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Badachu Park
Badachu Park is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, one of the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in Beijing, and a boutique park in Beijing. It is located at the southern foot of Beijing Xishan Scenic Area. Badachu Park is a Buddhist temple garden with a long history and rich cultural heritage, and a modern urban forest closest to the city center. Badachu Park is surrounded by Cuiwei Mountain, Pingpo Mountain, and Lushi Mountain, the remnants of Taihang Mountains. It covers an area of 253 hectares, with the highest peak at an altitude of 464 meters and a vegetation coverage rate of 97.4%. The mountain is warm and windy in winter and cool and pleasant in summer. The eight ancient temples were founded in the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and have been rebuilt for generations. So far, the ancient buildings are still well preserved. The eight ancient temples and the famous "Twelve Scenes" carry the profound Chinese Buddhist culture and Chinese literati culture respectively, and also constitute the unique core tourism resources and tourist attractions of Badachu. Badachu Park is located at the southern foot of Xishan Scenic Area in the western suburbs of Beijing. The park is named "Badachu" because there are eight ancient temples (Lingguang Temple, Chang'an Temple, Sanshan Temple, Dabei Temple, Longquan Temple, Xiangjie Temple, Baozhu Cave, Zhengguo Temple). The eight ancient temples were first built in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, and were rebuilt in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Among them, Lingguang, Chang'an, Dabei, Xiangjie and Zhengguo Temples were all built by the emperor. The tooth relic of Sakyamuni Buddha was once enshrined in the Liaozhaoxian Pagoda of Lingguang Temple. Badachu Park was destroyed by the artillery fire of the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Premier Zhou Enlai approved the construction of a new Buddha Tooth Relic Pagoda. Badachu Park is surrounded by three mountains and is famous for its natural "Twelve Scenes". The ancients praised it as "Three Mountains are like a beautiful house, Eight Temples are like antiques in the house, and Twelve Scenes are like a garden outside the house". It is also said that "The beauty of Xiangshan is artificial, and the beauty of Badachu is natural, and its natural beauty is better than the scenic spots in Xishan." There are three most worthwhile places to visit in Badachu. The first is Lingguang Temple, where there is a towering Buddha Tooth Relic Pagoda, a Thousand Buddhas Pagoda with ancient Liao Dynasty portraits, a goldfish pond with brocade scales playing, and the magnificent "Arhat Wall" and "Heart Sutra Wall". The second is Dabei Temple, where the famous Yuan Dynasty sculptor Liu Yuan sculpted the 18 Arhats in the Main Hall, which are lifelike. The third is the well-organized Xiangjie Temple, where Buddha statues and offerings are complete. Particularly noteworthy are the two dragon-headed turtle-seated imperial steles under the Main Hall, on which are engraved the writings of the three Qing Dynasty emperors Kangxi, Qianlong, and Jiaqing. Badachu Park is warm and breezy in winter and cool and pleasant in summer. The soil is fertile and the vegetation is rich. Among them, there are more than 80 kinds of trees, more than 400,000 trees, 18 kinds of precious ancient trees, 590 trees, such as the white pine in Chang'an Temple, the horse chestnut in Lingguang Temple, the ginkgo in Dabei Temple, and the Pistacia in Zhengguo Temple, all of which are over 600 years old and still full and beautiful. There are nearly 140,000 red-leaf trees such as Cotinus coggygria, Torchwood, and Acer truncatum. After the autumn frost, the forests are all dyed red.
Yunju Temple
Yunju Temple is located at the southwest foot of Baidai Mountain (also known as Shijing Mountain) in Fangshan District, more than 70 kilometers southwest of Beijing, 70 kilometers from the city center. It covers an area of more than 70,000 square meters. Yunju Temple, Shijing Mountain Sutra Cave, and Tang and Liao Pagoda Group constitute a treasure house of Chinese Buddhist cultural characteristics. It is famous for the rare treasure of Chinese cultural heritage, the stone-carved Buddhist Tripitaka - "Fangshan Stone Sutra". Yunju Temple is a place where Buddhist scriptures are gathered. The temple treasures stone scriptures, paper scriptures, and woodblock scriptures, which are known as the "three wonders". The "Stone-carved Buddhist Tripitaka" was first engraved during the Sui Daye period (605), and the monk Jingwan and others engraved the scriptures on stone to protect the Dharma. The sutra engraving business has gone through six dynasties, namely the Sui, Tang, Liao, Jin, Yuan, and Ming, and lasted for 1,039 years, engraving 1,122 Buddhist scriptures, 3,572 volumes, and 14,278 pieces. Such a large-scale engraving and such a long history are indeed rare feats in the history of world culture. They are comparable to the Great Wall and the Grand Canal of Beijing-Hangzhou in the civilized world, and are rare and precious cultural heritages in the world. They are known as "Dunhuang of Beijing" and "the best in the world". "Fangshan Stone Sutra" is a Buddhist classic that has lasted for thousands of years since the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It not only contains extremely rich historical materials in Buddhist studies, political history, social economy, culture and art, but also has important cultural and artistic value in calligraphy art. Yunju Temple not only houses the three wonders of Buddhism and the thousand-year-old pagoda, but also treasures the Buddha's relics that have attracted worldwide attention. Relics (a Buddhist term) means corpse or body bones. According to legend, it is a bead-like object formed after the cremation of Sakyamuni's body. On November 27, 1981, two red flesh relics were excavated in Leiyin Cave. These are the only relics in the world that are treasured in caves instead of being enshrined in pagodas. They are called "Three Treasures of China" together with the Buddha's tooth in Badachu, Beijing, China and the Buddha's finger in Famen Temple, Xi'an, Shaanxi. They add a touch of auspiciousness to the thousand-year-old temple. Today, Yunju Temple has become a famous Buddhist temple and a famous religious venue at home and abroad, enjoying the reputation of "the Great Temple in the North". Yunju Temple has a unique quiet geographical environment, unique and charming beautiful scenery, and contains rich Buddhist cultural characteristics. It is a place to store scriptures and treasures, and a place to pray for blessings and usher in auspiciousness.
Qishan Lake Scenic Area
Qishan Lake Scenic Area is located in Lincheng County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province, with an area of 4,800 hectares. The G4 Expressway and provincial roads run through the north and south and the east and west. The scenic area, with its 800 hectares of vast waters, its thousands of meters of corridors with pavilions, terraces and ancient buildings, its four-star hotel's catering and exhibition center, and its Buddhist culture symbolized by the 50-meter-high white marble Guanyin statue, provides unique resource advantages for tourism, leisure, vacation, water activities, government affairs, business, conferences and exhibitions.
Hongluo Temple
Hongluo Temple Scenic Area is located 4 kilometers north of Huairou City, Beijing, and 55 kilometers from downtown Beijing. The total area of the scenic area is 800 hectares and is now a "National 4A-level Scenic Area". The profound historical accumulation and cultural infiltration, the wonderful geographical environment and climatic conditions have made Hongluo Mountain Hongluo Temple a perfect and extraordinary "Pure Land Buddhist Kingdom". Hongluo Temple was built in the fourth year of Xiankang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (338 AD). It is a permanent temple of ten directions. It is the birthplace of Buddhism in northern my country and the largest Buddhist forest. It has enjoyed a very high status in the Buddhist community for more than a thousand years. The last two generations of ancestors of the Pure Land Sect in my country were both related to this temple. There is a saying in the world that "there is Putuo in the south and Hongluo in the north". The thousand-year-old ancient temple is surrounded by mountains and waters and built on the mountain. It is backed by the majestic Hongluo Mountain in the north and shines on the beautiful Hongluo Lake in the south. The temple is surrounded by forests and gullies, with towering ancient trees, hiding the wind and gathering the energy, making it a Feng Shui treasure land. The "Three Wonders of Hongluo" - the Imperial Bamboo Forest, the Male and Female Ginkgo Biloba, and the Wisteria Pine are well-known. Millions of green bamboos and thousands of acres of ancient pine forests surround the entire temple, forming a beautiful picture of "ancient temples hidden in blue waves". The spiritual energy of mountains and rivers has created the Buddhist garden landscape here, which "exclusively possesses the wonders of Feng Shui in the land and the beauty of the natural environment". The Hongluo Temple Scenic Area has now formed a "one-day tour" sightseeing pattern of three Buddhist cultural areas, Hongluo Temple, Guanyin Temple, and Five Hundred Arhats Garden, and two natural scenic areas, Hongluo Mountain and Qinglong Mountain, forming a sightseeing feature of "watching flowers in spring, escaping the heat in summer, watching leaves in autumn, and appreciating the three friends of winter in winter". Visitors here can not only walk into the ancient temple, admire the solemn Buddhist rituals, burn incense and pay homage, comprehend their own nature, eliminate many troubles and gain the joy of peace, but also stroll in the forest to rest under the pines or climb high to look far and sing in the wind, and enjoy the pleasure of leisure.