Overview of Yangkou Scenic Area

Attractions include: Fairy Mountain Palace, Taiping Palace, Qifeng Rock, Deep Valley and Youxi, Celebrity Relics and Bay Beach. In 960, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin named Liu Ruozhuo, a Taoist priest in Laoshan Mountain, as a "real person with indomitable spirit", and allocated funds to rebuild the Taiqing Palace and build the Shangqing Palace and Shangyuan Palace as other courtyards of Liu Ruozhuo. Shangyuan Palace was built during the reign of Taiping Xingguo, and was named "Taiping Xingguo Hospital" by Song Taizong in 976.

In the second year of Xiangxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1279), the Yuan army captured Hangzhou, and Xie Li and Xie 'an, the concubines of the last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, fled to Laoshan in disguise, became monks in Taiping Xingguo Hospital, and later changed their names to "Taiping Palace". Taiping Palace has 65,438 halls +07 rooms, with a building area of 500 square meters and an area of 2,500 square meters. The four characters "Palace on the Sea" are engraved on the wall of the palace, which was written by Hua Shikui, a famous calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty. On the back of the zhaobi, Deng Shan wrote an article and Cai Sheng wrote "Taiping Palace". There is a "mixed stone" practiced by Liu Ruozhuo behind the palace. The natural cave under the stone was originally named Laojun Cave, but it was renamed Youlong Cave in the Ming Dynasty.

There is also a natural cave named "Bailong Cave" on the north side of Taiping Palace. At the top of the cave are 20 poems by Qiu Chuji, a Taoist priest of the Yuan Dynasty, which have been handed down as authentic works of Qiu Chuji. Around the Taiping Palace, there are many inscriptions carved by famous people in past dynasties, including Chen Yi, Lantian, Zoushan in Ming Dynasty and Cang Kejia, a modern poet. There are many strange peaks and rocks in Yangkou Scenic Area, including "Lion Peak", "Sheep Stone", "Mixed Yuan Stone", "Longmian Stone" and "Double Pine Bouldering".

From 65438 to 0979, the state invested 200,000 yuan, and the Laoshan Scenic Area Management Office of Qingdao Bureau of Landscape Architecture was responsible for the restoration and construction of Yangkou Scenic Area: 7 temples were repaired; Remodeling 9 statues; Restored the Jade Emperor Hall, the main hall of Taiping Palace; Restored Zhong Ting and the "Taiping Xiao Zhong" stone tablet; Restored famous landscapes such as "Longxian Spring", "Youlong Cave" and "Mixed Stone"; Repair the stone carvings of celebrities in the past dynasties inside and outside the temple 13; 22 new celebrity stone carvings were added; Restore and sort out Bailong Cave and Qiu Chuji's poems; Install stone tables and benches on the lion peak and add fences at the edge of the cliff; At the distance of 1 50m, the1"Solar Observatory" was built with granite. Trails and stone steps are transformed by 900 meters; Strengthened the stone foundation part of the famous landscape "Song Shuang Bouldering"; Renovation of courtyard roads and flower beds in the palace, with a green area of 2000 square meters. In addition, a reception room, a canteen and a photography department have been set up. June 1988 was entrusted to the management committee of Laoshan Scenic Area.