Tiger Hill is a business card of Suzhou, "first there is Tiger Hill Pagoda, then there is Suzhou City". It can be said that the history of Tiger Hill can also represent the history of Suzhou. "Tiger Hill Wu XiaoShan, southeast called wonders", Tiger Hill Mountain was originally named HaiYong Mountain, in ancient times, Tiger Hill was once a small island in the bay that disappeared with the tide. In 496 BC, King Lu of Wu attacked the State of Yue, was seriously wounded and died, buried in Haiyong Mountain. It is said that after three days of burial, a white tiger lay on his tomb, so this place is also called Tiger Hill Mountain. Li Liufang, a Ming Dynasty man, concluded that tiger hills have nine yi: yiyue, yixue, yiyu, yiyan, yichunxiao, yixia, yiqiu shuang, yiluomu, and suitable sunset.
Go out of the city to see the tower, enter the temple and climb the mountain. Tiger Hill is a sacred place of Buddhism in history, and during the Northern Song Dynasty to the Dao Dynasty, Suzhou Zhizhou Wei Shu changed the Tiger Hill Mountain Temple to Yunyan Zen Temple, and changed from Vinaya to Zen Buddhism. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty (about 1131), the senior monk Shaolong went to Huqiu to preach the scriptures, and for a time the monks gathered and became famous, forming a sect of Zen Linji Sect "Tiger Hill School". Master Shaolong's name was Shigeumi, and his reputation was overseas, "The Dharma Seat is at its peak. The Southeast Great Jungle is called 'Five Mountains and Ten Brakes', and Tiger Hill is one of them.
The three mountain gates of Buddhism are the First Mountain Gate, the Second Mountain Gate, and the Three Mountain Gate. Tiger Hill's current head mountain gate is facing Shantang Street, bordering the Shantang River, and the left and right sides of the door have the words "Water Show" and "ShanQing" respectively. There is also an ancient well on the left and right, called the Double Spring. The Ershan Gate is the Hall of Broken Beams, which was built in the Tang Dynasty and rebuilt by Ming Jiajing. The main beam above is broken, it is built of two pieces of wood, and when this temple was built, the whole hall was not solid with metal components, only bamboo and wood nails. On the east and west sides, there are inscriptions related to the Tiger Hill of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties.
Stepping out of the Hall of Broken Beams, on the left-hand side is the Fountain of Humpty Dumpty. Legend has it that there was a humble venerable man who had bad eyes. I fell on the moss here, and when I rested, I dreamed that there was water here that could lead to the sea. When he woke up, he dug a well, and the surrounding villagers laughed at him when they saw it, saying that if there was a spring, I would turn into a frog. As a result, His Holiness did dig into the spring, and the water gushed out of his face, and his eyes returned to light, and the villager instantly turned into a frog.
On the way up the Tiger Hill, the most talked about is the test sword stone. The "test sword stone" engraved now is said to be written by Lü Shengqing of the Northern Song Dynasty. There are two theories that the stone is cracked like a sword, one is that the general Mo Xie forged the sword for king Wu, who slashed at the test stone when he tested the sword. Another theory is that Qin Shi Huang came to Tiger Hill Mountain to find the treasure of Wu Wang lu without success, and when he encountered a tiger, he stabbed the tiger with a sword and caused a test sword stone. However, these two are legends, in fact, this stone is the effect of natural weathering, seemingly artificial, but actually natural.
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