Recently, Dinghu Mountain has continued to "fire out of the circle",
Tens of thousands of tourists a day at most,
Throw a wishing ball to pray for blessings and make a wish
It has become the "standard" for many tourists to visit Dinghu Mountain.
Netizens ridiculed that it was finally the turn of Dinghu Mountain.
△ Image source: netizen user
In fact, there are many small attractions worth checking in in Dinghu Mountain.
Not to mention tourists from afar,
Even locals who regularly hike the mountain tend to ignore it.
Below, let's explore with the editor~
500 meters up the mountain road to hide 5 scenic spots
Check in to enter the gate of the scenic spot,
Most of the tourists go straight to Baoding Park by car.
But you know what?
The road up the hill by car is newly developed,
There are no attractions along the way,
If you choose the ancient trail to go up the mountain,
It's a mountain road about 500 meters away in a straight line
Check in more attractions,
Learn about the little-known allusions hidden in Dinghu Mountain!
Hanzan-tei
Going all the way up from Hancui Bridge, the spring water is tinkling along the way, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant. After about 200 meters of Hancui Bridge, you will arrive at the Banshan Pavilion. Sitting here and looking up ahead, the peaks are undulating, and the forests are stacked on top of each other, which makes people feel refreshed and happy. This is one of the ten views of Dinghu Mountain. Since many tourists choose to go around the mountain, little attention is paid to this beautiful place.
△ Hanzantei.
Rongrui Tablet Pavilion
Not far from the Banshan Pavilion is the Rongrui Tablet Pavilion. It is understood that this stele pavilion is built after the founding of New China to commemorate the contribution made by the Japanese monk Rong Rui in the cultural exchanges between China and Japan during the Tang Dynasty. The stele pavilion is built in imitation of the Tang Dynasty building, the pavilion top is high on both sides and a pair of owl tails, the straight ridge is decorated with the animal face, the four corners of the eaves stretch out the dragon head, the shape is solemn and solemn, simple and generous. This monument sits 37 degrees north-east, facing Rongrui's hometown - Mino in Japan.
△ 荣睿monument pavilion.
Chungliejeong
Halfway up the mountain, there is an inconspicuous small pavilion called "Loyal Martyr's Pavilion". This pavilion was built by the Kuomintang in 1941 to commemorate the 159th Division's anti-Japanese casualties. Most of these fallen soldiers came from Guangdong and Guangxi, and some of the martyrs' families could not be found, and the pension could not be handed over to their relatives, so they used to build this pavilion as a memorial, and their heroic deeds of resistance were engraved on the rocks next to it.
△ Churyotei.
Fang Shijie stone carvings
The section of the road about 20 meters away from the Zhonglie Pavilion has stone carvings of "winding path", "pass" and "secluded place" respectively, which are connected together as "winding path leads to secluded place". In the stone carving "secluded place" is titled "Iron City Fang Shijie Question".
△ The stone carving was inscribed by Fang Shiyu, who was named "Fang Shijie" in order to escape the pursuit of the Qing court.
According to investigation, Fang Shijie is Fang Shiyu. Fang Shiyu is a native of Fangjia Village at the foot of Dinghu Mountain, one of the Ten Tigers of Guangdong, and a righteous man who opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty. Tiecheng is another name for ancient Buddha Mountain, Fang Shiyu was active in Foshan, in order to escape the pursuit of the Qing court, with a pseudonym to inscribe this word. After his death, he was also buried in Dinghu Mountain. Since the stone carvings are in the direction of descending the mountain, they are ignored by many tourists who come down from the mountain.
Mending Mountain Pavilion
Further up is the mountain pavilion, through the pavilion is Qingyun Temple. The first doorway into the pavilion is a square design, with edges and corners, while the second doorway out of the pavilion is a semi-circular design. It is said that when people go to Qingyun Temple to untie their hearts and pray for blessings, they have some distracting thoughts or troubles in their hearts; After completing the return journey, I felt relieved and fulfilled my wishes, so the doorway down the mountain was designed in the shape of a round arch, which means very interesting.
△ Kunzantei.
There are many treasures in Qingyun Temple
Enter the Qingyun Temple area,
There is a pool, clear water and clear waves,
The sky above the pool is open and clear.
Li Chengkang, Director of the Office of Dinghu Mountain Scenic Area Management Office
This is the moon seal of Fangchi, one of the ten views of Dinghu Mountain. On a moonlit night, the pool is like a mirror, reflecting the bright moon in the sky, clear and calm, and very meaningful.
△ Image source: netizens
Around Qingyun Temple,
There are many ancient monuments erected to protect the forest,
One of them was erected in the nineteenth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty,
It is called "The Qing Government's Tree Tablet Prohibiting Felling".
△ The Qing government banned the felling of tree monuments. Photo source: Xinghu Meimei
Allusion
In that year, a villager surnamed Liang in Xiahuanggang, Duanzhou, thought that the forest at Feishuitan was planted by the Liang family, and then forcibly cut it down, and accused each other with the monks of Qingyun Temple. The lawsuit went to the Zhaoqing Mansion, and after being investigated, the government returned the forest to Qingyun Temple, and erected this monument to prohibit the felling of trees within the Dinghu Mountain.
Because of the protection of successive governments,
The original ecology of Dinghu Mountain is maintained so well.
Nowadays only within the scope of scenic tours,
There are more than 60 ancient trees that are more than 100 years old.
△ Data map
There are also two stout Bodhi trees in front of the temple gate,
It is over 200 years old.
The two ancient Bodhi trees are growing well and have thick branches.
One of the trees, with red leaves, is the mother tree;
The other is green and is a male tree.
△ Image source MSI Lake
There is a phenomenon in Qingyun Temple that is amazing.
Although the temple is surrounded by large trees and fallen leaves,
But the roof of the temple is very clean, and not a single leaf is visible.
△ Image source: netizens
Qingyun Temple has an affiliated temple rest nunnery
A lot of people don't know,
Qingyun Temple also has an attached temple - Dinghu Lower Courtyard,
也名憩庵。
It's not on Dinghu Mountain,
It is located in Luoyin Community, Kengkou Sub-district Office, Dinghu District,
It is about 5 kilometers away from Qingyun Temple and close to the Xijiang River.
△ Dinghu Lower Courtyard, also known as the rest of the hermitage. Photo source: Dinghu release
The nunnery covers an area of more than 3,300 square meters.
The building sits northeast to southwest,
There are bell towers, drum towers, guest halls, etc.
△ Image source Dinghu release
Li Chengkang, Director of the Office of Dinghu Mountain Scenic Area Management Office
Before the Republic of China, there is no land route around, and Qingyun Temple can only borrow the Xijiang waterway, here is Qingyun Temple specially to welcome and send good men and women who worship Buddha from the waterway to Dinghu Mountain, and it is also one of the 36 Zhaoti (small temples) of Dinghu Mountain. At that time, people rested here for a while and then climbed Dinghu Mountain, so it was called the rest hermitage. Later, with the opening of land routes and the development of transportation, this place was slowly forgotten by people.
A pier behind the hermitage - the wharf of the hermitage,
In those days, it was for tourists to get off and off by boat.
12th year of the Republic of China (1923),
Sun Yat-sen, his wife, Song Qingling, and Wei Bangping and his wife
Go to Dinghu Mountain, once landed at the wharf of Xi'an,
After a short break, climb the mountain and swim together.
Allusion
According to historical records, Sun Yat-sen passed through and stayed in Zhaoqing three times, in the summers of 1921, 1922 and 1923. The third time, Sun Yat-sen went ashore from the rest nunnery, walked to Qingyun Temple after a short break, and stayed in the monk's house for two nights, while he was still swimming in the Flying Water Pool. The stone carving of "Sun Yat-sen's swimming place" left on the cliff wall of Feishuitan is inscribed by Song Qingling in 1980.
△ Rest Ann Wharf. Photo source: Dinghu release
△ Feishui Tan cliff wall is engraved with the 6 characters of "Sun Yat-sen's swimming place". Photo by Chen Shitang
In 2005, Sun Yat-sen's granddaughter Sun Suifang came to the nunnery.
The inscription of "Monument Pavilion of Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the Father of the Nation" was unveiled.
△ Monument Pavilion of Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the father of the country. Photo source: Dinghu release
Didn't you expect Dinghu Mountain to hide
What about so many lesser-known sights and allusions?
Hurry up and make an appointment with your buddy
Let's visit and explore Dinghu Mountain!
I'm waiting for you~
△ Dinghu Mountain Butterfly Valley. Photo by Xie Yaoming
Source: Xijiang Daily (reporter Yang Yongxin)
Editor: Luo Jingmin