Tourism resources in old counties and townships

Huashan is located in Jiuxian Township, Dongping County. Although the mountain is not high, it is winding like a dragon, with abrupt cliffs, jagged rocks, deep valleys, eagles flying and birds singing, and the scenery is picturesque.

The stone statue is located in the Chaoyang Cave facing north on the top of the mountain. The upper part of the cave entrance is engraved with three regular script characters "Chaoyang Cave". There are two more cave entrances on the left and right. The three caves are connected inside and are all natural stone caves. There are two round sculptures in the cave. According to the inscription, one is the statue of Guanyin, a great figure in white, and the other is the statue of Wei Tuo, the protector. The statue of Avalokitesvara is in a sitting position, facing north, as if sitting on a stone chair, with the right hand touching the knees and the left hand touching the elbow of the chair. It wears a scarf on its head, a cross-over coat, and a monk's branch inside; its face is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. The statue is 1.2 meters high and 0.75 meters wide. Its shape is slightly different from the Guanyin statues seen elsewhere. The statue of Wei Tuo, facing east, headless, sitting in the lotus position, with his right hand stroking his protruding abdomen, his left hand holding an object on his left knee, and his collar drooping Buddhist beads. The statue is 0.8 meters high and 0.46 meters wide. According to research, the two statues were carved during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. The statues are delicate and lifelike. There are also three steles erected in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the cave. One is "The Stele of the Founding of the Mountain", the second is "The Stele of the White-Clothed Guanyin in Chaoyang Cave, Huashan, Dong'a County, Dongping Prefecture, Yanzhou Prefecture", and the third is "The Stele of the Buddha Cave in Huashan, Ayi". . There are no statues or inscriptions in the other two caves. There is the Bixia Yuanjun Temple in the south of the mountain, which is made of a natural stone cave. The entrance of the cave is built with a wall and has a door. The front part of the cave is larger and gradually narrows inward. The front part is 3 meters high and about 20 meters deep to the north. There is a altar in the cave, with a statue of Yuanjun on it, which is 1.7 meters high, with a kind face, dignified and elegant. In addition, there are four steles, the earliest of which is the "Stele of Names of Good Scholars" in the fourth year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty. There is "Baiyun Spring" at the foot of Shanxi. There is an inscription from the Kangxi period on the side of the spring. At the foot of the spring, there is a cliff thousands of feet high. The spring water gushes out and flows down, splashing into beads, like fine drizzle, forming clouds and turning into mist. It is a wonder. The strange rocks in Huashan Mountain form many natural landscapes, including "Lion Peak", "Fan Cliff", "Dragon Tiger Fight", "Swan Lying", "Huima Stone", "Duxian Bridge", "Zhandai Cave" and "Xixian". There are more than ten natural landscapes such as "Sky". In 1996, it was announced as a county-level cultural relics protection unit. There are many tourists here. Climbing to the top of Huashan Mountain, you can see Dongping Lake in the south, with vast expanse of blue waves, and the shadow of sails, which is majestic; in the north, you can see Langxi River, which looks like jade; in the east and west, mountains line up, shrouded in clouds and mist, making it a major tourist attraction on the north side of Dongping Lake. The Tuncunpu ruins are located 1.5 kilometers northeast of Tuncunpu Village, Jiuxian Township, Dongping County, within the Dongfeng Reservoir between Hongding Mountain and 200 meters west of the dam. It is a county-level cultural relic protection unit.

The site is surrounded by mountains on three sides. There is "Maoyu Spring" in the east of the site, and there are cliff inscriptions from the Northern Qi Dynasty on the north and south mountainside. The ruins area is a hillside, which has been washed away by mountains and rivers for many years. There are very few cultural layers left behind.

The exposed objects are very rich, and most of them have been washed into the west dam. In particular, the construction of Dongfeng Reservoir and water dam at that time occupied the site and caused serious damage. The ruins area is 500 meters long from east to west, 50 meters wide from north to south, and 200 meters wide from the west. It is distributed in a fan shape. From the examination of the scour section, the thickness of the existing cultural layer is about 1 to 2 meters. The soil quality is a mixture of mountainous clay, slope sediment, and silted sand, which is grey-brown. There are two relatively important remaining cultural layers in the ruins area, both located in the library and at the foot of the mountain. The east is 3 meters long and 2 meters high, and the west is 8 meters long and 2.3 meters high. The soil is dark brown and contains a large number of clams. fragments and utensil fragments. There are a large number of artifact fragments and a large number of clam pieces, porcelain pieces, etc. scattered on the ground nearby and in the Basi area.

After consulting relevant chronicles and historical books, there is no record of this. Based on the selection of specimens and on-site inspections, this site belongs to a site in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. The Jiuxian Sancun ruins are located around the tomb of the Southeast Bawang in Jiuxiansan Village, Jiuxian Township, Dongping County. County-level cultural relics protection unit. The site is a hillside terrace, 80 meters long and 150 meters wide. The soil is a mixture of clay, slope sediment, and alluvial sand, and is grey-brown in color. Observed from the east-west erosion section of the Dashanshui ditch in the south, the cultural layer is about 6 meters thick. The southern part is more severely washed by the mountains and rivers, and the exposed objects are very rich, including: clam slices, a small number of urn and pottery fragments and other pottery fragments. There is a private house built on earth on the east side, and the walls are covered with many clam fragments and pottery fragments. In the west of the site, when villagers were building houses, they discovered many round ruins of burning stoves with red sintered soil inside.

Specimens collected from nearby areas include: clam slices (the same texture as those collected at the Tuncunpu site), reddish-brown muddy foot with sand, muddy gray pottery rims of urns, muddy gray pottery, and residual pottery with cord patterns on the outside. Films etc.

According to the collected specimens and landform analysis, this site is a village site from the Shang and Zhou dynasties. The Hongding Mountain Cliff Carvings are a provincial cultural relics protection unit awaiting approval. It is located on Hongding Mountain in the northeast of Tuncunpu, Jiuxian County, Dongping County. The mountain is extremely dangerous, with two peaks facing each other, deep valleys, and towering ancient cypresses. The scriptures are engraved on the huge stone walls under the two peaks. The carvings are rich in content. In addition to Buddhist scriptures, sutra names, titles, and inscriptions, there are as many as 20 carvings with other contents, forming a huge group of carvings with a total area of ??nearly 1,400 square meters.

It is dazzling and magnificent, and can be called a "grand view".

There are mainly 4 pieces of engraved scriptures, roughly divided into north and south parts. The ones engraved with "Manjusri Prajna Paramita Sutra", "Renwang Sutra", "Mahayan Sutra" and "Maha Prajna Paramita Sutra" part or chapter. The diameter of the sutras is generally between 20 and 50 centimeters. All engravings are incised with a round bottom, except for a few double-hook line engravings. The calligraphy style is mostly official script, and some scholars have commented that it is "regular script with official script" or "official script with regular script". The two parts have different lettering styles. The text engraved on the north wall is larger, about 50 centimeters each. The style of the text is close to that of "Jing Shi Yu" in Mount Tai, but the font structure is tighter than "Jing Shi Yu", and it is more solemn and elegant; the text engraved on the south wall is smaller than that in the north. The wall is small, with the style of Han Dynasty, simple, thick, powerful and charming, with many changes in its square shape, very similar to the "Zhang Qian Monument". The original site of the "Zhang Qian Monument" is located in the north of Hongding Mountain, which shows the profound influence of the monument at that time.

The engravings of other contents vary in size, including horizontal and vertical styles, with various styles and full of interest. The most eye-catching one is the four characters "Great Sky King Buddha" on a smooth giant rock. The whole text is both solid and steady, and also powerful. Among them, the character "Buddha" is about 5 meters high, 4 meters wide, and the strokes are more than 20 centimeters wide. The whole character is made of big ups and downs, dignified and vigorous, and the last vertical stroke is in a "flying white" shape, which gives it a more "elegant and free" charm. Next to the big character, there are inscriptions such as Andao Yi's books and periodicals. There are three inscriptions of "Seng An Daoyi" in the front and back of the engraved scripture. An Daoyi is a famous monk in the Northern Qi Dynasty, "Excellent Calligrapher", and his name can be found in the cliff carvings of Tieshan and Jianshan in Zouxian County, our province. Examining the calligraphy of Hongdingshan, the calligraphy style is similar to the calligraphy of Tieshan and Jianshan in Zoucheng City. They both have the same name as Andao. It can be said that the sutras carved on the cliffs of Hongdingshan are of the same age as those of Tieshan and Jianshan. Comes from the same hand as An Daoyi. The rich content, superb carving skills, and complete preservation of the cliff inscriptions on Hongding Mountain occupy a certain position among the cliff inscriptions of the same era in China, comparable to the "Jingshiyu" in Mount Tai.

Hongding Mountain is also famous for its "Twin Peaks Competing Show". There is a spring at the upper source of the twin peaks. The spring water never dries up all year round. It flows through the "Diaoyu Platform", through the "Flying Stone", through several waterfalls, and into the "Pure Pool" below the inscribed scripture. Shanxi is adjacent to Dongping Lake, and the scenery of rippling blue waves and white sails is right before your eyes. This mountain, this spring and the flat lake form a beautiful landscape painting. The Hongding Mountain Carved Scripture is a bright pearl inlaid in this painting, constantly attracting more domestic and foreign tourists.