Huangqi Mountain is 189 meters above sea level and looks like a flag display. It was called "Huangling" before the Tang Dynasty and is the symbol of Dongguan. "Lantern hanging on the top of Huangqi Mountain" is the first of the eight scenic spots in Dongguan according to folklore. Legend has it that in the past, there was a thousand-year-old banyan tree on the top of Huangqi Mountain. Due to its age, the little fireflies all over the mountains and fields flew to the tree holes to rest in the tree holes when they were tired. They hugged each other and looked like lanterns from a distance at night. The wonder spread far and near. Therefore, it becomes the first among the eight scenic spots in Dongguan. At the foot of the mountain is the Huangqi Guanyin Ancient Temple, which was built in the Song Dynasty. During the New Year and festivals, there are thousands of tourists. There is still an ancient well at the foot of the mountain, named "Lianquan". It is said that drinking the water of Lianquan can make people become honest.
Shiqiao was originally called De'an Bridge in the Northern Song Dynasty and was the bustling area of ??Guancheng. On both sides of the bridge are hawker stalls and a gathering place for teahouses and hotels on land and water, so it is called the City Bridge. Looking back on those days, the markets on both sides of the bridge were bustling with people, the river under the bridge was clear and flowing, and ships were constantly coming and going, forming a harmonious, beautiful and moving picture. Especially every year when the spring breeze blows, the spring rain continues, and the spring water rises, on the Shiqiao River, you can hear the roar of the waves, the sound of the boatmen's oars, and the scenery of Nymphoides hanging on the buildings. It is a beautiful scene of the rising water in the spring river. .
Shiqiao Road is now a very lively pedestrian street.
Shiqiao rises in spring, another saying is "Shiqiao rises in spring". Shiqiao is at the foot of Huangqiling, in front of Shuchuuanao, attached to the city. There was a river here originally, and the water flowed eastward. There was a bridge on the river named Shiqiao. However, according to the old records of Dongguan in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was written as "the city bridge rose in spring". Lu Kuan of the Ming Dynasty wrote a poem in "The Spring Rise of the City Bridge": How much have you known about Hongqiao over the years? Qiaotou takes advantage of the city's crowds. The rising tide of spring comes from the sky, and the flying turbulence washes the main stream. It is not difficult to establish a mainstay. Don't be afraid of the raging waves as high as mountains. Heroes from ancient and modern times have passed by here. Who can resist the raging waves with only one hand? The Phoenix Terrace, originally located on the west side of the city tower in Dongguan, is also one of the eight old scenic spots in Dongguan. It is called "Fengtai Qiuji" and is commonly known as "The Golden Rooster Crows on the Phoenix Terrace". The Shangqing Temple was built on the original site during the Song Dynasty, and there was the Wild Goose Pagoda next to it. All those who passed the exam were named on the stele of the tower. Legend has it that there is phoenix grass on the mountain, which once attracted phoenixes, hence the name Phoenix Terrace.
More than 400 years ago, literati in the Ming Dynasty established the "Phoenix Book Club" here and often came here to recite poems and write poems.
By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Phoenix Tower had collapsed, leaving only the foundation. The nearby Wild Goose Pagoda and Shangqing Temple were also destroyed one after another during the "Cultural Revolution". More than ten years later, Dongguan people believed that Phoenix Terrace was the location of Dongguan's poetry and an important symbol of Dongguan culture, so they rebuilt Phoenix Terrace and built cultural buildings such as the Cultural Palace, Youth Palace, and Workers' Cultural Palace where Phoenix Terrace was located. At that time, Phoenix Terrace The platform is a bronze phoenix statue halfway up the Cultural Palace. During the construction of the Xicheng Tower Cultural Plaza, the original Phoenix bronze statue was dismantled and relocated. On New Year's Day in 2005, the Dongguan Municipal People's Government rebuilt the Phoenix Terrace sculpture that we see today in the center of the circular square of the second phase of the Cultural Plaza.
The highest mountain in Huangjiang Town is "Baoshan". Baoshan was called Lushan in ancient times, also known as Lushan. It is located in the east of Huangjiang Town, crossing the three towns of Huangjiang, Zhangmutou and Tangxia. Baoshan was renamed Baoshan because it produced silver mines, and ancient people once smelted silver here. There is no information on when and who mined it. In addition to its silver mines, Baoshan has also been famous for its waterfalls since ancient times. There is Furong Temple (today's ruins) on the east side of the main peak. There is a pool in front of the temple, named Baotan. The waterfall cascades down from the cliff and hits the hollow stone urn-shaped boulder. It roars like thunder and the water in the urn splashes like a hibiscus. Therefore, there is a grand scene of "a hibiscus emerges from the stone urn in Baoshan". It is one of the eight ancient scenic spots in Dongguan. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the stone urn was finally broken.
The Qing Dynasty was the heyday of Baoshan scenery. Local people built eight scenic spots including ancient temples, stone urns, spiritual birds, fairy beds, dragon pools, stone wells, kitchen caves, and pine paths. The current scenic spots no longer exist, but the mountains are still beautiful and attract many tourists.
However, it is a pity that some of the scenic spots and historic sites in Baoshan have long been incomplete due to the vicissitudes of life. The stone urn collapsed after being struck by lightning decades ago, the hundred-foot waterfall became a trickle, and the spectacle of hibiscus blooming no longer existed. The mountain pavilion and Furong Ancient Temple are also empty ruins, and tourists can only marvel at them. In addition, at the foot of the mountain, there was a stone urn field where silver was smelted by the Yuan Dynasty officials. Now there is only a deep cave left, which the locals call "the cave". According to legend, this was the cave where silver was mined back then.
Shuilian Mountain Forest Park is located 8 kilometers south of the city center. Shuilian Mountain was formerly known as Pengtong Mountain. It has an altitude of 378.8 meters and a radius of more than ten miles. It has continuous hills and rugged rocks. In the past, there was Peng Gong Mountain. The building is hidden here, hence the name Pengtong Mountain. Pengdong Water Curtain is one of the eight scenic spots in Dongguan during the Ming Dynasty.
There is a spring on the mountain, the water is clear and sweet; there is the Gutong Mountain Temple, which is large in scale and has well-preserved ruins. There is a Guanyin Temple halfway up the mountain, and you can drive up to the temple. The waterfall on the top of the mountain hangs more than ten feet, shaped like a curtain of water, and never ceases at all times. There are many vines in the mountain stream, hanging down the cliffs. The spring water flows around the left side of the temple and into Furong Stream. The waterfalls and springs are flowing, and the sound is like the sound of a piano. The trees on the mountain are shady, the flowers and grass are luxuriant, and the sound of pines helps cool the air. Shuilianshan Forest Park is now listed as one of the five major forest parks in the city.
It tells a beautiful and moving love story: a newly married couple is very loving. The couple makes a living by the husband going out to sea to fish. Since the husband takes a long time to come back every time he goes out, the wife She is lovesick and stands on the crab shell rock of Jinniu Mountain every day, looking forward to the return of her husband who has gone to sea to make a living. One day, the wife went to the well in the cave to draw water. Suddenly she saw a returning sail reflected in the well water. The person standing on the bow of the boat was actually her husband. She ran to the dock to see it. Sure enough, it was the man she missed day and night. When the husband returned, he believed that the well god had appeared. Haiyueyan Park is located in Yongkou Village, Houjie.
The "Moon Sail" on Jinniu Mountain is one of the eight old sights in Dongguan. The entire park covers an area of ??more than 300 acres. It contains the majestic Sanqing Hall, the golden Haiyue Hall, the rippling Haiyue Lake and the twists and turns of the Jiuqu Bridge. It is a good place for tourists to relax and relax.
Jinniu Mountain is a ten-foot-high red stone hill with a peculiar shape. The three characters "Hai Yue Yan" are engraved on the crab shell rock, which was carved in the second year of Song Dynasty (1132). There is a stone well under the rock. There was a saying that "the sail on the sea fell into the well". Now there are sculptures, pavilions and other attractions.
The dead in Jingkanghai City took advantage of it - the story of this old eight sceneries in Dongguan is relatively simple. It is said that the sea seen from Humen was once called "Lingding Ocean". Wen Tianxiang's poem "panic" It is said here that people are afraid when they are on the beach, and they are lonely when they are alone in the ocean. This place was also called "Jingkanghai". According to legend, there used to be a market here on the sea where people were coming and going, buying and selling, walking, carrying people, and pushing carts. It seemed very lively. People at that time said that this was a ghost market, and those ghosts came to take advantage of the market. Therefore, there is a saying that "the dead in Jingkanghai City take advantage of it". That should be a "mirage" phenomenon.
Jingkang Sea City is extremely magical. According to the "Dongguan County Chronicle" written by Zhou Tiancheng and others in the Qing Dynasty: "Jingkang City is often seen in the sea market. When it is dark night, the sea light suddenly appears, and the water surface is completely red. There are countless lights. Going back and forth, the conch girls and the sharks were noisy and laughing, and the sound of selling pearls and brocades, counting money and measuring rice, stopped at dawn." (Note: There is no punctuation mark in the original) In the descriptions of mirages in the past, there are only descriptions of images. . Only Jingkanghai City can hear various sounds while the mirage appears. What's also strange and unique about Jingkanghai City is: "Jingkanghai City is different from Qingzhou. Jingkanghai City can be seen at night, while Qingzhou can be seen during the day." (Note: Qingzhou mentioned in the chronicles is suspected to be Qingzhou, Shandong Province) The ancients could not explain it The cause of the mirage is attached to the theory of ghosts and gods. It is believed that gods on the sea conduct coral markets. It is also believed that there was a sunken land there in the past. When the moon rises, ghosts will appear in the sea to create a market. Therefore, Jingkanghai City is also known as "Coral Night Market" and "Shenzhou Night Market". Juehua Misty Rain was once rated as one of the eight scenic spots in Dongguan. It is now located in the Kaida Toy Factory in Zhongtang, on the original Guanghu Highway, next to the section from Zhongtang to Doulang. This scene no longer exists. It is said that more than a thousand years ago, a fairy goose flew away from Luofu Mountain. A monk from Juehua Temple went through all kinds of hardships and tracked it to a place near the Poyang Sea. He saw the fairy goose stopped, and in a blink of an eye, it flew away. Just disappeared. At that time, the area around Boyang Village was still an ocean. From then on, a boat of rice sank in the Boyang Sea every year, and the owner of the boat that sank in the valley quickly became rich. The place where this fairy goose settled was a blessed land, where Juehua Temple was built.
Juehua Temple is located fifteen miles west of the city (i.e. the middle hall). In the early years of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty (1131), Xu Bangyan obtained a statue of Guanyin and enshrined her in Jiangliu Hall. The county magistrate Zhang Xun asked monk Song Jian to get it for him and store it in Juehua Temple. Monk Miaoxian built a pavilion for which Li Tao He testified. In the second year of Xianchun (1266), the minister Xu Yuan instructed He Hantao to donate 80 acres of land to Juehua Temple. At that time, the pagoda of the temple went straight up to the night sky. Viewed from a distance, it looked faint, as if in smoke, so it was named Juehua. misty rain. In the fifth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty (1510), the land in the temple was robbed. In the early years of Jiajing (1522), the temple was abandoned.
Chen Jingji, a poet from Dongguan in the early Ming Dynasty, wrote two of the seven unique poems of "Jue Hua Yan Yu":
One: The Brahma Palace in the pavilion in the center of the river, the three thousand worlds are in doubt and emptiness. The fishing villages are separated by water, with bamboo fences and huts in between.
Second: The half-open fog makes the scenery even more peculiar, with towering green mountains in the distance. This ink painting depicts the sea, sky and autumn. I don’t know who can draw it, now and in the past.
The seven unique poems of Huang Shang's "Jue Hua Mist and Rain":
The jungle is quiet and quiet beside the river, and the mist and rain are misty and the day is closed. Passers-by don't know where Lanruo is, but they hear the bell ringing several times.