Published on August 23, 2015 16:28

I have visited Mount Tai at least twice. Once, about 15 years ago, I took a bus from the bottom of the mountain to Zhongtianmen, and then climbed to the top of the mountain. When I went down the mountain, I didn't use any tools to go all the way to the bottom of the mountain, but the price was that the next day when I visited Qufu, the threshold couldn't be crossed. The second time I was invited to visit Mount Tai, I said it was no more accurate, and the bus was sent to Zhongtianmen, I had lunch in the working restaurant there, and then I went up and down the cable car. The whole process of walking was from Nantianmen to Yuhuangding. It took little effort. With this experience, I'm ready to choose a way of shopping without effort.

A few days in advance, I reserved the hotel and the following itinerary (Qufu and Jinan) on Ctrip. Before departure, I checked the weather forecast. There will be rain from north to south in the near future. Tai'an is expected to have rain on Tuesday. This is the day we choose to visit Mount Tai. It's nothing to think about rain. Maybe it's more interesting to visit Mount Tai in the rain. So I went out as planned and arrived in Tai'an on Monday afternoon, First, visit Dai Temple. The hotel you ordered is near Hongmen, Xinyue Hotel, which is the gate of hiking up the mountain,

When I came back from Dai Temple, I slipped to the red gate to see some young people heading for Mount Tai. I thought they were going to spend the night at the top of the mountain and watch the sunrise the next day. We didn't have much interest in seeing Lao yang'er in this weather. These people may just follow our plan and the result doesn't matter, It's mainly about enjoying the process. At the entrance of the Red Gate, there is a pose to climb the mountain. I take a picture and think that we don't need to spend as much energy as these young people to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Mount Tai tomorrow.

At night, I heard a very heavy thunderstorm outside. Looking out, it was pouring rain. It turned out to be a dream when I woke up. But it really rained at night. When I opened the curtain and saw the gray sky and the water on the ground, I prayed that the rain would not be heavy and that the light rain should be OK. I thought about countless lucky experiences, It is estimated that the weather this time will give us some face and less rain because we are going to climb Mount Tai.

Drive to the parking lot of tianwai village and park the car in the underground parking lot according to what we learned yesterday. The parking fee is 5 yuan per hour and the ceiling is 30 yuan. In the square of tianwai village, there are many people peddling raincoats. It's 3 yuan a piece. Seeing us with umbrellas, they tell us that it's useless to take umbrellas because of the wind in the mountains. I don't want to listen to them. It's strange that Xiaoyu doesn't use umbrellas at this point. Maybe we won't even need umbrellas at that time. The rain is really not big. It's just light rain. Sometimes it's a little urgent. It's soon small. I think it's luck.

When the ticket office arrived, only a few people queued up because it was a cross peak trip. When they asked, they knew that today there were only cars going up and down the mountain. The cable car on the mountain couldn't open because of rain and wind. No cable car?! This is an unexpected situation! For those of us who have never thought of climbing Mount Tai, we are faced with two choices: climb the mountain, or retreat to do something else (for example, go to Qufu first and come back tomorrow). According to the weather forecast, today's rain is the first day, and it will rain for at least two consecutive days, that is to say, coming back tomorrow may not be as good as today! It's hard to make up your mind if you don't climb Mount Tai this time. Forget it, make up your mind to climb! The three held a simple mobilization meeting, encouraged each other, resolutely bought tickets, and boarded the bus up the mountain.

All the way up the mountain, the scenery is refreshing, green everywhere, because of the light rain, more green, the distant mountain is covered by clouds, but I'm not worried, because once the light rain stops, when I get to the top of the mountain, the mountain top exposed in the clouds will be more beautiful, and I'm sure I can take a rare good picture.

In less than 20 minutes, the Zhongtianmen parking lot arrived. I got out of the car and carefully observed the big sign of the Zhongtianmen cableway station on the opposite mountain peak. I dreamed whether there would be a miracle --- the cableway opened, but I saw the empty cableway without any drama.

Make up your mind to climb the mountain, isn't it three kilometers? Every time I walk in the gym, I have to walk at least 3 kilometers. There should be no problem. I think about climbing. In fact, my legs are very reluctant. As soon as I climb a few stone steps, my legs begin to harden. It's because my legs are not prepared. After a few minutes of patient and meticulous ideological work on my legs, my legs begin to accept the fact that I have to climb even if I climb. I have to climb even if I don't. When I think about it, my whole body begins to relax. I don't think about whether I can climb or how much time I need to climb. My attention begins to shift to the surrounding scenery.

From Zhongtianmen to Nantianmen, it is 2.5km long, of which 18 plates are 800m high, with a vertical height of 400m and more than 1600 stone steps. This may be the most challenging place for us, but the journey of ten thousand li begins with one step. As long as we insist, there should be no insurmountable obstacle.

From the Yingtian memorial archway, there are stone carvings everywhere. Although these stone carvings have been inscribed for hundreds of years, they are carved in recent years. The handwriting is clear and angular, but they copy the inscriptions of the ancients. Many of them are vigorous and powerful. They are worthy of being great calligraphers. Although they are traveling on the wrong peak, there are still many tourists on Mount Tai, We often have to wait in line to take a picture.

The first marked scenic spot is yunbu bridge. Starting from here, the climbing Road changes from the left side of the mountain to the right side. A stone bridge crosses a small gully. There is water flowing down the stone wall, forming a small mountain

Many people are waiting to take photos of the waterfall. Seeing such a small flow of water is not really a landscape, but the stone carvings on the stone wall have attracted attention,

The stone inscription was written in March 1927. Under the three words "yunbuqiao", it was clearly an advertisement. Looking at the words carefully, it turns out that it was originally a wooden bridge. Because of the flood surge in autumn, the wooden bridge was destroyed. For the convenience of pedestrians, the road administration and China travel agency agreed to build the stone bridge, It turns out that there was a Chinese travel agency in the Republic of China, but the other country's travel agency is not this country's travel agency. It's just that things have changed. The stone bridge is as old as ever. If there is no record of this stone inscription, no tourists may know about this period of history.

The next scenic spot is wudafusung. An ancient pine is not high, but half of it is in the valley. Several iron supports support the tree. Its bark is old. Next to it is a sign that says "wudafusung". Behind it is a stone archway that says "wudafusung", and a stone pavilion that says "wudafusung"

Five Pines Pavilion. It is said that in 219 BC, when Emperor Qinshihuang ascended to the throne, he was caught in the rain. He once sheltered from the rain under the pine tree. Because the pine tree had done a good job in protecting him, he was granted the title of "five FU pines". It seems that the Emperor would also encounter the rain when he traveled. Anyway, although this tree does not look like it is more than 2000 years old, it can be called an ancient tree after all. Today's people can't sheltered from the rain under this tree,

By the way, the rain still doesn't mean to stop. It's raining all the time, but it doesn't attract much attention. It's because of the light rain that it doesn't take much effort to go up the mountain. There's no feeling of panting, or even sweating. I think it's also the advantage of climbing in rainy days.

Wangren pine, also known as Yingke pine, stretches a beautiful pine umbrella from the cliff. Like other Yingke pines, it has long outstretched arms and seems to be waving welcome. But this scene should face the direction of downhill. It seems to be called seeing off pine, right?

The rain is not small, and you can't see the top of the mountain when you look up. At this time, people around you begin to ask people who are going downhill from time to time, how far is it? Because I know that the 18th plate is not far from the top of the mountain, so I asked more specifically, how far is it from the 18th plate? On the way, one of the salesmen said without raising his head that there were still 10 minutes left. It's very promising. Let's go. More than ten minutes later, I haven't come to the eighteen dishes I remember. It seems that there is a big trend of rain. Looking at the surrounding mountains, the top of the mountain is looming. Sometimes it's even like a pot just uncovered, steaming,

I took a few pictures with my umbrella. This kind of ethereal feeling is very good. I haven't seen the eighteen dishes yet. Ask the people on the side of the road. I was told that you are on the eighteen dishes now,??? Let me tell you, 18 sets have slow 18, tight 18, top 18, bottom 18,??? Is it over?

I saw an older, more reliable looking tourist walking down and asked, "is it still far up there?"? I don't know. When I got to Longmen, I came back. Because it was foggy, I couldn't see anything. So I'd better go down the mountain. Forget it. Don't ask. Keep climbing.

Because the mountain road is constantly turning, it's not long before I saw the Longmen memorial archway. It's more and more hopeful. Because the umbrella is relatively small, I just look at the front, but the back is already wet. In addition, this umbrella is actually a sunshade. The rain has been soaking for a long time, and the center of the umbrella is dripping from time to time, which adds to the feeling of coldness, and the wind on the mountain begins to grow, In my heart, I was very ambivalent. I hoped the wind would blow the rain away. I was worried that the umbrella would not work. I thought that the best solution was to get to the top of the mountain as soon as possible, and we quickened our pace.

A branch road indicates 0.2km to Nantianmen and 0.5km to bixiaci. This road sign is 2.3km away from Zhongtianmen, which means that we are close to the target,

There is a sign in a roadside store: the last store of 18 plates, which reminds you that you will not have a chance if you don't buy any more! The message to me is that here are 18 discs! Looking up (you should know that when you climb the mountain, you can only look at your feet and count the steps, but you can't look up to the sky, otherwise you will easily fall) there is a memorial archway not far away, which reads "shengxianfang". Ah! From here on up, I remember the eighteen dishes!

Looking up from shengxianfang, the Nantianmen gate is looming. It's very clear for a while, it's covered by thick fog for a while, and the wind speed seems to speed up a lot. The umbrella should be tightly carried behind. If it deviates a little, the umbrella will turn over. To take a picture, you need to focus on the camera first, then shout one, two, three, flash the umbrella, press the shutter quickly, and take a picture that seems to have no rain! Anyway, I'm already wet. I don't care if I get a little wet. I can't play this trick any more. I can only take photos with my umbrella and keep the lens from being wet by the rain.

The distance of 200 meters is just like this. We walked through the struggle with the wind, rain and umbrella. The shouting of a group of people made people have to pay attention to what happened. In fact, there was nothing. Just a group of people ran down the mountain through the door of Nantianmen. It turned out that the door of Nantianmen was a gale. People could hardly stand. Anyone who got here would speed up, We lost one of our three umbrellas,

I have to think about buying a raincoat. At this time, I think of the people who sell raincoats at the foot of the mountain. Umbrellas on the mountain are not easy to use. We must buy raincoats. It seems that we underestimate the influence of mountain wind. Buy them. A raincoat at the foot of the mountain costs 3 yuan (relatively thin), the same raincoat at the top of the mountain costs 5 yuan, and a slightly thicker raincoat costs 10 yuan. On the way, we saw many people wearing thin raincoats torn by the wind in the wind and rain, and they were still caught in the rain, so we decided to buy a thick raincoat. This kind of raincoat has a sleeve, but it can avoid being blown open by the wind, because the raincoat is airtight, It can keep warm, but before that, the whole body was almost soaked, and there was no warm to keep.

It's Tianjie after South Tianmen. I've been here before. Every time I go to Tianjie, I feel like I'm really in the sky. Because there are various shops on one side of Tianjie and cliffs on the other side. It makes me feel like it's a road in the sky. Every time I come here, it's full of photographers. It's almost impossible to take a picture of a quiet Tianjie. This time, there's almost no one, Some people are almost all running down, because the wind is too strong here, and the memorial archway of Tianjie is also full of shadows. In order to show that we are here, we have to take pictures no matter what conditions. So the figure who is wearing raincoat and almost begins to fight is fixed at this moment.

Before going up the mountain, I thought about taking some food and water to the top of the mountain for dinner, but now it's extremely impossible to find a dry place to sit. I have to change my mind and eat in the restaurant on the top of the mountain, no matter what it is, as long as it's hot. (I think of a Korean anti special film, the spy said as soon as he entered the restaurant, have some hot! In those days, few people didn't know this sentence. It's very appropriate to use it now, I ordered three bowls of beef noodles, In addition to the sausage, we put a lot of pepper noodles and pepper noodles (there are no ingredients for the noodles here, and there are four seasonings on the table: salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper noodles and pepper noodles, self-help). After a few mouthfuls, we suddenly feel warm. Standing at the door facing Tianjie, we have two choices: left to Yuhuangding, right to downhill. It's another wartime meeting, After a brief discussion, almost no one objected to the conclusion: downhill. This time, when we get to the top of the Jade Emperor, we may not see anything, because there is still a journey ahead, so we should pay attention to preserving our strength. At the same time, we need to make up for it. This time, we will leave some regrets or suspense, and give another reason to come back next time.

When you've had enough soup and food, you don't have to watch the scenery this time. You can put a big camera and a video camera in your backpack, leaving only a small camera for a rainy day. You've eaten what you need to eat, and the water you need to drink is almost empty. You'll go down the mountain light. Generally speaking, it's easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down the mountain. If you step on the stone steps step by step, your legs will tremble soon. The trick is to walk. Although you take a few more steps on each stone step, the impact on your knees is much smaller, and the leg retraction is much smaller. The way down the mountain is much easier than going up the mountain. The reason why it's easy to go down the mountain is that it doesn't take much effort at least. In addition, there's rain, which doesn't make people feel too hot. There's no physical exertion. The rain is still falling continuously. The rain on the stone steps starts to flow from the beginning to the end, and from the beginning to the end, people dare to step on how much water there is, The water in the shoes has begun to murmur, the water flow is getting bigger and bigger, and the stone steps are actually small waterfalls one by one. Passing by yunbu bridge, the small waterfall just now turned into a waterfall that can be called a waterfall. On the way back, I saw 18 sets of road signs and ten thousand Zhang steles inscribed by Emperor Qianlong (each character is 1 meter high), which I didn't see just now. I took photos in my busy schedule.

It's really nice to see the parking lot of shibaban and the parked CMB. Our stormy trip should be over here.

Think of yesterday in the Red Gate photo of the mountain pose, this hike originally all in the arrangement, just don't know.

After getting off from tianwai village, CMB almost trotted all the way to the parking lot. Fortunately, it was parked in the underground parking lot, which made it convenient for us to take out the dry clothes from the trunk, change them, simply tidy up, drive to G3 expressway, turn on the heating all the way, and move towards the next target Qufu.

Postscript

This travel note originally wanted to be named "traveling in the rain to Mount Tai". After that, I felt that it just didn't really reflect the scene in the rain, but it was more true in the rain.