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Welcome to Lianhuashan Tourist Area for sightseeing. I am a tour guide. I am very happy to visit Lianhua Mountain with you today. I will serve you wholeheartedly. I hope today's trip to Lianhua Mountain will leave you with good memories.

Walking into Lianhua Mountain, we were not only influenced by traditional culture, but also learned the knowledge of self-cultivation, listened to the symphony between man and nature, and swam in the treasure house of culture and the ocean of wisdom.

Now we come to Lianhua Mountain, the most distinctive scenic spot-Lotus Mountain Forest of Steles. Our ancestors sang on the cliffs and remembered stones, adding countless cultural landscapes to the land of China. This forest of steles has carved a three-dimensional cultural masterpiece for future generations.

Lotus Mountain Forest of Steles was built in 1994 and completed in autumn 2002, covering an area of 30,000 square meters. It is built on the basis of the whole mountain. The mountain is a monument, and the monument is a mountain. In front of the forest of steles, there are three towering doorstones. The circular stele gallery at the foot of the mountain is 360 meters in circumference, and eight rotating stele galleries converge to the stele pavilion at the top of the mountain, forming a rare spherical building complex in China. These patchwork antique buildings combine the architectural styles of North and South, with unique shapes and magnificent momentum.

There are 10,000 steles in the forest of steles in Lianhua Mountain, which are engraved with classic works of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, medicine, martial arts and the cultural essence of all ethnic groups. Art treasures of past dynasties, folk collections, calligraphy of past dynasties, representative paintings, ink of contemporary famous artists, portraits of famous scientists, illustrations of scientific inventions, etc., are all inclusive and classified.

Lotus Mountain Forest of Steles is the largest forest of steles in the world, so what are its characteristics?

First of all, the overall design of the forest of steles takes the whole White Ape Mountain as the main body, which is dynamic and can reflect the majestic momentum of the forest of steles.

Secondly, the content of the forest of steles brings together the essence of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign cultures, which not only inherits the essence of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and medicine, but also incorporates the characteristics of the times; It not only carries forward the national traditional culture, but also embodies the innovative spirit of the times, which plays a positive role in promoting the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.

Thirdly, the forest of steles skillfully combines dignified, superb calligraphy art with exquisite painting skills, and gives full play to the art of inscriptions to meet the needs of different cultural levels.

Fourthly, the large-scale series of works collected by Beilin not only have a long historical span, but also have extremely rich connotations. For example, there are 53 stone carvings in The Analects of Confucius, 95 stone carvings in The Origin of Dharma, 98 stone carvings in Chunhua Pavilion, 0/00 stone carvings in Chinese Famous Tablet, 0/05 stone carvings in Futu, 448 stone carvings in Yijing and 500 stone carvings in Five Hundred Arhats.

The carving of the forest of steles adopts a combination of positive engraving and negative engraving, for example, the face and bare skin are both engraved with positive engraving, which can achieve the contrast effect and make the image more vivid and realistic. Inscriptions with different knife techniques can also show different colors. The figures and paintings carved in the forest of steles have smooth lines, clear authenticity and unscathed, and are highly praised by painters and calligraphers.

The stone in the forest of steles is limestone bluestone produced in "Huangkeng" in Henan. This kind of bluestone is fine in texture and even in color, and it can still remain intact after thousands of years. Among them, the big monument is the most difficult to dig and shape. The 9-ton monument with multiple weights obtained from the forest of steles in Lianhua Mountain was mined from the deep mountains after many twists and turns, and then transported back all the way. Among them, the overall height of the central pavilion monument is 9. 1 m, weighing 50 tons. Among the main entrance monuments outside the forest of steles, the main monument "Lotus Mountain Forest of steles" is 9.8 meters high and weighs 73 tons, and the two monuments are high.

What we are looking at now is the first corridor-Confucian culture, which mainly includes four books, tea classics, the interpretation of the Analects of Confucius and other works. Among them, The Interpretation of the Analects of Confucius was carefully drawn by Jiang, a famous contemporary painter in Taiwan Province, on the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of Confucius' birth. Selected 5 1 quotations and 1 quotations from Daxue and Zhong Yong from The Analects of Confucius, accompanied by meticulous figure painting, drew An Interpretation of Paintings on The Analects of Confucius, and expounded the Confucian principles, with exquisite brushwork, vivid images and illustrations. Ms. Kong Demao, the 77th granddaughter of Confucius, praised the move as a good thing to promote the excellent traditional culture of the motherland, and happily wrote an inscription "Isn't it a pleasure to have friends from afar?" .

Beilang No.2-Buddhist culture mainly includes the Diamond Sutra, Heart Sutra and Infinite Life Sutra.

Monument Gallery No.3-Taoist culture, mainly including Tao Te Ching, Jade Emperor's Heart Seal, etc. Among them, The Picture of Laozi Going through Customs is the work of Huang, a famous painter in China, which has been revised three times. There are eight immortals crossing the sea.

No.4 stele gallery-medical culture, mainly including portraits of famous doctors in past dynasties, Shennong's herbal classics, acupuncture maps, traditional Chinese medicine maps, etc. Among them, 160 pictures of famous doctors in past dynasties are the most complete and largest set of pictures of famous doctors in China. The Atlas of Traditional Chinese Medicine has carved more than 200 common maps of traditional Chinese medicine.

Monument Gallery No.5, a martial arts culture, mainly includes Sun Tzu's Art of War, Sun Bin's Art of War, Zhuge Liang's Art of War and Thirty-six Strategies, as well as weapons and soldiers' costumes from Shang Dynasty to Qing Dynasty in China, as well as excellent traditional martial arts in ancient China, such as the Secret Law of Shaolin Gallery and Biography of Li Taiji.

National Culture Monument Gallery No.6 mainly includes the introduction of 56 national cultures in China, Cao Shi Kite Atlas by Cao Xueqin, and Genji Story Picture Scroll by Japanese. Among them, Cao Shi Kite Atlas was painted by Cao Xueqin, a famous writer in Qing Dynasty, which recorded the tricks, pasting, classification and painting of flying kites in detail. The atlas is exquisite in design and exquisite in skill, and it can be called an artistic treasure. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, this national treasure was stranded in Japan, and after several disasters, it was finally able to see the light of day. The Tale of Genji in Japan is the earliest novel in Japan, which is known as a dream of red mansions in Japan and a literary treasure in Japan. Japanese painters also painted the story told in the book into a picture of the Tale of Genji.

Exhibition Hall 7-Culture mainly includes Qin and Han lacquerware, Qin bamboo slips, Lisao, Suizhou bells and bronze mirrors unearthed in Yunmeng Crouching Tiger Land. Ezhou is the hometown of bronze mirrors, and the 124 bronze mirror collected and engraved in the forest of steles is a national first-class cultural relic with high artistic value. Suizhou Zeng yihou's chime is the most unearthed, heaviest and most beautifully cast chime in China, which fully shows the glory of Chu culture in the pre-Qin period and is also a great miracle in the history of world music.

No.8 Monument Gallery-science and technology culture, mainly including world-famous scientists, the history of ancient science development in China, four great inventions, the cotton map with the theme of Qianlong, Xichang satellite launch commemorative medallion, etc. Among them, the Imperial Cotton Map was painted by Fang Chengguan, governor of Zhili during the Qianlong period. He showed the whole production process of cotton in the form of pictures and texts, and Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty also prefaced each painting poem, which can be called a masterpiece combining art with ancient science and technology.

Surrounding stone corridors-mainly including Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, Landscape Map of China, 72-year-old India, Huang Tingjian's Song Fengting, Chairman Mao's Water Turning Around, Lotus Mountain Scenery, Wuxi Huishan Clay Fighter, etc. Among them, Seventy-two Waiting for Seal was carved by He Xue Yusuo, a famous seal engraver in Ming Dynasty, and Tong Shuping, a seal engraver in Qing Dynasty. According to the 24 solar terms, each solar term has five days as a waiting period, and the changes of typical things in nature in each waiting period are the text. Because the original carved stone has long since disappeared, this print is even more precious. Song Fengge is the representative work of Huang Tingjian, one of the four great calligraphers in the Song Dynasty. Tight inside and loose outside, round brushwork, long and vigorous pen, full of twists and turns, magnificent and hidden. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is the masterpiece of Zhang Zeduan, a famous painter in Song Dynasty. Its picture scroll is now in the Palace Museum, depicting the scenery of Bianjing and its two sides in the Qingming period, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty (now Kaifeng, Henan). With panoramic composition and rigorous brushwork, it shows the living conditions and social features of people from all walks of life in China in the12nd century. The Water Turning Around was written by Mao Zedong when he visited the Yangtze River in A.D. 1956. The grand artistic conception of Chinese characters, the majestic momentum of swallowing mountains and rivers, and the smooth and unrestrained calligraphy complement each other, condensing the optimism, heroism and wisdom of a generation of great men, which is a rare artistic treasure.

The central pavilion is the central building of the Lotus Mountain Forest of Steles and the meeting place of the eight forest of steles. There is 12 Tianzhu on the outside of the central pavilion, engraved with the zodiac, and there are eight Tianzhu in the middle, which the golden monkey climbs; There are four pillars inside, wrapped with four golden dragons; The top outer ring is embossed with innate gossip, and the ground is inlaid with marble. The painted area in the museum is about 1987 square meters, which combines the traditional painting techniques of China and the realistic oil painting techniques of the West. The picture is real and natural, and the realm is open. Nine dragons in the middle of the dome, with different expressions, churned and swam across the sea of clouds. On the dome wall around Kowloon, the sun in the east is opposite to the moon in the west, and the sun and the moon are bright. The surrounding dark blue sky is full of stars, and the whole inner ceiling is a vast universe. The outer circle of the dome wall has four seasons: east, spring, south, summer, west, autumn, north and winter. In the second circle, oil paintings show the connotation of gossip: wind represents divination, thunder represents divination, electricity represents divination, fire represents divination, water represents divination, Ze represents divination, heaven represents divination, and earth represents divination. On the dome wall between the first circle and the second circle, and on the dome wall outside the second circle and outside the central pavilion, the river map, Luo Shu layout and constellation are formed by lights.

The most famous inscription in Zhongting is this group of "source maps of dharma circles". This picture originated from the Vatican portrait of Dali Kingdom in Song Dynasty, which lasted for more than 500 years in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and then entered the Gong Palace during the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. Emperor Qianlong regarded it as a treasure and ordered the court painter Ding to copy it under the guidance of Zhang, one of the "Four Living Buddhas". Jilin Provincial Museum. This picture scroll is carved from 95 stones, with grand scenes, fine descriptions, colorful images, vivid characters and ever-changing physical and mental characteristics. It represents the highest achievement of meticulous figure painting and Buddhist painting in Qing Dynasty, is an encyclopedia of Buddhist painting art, and is a rare treasure in China art history.

The construction of Lotus Mountain Forest of Steles has received enthusiastic support from all walks of life. Numerous painters, seal engravers, experts in literature and history, and collectors have made suggestions and contributed their life-long efforts and exquisite paintings and calligraphy collected at home. CCTV, Hubei TV Station, People's Daily (Overseas Edition) and so on reported in succession, which had a great influence at home and abroad. Wandering in the forest of steles, you can feel the rich flavor of traditional culture, gain spiritual harmony and enrich your thoughts.

Traveling to Lianhua Mountain can not only appreciate the beauty of natural scenery, but also learn the ways of keeping in good health and living, understand life, cultivate temperament, and feel healthy and happy during traveling. Isn't it leisurely?