Located in the south of Zhangjiajie, between Tianmenshan Township and Daping Township in Yongding County, adjacent to Qixing Mountain and Xiongbiyan, only 10 km away from the urban area and only 40 km away from the world-famous Zhangjiajie National Forest Park (all asphalt roads). Tianmen Mountain, called Yunmeng Mountain, Hutou Mountain and Songliang Mountain in ancient times, is also called Yuping Mountain. The mountain is rich in forest resources, with a coverage rate of over 80%. It is a national forest park announced by China in recent years. Building two forest parks in one area is also the first case in China, which shows that Zhangjiajie is rich in tourism resources and forest resources! According to historical records, the origin of Tianmen Mountain: In the six years of Wu Yong 'an in the Three Kingdoms period (AD 263, the year before the lunar calendar), due to the earthquake, the mountain wall cracked and opened north and south, and the mysterious Lang looked like a door. Therefore, Emperor Sun Xiu of Jingdi thought it was auspicious and ordered that Wuling County be changed to Tianmen County and this mountain be changed to Tianmen Mountain. As for Hutou Mountain, the historical records are as follows: The Biography of Han Ma Yuan Note: This mountain is in the east of Yuanling County, Chenzhou. "Wuling Ji" said: "The top of the mountain looks like the Fang Hushan in the East China Sea, where many immortals come and go, hence the name." With regard to Yuping Mountain, according to the Records of Yongding County, which was revised and published in the third year of Qing Daoguang (A.D. 1823, December of the lunar calendar), "In the tenth year of Yongzheng (A.D. 1723), Yongshun Prefecture ruled that Li Jin passed by here and changed Tianmen Mountain to Yuping Mountain." However, due to Li Jin's low status, poor words, and a long time to shout, Yuping Mountain was renamed and soon replaced by Tianmen Mountain. Tianmen Mountain, with its peculiar natural landscape and rich cultural landscape, is a place visited by literati in past dynasties. They found a secluded Range Rover, wrote poems, and introduced and praised the scenic spot Tianmen Mountain extensively. Therefore, in history, its reputation is far greater than that of Zhangjiajie. According to rough statistics, there are more than 100 kinds of travel notes and poems about Tianmen Mountain scattered in local chronicles such as Yongding Wei Zhi, Yongding County Records and Yongding County Records of Hunan Province. At the beginning of the article "A Journey to Tianmen Mountain", Gong Wang Shilin in Qing Dynasty praised: "Yongding is better than Tianmen Mountain." Zhang Dui, the former editor of Hanlin, chanted in the long poem "The Map of Tianmen Mountain on the Yang Axis": "The Tianmen cave is full of clouds, and the Emei in Jiangdong is windy." Hu Shi 'an, a scholar in Qing Dynasty (a native of this city) also praised: "Tianmen Mountain is the highest and most spectacular." Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, scholars have cited 16 peak and 16 cave for the peculiar landscape of Tianmen Mountain. These 32 landscapes are the most magical, and Tianmen Cave is known as the wonder of the world. Li Daoyuan, a famous geographer in the Northern Wei Dynasty, said in the Notes to the Water Classics: During the Three Kingdoms Period, "Song Liangshan in Wuling County, Wu Yong 'an for six years, the peak was lonely, and the wall was searched thousands of times, which was like a censer. Its cave is open, as high as a door, with bamboo hanging upside down, which is called the broom of the sky.
Tianmen Cave 13 1.5m high, 37m wide and 30m deep (thick), from which helicopters can fly. On the mountain at an altitude of 15 17.9 meters, there are caves so high and wide embedded. From a distance, it is very magnificent, just like a Tianmen hanging in the sky, which makes Chinese and foreign tourists marvel! More strangely, there is a Cao Tian above the Tianmen Cave, with a pond and no water. At the top of Tianmen cave, there is water but no pond, just look at the water flowing out. Tourists walk through the cave and look up at the top of the cave, only to see water coming out of their eyes. At first, it was like a pillar and a plum blossom. Therefore, it is called "plum blossom water" by the people. Legend has it: "Whoever catches 48 drops of plum blossom water will be ranked first." So when tourists come here, they all open their mouths to pick up this auspicious "plum blossom water". The drier it is, the bigger the running water becomes, and it turns red. If the running water turns black, earth-shaking events will happen in society.
The sixteen peaks of Tianmen Mountain are "Gaoyuan Peak, Yutang Peak, Yuhu Peak, Jingui Peak, Danzao Peak, Qiyuan Peak, Bow and crossbow Peak, Arrow Peak, Gaby Peak, General Peak, Old Monk Peak, Mother Peak, Negative Child Peak, Ape Peak, Jilong Peak and Jibo Peak. These sixteen caves are: Dong Lei, East Yunnan, Wind Tunnel, Rain Cave, Cloud Cave, Mud Cave, Snake Cave, Turtle Cave, Zushi Cave, Huang Yu Cave, Guigu Cave, Lao Guo Cave, Laolong Cave, Tianxuan Cave, Hechong Cave and Qiu Er Cave. According to old books, the Sixteen Peaks of Tianmen Mountain are all pictographic and have no names. "Tianmen Mountain in Xianxi is low, but it is steep and no one has ever walked. There is a gauze hat in the south and a crown distance of Jigong Rock at the foot of the mountain. " Some landscapes of the Sixteen Cave are also annotated in the old records, and several passages are specially extracted for the reference of tourists from all over the world: Dong Lei, with thunderous stone statues; Wind tunnel, on the stepped rock, has a diameter like a basin and the wind blows like a turntable. Mud hole, snake hole and turtle hole, "three holes are beside the mountain temple". "Tian Xuan Cave on the ladder rock has a stone floor at the entrance, which is filled with fire. It's about a mile wide. It is as wide as a hall in the middle, and it can be several acres wide. There is an endless stream with a stove beside it. This narrowness is not feasible. I heard the bell and drum coming out of the hole, and Gaijing was connected with the ancestral hole. " As for the ancestral cave, books and folks say it is magical, strange and mysterious. "Yongding County Records" said: "In the ancestral cave, sit on the main hall of the temple, don't open your eyes. When the wind blows, the roof tiles fly. " According to folklore, the ancestral cave was covered with an iron pot, which could not be opened. Once opened, in addition to flying sand and stones, the house fell tiles and flew, and all kinds of monsters came out to eat people, and so on.
If you want to visit Tianmen Mountain, you must visit the top of Tianmen Mountain. The top of Tianmen Mountain, called "Cloud Dream" in ancient times, is the commanding height of Tianmen Mountain. Standing on it, commanding, wide field of vision, looking around, watching the sunrise red mountain in the morning and the sunset melting gold at night, all the scenic spots are panoramic. Overlooking, there are 48 Matou Mountain in the east, Qixing Mountain in the south and Chongshan and Xiongbi Rock in the west. There are Huangshizhai and Tianzishan in the north; Close up, the 16 peak on the mountain can be seen; Yongding city is at the foot of the mountain, and the surging Lishui, like a long green silk, winds from west to east.