Main attractions of An Feng Tong

Stele Carving Pavilion

Now the pond and dam are about 24,000 meters long, covering an area of ??more than 40 square kilometers, with a water storage capacity of nearly 100 million cubic meters and an irrigated farmland area of ??450,000 acres. It has become an important regulating reservoir in the Pishihang Irrigation District in northwest Anhui Province. The Sun Gong Temple (Sun Shu'ao Temple) outside the North Embankment was built by the ancients to commemorate Sun Shu'ao, the Prime Minister of Chu who founded Shaopi. Literati in the past dynasties wrote poems and articles praising Sun Gong for the benefits of repairing the pond. There are three existing palaces and three stele warehouses, and 19 stone inscriptions. The inscriptions describe the geographical location, water sources, irrigation area distribution, water use planning and renovations of the past dynasties in Shaopi. They are precious materials for studying the history of water conservancy in Anfengtang. Many of them are of high significance. The art and appreciation value of calligraphy.

Sun Gong Temple

It is also known as Chu Xiang Temple, Shaopi Temple, Anfengtang Temple, etc. Located on the north bank of today's Fengtang, it was built to commemorate Sun Shuao's construction of Shaopi. It is not clear when it was started. Anfeng Pond is known as "the best pond in the world". It was named Shaopi in ancient times and was built by Sun Shuao, Prime Minister of Chu. In order to commemorate Sun Shuao, later generations built a temple in the north of Bei, so it was named Sun Gong Temple.

Sun Gong Temple is located on the outside of the north embankment of Anfeng Pond. It was built by the ancients to commemorate Sun Shuao, the Prime Minister of Chu who founded Shaopi. Sun Gong Temple covers an area of ??more than 3,000 square meters. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Yan Boxun, a fellow magistrate of Shouzhou, mentioned in the Records of the Sun Gong Temple that at that time, the Sun Gong Temple had "nine halls, twenty-eight rooms, verandas, gates, and pavilions, three rooms for monks, and fifty households." Seven households”. And also gradually formed a set of ancestral temple system. According to the "Chronicles of Shaopei", the main hall of the ancestral hall enshrines a statue of Yin Sunshu'ao, the magistrate of Chu State, and 48 officials who devoted themselves to the construction of Shaopei water conservancy from the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty were enshrined in the east and west.

There are more than 20 ancient steles in Sun Gong Temple. There are monuments to commemorate Anfeng Pond that have been rebuilt in the past dynasties, a monument to the watershed that prohibits the intrusion of ponds into fields, a monument to illustrate the Anfeng Pond Irrigation Area, and a monument to praise the image of Sun Gongshu Ao, etc. These inscriptions are precious materials for studying the history of water conservancy in Anfengtang. Many of the inscriptions also have high calligraphy and appreciation value. Liang Liang Shudan, a calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, was especially praised by calligraphers for his running script "Rebuilding the Anfeng Pond Stele".

Other relics

Deng Ai Temple Tower, Lize Gate to watch the moon, watch the sunset with a mask, Sun Gong Memorial Temple, ancient city wall ruins, Shima Temple Ancient Pond, Wuli Mist , watch the sunrise in Phoenix, the sunset in Hongjing, and the lotus dew in the sand stream.

Anfengtang has now formed many landscapes. Sun Gong Temple is a place for appreciating calligraphy art; Anfeng Pond, with islands and ponds in the pond, has become a fishing paradise.