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The Historical Origin of Tiantai Mountain in Chengdu
Tiantai Mountain has a profound historical and cultural heritage. Tiantai Mountain in Bashu was called Dongmeng Mountain in ancient times. As early as ancient times, Tiantai Mountain was the place where ancient "Qiong" people lived and multiplied. During the ancient flood, when Dayu passed through Shu, he chose this mountain as a platform for climbing to worship the heavens, so he got the reputation of "Tiantai".

During the enlightenment of Bashu, Master Roshi, the king of the ancient Shu kingdom, "climbed high to worship heaven" here; At the end of the Han Dynasty, Taoist priests dug holes in Xiangshan and built altars to worship the gods. Officially renamed as "Tiantai Mountain", Tiantai Mountain has added religious and cultural content. At the beginning of the Shu and Han Dynasties in the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang went to Lin Qiong to inspect the situation of Jiatun's fire digging wells, and took a "wooden chair car" up the mountain to look up, leaving the names of "Tianchepo" and "Wangjunding". During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Pudasheyer, a monk traveling to the West, traveled here and founded Tiantai Buddhist Temple. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, religion spread. In the early Tang Dynasty, Huojing County ordered Yuan Tiangang to respect Taoism, so Tiantai Mountain was dominated by Taoism. During the Five Dynasties, there was a large-scale Chenghuang Temple in Tiantai Mountain. In the Song Dynasty, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism coexisted in Tiantai Mountain, with three schools competing for mountains and forests, and more than 100 temples and Taoist temples. Religious forces are rampant, and there are many contradictions among various factions, so there is a matter of pushing officials to govern the mountains in the country. At that time, Wen Tong (Northern Song Dynasty painter) and Lu You (Southern Song Dynasty patriotic poet) led the management of religious affairs in Tiantai Mountain. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Tiantai Mountain gradually declined, so another "Blessing Mountain" incident occurred during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty (the third year of Dashun), one of Zhang's army horses was defeated and passed the gate of Qiongzhou. Three thousand great monks in Tiantai Mountain stopped them, so Zhang Cong attacked the cult on the back hill of Tiantai Mountain around Qingcaopo, and all the temples in Tiantai Mountain were destroyed. Both Taoism and Buddhism tried to recover famous religious mountains in Qing dynasty, but the scale was far less than in the past. During the Republic of China, soldiers and bandits were rampant in Tiantai Mountain, the society was unstable, and the mountain-facing incident almost disappeared. Tiantai Mountain is also the only place where the Red Army Long March fought and worked in Chengdu, and the only red tourist area in Chengdu. Qionglai Red Army Long March Memorial Hall is a patriotic education base in Sichuan Province and a patriotic education base in Chengdu. During the Cultural Revolution, the religious culture of Tiantai Mountain was greatly destroyed.