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The over 600 hectares red leaf forest around Hongluo Temple scenic spot will be covered with colorful leaves from mid-October to mid-November each year, making for an amazing world for tourists. With diurnal temperature variation around 10 degree centigrade for ten consecutive days, leaves will turn red gradually, rendering a splendid change from pure green to a rainbow of colors. The trees are colored gradually, from top to bottom, from a leaf and a branch to thousands of trees. Viewing the whole mountain, you will be overwhelmed by all sorts of flowers in full bloom, and the majestic, gorgeous, and wonderful autumn scenes of the ancient temple, where crimson, scarlet, light red, light yellow, orange color, bright purple, and dark green intermingle with each other. You can choose among four different paths to climb, and enjoy the sceneries in distance or closely.
Around the mid-April, Hongluo Temple is also an ideal place for tourists to enjoy a spring tour. There, the Hall of the Three Saints is adorned by two 260-year-old peonies bursting into charming blossoms; on both sides of the gate are gardens of peonies contending in beauty and fascination each other; the “Pines Entangled with Chinese Wisteria”, one of three wonders in the temple, is heady with perfume from colorful flowers.
During these days, the temple is basking in the colorful scenery, a patchwork of Armenian plum, flowering plum, mountain peach, over 100,000 azalea trees and winter jasmines. It is also crowed with a sea of tourists worshiping Buddha to pray for their families or friends.
Tourists can appreciate the temple brimming with the beauty of spring during their mountaineering trip, or participate in variety of prayer activities, like incense burning, Buddha worship, bell ringing and coin hole punching, savoring the time-honored Zen culture.
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