Sanxi is also called Dingxi. The upper reaches are Tongxi Reservoir, with a storage capacity of10 million cubic meters. The downstream is divided into two streams: the south flows into the sea and the north flows into the Minjiang Estuary. There are five stone bridges in Shuangxi and Nanbei, which have been built since the Tang and Song Dynasties. They are named: Bridge, Pingqiao, Xiaoqiao, Dangqiao and Xia Qiao. Beixi Bridge is 43 meters long, 2.4 meters wide and 4.4 meters high. On the slate of the bridge deck, there is an inscription "Song Xianchun has been rebuilt in autumn".
There is a couplet of predecessors that sums up the landscape here: "Summer brocade is spread on the screen, and the dragon pool prints the moon and floats the beads." Zhu tried to swim and learn here, making him the "first person in Xishan". It can be seen that the natural landscape of Sanxi is very beautiful. Sanxi Pingshan is no more than 100 meters high, but the scenery along the way is beautiful. There are all kinds of rocks on the mountain. Such as monkey head, pig head, hen laying eggs, five snakes collection and so on. , are lifelike, lifelike. There is a "Guiyu Cave" on the mountainside, supported by three rocks, a boulder 25 meters long and 6 meters wide. Surrounded by towering old trees, it is a good place for villagers to enjoy the cool in the summer. There is also the "Nine Immortals Cave" nearby, which is a natural stone gate for people to enter and leave. A square cave of more than ten square meters is dedicated to the Nine Immortals, and many pilgrims come to this cave from far away to "pray for dreams". There is a bottomless "Tianlong well" on the top of the mountain. It is said that a calf stuck its head out of the hole to drink water and accidentally fell into the well and disappeared. The calf's body was found at the seaside the next day.
Standing on the flat and broad "Dragon Back" on the top of the mountain, the sea meets the blue sky, and the smoke waves are vast, and the villages south of Changle South Township have a panoramic view, which makes tourists feel relaxed and forget to return. On the top of the mountain near Sanxi Reservoir, two huge stones overlap. At the top, Jia Qinglin wrote the word "Zhong Cheng". When a coin is inserted into a gap between two stones, it will be flattened after a strong wind.
The beautiful landscape of Sanxi has attracted countless officials and scholars to visit, leaving many excellent works praising the scenery of Sanxi. Cliff stone carvings with high artistic level abound and become a magnificent cultural landscape of Sanxi. The fairy rock in the white mountain in the north of the village is made up of two huge stones. A regular script, engraved with the word "Diao Ao", each word is 80 cm square; The next one is engraved with the inscription "Celebrate the calendar, celebrate the autumn, the hurricane starts, and the rest is the top of the mountain, watching the sea waves, which is the only topic". Cai Weng's surname is Shunyuan, an observer in Fujian and a famous calligrapher. There are also two five-character poems on the right side of Juyan, which describe the local "hurricane rises the sea and brine floods the plain" and the tsunami disaster in Song Dynasty. They are Fujian transshipment judge Jiang in the years of Fuzhou magistrate Zhang Hui and Song Xining respectively. These cliff stone carvings provide valuable information for studying the style of seal script in Song Dynasty and the historical and geographical changes of Changle City.
Zhu Zhu Temple, Yuan Chao Temple and Jiuling Temple. Built in the Song Dynasty, it is scattered among rocks. The earliest and largest is Dangyang Temple, which was built in the sixth year of Tang Xiantong (878). Although destroyed by the war, there are still huge building materials such as stone pillars and stone troughs in the site. The cultural theme of Sanxi religious temple and the legendary story with the theme of punishing evil and promoting good make tourists feel perfect and beautiful humanity in the beautiful mountains and rivers. There is an ink bamboo beside Ziyang Pavilion (commonly known as Zhuzi Temple). According to legend, Zhu spilled the residual ink on bamboo and dyed it black. For thousands of years, this magical ink bamboo is still tall and strong.
Since ancient times, dragon boat races have been held by the day, with a unique Sanxi night race. The dragon boat night ferry here is a unique local flavor in our province. Nanxi, which runs through the village, is brightly lit every night of the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon boats are racing in the stream, and people on both sides of the river and on the bridge are flooding in, which is very lively.
Sanxi is a blend of mountains and rivers, with natural wonders, a long history and rich humanities, creating tourism resources with high cultural taste and great potential for development and utilization. In recent years, the management committees of famous historical and cultural villages have taken effective measures to protect the cliff carvings on the mountains from being mined, and planted trees on hillsides and streams to prevent the streams from being polluted. At present, the Shuangxi River has been dredged, and tourists can row dragon boats from the water to visit the scenic spot.