Zhaoqing Seven Star Rock is located about 4 kilometers north of Zhaoqing City, the scenic spot is composed of five lakes, six gangs, seven rocks, eight caves, an area of 8.23 square kilometers, there are mountains in the lake, there are caves in the mountains, there are rivers in the caves, the scenery is not seen in the city, beautiful as the fairy scenery of the world. Seven star rock to karst lava landform rock peaks, lake landscape as the main features, seven limestone rock peaks arranged such as the Big Dipper seven stars are arranged on the lake surface of an area of 6.3 square kilometers, more than 20 kilometers long lake embankment to divide the lake into five lakes, beautiful scenery. It is known as "Wonderland on Earth" and "The First Wonder of Lingnan".
The Seven Star Rock Stone Carvings of the National Cultural Relics Protection Unit are the most preserved and concentrated group of Cliff Rock Carvings in South China, so they are named Seven Star Rocks. It has been recorded in writing as early as the Jin Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty writer and calligrapher Li Yong (Beihai) once came to visit and wrote the famous "Duanzhou Stone Chamber", which was engraved on the stone wall of the stone chamber cave entrance. - During his visit to the Seven Star Rock in April 190, the marshal wrote a poem of seven masterpieces: "Borrow a circle of water from the West Lake, and move the Seven Piles of Mountains in Yangshuo; add a silk willow to the side of the embankment, and the painting will remain between heaven and earth for a long time." "Seven star rock beautiful and colorful, set "Guilin of the same, Hangzhou water" in one place, since ancient times there are "peak danger, stone strange, cave qi, temple ancient" said, the key tourist area has "seven rocks, eight caves, five lakes, six gangs", can be seen more than 80 scenic spots. Tianzhu Rock is the highest, with an altitude of 117 meters; Longyan Cave is the strangest, there is a cave in the cave, and it has the reputation of "Thousand Year Poetry Gallery"; the ancient temple of Shizhi is the oldest, and there is a temple in the cave.
The most peculiar celestial wonder - "Reclining Buddha Handan"
"God", "strange", "strange" natural reclining Buddha
In the core area of Fairy Lake in the Seven Star Rock Scenic Area, a natural reclining Buddha composed of several hills was surprised, which was called "Reclining Buddha Viewing The Sky" landscape. The celestial spectacle of "Reclining Buddha Handan" was previously only passed on by word of mouth among locals, but in recent years, as more and more tourists have spread on social media, it has gradually become an Internet celebrity punch point.
Looking west from fairy lake, several rock peaks and hills of the Seven Star Rock form a silhouette of a "human-shaped", as if a big Buddha lies on the surface of the lake, with a length of more than a thousand meters, eyes, ears, mouth, nose and nose, and both gods and forms. What is even more peculiar is that in the evening around the spring equinox and autumn equinox every year, the sunset like "salted egg yolk" just lands in the mouth of this "reclining Buddha", so it is called "Reclining Buddha Handan".
Eleven consecutive days from the Mid-Autumn Festival are the best time to witness the "Reclining Buddha Handan", and the specific viewing position will be "moved" every day.
In addition to natural formation, there are three characteristics: "god", "strange" and "strange".
The so-called "god", from the fairy lake to the west of the location of the Buddha Island, several rock peaks and hills just constitute a silhouette of a "human-shaped", as if a large Buddha in the posture of facing the sky on its back shows the world, there is the potential to swallow mountains and rivers, the virtue of being born, people marvel at the magic of nature, can be created so vividly and realistically. The "Reclining Buddha" is about 1.2 kilometers long, with eyes, ears, nose, chin, bun, shoulders, chest, hands and feet, toes, and the silhouettes on the sides are all clearly visible, and even the eyelashes on the eye sockets are also vivid and divine. Moreover, the Seven Star Rock Giant Reclining Buddha also has a "shoulder consummation phase", and the proportions of head, shoulders, chest and legs are very symmetrical, very realistic, and people are amazing.
The so-called "odd" refers to the middle of March and mid-September every year, before the spring equinox and autumn equinox, at about 6 p.m. on a sunny day, the sunset can be seen slowly falling, as if embedded in the mouth of the reclining Buddha, thus forming the strange celestial wonder of the Seven Star Rock "Reclining Buddha Handan".
Legend has it that there is also a legend between the Reclining Buddha and the Father of Kwa.
Legend has it that in ancient times there was a giant tribe, the descendants of the gods, who lived in the cold north. The patriarch's son was called Qua, and in order to find a new home with warm and pleasant land and fertile land, he followed the shadow of the sun shining on the bamboo poles to the Zhaoqing Fairy Lake Chumi Cave, because in this cave, the sun shines from the skylight to the bamboo poles and there is no shadow; in winter, the moon can be seen from the skylight, so this is the warmest place. The Kwa Rang people moved south to this place, and conducted exploration and practice of weather observation, solar movement cycle and climate, and phenological growth cycle in the chumi cave day and night.
Father Kwa married a local woman, Hehua, and gave birth to a son. One year, coinciding with the great drought in the south, Hehua exhausted his efforts to save the people's rice, and turned into a stone statue standing in the middle of the fairy lake to protect the crops of the people. And Kwa continued to observe the celestial signs for the benefit of the people, and the people supported him as the patriarch and honored him as "Father Kwa". One day, due to fatigue, Father Kwa lay on the shore of the fairy lake and transformed into a stone mountain shaped like a reclining Buddha, silently opposite the stone statue of the immortal in the lake. Every evening of the spring and autumn equinoxes, the sun will slowly fall into the mouth of the reclining Buddha, and at that moment, the heavens and the earth will meet, and the sky will fly! Hundreds of birds hovered over the lake, singing in a low voice, cheering and rejoicing for the reunion of Father Kwa and the Hexian ...
For thousands of years, Zhaoqing Xinghu's unique celestial wonders such as "Reclining Buddha Handan", "Standing Without Shadow", and "Moon Hanging" have just corresponded to the traditional Chinese 24 solar terms, becoming a magical place to guide people's farming and influence people's lives. Therefore, some historical folklore experts and scholars have proposed that this is the most amazing natural calendar coordinates on the Tropic of Cancer. And it has many celestial wonders are not accidental, all because the 23° north latitude Tropic of Cancer, known as the "line of life", runs through Zhaoqing, and it just so happens that the Star Lake is located on this line belt with a magical code, creating this good place to gather heaven, time, location, people and people, and it is also a magical place where the sun, moon and stars are gathered. The lake in the Seven Star Rock Scenic Area is said to be an inner lake formed by the ancient river channel of the Xijiang River, and taking a bamboo raft to swim in the lake is a good way to experience the effort saving of the light and mountain color of the Seven Star Rock Lake. The whole lake area is composed of four lakes such as Fairy Lake, Central Lake, Bohai Lake, Qinglian Lake and Li Lake, and the tree-lined lake banks, such as the emerald green skirt of the maiden, are super beautiful.