一程山水一程詩

天臺山是一方古老而神奇的土地，先秦古籍《山海經》里就有記載：“大荒之中，有山名曰天臺高山。”南朝陶弘景在《真誥》一書中說：“山有八重，四面如一，頂對三辰，當牛女分野，上應臺宿，故名天臺。”

天臺山有景有道有佛有茶，現代人記得更多的當然是有詩。

1300年前，一支龐大的詩人隊伍從長安出發，他們由揚州經運河南下，渡錢塘江，入浙東運河，再南折沿曹娥江、剡溪溯流而上，一路載酒揚帆、擊節高歌，最后來到天臺山。由唐朝而起的天臺熱，成就了天臺山這一浙東唐詩之路目的地，也奉獻了詩路中最華美的篇章。

越過萬千的紅塵，涉過重重疊疊的山水，踏著蜿蜒山徑，一路微醺去天臺，尋找那了塵絕世的清涼神意，尋覓詩人們探尋的終極之所。那么今天，就讓我們觸摸掩于神秘色彩后的天臺山本色吧。

Mount Tiantai， a place of wonder and antiquity， is described in Classic of Mountains and Seas， a gazette of geography and myths written in the centuries before the Qin Dynasty （221-207BC）. Tao Hongjing （456-536）， a Taoist alchemist of the Southern Dynasties， explained why the mount was called Tiantai in a book. Nowadays， Mount Tiantai is celebrated for natural splendors， Taoism， Buddhism， and tea. It is also known in modern times for its connection with ancient poems.

In the Tang （618-907）， numerous poets travelled all the way from Changan， the capital of the dynasty situated in the northwest. In the South of the Yangtze River， they traveled mostly by boat. Their boat journey includes a trip from Yangzhou by the Grand Canal and all the way to the Qiantang River. After they crossed the Qiantang River， their boat tour continued on the Eastern Zhejiang Canal and then they followed a path along Caoe River and Shanxi River until they reached Tiantai， their destination. For hundreds of years， they came to visit Mountain Tiantai. Modern scholars consider the road they took in eastern part of the province as a road of poetry. This is the most brilliant section of the roads of poetry in ancient Zhejiang.

It is poetically fascinating to take a look at Mount Tiantai to see why it attracted so many poets so many centuries ago.