An Essay on Mount Emei

Love the mountains, love the city. (Emei becomes to be attractive because of its mountains. Emei is a city you can smell, touch and taste the favor of freedom. )

Nobody could have a much better understanding on the slogan than us native of Emei. Busy ChengDu, bustling ChongQing, and GanSu where has beautiful blue sky, and these memory had fly out of my mind, while I was absorbed by the scenery in Emei at last. I love the peaceful and the easy in Emei, and also love the breathtaking view of Mount Emei as well as the kindness of the Mountain. In brief, I love everything of the city.The tranquil ancient town and the different weather during ten miles always give me surprises, and I love it the best in all those wonderful scenery.

Rambling in LuoMu ancient town, built in the year of grace 618. You can feel the honors and disgrace of the town, and the splendor and the decay of the town. There are many old houses stand on both sides of the streets. Dragons or phoenixes are sculptured on the door or windows of the houses made of wood. You can see more inviting views, like courtyard, siheyuan and so on, after passing through the lanes. Sometimes, you can hear the some word fragments from the fortune-tell in the house. The door and window decorated with sculpture, the stone steps covered with moss, and the old wall covered with ivy are telling us the stories about this town again and again, year after year.

Go back the streets. Breathe the air of this enduring town. The bustling people and the sounds of argy-bargy suddenly pull you from a peaceful out of a sophisticated world.This is a strange feeling just like you’ve been in two different worlds.

Some old artists are making bamboo basket, bamboo hat and coir raincoat. Several blacksmiths are forging, maybe for their farm works. You can hear the sounds of the boiling oil. That is an old woman is making pancakes. The old are waiting to have a hair cut in the in the queue. These pictures make the town become livelily.

It is not very far from the town to Mount Emei.After passing though the arch called ‘TianXiaMingShan’. A cool breeze makes me realized that this is what the Mount Emei should be. Strolling along the shady path, people can find numerous hotels and shops. These modern buildings give people a feeling of prosperousness. People can enjoy both quiet and jollification, and this is the most intuitionistic feeling.

I walk in the Mountains at an unsteady speed with a devout heart, following the guidance of Buddha ‘PuXian’.

‘QingYin’ lake is a place that once you come, you are unwilling to leave. “How amazing our earth mother’s work”, I can not help think like this. Cottages stand on both sides of the lake are linked together by a hanging bridge. A length of dead wood stands on the centre of the lake. What a beautiful picture, a picture possessing hundreds of millions years of the Mount Emei’s feeling and emotion.

‘Monkeys! Mobkeys!’ A little boy’s tender voice awakes me from my sweet dream. Monkeys in Mount Emei are intelligential, which makes people love them, at the same time, dread them. Monkeys gather together as groups, while each group has three or more members. They sit on the guardrail and ask tourists for food。

There are less and less tourists after passing through the monkey’s habitat. The fog becomes worse. The mist condenses into drops of water appearing on the hair. People may have an illusion that they are in a fairyland. Birds are singing; the wind is laughing; the rain is jumping. All kinds of marvelous sounds can be heard, and some of them you may never heard before. Tourists can indistinctly see the trees and the path through the wood. Waking on the wet and slushy road; breathing the fantastic air. This experience gives a feeling that I will be a fairy in a minute.

‘Ten-mile walk, ten different kinds of weather’, which is the best description of Mount Emei. At the foot of the mountain, it is sunny and warm, or maybe a little bit hot; at the middle part of the mountain, it is foggy and rainy. When you finally get the top of the mountain, there is another kind of scenery.

I tell myself:” just move another step, I can touch the sky.” Looking up at the Buddha ’PuXian’, at that moment, I could actually feel how negligible I am! I calm down myself, and sit down, then put my palms together, praying!

‘Here, Sariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness; they are not produced or stopped, not defiled or immaculate, not deficient or complete.’(Sanskrit: Iha Sariputra sarva-dharmah sunyata-laksana, anutpanna aniruddha, amala aviamala, anuna aparipurnah. Chinese: 舍利子，是诸法空相，不生不灭，不垢不净，不增不减.)

‘Therefore, Sariputra, in emptiness there is no form, nor feeling, nor perception, nor impulse, nor consciousness; No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; No forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touchables or objects of mind; No sight-organ element, and so forth, until we come to: No mind-consciousness element; There is no ignorance, no extinction of ignorance, and so forth, until we come to: there is no decay and death, no extinction of decay and death. There is no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path. There is no cognition, no attainment and non-attainment. (Sanskrit: Tasmac Chariputra sunyatayam na rupam na vedana na samjna na samskarah na vijnanam. Na caksuh-srotra-ghranajihva-kaya-manamsi.Narupa-sabda-gandha-rasa-sprastavaya-dharmah. Na caksur-dhatur yavan na manovjnana-dhatuh. Na-avidya na-avidya-ksayo yavan na jara-maranam na jara-marana-ksayo. Na duhkha-samudaya-nirodha-marga. Na jnanam, na praptir na-apraptih. Chinese:是故空中无色，无受想行识，无眼耳鼻舌身意，无色声香味触法，无眼界，乃至无意识界，无无明，亦无无明尽，乃至无老死，亦无老死尽，无苦集灭道，无智亦无得，以无所得故.)”---(English：<The Heart Sutra>; Chinese：《般若波罗密心经》；Sanskrit: Prajnaparamita)

Emei, a city once you have been to, you will be unwilling to leave. His bustling, leisure, quiet, grandeur and his classic beauty, so on and so forth. All his scenery is hauntingly, and every trip to Emei has engraved on my mind.

Love the mountain, love the city. Enjoy yourself.