Route: Kaiyuan Temple-Fujian-Taiwan Border Museum-Qingyuan Mountain-Luoyang Bridge-"Theater"

Kaiyuan Temple was built in the second year of Chuigong in the Tang Dynasty. Legend has it that Huang Shougong, a rich man in Quanzhou, dreamed that lotus flowers grew from mulberry trees, so he built a temple in the mulberry garden. It was originally named "Lotus Temple". In the 26th year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered all states across the country to build a Kaiyuan Temple, so it changed its current name.

"This place was called the Buddhist Kingdom in ancient times, and the streets were full of saints." Zhu Xi, a master of Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty, said this. When you come to Quanzhou, Kaiyuan Temple is an indispensable and important cultural landscape.

This octagonal five-story pavilions-style imitation wood-structure stone tower is Quanzhou East and West Tower. It is famous for its majesty, wonderful shape, architectural craftsmanship and exquisite carving. As the tallest building in ancient China, the East-West Pagoda was once the main geographical indication of China.

The Twin Towers of Kaiyuan Temple are the tallest pair of stone towers in China. They still stand tall despite the tests of a magnitude 8 earthquake in Quanzhou and many typhoons during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

There is a "Master Hong Yi Memorial Hall" in the temple. "Master Hong Yi" is commonly known as Li Shutong. He was born in Pinghu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. He was born in Tianjin. He is an art educator and a generation of eminent monks. Master Hong Yi, who has "twenty articles that shocked the world", is talented and integrates poetry, poetry, calligraphy and painting, seal cutting, music, drama, and literature. He has pioneered many cultural and artistic fields.

On the east side of the temple is the Quanzhou Bay Ancient Ship Exhibition Hall, which mainly displays the Song Dynasty shipwrecks excavated from Houzhu Port in Quanzhou Bay in 1974 and their accompanying excavations.

Looking at this treasure ship makes one feel as if one were in the Song Dynasty. Watching the sailing fleet set off from Citong Port and sail into the distance in a majestic manner. It is majestic and magnificent.

Kaiyuan Temple, a quiet place in the busy city, has red walls and flying eaves and ancient banyan trees covering the sky. Sitting on the ground can wash away all impetuousness and uneasiness.

There are many museums in Quanzhou, the most famous of which is the Fujian-Taiwan Border Museum. It is located at the foot of Qingyuan Mountain and on the bank of Quanzhou's West Lake. It is a special museum that reflects the historical relationship between Fujian and Taiwan.

The main area adopts the design concept of a round sky and a square earth, and uses the characteristic craftsmanship of traditional buildings in Fujian and Taiwan to "go out of bricks and into stones". The red and white are mixed together and are natural, reflecting the characteristics of the blood affinity, cultural heritage, and customs between Fujian and Taiwan.

The gunpowder explosion mural in the entrance hall of the main building of the Minjiang-Taiyuan Museum is 18 meters high and 9 meters wide. It is the work of Mr. Cai Guoqiang, a famous Quanzhou artist living in the United States. He used ancient Chinese inventions-paper and gunpowder as materials, and used modern performance art to interpret the eternal and timeless cultural theme on both sides of the Taiwan Strait: the same species, the same species, and the same roots.

In each exhibition hall of the Fujian-Taiwan Border Museum, the common folk customs of Fujian and Taiwan are displayed, and the cultural origins of Fujian and Taiwan and the continuous friendship between compatriots are described in detail.

If you have a day of leisure, you can enjoy it for thousands of years in the mountains. Qingyuan Mountain is not only the mother mountain of Quanzhou people, but also a business card of Quanzhou. So when you arrive in Quanzhou, the place you must go is Qingyuan Mountain. Walking leisurely in the mountains and forests, breathing the essence of heaven and earth, your soul and body are on the road.

I have long heard that Qingyuan Mountain is buried with many cultures, and all the lost history is buried in the mountains, especially the stone carvings in the mountains, which seem to tell us about the past and changes over the past thousand years. On the winding mountain road of Qingyuan Mountain, you may be able to bump into a certain historical figure by looking up and turning.

The majestic atmosphere of nature in Qingyuan Mountain, and the grand and meaningful patterns of stone statues and cliff stone carvings can be called majestic and extraordinary.

The Song Dynasty Laojun statue, the Ruixiang Rock Shakya statue, the Cien Rock Guanyin statue, the Qianshou Rock Shakya statue, the Amitabha Rock Yuan Dynasty Amitabha statue, and the Bixiaoyan Third Buddha statue constitute the Qingyuan Mountain stone statue group.

▲ Statue of Lao Jun in the Song Dynasty

▲ Ruixiang Rock Shakya Statue

▲ Cienyan Guanyin Statue

▲ Thousand Hand Rock Sakya Statue

▲ Amitabha statue of Amitabha in the Yuan Dynasty

▲ Bixiaoyan Third Buddha Statue

The mountain road of Qingyuan Mountain has been a place where Quanzhou's humanities gather since ancient times. The ancients of Quanzhou talked about ancient and modern times here and discussed national affairs. How many people have walked through these mountain roads, and how many stone carvings have been born in the works of literati and literati over the thousands of years, becoming part of this famous historical mountain.

Among the many cultural relics, the cliff stone carvings on Qingyuan Mountain are undoubtedly one of the most vicissitudes of life. Walking into this truly ancient community of life, you can feel the ancients 'feelings of "stone as paper and sword as pen" across time and space.

▲ Zhang Ruitu--Taoist Holy Land

▲ Master Hong Yi--a mixture of sorrow and joy

▲ Yu Dayou-Jun 'en Shanzhong

▲ Mi Fu--The First Mountain

▲ Ma Fushu's "Bingzi's Spring Tour of Amitabha Rock: Ten Rhythms of Scenery"

Go to the mountains to pay homage to the "sages" in the mountains and have a space-time dialogue with history. "Laojun Rock","Master Hongyi's Sila Pagoda","Three Buddhas","Cliff Stone Carvings"... these cultural imprints all over the mountain guide us invisibly. Find a leisure day to experience the thousand-year culture in this mountain.

Quanzhou Luoyang Bridge is a masterpiece of ancient Han bridge architecture. It has a solid structure and beautiful shape. It has a very high level of bridge engineering technology and art, and reflects the high wisdom of the ancient Han working people.

The huge sculpture in the picture was built by modern people in memory of Cai Xiang, the prefect of Quanzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, who presided over the bridge construction project. Standing at the bridge head, he seems to have been watching the meritorious buildings that benefit mankind.

Walking on the bridge, all these vicissitudes of huge stone slabs show that Luoyang Bridge is an unreplicable scenery, and a stone is worth tasting carefully for a moment.

After the tide receded, I watched the fisherman busy picking oysters under the Luoyang Bridge.

In Quanzhou, you must go to a play and taste the rich, profound and unique cultural feast of this ancient city. The opera culture of this ancient city is also colorful and colorful. Nanyin, Liyuan Opera, Puppet Opera, Gaojia Opera, and Dacheng Opera have been sung for ever and are well-known throughout the world.

▲ Nanyin, Chinese elegance.

▲ Liyuan opera, a taste of the life of the ancients.

▲ Puppet show, the ferryman between God and the world.

▲ Gaojia opera, national memory.

▲ City fighting opera,"monks also sing opera."

A travel note cannot fully explain Quanzhou's profound culture. There are still many places worth visiting in Quanzhou. If you want to explore history, you may wish to visit Quanzhou in person. Only when you come do you know how good it is.