1. Guashan Scenic Area, Luliang City, Shanxi Province, is located 3 kilometers north of Jiaocheng County. Named because the shape of the mountain resembles Bagua, it is a famous tourist attraction that combines natural scenery with a thousand-year-old temple. It was famous as early as the Tang Dynasty for its mountain-shaped hexagrams, towering ancient cypresses, majestic temples and Huayan Taoist temple. Mi Fu, a famous calligrapher and painter in the Song Dynasty, ranked it among the three mountains and five mountains and praised it as "the first mountain". The ancient cypress is one of the wonders of Guashan Mountain. Its tree shape is strange, interesting and charming. Such as dragon's claw cypress, bullhead cypress, peacock cypress, hydrangea cypress, mother-child cypress, etc., which are breathtaking. There is also an ancient Huayan Sect temple between the eight towering peaks. Master calligrapher Mi Fu happily wrote the horizontal plaque of the first mountain on the mountain gate, which became the temple's treasure in Tianning. The foot of the mountain was originally a post road for transportation between the Qin and Jin Dynasties. Coupled with the beautiful scenery and Buddhist atmosphere, the incense of Tianning Temple has naturally continued to flourish for thousands of years.
2. The victory of mountains and rivers can only be achieved by those who take leisure time. Visiting Guashan Mountain is like a journey of cultivating the mind. More than 200 pavilions and halls are built step by step along the mountain. There is a shrine to commemorate the famous Shanxi Governor of the Qing Dynasty; there is a temple of the Holy Mother belonging to the Buddhist sequence; Guashan Academy, where literati and scholars teach, and Wenchang Palace, where Emperor Wenchang and Confucian deities are enshrined, also have houses, scripture pagodas, theater stages, tomb pagodas, etc., which belong to five sequences: Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, garden; forest, and temple. .
3. Guashan Mountain not only has a unique mountain shape and numerous temples, but also has towering ancient cypresses that create a strong visual impression on tourists. Drilling boulders, intricate roots, and twists of ancient cypresses all point in the same direction. Seven-star cypress, bull-headed cypress, steel whip cypress and hydrangea racket are all representatives of Guashan's rare cypresses.