1. Gushan Mountain is 969 meters above sea level and covers an area of ??1,890 hectares. It stands on the eastern outskirts of Rongcheng and on the north bank of the Minjiang River. Gushan is one of the top ten scenic spots in Fujian Province and a national-level scenic spot. It has become famous as early as more than a thousand years ago. Guo Pu, the minister of the Western Jin Dynasty, praised it in "Record of Moving the City" as "the flag on the left (mountain) and the drum on the right (mountain) are the best in Fujian". It is named Gushan because there is a huge stone like a drum on the top. Whenever there is wind and rain, there will be a shaking sound. There are three ways to climb Gushan from Liyuan at the foot of the mountain: one is from a winding mountain road built in 1954 on the east side of Liyuan, about 8.5 kilometers, directly to the parking lot in front of Yongquan Temple; the other is to build an aerial cableway (cable car) on the west side of Liyuan ) reaches the Gushan Eighteen Scenic Spots, which is more than 1,000 meters long; third, there is an ancient stone-stepped path between the highway and the cableway, which is 3.5 kilometers long and has more than 2,145 steps. There is a pavilion every 500 meters or so for tourists to climb and rest. When used, the ancient road forms a zigzag shape, winding upwards, passing through the Seven Pavilions and then entering the mountain gate directly to Yongquan Temple. Gushan scenic spots are centered on Yongquan Temple and divided into four routes: east, west, north and south, with more than 160 sceneries.
2. Wushan, also known as Wushi Mountain, has an altitude of 86 meters and a tourist area of ??25 hectares. In the eighth year of Tang Tianbao's reign (749), it was named Minshan by imperial edict. Meng, the chief engineer of Xiningchu County in Song Dynasty, thought that this mountain could be compared with Taoist Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou, so he changed its name to Daoshan. The eastern foothills at Tianhuang Ridge are called No. 1 Mountain; the southwest foothills outside the city are called Baotou Mountain, also known as Baoping Mountain.
Wushi Mountain has rugged rocks, secluded forest gullies, and natural shapes. The scenery is divided into 5 roads: Shandong, Shanxi, Shanyin, Shanyang and Shanji. The 36 scenery is the most amazing and is known as "Penglai Wonderland".
Wushan Climb up the Wushan Road from the southeast foot of the mountain and walk dozens of steps to reach Tianxiang Terrace. Turning to the west, you will find the cupola, which is one of the 36 wonders. The four characters "Gu Fanghe Pavilion" in regular script are engraved on the back wall. Next to the stage is the seal script stone inscription "Chongtiantai" written by Master Cheng of the Song Dynasty. There are two large rocks facing each other beside the "Tiantai". There is a natural rock strip across the top of the rock. This is the "Tiantai Bridge". This bridge is so dangerous that it is said that only those who are "willing to sacrifice their lives" can climb it. Follow the steps and walk dozens of steps to reach Daoshan Pavilion. This pavilion was also built by Cheng Shimeng, and the inscription of Daoshan Pavilion was erected. At that time, he also invited Zeng Gong, the former governor of Fuzhou and the military commander of Fujian Road and one of the Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties, to write "Daoshan Pavilion Records". Due to the publicity of Zeng Gong's articles, Daoshan Pavilion became more famous far and wide.
Go west along the stone hill from Daoshan Pavilion to Tianzhang Terrace. This is where the poet Sadura of the Yuan Dynasty recited the poem "Go up to Wushan Mountain in the cool evening and set up the Tianzhang Terrace for wine". The three-character stone carving of Tianzhangtai in seal script still stands on the stone. After passing Tianzhang Terrace, climb up a small peak with "Thunderbolt Rock" on the peak. This stone is more than 10 meters long and split into two halves, leaving a gap in the middle.
There is a rectangular pavilion standing high on the stone hill to the left of Perak Rock. It is the Li Gong Pavilion commemorating Li Pengju, a famous anti-Japanese general in the Ming Dynasty. More than 200 steps away from the pavilion, there is a rock shaped like a turban, engraved with six regular script characters "Wushi is here, Li Gong is here", commonly known as Li Gongyan. Li Pengju, whose courtesy name is Chongxiao, was born in Anwei, Hefei. In the 37th year of Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty (1558), he was appointed as the commander of Qianshi. At that time, Japanese pirates invaded, Wuhumen at the mouth of Minjiang River fell, and the situation in Fuzhou was critical. Li Pengju personally led a navy to annihilate the stubborn enemies in Mawei Luoxing Tower and Min'an Town, turning Fuzhou's danger into safety. Later generations built this pavilion to commemorate his achievements forever.
On the right side of Perak Rock, there is a Qing Leng Platform, leading to the Qing Leng Gate at the bottom of the mountain. This is the highest official of Fujian Province in the 24th year of Yuan Zhizheng (1364) - Pingzhang Zhengshi Yanchi Not built in China. Qinglian means quiet and solemn, and is intended to encourage oneself to work for the country. But he talks about talking and does things after doing them. He often enjoys himself while having fun, and has long forgotten his coldness. Within a few months of his tenure, his reputation was ruined and his pavilions collapsed. It is indeed a great irony that only "Qing Leng Tai" engraved in regular script has survived to this day.
Climb more than 30 stone steps from Qinglengtai to Xianshu Pavilion. Xianshu Pavilion was built in memory of Chen Zhenlong, a returned overseas Chinese who introduced and promoted sweet potatoes during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and Jin Xuezeng, governor of Fujian. Chen Zhenlong was originally from Changle, Fujian, and moved to Fuzhou. In his early years, he went to Luzon (now the Philippines) for business and discovered a kind of potato there, which was sweet and delicious and could be used as food. He tried every means to bring it back to Fuzhou, and with the help of the governor Jin Xuezeng, he tried to grow it and promote it. At that time, there was a famine in Fujian. The experimental planting and promotion of sweet potatoes helped people survive the famine. Jin Xuezeng also wrote China's first monograph on sweet potatoes, "Jinshu Biography", based on summarizing the experience of Chen Zhenlong and his son. Since then, sweet potatoes have gradually spread throughout the country.
There are more than 200 cliff carvings in Wushi Mountain. The most famous one is the seal script stone carving of Li Yangbing's "Prajna Platform Inscription" on the side of Huayan Rock. This is the earliest cliff carving in central Fujian. The stone carving is 5 meters high and 2 meters wide. It has a small seal script with 24 Chinese characters and a character diameter of 43 centimeters. Li Yangbing's seal characters are as famous as Li Si in the Qin Dynasty, and he is called "Big and Little Li". This stone carving, together with the Record of Shooting Station in Chuzhou, Zhejiang Province, the Record of Jinyun City God's Temple, and the Inscription of Wanggui Tai in Lishui, are collectively known as the Four Uniques in the World.
There are many stone carvings from the Song Dynasty on Wushi Mountain. Many famous officials and literati, such as Cheng Shimeng, Chen Xiang, Zhan Yu, Zhao Ruyu, Zhu Xi, Liang Kejia, etc., all left poems and inscriptions on the mountain. Beside Tianxiu Rock, there is still a cursive poem engraved by Ye Xianggao, the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty: "Outside the threshold, there are hundreds of pheasants in the forest, and double rainbows fall in the shadow of the river in the sky. Where is Mr. Xue from the peak? The bottle of wine is not empty when it is poured into the plain." The pen is as fast as a dragon. Snakes fly. In Qingleng Taixi, there is a stone carving with the word "Yin Lan", also written in seal script, with a diameter of 50 centimeters. It is the inscription of the tripod by the Qing Dynasty painter Guangling Yu.
From the north of Xianshu Pavilion, you can see the stone wall Guanyin. According to legend, there was originally a natural rock here that was struck by lightning and fire more than 1,000 years ago, and faint phenomena appeared on the rock wall. Later generations processed it into a relief image of Guanyin. The incomplete parts were filled up with soil, becoming a set of works of art combining stone sculptures and clay sculptures. This group of relief Buddha statues has the style of the late Tang Dynasty and is an earlier ancient sculpture art in Fuzhou.
There is also a stone wall Guanyin in Wushi Mountain. It was also built due to thunder and fire in the early Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Later generations built the Dashi Pavilion here. The existing buildings were rebuilt during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. The Dashi Pavilion is divided into the main hall, the guest hall, and the auxiliary hall. On the outer palace wall, there is the famous Meng Spring. The clear spring water seeps into the gaps in the nearby rocks. Now a teahouse is opened here.
The Crow Bath is located southwest of Guanyin on the stone wall. It is also a small stone pool struck by thunder and fire. The pool is about 2 meters wide. There is a spring in the pool, which will not dry up even in severe droughts. In ancient times, every evening, "the setting sun was dim, and crows bathed here in disorder", so it was called crow bathing pool. The spring water of Crow Bath Pond is clear and is an excellent mineral spring for making tea. Celebrities in the past dynasties have tasted the spring here. Meng Chaoran of the Qing Dynasty praised it: "It can be regarded as the best spring in the world without Lu Yu's tea scriptures."
Tianxiu Rock is in front of the crow bathing pool, with Mr. Xue leaning on his back. The peak is composed of a group of tall and majestic large rocks. The name of Tianxiu Rock was originally created by Yan Chi Buhua in the 18th year of Yuan Zhizheng (1358), who carved the four characters "loyalty, filial piety, civil and military" given by Emperor Yuan Shun on the rock here to boast of its unique beauty. More than 100 years later, the descendants of Xue Feng (who was a marquis in Xiantong in the Tang Dynasty and had political achievements) rebuilt Xue Laozhuang here. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, many Fuzhou poets used Zhuangzhong to form a society to write poems. Prime Minister Ye Xianggao also sang here at the invitation of Xue's descendants and left a poem in cursive script.
Walking along the stone road to Xiangyang Peak, you can overlook the scenery of Taijiang River and Cangshan Mountain. Turning north from Xiangyang Peak, you can reach Shuangfengmeng. On the top of Shuangfengmeng Mountain, there are two huge rocks lying on the ground. From a distance, it looks like two people are sleeping in a dream. Behind the two stones is Lingxiao Terrace. Lingxiao Terrace is the highest point of Wushi Mountain. It has a wide platform and can accommodate hundreds of people. In the old days, people would climb mountains and fly kites here during the Double Ninth Festival. Cai Xiang, a calligrapher of the Song Dynasty, once wrote "Poetry on Climbing the Sky Tower", which contains the following lines: "Join the blue clouds, climb to the Canghai Sea... Look at the sun first at midnight, spring will come later on the shadowy cliffs, the three mountains will be shattered, and everything will fall from the dust." ...", describes the steepness and beauty of Wushan Mountain, and also shows that Nantai, Fuzhou was still a wilderness 800 years ago. Therefore, you can climb Wushan Mountain to watch the sunrise and watch the rapids of the Minjiang River. To the east of Lingxiao Taitung, there are three large natural rocks supporting each other to form a large cave. Dozens of people can sit inside the cave. The two characters "Shitian" are engraved on the rock, which means using stone as the sky. There are many famous people's inscriptions around Shitian, most of which were written four to five hundred years ago.
There are many memorial ancestral halls built in the past dynasties on Wushi Mountain. For example, the Zhuzi Temple commemorates the great Confucian scholar Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty, and the Nine Xian Temple commemorates nine famous scholars in Fujian Province: Yang Shi, You Zuo, Huan Guo, Luo Congzhou, Li Dong, Kui Wencai, Cai Chen, Huang Qian, and Zhen Dexiu. , the Qi Yu Ergong Temple commemorating the famous anti-Japanese generals Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou in the Ming Dynasty, the Xianshu Temple commemorating Chen Zhenlong, etc. Wushishan Amituo Temple is also one of the relics of the Fuzhou people’s struggle against British imperialism’s occupation of the temple.
3. Yushan is located on the north side of Wuyi Square in the southeast of Fuzhou City. During the Warring States Period, the Yue people lived here, hence the name. It is said that in the Han Dynasty, nine brothers of the He family in Linchuan practiced immortality and alchemy in this mountain, also known as Jiuxian Mountain. The highest point, 58.6 meters above sea level, is Aoding Peak. Later, Chen Cheng, a native of Fuzhou in the Song Dynasty, studied here and won the first prize, so it is also called Zhuangyuan Peak. There are 24 scenic spots on the mountain, including the Nine Immortals Temple, and the Long Live Temple, Qi Gong Temple, Tuashi Temple and so on. There are more than 100 inscriptions on the temple, Dingguang Pagoda and cliffs from the Song Dynasty to modern times. The stele gallery displays stele inscriptions from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Step up from Wuyi Square to the Yushan Cultural Tourist Area. Once up the mountain, you will see towering trees and ancient banyan trees, which are intertwined and spectacular. Overlooking the panoramic view of Fuzhou, you can see everything at a glance.
Dingguang Tower is located at the foot of Shanxi. It has a brick structure, seven floors and octagonal corners, and is 41 meters high. It was first built in the first year of Tang Tianyou (904). It was built by Wang Shenzhi, the king of Tang and Min, to repay his kindness to his parents. A radiant orb was found when he was establishing his foundation, hence the name. Because the pagoda is white, it is commonly known as the White Pagoda. There is Dingguang Temple in the south of the pagoda, which was founded in the second year of Tang Tianyou (905). Two years later, Zhu Wen destroyed the Tang Dynasty and established the Later Liang Dynasty. In order to congratulate Zhu Wen on his accession to the throne, it was renamed Long Live Temple, commonly known as Baita Temple. The Fayu Hall in the temple is the reading place of Yan Fu, the translator of "Tianyan Lun" and a modern thinker.
Qigong Temple is located east of Dingguang Tower and was built to commemorate Qi Jiguang, the anti-Japanese general of the Ming Dynasty. In the 40th year of Jiajing reign in the Ming Dynasty (1561), Qi had nine battles and nine victories in Taizhou. The following year, they aided Fujian and defeated Japanese pirates four times at Hengyu in Ningde, Niutian in Fuqing, and Lindun in Putian. When the class teacher returned to Zhejiang, the officials and gentry of Fuzhou held a farewell banquet in the mountain and recorded their achievements on a monument. People build memorials here. The current Qigong Temple was rebuilt in 1918. On display in the temple are war robes and armor, marching rations "Qiang cakes", etc. There is a long stone nearby with the word "Drunken Stone" engraved on it. This is the place where Qi Jiguang came to sleep drunkenly while celebrating his victory against the Japanese.
The Dashi Hall, also known as the Guanyin Pavilion, is located on the top of the mountain. It was originally the site of Jiafuyuan of the Song Dynasty, but was renamed the Dashi Hall in the second year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1937). In the hall, there is an inscription of Emperor Qianlong titled "Picture of the Great Master Emerging from the Mountain", which tells the story of the great Master Guanyin changing from male to female. During the Revolution of 1911 during the Battle of Fuzhou's Restoration, it was the location of the revolutionary army's former enemy headquarters. To the east of the Great Master Hall is the Huguo Temple, and to the west is the Dragon Temple. Jiuxian Temple is the largest temple in Yushan. It was built in the second year of Chongning in the Northern Song Dynasty (1103). The third hall is called the Jade Emperor Pavilion, which is dedicated to the Jade Emperor and the Nine Immortals. The Stele Corridor of Tianjun Hall displays 19 historical steles.
There are 113 sections of Yushan cliff carvings, and there are 35 sections carved in Song Dynasty. The largest stone inscription in Fuzhou City, the "Inscription of the Martial Arts Hall of the South School Field", is located here. At this moment, there are 319 characters in the stone, each character is 20 centimeters large, and the handwriting is extremely vigorous. It is a rare historical relic.
In ancient times, the Dashi Hall was a place where hundreds of officials in Fuzhou City worshiped the emperor from afar. It is now the Fuzhou Municipal Museum. The Dashi Hall is adjacent to "Huguo Temple" to the east and "Zhenlong Temple" to the west. Dingguang Pagoda is located next to the Dingguang Pagoda Temple in the foothills of Shanxi. It is a 41-meter-high seven-story octagonal white pagoda. Visitors can climb to the top of the tower and overlook the city. Qigong Temple is located in the east of Dingguang Pagoda Temple and is specially designed to worship Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese general. It is said that Qi Jiguang led his troops to fight against the Japanese in Fujian and won three major victories in a row. Fuzhou officials and gentry held a banquet in Shanpingyuantai to celebrate his victory. Later generations built Qigong Temple here. The current temple was rebuilt in 1918. There is a seated statue of Qi Gong in the main hall of the temple, and four scrolls hanging on both sides of the hall praising Qi Gong's achievements in resisting the Japanese.
4. Pingshan is located at the northern end of the urban area. Its mountain and screen protect the city, hence its name. It is 62 meters above sea level and covers an area of ??50 hectares. Also known as Pingshan, commonly known as Xianglou Mountain. According to historical records: Wuzhu, the king of Minyue in the Han Dynasty, once built "Yecheng" at the front foot of the mountain, so it was also called "Yueshan" and "Yuewangshan". To this day, in the Luhua Road area of ??Pingshan Mountain in the city, there are many historical relics left from the Yue King period. Despite the vicissitudes of the times, they can still be traced. The north side of the mountain is also called "Longyao Mountain". In the second year of Kaiping in the Later Liang Dynasty (908), Wang Shenzhi, the king of Fujian, built a "clamping city" in the north and south, and surrounded the southern section of Pingshan Mountain into the city. In the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1371), Wang Gong, the king of Fuzhou, rebuilt Fuzhou City and built a model building on the top of the mountain as a model for building buildings in the four cities. Later, it was renamed Zhenhai Tower. You can overlook Wuhu Mountain at the mouth of the Minjiang River from the top of the tower. It is as famous as Zhenhai Tower in Wushan Mountain in Hangzhou and Yuexiu Mountain in Guangzhou. During the Republic of China, it was destroyed by fire. It was converted into Linsen Memorial Hall in 1945 and was demolished during the "Cultural Revolution". At the southern foot of the mountain is Yeshan, with Ouye Pond. Pei Ciyuan, the governor of the Tang Dynasty, built a golf course in the south of the mountain. At that time, there were 29 scenic spots including Wangjing Mountain, Guanhai Pavilion, and Yuquan Pond. The western foot is called Ma Mu Mountain. At the southern foot there are the King of Yue's Drinking Horse Pond, Qinshi and Jinji Well. There are Huanfeng Pavilion, Juexueliao, Shenghui Pavilion, Cuitao Pavilion, etc. on the top of the mountain. In ancient times, peach blossoms were planted all over the foothills. Every early spring in February, they looked like a brocade. Nowadays, all of them are in ruins, only Moss Spring and the main hall of Hualin Temple remain. During the Republic of China, warlords fought, and the mountain was destroyed again. Pingshan has become a barren hillside. After 1950, there were several major greening projects on the mountain. After the 1980s, the entire Pingshan Mountain was lush and lush. The southern foot of the mountain is the seat of the provincial capital. There was originally a building on the mountain, standing on the top of the mountain, named "Zhenhai Tower". You can see the vast river water at the mouth of the Minjiang River, but it is a pity that it was destroyed by fire. There is a seven-star jar in front of the building, carved from stone and arranged like the Big Dipper. It is said that the water in the jar will not dry up for many years. Surrounding the mountain are landscapes such as Yeshan Mountain, Ouye Mountain, and the main hall of Hualin Temple.
Among them, the main hall of Hualin Temple was built in the second year of Qiande in the Song Dynasty (964 AD). It is one of the oldest existing wooden buildings in Jiangnan, my country, and is a national key cultural relic protection unit.