Golden Top of the Emei Mountain, Sichuan China

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Golden Top of Emei Mountain

The Golden Top of the Emei Mountain in Sichuan, is a good place for you to appreciate landscapes and sunrise and full of power and grandeur. It is one of the nine places for seeing sunrise in China.

The Scenes on the Golden Top is situated the top peak with 3,077 meters elevation on the Emei Mountain. In Donghan Dynasty, the "Universal Light Palace" was firstly built on the top of the mountain, changed the name after Tang Dynasty and called "Guangxiang Temple".

There are four strange scenes on the golden top and they are Buddha light, cloud sea, sunrise and sacred lamp. Nearby the danger and cliff, "seeing light platform" on the golden top is the best place for appreciating landscapes.

Also called "the auspicious light on the golden top", the Buddha light belongs to the one of the most beautiful eight scenic spots on Emei Mountain. Having the scenic spot of Buddha light, the Emei Mountain is full of religion mysterious color. So-called "Buddha light", when in the afternoon the weather is promising with breeze, standing on golden top of the Sheshen Cliff.

And over look the mountains and cloud, sometimes you will see the five-color light-rings riding on the loud and your shadow is reflect in the middle of the light-ring, if you move, the shadow will move with you. No matter how many people are standing on the top side by side, they only can see their own shadow.

In ancient times, people could not explain this phenomenon, so they thought it was the light of Buddha of Infinite Life. In fact, this is only the reflection from when the sunlight, cloud, and people are on the oblique line of 45 degrees.

Going to the Golden Top to see the "Buddha light" is the hope of everyone who climbs the Emei Mountain. Once seeing the Buddha light, every visitor will cheer.

"Sunrise" should be view before daybreak. The golden light is glittering between the peaks and Cloud Sea, is magnificent and colorful.

Seeing the "cloud sea", you should stand in front of the seeing light rock because it is the best place to appreciate the cloud sea. When the wind is drawn, the cloud is galloping and the fog is gushing as mad waves binding angrily. When the wind is quiet and the weather is fine, the Cloud Sea is boundless vast and the distant peaks resemble the islands in the boundless ocean.

"The sacred lamp" commonly appears after rain in autumn. In the evening without moonlight, you look towards the valley from the seeing light rock, you will see countless light spots gushing in the valley, galloping and even colliding. They are dancing from little too much. This phenomenon people called it "thousands of bright lamps shining the Universal Good Temple" or "the sacred lamp" by old monks on the Emei Mountain.

With the four strange scenes, the Emei Mountain is the famous scenic spot all over the world and it is one of the most famous four Buddhist mountains in China. There are more than 100 temples on the mountain in most prosperous time and now only over 20 temples left. Every temple on the mountain has its own character, the construction art is unique, and various towering forests all over the mountain is green and emerald.

Even if you do not climb to the top of the mountain, you can still see the elegant scenery everywhere. These form the famous the scene area on the Emei Mountain bring us pleasure even just talking about it. The Emei Mountain is always the popular selection of many visitors. Are you interested in sightseeing here? Welcome to contact with us and go with us!

The Emei Mountain in Sichuan possesses an important position in Chinese scenic spots. It claims the title of "Emei Mountain is elegant all over the world". It is exceeding the Five Mountains and the most elegant one in the world. The Emei Mountain is the highest one in the famous mountains in China.

Due to the high topography and the greatly change of the weather. The temperatures vary about 15 degrees from bottom to top. This natural environment provides good condition for the growth of various plants. Because of the initial statistics, there are more than 3,000 kinds of plants on the mountain and some rare plants.