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So far has been inherited 63 generations, after 1,900 years, Jiangxi, what is the name of this famous Taoist mountain?

China is one of the four major ancient civilizations, has a long tradition of culture, religious culture is also one of the components of Chinese culture, currently the most faith in China is Buddhism, but we all know that Buddhism was introduced to China from India, and China's native religion is Taoism.

Taoism is a Taoist religion that emphasizes cultivation and health, and becoming immortal is one of the tenets of Taoism, so Taoist priests often go to find hidden and rich in the spirit of the place to practice, and these places after the precipitation of time, often become the Taoist mountains, Wudang Mountain is one of China's most famous Taoist mountains, but it is famous and martial arts novels have a great deal to do with the spread of Wuxia, in fact, Wudang Mountain is not a long history. The history of Wudang Mountain is not very long, it is really famous from the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Sanfeng established the Wudang School to step on the beginning of the world famous.

And Taoism's oldest famous mountain, should be located in Jiangxi's Longhu Mountain, Zhang Daoling, is the founder of Taoism, according to legend, the old man descended on Shu Han, "awarded three days of the right way, the fate of the heavenly master", Zhang Daoling integration of the then: Huang Lao school, Fang Xian Dao, Wen Shi school of pre-Qin cultivation groups, the creation of Taoism, said the first alliance of the way of Taoism.

And Zhang Daoling integrated the then: Huang Lao school, Fang Xian Dao, Wen Shi school and other pre-Qin cultivation groups, founded Taoism, called Zhengyi Alliance Wei way.

Longhu Mountain was once Zhang Daoling alchemy place, the legend "Dan into the dragon and tiger now", so the mountain named Longhu Mountain, and Zhang Daoling's fourth generation grandson Zhang Sheng, in the Three Kingdoms or Western Jin Dynasty came to settle in Longhu Mountain, and since then Zhang Tianshi descendants live in Longhu Mountain, and so far inheritance of sixty-three generations after more than one thousand nine hundred years.

Longhu Mountain has since become a Taoist shrine, where the main humanistic landscape is the Taoist culture, and Taoism chose to cultivate most of the Zhongmin Yuxiu place, Longhu Mountain's natural scenery is also very beautiful, now Longhu Mountain is China's eighth World Natural Heritage, the World Geopark, the National Natural and Cultural Heritage, national AAAAA level tourist attractions, the National Key cultural relics protection units.

Longhu Mountain on the human landscape

Longhu Mountain has a "Taoist capital" name, this is one of the 72 Taoist blessings, from ancient times is the Taoist priests in mind one of the holy land, the ancient Zuoheshui wrote: "blue water Danxia perched on the tiger and dragon, the cave of heavenly blessings hidden immortal court. The Taoist tomb even if the gods travel far, still let the demons afraid of ferocious."

In the heyday, there were more than 80 Taoist temples, 36 Taoist yards and several Taoist palaces, and the floor area, scale, layout and number of palaces and mansions created the history of Taoism, so this place was called the world kingdom of Taoist priests.

And now, when many palaces and temples have been destroyed, only the Tianshifu is still well-preserved, the Tianshifu by the mountains with the water, magnificent, covers an area of more than 30,000 square meters, now the ancient building area of more than 6,000 square meters, the architectural style here is mostly wooden structure, most of which is the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong, Jiaqing, the same period of the ancient buildings left behind, the architectural style is fine, all the carvings skeletonization, seemingly ancient color and a sense of transcendence.

There will be held here every Taoist Cultural Festival, is an important attraction of the tourism industry of Longhu Mountain, held every two years, set Taoist pilgrimage, tourism, economic and trade negotiations, folk customs picking in one of the country's only Taoist grand tourism festival, is a centralized exhibition of China's Taoist culture.

Natural scenery on Longhu Mountain

Natural scenery on Longhu Mountain is also very beautiful, there are Longhu Mountain Scenic Area, Xianyan Shuiyan Scenic Area, Rock Tomb Group Scenic Area, Elephant Trunk Hill Pai Nga Rock Scenic Area, Dufeng Mazu Rock Scenic Area and other components.

Longhu Mountain Scenic Area has an area of 220 square kilometers, is China's typical Danxia geomorphic landscape, but also one of China's Danxia geomorphic development to do a complete area, due to the impact of natural factors such as water scouring and erosion type, dissolution weathering type, dissolution weathering collapse type, the Longhu Mountain geomorphic formations are different, showing the nature's ingenuity, stone fortresses, stone walls, stone beams, stone cliffs, stone pillars, stone peaks, peaks, peaks and forests, etc., all have different styles and shapes, and some of them are even a bit strange, but combined, they look magnificent.

Longhu Mountain's blue water and Danshan Mountain is one of the best, the landscape is the most beautiful scenery here, Xianshui Rock, Yingtian Mountain, Mazu Rock, Hongwu Lake and so on, are all well-known local attractions. Among them, Yingtian Mountain is characterized by heavy mountains, waterfalls and springs, beautiful scenery, Jade Abyss Crouching Dragon, seven-stage waterfalls, Yunke scrambling road, pine forests and steep slopes, nine peaks and screens, Bilian Pond, Panking Trail Stone, Bullet Stone, and Resting Stone, and other natural beauties.

Mazu Rock, also known as Chicken Cage Peak is said to be the Tang Dynasty monk Mazu preached here, thus the name Mazu Rock, Mazu Rock has two very large caves, the cave can accommodate more than 2,000 people, and there was once a temple built here, which has now completely disappeared.