What transportation is available in Fengqiao - Cold Mountain Temple

Fengqiao - Cold Mountain Temple Transportation Guide:

Taxi:

The starting price is 10 yuan (3 kilometers).After 3 kilometers, the unit price per kilometer is 1.8 yuan, and after 5 kilometers, 50% of the idling fee is added. Waiting time of 5 minutes is free, more than 5 minutes, every 5 minutes discount 1 kilometer. after 23:00, the fare (starting price) including an increase of 30%.

Buses:

Regular buses have a single fare of 1 yuan, air-conditioned buses have a single fare of 2 yuan, and most are unmanned. Some suburban routes in Suzhou have "flip-flop fares", which are not the same for the whole journey. On the door of the car there is a sign, indicating the station on the fare, and on the way by the driver to flip, so the name.

Manpower tricycle:

Some of the attractions in Suzhou are located in the alleys, the car can not reach the door directly, at this time the tricycle is the best transportation. The starting price for a pedicab is 2 yuan, with an additional 2 yuan per kilometer, and 5 yuan per person per hour when chartered.

Reminder: Suzhou's pedicabs do not yet have a well-established industry standard, so it's important to negotiate the price with the driver before getting on the bus to avoid being duped.

Bicycle:

Suzhou has a high concentration of attractions, so if you ride a bicycle along the streets and lanes, you will be able to enjoy the atmosphere of "small bridges, running water, homes". There are a number of rental stores along Pingmenqiao, east of the train station, with prices ranging from 2 yuan for 4 hours, 3 yuan for 5-6 hours, and 5 yuan for a day, with ID and a deposit required.

Fengqiao Scenic Spot is a provincial-level scenic spot with Cold Mountain Temple, Jiangfeng Ancient Bridge, Tieling Ancient Pass, Fengqiao Ancient Town and the Ancient Canal as its main attractions. Cold Mountain Temple and Maple Bridge is one of the most important parts of Suzhou's scenic resources, with unique historical and cultural value.

To Suzhou, such as not to the Cold Mountain Temple, is not considered a visitor to Suzhou. Because, Cold Mountain Temple and Suzhou gardens are the same, are the symbol of Gusu, Suzhou people's pride.

Hanshan Temple is located in the town of Fengqiao, ten miles west of Suzhou, was founded in the Liang Dynasty during the reign of Tianjian, initially known as the "Miaoli Puming Temple". According to legend, during the reign of the Tang Dynasty, Han Shanzi was the presiding officer of the temple, and the name was changed to Han Shan Temple. Zhang Ji, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "Night Mooring on Maple Bridge", which is full of traveling sorrows: "The moon is falling and the crows are crowing and the frost is filling the sky, and the fishing fires of the river maple are sleeping with sadness; Cold Mountain Monastery is outside the city of Gusu, and the sound of bells is coming to the passenger boat in the middle of the night." From then on, the sound of bells, popular; temple to the name of the poem, spread in China and abroad.

Hanshan Temple was built in 502 A.D. Liang Tianjian years. Two hundred years later, in the Tang Dynasty, according to legend, the monk Han Shan lived in the temple, so it was renamed "Han Shan Temple". This temple, through several generations, repeatedly built and destroyed by fire, the current building is the end of the Qing Dynasty rebuilt. The temple has been famous since Zhang Ji, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "Night Mooring on the Maple Bridge". The main attractions in the Cold Mountain Temple include the Daxiongbao Hall, the Bible Building, the Bell Tower, the inscription "Night Poetry on the Maple Bridge", and the First Building on the Maple River. Inside the Daxiongbao Hall, there are 36 stele poems of Han Shan inlaid in the wall on both sides, and there are also sixteen statues of Luohan hanging on both sides. The two monks carved in stone in the hall are Hanshan and Shide. Hanshan, also known as Hanshanzi, in the Tang Dynasty during the reign of Zhenguan, originally lived in Shifeng County (present-day Tiantai, Zhejiang Province) in the Cold Rock, specialized in poems and articles, wrote more than 300 poems, which were compiled by later generations into the Collection of Poems of Hanshanzi. He was originally an orphan, and was brought by Feng Gan to become a monk at Guoqing Temple in Tiantai Mountain, so he was named "Shide", and he was a close friend of Hanshan. He was a close friend of Hanshan. The later compiled his poems and appended them to the Collected Poems of Hanshan Zi. This stone carving is a kind of brush painting, a few strokes will be carved out of the two of them are full of spring, clapping and laughing in a lifelike demeanor, has a certain artistic value. On both sides of the front yard of the main hall, there are six five-needle pines, which were planted in the temple in the afternoon of April 10, 1976 by friends of the Japanese Ehime Prefecture Friendship Visiting Group from all walks of life (a group of 26 people, headed by the Governor of Ehime Prefecture, Shiraishi Haruki), which was growing in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, and called: 'five-leafed pine,' which had been growing for five years at that time. On the right side of the main hall of the Maharishi hangs a Chinese bronze bell sent by a Japanese friend at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Engraved on the face of the bell with an inscription that describes the reason for casting the bell. This bell a type **** two mouth, a hanging in Japan, a museum mountain temple, a sent to the cold mountain temple. Cangjing building is the original collection of books on display, the roof of the building, "Journey to the West" in the Monkey King, the Tang Monk, Pigsy, Sha Wujing's sculpture. Inside the first floor of the wall embedded in the King Kong Prajna Paramita Sutra of the scriptures (Department of Zen). There are also calligraphic inscriptions by Dong Qichang (1555-1636, a native of Songjiang, Shanghai, and an outstanding calligrapher and painter in the Ming Dynasty) and others. The bell tower is two-story, octagonal. The stone stele downstairs was erected during the restoration of Hanshan Temple, the front inscription was written by Cheng Dequan, and the back of the stele is engraved with the names of those who collected donations during the restoration of Hanshan Temple and the amount of money. Legend has it that the bell in Zhang Ji's poem was hung above the original bell tower. But now the bell tower building and the bell here are not from the Tang Dynasty, now the bell is the Qing Dynasty Guangxu thirty-two years (1906) recast, more than 90 years of history. The present bell tower was restored as it was after liberation. The poem "Night Mooring on Maple Bridge" has a stone inscription: "The moon is falling and the crows are crowing and the frost is filling the sky, and the fishing fires on the river maple are sleeping with sadness. Cold Mountain Temple outside Gusu City, the sound of bells arriving at the passenger boat at midnight." This was written by Zhang Ji, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. Legend has it that the poet Zhang Ji went to Chang'an (now Xi'an), the capital of the Tang Dynasty, to take the examination, and when he returned after failing the examination, he passed by the Cold Mountain Temple, and was moored in a passenger boat near the Fengqiao Bridge at night, and it was difficult for him to sleep at night, and when he heard the sound of bells coming from the Cold Mountain Temple, he had a feeling about it and wrote the poem. The poem "Night Mooring on the Maple Bridge" is almost a household name in Japan. Elementary school students in Japan teach and memorize the poem as a text. Today, when Japanese people travel to Suzhou, they will not fail to have a glimpse of the inscriptions of Zhang's poem. In the stele corridor of Cold Mountain Temple, there are many stone inscriptions of poems by Tang Yin, Wen Zhengming, Kang Youwei, Luo Ji and other celebrities since Song and Ming dynasties, among which the most famous and eye-catching one is naturally the poem of Zhang Ji's "Night Mooring at the Fengqiao Bridge" of the Tang Dynasty. Zhang Ji's poem was first engraved in the Song Dynasty by Chancellor Wang ___, this monument because of repeated wars, Cold Mountain Temple was burned many times and does not exist. When Hanshan Temple was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty, Wen Zhengming, a painter and scholar from Gusu, rewrote the poem "Night Mooring on the Maple Bridge" for Hanshan Temple, which is the second poem stele of "Night Mooring on the Maple Bridge". After that, Cold Mountain Temple met with fire several times, and the poem stele handwritten by Wen Zhengming was also indecipherable between the weeds and rubbles, and the only remaining stele is "frost, cry, Gusu, Su" and other figures. At the end of the Qing dynasty Guangxu thirty-two years, jiangsu governor ChenLong repair Hanshan temple, invited the famous calligrapher YuYue handwritten this third "maple bridge night" stone tablet. At that time, yue yue has been eighty-six years old, this monument has become his masterpiece, invaluable. Cold Mountain Temple of the fourth "maple bridge night" poem monument, from the same name as the poet of modern calligraphy Zhang Ji's hand, after the poem has a trek cloud; "I have long admired the Cold Mountain Temple site, frequent visits to the Wumen, as yet the end of a tour. Mr. Hufan to Yu name and the Tang dynasty title "maple bridge night mooring" poem the same, will book this poem also. Republic of China thirty-six years December Cangzhou Zhang Ji." Modern Zhang Ji book of Tang dynasty Zhang Ji poem, first since added a paragraph of interest, people do not feel what to fake the real flavor, feel is a kind of eternity that stretches back thousands of years.