#Guilin # The sky gradually darkened, Xu Xiake and Jingwen walked out of the three caves of Chunyan In the province, they went west and found a cave. The mouth of the cave is facing north, and the cave is low-lying, making the roof of the cave more tall and grand. They didn't have torches, so they didn't go deep into the hole.
On the left wall of the cave, there is the chapter "Five Beauty and Four Evils" of the Analects written by Zhang Nanxuan, a famous theorist of the Southern Song Dynasty, with strong penmanship. Unfortunately, the villagers did not know. Even the name of this cave, they also said differently, some said it was called Huixian Rock, some said it was called Projectile Rock.
After Xu Xiake wiped the cave wall clean, he saw an inscription by Chen Di, a servant of the Southern Song Dynasty, and only then did he know that the cave was called Zhuyan Cave.
There is a stream to the west of the cave, called Tuojian Creek in the Ming Dynasty, and now called Lingjian Creek, which belongs to the tributaries of the Li River.
Xu Xiake and Jingwen stood on the old bridges and saw the cave at the top of the cliff rising high, Xu Xiake thought it was the mouth of the Qixia Cave. He looked closely at the left side of the cave, there was a cliff, and there were houses built above the clouds, unlike the one behind the Seven Star Cave. Xu Xiake and Jingwen hurriedly climbed the mountain, wanting to get a glimpse of the end.
They went east from the temple in front of the mountain, to the Seven Star Cave, to the Shoufo Temple on the mountainside, from the north of the Shoufo Temple, and then to the east, and climbed hundreds of stone steps in succession, and they came to Chaoyun Rock in the midst of breathing and sweat.
At the mouth of the cave on the north side of Qixia Cave, the stone steps and Buddhist pavilions built by the Monks of Anhui Seem to soar above the cliffs. Xu Xiake and Jingwen stood in the Buddhist Pavilion, looking around at the river and the city pool, and Xu Xiake bowed to the West Mountain.
Then, Xu Xiake came to the Buddha statue and fell to the ground to worship. Suddenly, he heard a monk calling him. It turned out to be melting. Xu Xiake and Rongzhi first met in Taikoo Ping, Hengshan. The second encounter was at the Green Bamboo Nunnery in Hengzhou. Rongzhi is also going to visit Guilin. So, the two people met at the Seven Star Rock. Xu Xiake arrived at the Seven Star Rock, and whenever people inquired about Rongzhi, there was no one who knew him. I didn't think that the two would meet here.
That night, Xu Xiake, JingWen, and Gu Servant lived in the cave where Rongzhi lived. Xu Xiake asked Rongzhi about the cave he had seen on the old bridges and asked if there was a way to go. Rongzhi told him that there were no steps to climb. Outside that cave, there was no place to hang wooden ladders. Unless you dig a hole in this cave.
Xu Xiake stood at the mouth of the cave where Rongzhi lived, close to it, blocked by the rock, but could not see the cave.