downhill woodland, the steps are smoothed down a lot, it is much easier to walk, there are not many inscriptions on the side of the road, and the landscape has several places: Hu Tiange, Doumu Palace, Wanxian Lou, Shui lian cave until the bottom of the day gate exit. Due to the small number of people on this road, buyers and sellers do not come here, and there are several small stalls along the road, which is also a dismal business. This section of the road into the mountain is due to the opening of the highway in recent years has been neglected, to know that the emperor entered the mountain that year, but also climbed up from this road, now is not the past, can not use the old eyes to see the new situation. When it was almost time to go out of the mountain, there was a large cemetery around the left and right, and I didn't know who was buried, I heard that Feng Yuxiang's tomb was also in Mount Tai, I really didn't know where it was? Came to the exit of Taishan", "Red Gate", walked out of the small archway of "One Day Gate", which is tai'an city, starting from five o'clock in the morning and ending at four o'clock in the afternoon, a full eleven hours of walking. From here straight ahead is the Dai Temple, do not want to go, feel a little tired. Looking back at the road he had traveled. He took out his mobile phone and left the shadow of the stone workshop of "One Day Gate".
Tarzan pole top stone carving
Stand on top of the Jade Emperor and look down on the mountains
The climbing started at the day's gate
Tarzan picker
A view of the sky