Kunlun Mountain, an ancient and mysterious mountain, is a fairy mountain in ancient Chinese mythology, and Taoism regards it as the place where the gods live It is the entrance to another world in many fantasy novels. It has a very high status in our country and is known as the ancestor of all mountains and the mountain of all gods.
< span>The Kunlun Mountains are the backbone of the mountain system in western China. It starts from the Pamir Plateau in the west and traverses Xinjiang, Tibet and Qinghai, with a total length of about 2,500 kilometers, an average altitude of 5,500-6,000 meters, and a total area of more than 500,000 square kilometers. It is believed that the “Queen Mother of the West” lives in the Kunlun Mountains, with the head of a leopard and the body of a leopard, served by two blue birds.
So, do these myths and legends about Kunlun Mountain exist? When we were collecting winds of “the source of the three rivers, the mysterious Kunlun”, on the way from Golmud to Hoh Xil, we passed a Taoist temple with the highest altitude in the world – the Wuji Dragon and Phoenix Palace, which brought us a lot of imagination.
< span>The full name of this Taoist temple is Kunlun Mountain Wuji Dragon and Phoenix Palace. It is located beside the Qinghai-Tibet Highway 120 kilometers southwest of Golmud. , Some friends in the same industry guessed that the Chinese nation may get its name because it is the descendant of the dragon and the descendant of the phoenix.
< span>Actually, we didn’t make a special trip here. Our main trip that day was to go to Kunlun Mountain Pass and Hoh Xil National Nature Reserve, but when our vehicle passed the Yuzhu Peak Observation Deck, it suddenly appeared on the right side of the road A “mountain gate” with the book “Wuji Longfeng Palace”, in a desolate place like Kunlun Mountain, will definitely surprise you. If you don’t see the Mercedes-Benz cars, you will really feel like you have traveled to a fantasy world.
< span>According to legend, this is the place where Jiang Ziya ascended and ascended. We got off the car and saw that there were indeed some doorways. We saw that it was just under a cliff, surrounded by snow-capped mountains behind, and it was a semi-enclosed terrain, quite a bit. The feeling of “Tibetan wind”, the main building is a resplendent hall, which looks very majestic under the bright blue sky.
This Dragon and Phoenix Palace, although the buildings inside look like It’s a little new, but it does give people a very mysterious feeling, and it may indeed be the place where Jiang Ziya “gets the Tao”. The style of the entire Promise Dragon and Phoenix Palace is very similar to the layout of those fantasy movies, using a lot of gray granite, and you can see the words in the Tao Te Ching everywhere.
< span>According to the local friends who traveled together, there was another name before the Wuji Longfeng Palace, which was called Xiwangmu Temple. Statues of Jia Muni, Master Hongjun and Jiang Ziya.
< span>The Queen Mother of the West has a very high status in Taoism, and is the supreme goddess in Taoism. According to the “Shan Hai Jing: The Great Wilderness Western Classic”, it is recorded: “The Queen Mother of the West is located on the hill of Kunlun.” The image of the Queen Mother of the West in the “Shan Hai Jing” is: “The He looks like a human, with leopard tail and tiger teeth, good howling, and hooded hair.” This is Si Tianzhi Li and the Five Remnants. Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty called her the daughter of the Yuanshi Tianwang and the Taixuan Virgin after she was ventilated and semen, and she was called “Taizhen Xiwangmu”.
< span>In ancient Chinese myths and legends, Kunlun Mountain is divided into three layers, the first layer is this mountain in our world. The second floor is the hanging garden of the Queen Mother of the West, where all kinds of rare birds and animals and exotic flowers and plants grow, including all kinds of immortal herbs and elixir that can make people immortal. The third floor of the highest surface is the residence of the Emperor of Heaven, which is the most sacred place between heaven and earth.
< span>Since the publication of The Classic of Mountains and Seas, all dynasties, whether princes, generals, or commoners, have been keen to go to Kunlun Mountains to find the legendary fairyland. They either seek longevity or the way to immortality, but these people have basically disappeared since they entered. I don’t know if they succeeded or lost, or they died because of the harsh climate of Kunlun Mountains and the lack of oxygen in the plateau. in.
< span>Myths and legends sound full of fantasy, and we don’t need to delve into the authenticity of them, but in the depths of the Kunlun Mountains more than 3,800 meters, there is such a resplendent Taoist temple, which indeed gives us a lot of imagination. If you pass by Here, you can also go in and take a look, just take a short break on the way, come out from the Promise Dragon and Phoenix Palace, Continue along the 109 National Road, you can go deep into the Hoh Xil Reserve, and continue to search for the secrets and legends hidden in the Kunlun Mountains.