Tianmen Mountain was called Songliang mountain in the Han Dynasty. In theThree Kingdoms period, a door was opened on the wall of the mountain. Sun Xiu,king of Wu, regarded it as an auspicious omen and renamed it Tianmen Mountain.Tianmen Mountain is a masterpiece of nature. In the long geological history, ithas experienced marine sedimentation rising to continental sedimentation,forming a high mountain, and suffered hundreds of millions of years of wind andrain erosion, especially the Triassic Yanshan movement. At the end of theCretaceous, the large-scale Himalayan orogeny further uplifted the TianmenMountain, which was cut into isolated mountains by two fault canyons, resultingin a great height difference between the high mountains and the valley, with aheight difference of more than 1300 meters within a few kilometers, thuscreating the majestic momentum of the isolated peaks of the TianmenMountain.
Tianmen Mountain is a mysterious carrier of historical culture and Buddhismculture, and a perfect combination of natural landscape and human landscape.
In order to speed up the process of tourism development in Zhangjiajie,Tianmen Mountain is in the process of large-scale development and construction.Some scenic spots have not been officially opened; the world's longest ropewayand Tianmenshan temple are under construction.
So, how did Tianmen cave form? Geologist Mr. Qin gongjiong thought that itwas the result of "funnel" dissolution. He thinks that the terrain on the eastside of Tianmen cave inclines slightly to the west, while the terrain on thewest side inclines slightly to the East, and the core of syncline is facingTianmen cave road. The East and west walls are cut by two joints with a strikeof about 320 degrees, and a joint with a strike of 40 degrees intersects withthem at Tianmen cave. Two karst funnels at the top of the cave also play animportant role in the karst process. After the rain falls, the surface waterflows along the slope to the funnel, and part of the water flowing into the soilflows down the interlayer cracks of the stratum towards the core of thesyncline. The long-term continuous dissolution process makes the local collapse,and finally makes the two groups of caves merge into one, forming the Tianmencave. However, some people disagree with this: the Tianmen cave was formedaccording to this principle. Why is the base of the cave a huge platform? Canthese rocks "collapse" out of the cave? Therefore, the formation of Tianmen caveis still an unsolved mystery. (Tianmenshan Temple) Tianmenshan temple was firstbuilt in the Tang Dynasty. It was called Yunbo temple, Lingquan courtyard andSongliang hall in ancient times. In the Ming Dynasty, due to improper siteselection, it was repeatedly destroyed by wind and often suffered from watershortage, so Tianmenshan temple was moved from the eastern peak. It used to be aplace with towering ancient trees and thick shade. The lintel of the ancienttemple is engraved with the four characters "Tianmen Xianshan". The couplet onboth sides of the gate is: "there is no night in the sky, and there is nomountain on the mountain. It is said that Li Zicheng wrote a book by Ye Fu. Theentrance is the Great Buddha Hall, behind which is the Guanyin hall, with sixbungalows on both sides. The last one is the ancestral hall, which is of greatscale. Folk can be summarized as "three into the hall, six ear room, brick wall,iron pot, such as Kuang". The original architecture of the temple is veryparticular, with cornices and angles, carved dragons and painted phoenixes, andstatues of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. There is also a big drum, a big bell, aseven level stone tower and a Dahua money stove. According to the inscriptions,Tianmenshan temple was repaired seven times during the 163 years from theQianlong period of the Qing Dynasty to the fifth year of the Republic of China.At that time, there was an endless stream of believers from more than tencounties along the border of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou. Now TianmenshanTourism Co., Ltd. is repairing Tianmenshan temple on a large scale, and theformer prosperity will reappear. (longtouyan) it's called longtouyan. In thepast, there were stone taps that could be turned on the collapse. Longtou rockfaces a cliff. It is said that in the past, many pilgrims, in order to showtheir sincerity in praying for God and worshiping Buddha, held the dragon's headin their hands and made a circle around the cliff. As long as they were sincere,they would guarantee you nothing. Later, the dragon head was lifted off thecliff. Now we can only see the stone pit where the dragon head was placed.Longtou rock is the best viewing platform for sunrise. Li Jing, the magistrateof Yuezhou in the Ming Dynasty, wrote a poem praising the Tianmen Mountain: themountain has reached its peak, and the Tianmen gate is close to the mountain.Looking up at Penglai under the red sun, looking forward to Lufu white clouds.Cangya abrupt pine fir ancient, Qujing remote horse trace empty. If you want tobuild the highest peak, flying must rely on the sky wind. (chisongfeng goldpool) this small pool is about 1.3 meters long, 0.6 meters wide and only a fewcentimeters deep. No matter how dry it is, the water will not dry up all theyear round. It is said that this is the gold pool of chisongzi, the rain masterof Shennong emperor in ancient times. Under the northern cliff, there is a peaklike Danzao peak, which is called Danzao peak. At the top of the peak, there areclouds and mist, like the smoke rising from the stove. It is said that it is astove used by red pine nuts for alchemy. There is a poem by predecessors: "inthe past, there were immortal places. The relics are left in Danzao, and theyoften come and go. " There are thunder cave and electricity cave under the peakof Danzao. It is said that in addition to using the water from the golden pool,the red pine nut can reach a certain degree of fire with the help of thunder andelectricity. There are many strange things in Tianmen Mountain, but the way isnot clear. Among them, there are four ancient mysteries, which have been handeddown from generation to generation. The first is the mystery of Tianmen opening,the second is the mystery of developing sweet potato millet, the third is themystery of turning water on the top of the mountain, and the fourth is themystery of wild Buddha's treasure. It is said that under the beech tree is thetreasure house of the wild Buddha. In the chapter "Tianmen Mountain" in thelocal records of Yongding County written by Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, it issaid that "in the Ming Dynasty, the wild Buddha flew to this mountain fromJiashan temple. The wild Buddha was a bandit. After the incident, he cut off hishair and became a monk. He escaped from heaven. " (ghost Valley cave) it is saidthat when Li Zicheng took Yefu up the mountain, he took more than 100 people andhorses and many gold and silver treasures, hired nine wooden boats to sneak intoDayong secretly against the Li River, and went up Tianmen Mountainunconsciously. This time Yefu became a monk, he didn't really want to become aBuddha. Instead, he "sleeps" every day and "draws his sword to the altar" to"restore the Central Plains" and "wipe out the whole world" one day. However,the situation took a sharp turn, the peasant army collapsed, the Qing governmentwas established, and Yefu finally died of anxiety. It is said that before hedied, he scattered all the treasures he had brought and hid them in severalsecret places in Tianmen Mountain. And poisoned all the migrant workers todeath. For hundreds of years, I don't know how many bandits, pilgrims andmysterious monks of Tianmen Mountain have come to Tianmen to worship. In fact,they have come back empty handed to peep at the terrain and search for treasure.Where the treasure is hidden is always a mystery.