Rose Cuiping Mountain

Cuiping Mountain Attraction is located 12.5 kilometers southwest of Pingyin County, Jinan City. It is a key scenic spot in our county, with beautiful natural scenery and profound cultural heritage. Since ancient times, it has been famous for its "strange temples, strange stones, strange trees and strange waters".

Wonderful temple: The Baofeng Temple on the hillside was built in the Tang Dynasty and was originally named Baoning Temple. The temple is magnificent and has Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism as one. The pagoda of the founder, Zen Master Cijing, is also located here. There is also a national cultural relic protection unit in the Baofeng Temple on the top of the mountain - the Tang Dynasty Duofo Pagoda, which is more than 1,300 years old.

Strange Stones: There is a "Water Mountain with Greenery" on the mountain, which is rated as the first of the eight ancient scenic spots in Pingyin. Two huge rocks are stacked on top of each other, and between the rocks stands a pine tree with lush branches and leaves, so it is named "Greenery". There is also a group of naturally formed canine-tooth-shaped stones on the mountain, which look like a group of turtles, implying that every visitor will be lucky, safe and long-lived, so it is named "Group of Turtles Paying Homage to Birthday".

Strange Trees: There are many century-old cypress trees on the mountain, with luxuriant branches and leaves of various shapes, growing between boulders and on cliffs. There is also a thousand-year-old tree called "Elm Thousand Layers", known as "the best elm in the world", which has a history of more than a thousand years according to research.

Wonderful water: There are many springs on the mountain, and there is a saying that "there is a spring in every crack in the rock", so the locals call it "Water Mountain". The more famous ones are "Youben Spring" and "Shimen Golden Spring". Among them, "Shimen Golden Spring" was originally named "Luoyang Spring". Water flows out from several cracks in the rocks and continues for four seasons. It is now the main water source for monks.

Cuiping Mountain is the birthplace of Pingyin Rose. More than 1,300 years ago, the Tang Dynasty monk Cijing planted and cultivated roses near the Shimen Jinquan in Cuiping Mountain, offering flowers to Buddha and using Buddha to cultivate flowers. Later, roses spread Souvenir Cuiping Mountain, and Pingyin Rose came from this.

Nowadays, in order to provide better services to tourists, Cuiping Mountain Tourist Attraction has renovated and upgraded its infrastructure, functional facilities (tourist service center, toilets, parking lots, etc.) and scenic spots in accordance with the national A-level Attraction assessment standards.