The renowned religious holy land 'Wudang Mountain'

My calf still hurts, making it inconvenient to walk. Thinking about climbing Wudang Mountain today, I was inactive all day yesterday, either sitting or lying down. I started climbing from Nanyan, passing through the Ming Shen Dao, which is the steepest part of the mountain road. Afraid of hurting my leg again, I climbed very slowly, stepping very firmly! I have read many travel notes on the Internet before, and they all say that the journey is hard, which is really exaggerated. If a person exercises a little bit usually, climbing Wudang Mountain is not difficult. The key to climbing is to walk up at a constant speed without interruption. Even if you rest halfway, try to stand as much as possible, and the time should not be too long. Once you sit down, you will feel extremely tired when you get up. In addition, when climbing up, don't always look at how far the mountain road is, but just focus on the stone steps in front of your feet, pay attention to your breathing, in this way, you can easily leave the steep mountain road behind. If you enter the scenic area at 7:30 in the morning, it is no problem to finish visiting at three or four in the afternoon. I left the scenic area after one o'clock in the afternoon. One is that I didn't eat lunch inside; the other is that I took the cable car down the mountain. It's still because my leg hasn't recovered well, it's okay to go up the mountain, but it's impossible to go down the mountain! The cable car is 80 yuan one way, 150 yuan round trip, and the entrance ticket to the mountain is 259 yuan. When visiting the temples in the mountain, I felt that the old cultural relics of Wudang Mountain were well protected. I wondered how they escaped the devastation of the Cultural Revolution? Later, when I looked up the information, I realized that I was wrong. In April 1955, in order to 'increase local fiscal revenue' and 'find ways to tap potential', the People's Committee of Jun County, Hubei Province, led by the County Culture Department, went to the 14 palaces and temples of Wudang Mountain to destroy the statues under the name of 'collecting waste copper', and got 48,000 jin of copper. Later, in March and April 1956, led by the secretary of the County People's Committee, they went up to Wudang Mountain again to 'collect copper', and destroyed 201 statues in 21 palaces and temples in 48 days, and got 20,200 jin of copper. Although there were protests from Taoist people and the stop of Xiangyang Prefecture, the staff of the County Culture Department did not stop their actions according to the instructions of the Prefecture. What is even more surprising is that similar incidents did not only occur after the liberation, but before the liberation, the 51st Division of the Kuomintang also 'confiscated' the temple property of Wudang Mountain, smashed statues and utensils, destroyed cultural relics, and destroyed the iron chains of the stone paths. During the Anti-Japanese War, when the headquarters of the Fifth War Zone of the Kuomintang and the Eighth Branch of the Army Officer School were stationed in various palaces and temples of Wudang Mountain, they 'eliminated superstition and eradicated idols', randomly demolished palaces and temples, smashed clay and wood statues, and transported about several hundred thousand jin of copper statues and utensils to the ordnance factory. Today, we can still appreciate these surviving cultural relics, and we really have to thank Mr. Zheng Zhenduo for his strong resistance at that time. The scenery of Wudang Mountain is beautiful, and the temples and old stone roads are simple and charming, which is really worth a visit!