Introduction:
Speaking of ancient Chinese poetry, the name of the "Poetry Immortal" Li Bai is very familiar to us. There are too many poems about Li Bai. If we want to talk about the representative works of his many poems, everyone has his own favorite one. However, when we recall carefully, we will find that the representative of the poet Li Bai is among them. There are many poems with landscape as the theme, such as "Looking at Lushan Waterfall", "Difficult Traveling", "Difficult Road to Shu", "Ode to Mingtang", "Early Departure from Baidi City" and many other poems, all of which we can recite with ease. Li Bai can be said to be a "traveler". When he was twenty-four years old, he left his hometown and embarked on a long journey. He visited Chengdu and Mount Emei, and then boated eastward to Yuzhou, where he even "went with a sword" country, bid farewell to relatives and travel far away."
The poet Li Bai traveled to too many places in his life and wrote many immortal poems. But if we say which of the many places Li Bai traveled to is his favorite, I believe there will be endless debates for a while, and there will never be an answer. But there is a county town in Anhui Province that must be a place that the poet Li Bai loved very much. Otherwise, how could he have visited it five times and left many immortal poems. This place is Shitai County located in Chizhou City, Anhui Province.
Shitai County is located in the mountainous area of ??southern Anhui Province. It has been a forgotten "paradise" since ancient times. Because it is located in the mountainous area of ??southern Anhui, it has always been secluded from the world. It has been exempted from wars and disputes in history. To this day, the ecological environment here is still well protected, without industrial pollution, and it is still the same as it was originally. Even in 2010 In April 2020, after a holiday tour, the ambassadors of 30 countries in China jointly awarded Shitai as "the most beautiful mountainous countryside with original ecology in China" that is worthy of being recommended by the embassies in China to the world.
Poet Li Bai’s love for Shitai is vividly expressed in his poems. We can also follow the footsteps of Li Bai’s poems and put all his emotions in the mountains and rivers. So how many scenic spots in Shitai County are worthy of the "Poetry Immortal" Li Bai visiting again, three, or even five times?
The beautiful Qiupu River runs through the entire county and has become the "mother river" of Shitai people. Du Mu, Xiao Tong and others once stayed by the river, especially Li Bai's "five visits to Qiupu", which left him More than 40 magnificent poems and many touching legends have descended from the river, and the river has therefore been praised as "a river flowing with poetry". It was called "West Huangshan" in ancient times. It is Guniujiang, the main body of the Huangshan Mountains extending to the west. It is one of the three peaks in southern Anhui along with the famous Huangshan Mountain and Qingliang Peak. Its mountain scenery is beautiful and beautiful, and is famous for its majesty, wonder, danger and beauty.
Shitai County is known as the hometown of caves. There are more than a hundred named caves recorded in local classics. It can be said that Penglai Fairy Cave is the most outstanding masterpiece among the cave landscapes that have been discovered so far. The four wonders represented by "landscape reliefs, Luosha tent, Thousand Buddha Mountain, and Tiansi" are even more famous. The Yulong Cave, which is more than 5,000 meters long, has a clear underground river running through it, making it majestic and magnificent. There are many strange stones in the cave, with different shapes, some are like lotuses blooming, some are like jade trees facing the wind, some are like monks making pilgrimage, or some are like bells and drums on the ground. They are extremely vivid. The poem of He Yin of the Ming Dynasty is the most appropriate to describe the Yulong Cave: "Clear spring Coming out of the secluded ravine, the red sun reflects on the blue rocks, and there are wonderful fish and dragons. It’s a day before the dusty earth.”
Of course, the scenery in Shitai County is much more than these. As of now, there are 7 national 4A-level scenic spots, namely Zuishanye, Xianyu Mountain, Yulong Cave, Qiupu River, Weitan, Penglai Fairy Cave, and Guniujiang Scenic Spot. Each of them is worthy of our visit.
Perhaps more than a thousand years ago, the poet Li Bai did not travel to all these scenery, but through his "Five Visits to Qiupu" and left more than 40 magnificent poems, we understand how much he loved this land. , isn’t it?