Fenghuangshan area is rich and varied in topography and has many peaks. Phoenix Mountain is 437 meters above sea level, with an altitude of 150 meters above sea level, including Da Nan Shan, Xiao Nan Shan, Dajingding, Loquat Land, Baiheding, Wang Tianshi, Jianshan, Town Paiding, Honghua Mountain, Nanguoshen, Zhoukeng Mountain, JD.COM Mountain, Baishaling and Cliff Gate.
Phoenix is rich in landscape resources and there are many streams in the area. There are Zhuhai Reservoir, Dajingshan Reservoir, Meixi Reservoir, Zhengkeng Reservoir and Youth Reservoir.
Unveil the mystery of Phoenix Mountain
Located in the north of Xiangzhou, the main city of Zhuhai, this mountain is still shrouded in a mysterious veil. Most Zhuhai people know little about this. Only well-trained explorers can sigh the infinite charm of Phoenix Mountain when they enter and leave the mountain. More tourists are easy to get lost in the mountains, or even trapped in Phoenix Mountain. This mountain, which is covered by virgin forest, is quietly watching the rapid changes in Zhuhai Special Economic Zone, but it has increasingly become a mysterious situation in Zhuhai people's hearts.
Ancient official road. Sun Yat-sen may have walked here. Sun Yat-sen embarked on the road of studying medicine here.
Every time we climb the Phoenix Mountain, we always feel nostalgic, especially when you walk on an ancient road covered with weeds. I don't know the age of the roadbed has long been covered with moss, and it is intermittent at your feet. Liang Zhenxing, a researcher at the Literature and History Committee of Zhuhai CPPCC, told the reporter that there were three ancient roads in Fenghuang Mountain in history, and the Guan Qi Highway before liberation and the coastal national defense highway after the establishment of New China were gradually abandoned. However, in the hundreds of years of history from the Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, these ancient roads were the only way for Guangzhou, Dongguan and other places to lead to Zhuhai and Macao.
Eastern route: the only way for Song Dynasty officials to take refuge in the ancient official road
Among the ancient roads of Fenghuang Mountain, the famous one is the official road of the Eastern Song Dynasty. Liang Zhenxing said that this road is the "ancient road" and "official road" of the ancient Fenghuangshan East Road, which existed in the Song Dynasty. At the end of the Song Dynasty, officials from the north took refuge, and officials from the Ming Dynasty visited Macao through this road. Because this road connects Cuiheng Village in Zhongshan and Macau today, it is very likely that Sun Yat-sen passed through Zhuhai when he was studying medicine in Macau in his early years.
On this ancient road, the only well-preserved facility is Daguan Bridge. Daguan Bridge is located in the east of Shangzha Village, Jinding Town. The middle of the bridge is slightly higher. A stone carving stands in the southeast, engraved with three Chinese characters "Daguan Bridge", and the inscription reads "In the 22nd year of Guangxu, Shen Bing, Qiu Meng, built Dunhua Mountain Pond on Shangzha". This bridge was built in 1896, and has been well preserved so far. It is the only bridge between ancient Tangjia, Shangxiazha and Cuiheng and Shi Qi.
Central Line: Changnan Trail Ancient Road, where merchants came and went in the Qing Dynasty.
This ancient road can be regarded as the shortest of the three, starting from Guantang Village in Jinding Town, ending in Dongkeng Village in Qianshan Town, and running through Phoenix Mountain from north to south. The total length is about 5 kilometers, all of which are narrow paths. It's dangerous to chop mountains and cut stones to build roads. When encountering steep slopes, stone slabs will be used to pave the steps. On the stone wall halfway, there is a cliff stone carving with the words "In the third year of Yongzheng, she rebuilt Nanking in Fan Fei". Liang Zhenxing said that the Changnan ancient road had been formed as early as the Kangxi period. Later, as more and more people came to Shi Qi, Zhongshan, Zhuhai Huitong and other places to do business in Macau, during the Yongzheng period, local businessmen raised funds to rebuild this ancient road. In addition, at that time, villagers such as Xiazha and Guantang traveled between Qianshan and Macao, mainly taking this road.
West Line: The ancient river road, Lin Zexu, and the no-smoking road pass here.
Among these three ancient roads, the least known one is Guhe Road, which starts from Xiangshan County (now Zhongshan, Shi Qi) and passes through Sanxiang, Yongmo and Guhe to Qianshan. Liang Zhenxing said that this ancient road also originated in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and it was the only way from Zhongshan Shi Qi to Zhuhai at that time. In the 19th year of Daoguang (1839), imperial envoy Lin Zexu went to Macau to ban smoking. It is said that he lived in Xiangshan County at night and hurried to Qian Shan for lunch the next morning. When I was in Qian Shan at noon, I felt it and wrote two poems, No Smoking Poem and Ten Nothing. In particular, Ten Nothing is full of classic Confucianism, which has been sung so far.
After crossing this small bridge, you will enter the Phoenix Mountain. Xiaoqiao Shuiyan has also become a landscape of Phoenix Mountain.
Literati and poets cast stones in the stream.
If you don't want to climb the mountain to visit historical sites, you can visit other historical sites in the city around the foot of Phoenix Mountain. Among them, the most representative stone carvings are Yinkeng and Xishi Cliff.
Yinkeng: the Glory of Xiangshan Mountain in Song Dynasty
The establishment of Zhuhai County in the Southern Song Dynasty was closely related to the silver mine produced by Xiangshan Cliff in Fenghuang Mountain. Xiangshan Cliff is now a silver pit. Xiangshan Cliff is located in Fengmen Aoling, about 1.5 km west of Yinkeng in Tangjiawan. According to "Guangzhou Fuzhi", "At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were occasional silver mines in the sea about a hundred miles south of Hengshiji (now Hengmen, Zhongshan City), and even family immigrants gathered on the waterlogged land by the sea. The villagers took turns to enter the mine in the morning and evening, and dug a lot of white cymbals, all of which were transported to the Rainbow Square in the west of the house, and silver was cast by the drums of the official kiln. ...
Today, I walked through a quarry along the path of Yinquan Garden, then waded through a vast and dense reed field, followed the sound of running water, climbed all the way to the end of the stream path, and arrived at the "Silver Pit". This tunnel is only three or four meters wide, but the stone walls on both sides are as high as ten meters, which is extremely steep. It used to be a lively miners' field, where workers collected sand and slept in the wind for years, but the silver mine produced by sweat and blood went to Shanggong Luguanchang in Guangzhou.
Xi Shi: A Collection of Works by Mo Bao, a Modern Scholar
Behind the mountain station in the middle section of Meihua West Road at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain, there is an elegant place where many scholars from Zhuhai left Mo Bao from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. This is the famous cliff stone carving group in Zhuhai-Xi Shi. From a distance, a long and narrow white stone canyon looms among the pine forests at the top of the mountain, and the stream gurgles down from the gap in the canyon, which is crisp and pleasant. Along the jagged rocks by the stream, the "Shimen" of Xi Shi in the sea of Songtao and Bamboo on both sides of the strait has stood in front of us.
Teacher Yang of Zhuhai Museum introduced that the original name was "Watergate" because the huge stones at the waterfalls of these two streams are shaped like portals. During the light years of the Qing Dynasty, Bao Jun, a calligrapher of Xiangshan Field, carved the word "Xi Shi" on the boulder on the left side of Shimen. Since then, people have called this place "Xi Shi".
It can be said that the discovery of Xi Shi is because Phoenix Mountain has nurtured a generation of talents like Bao Jun, and it is possible that under the initiative of literati headed by Bao Jun, Xi Shi's cliff stone carvings and a batch of calligraphy Mo Bao that we can still appreciate today.
Phoenix Mountain Martyrs Cemetery. Cemetery provides a new place for people to carry out patriotism education and revolutionary tradition education.