Doukuangshan is located on the east bank of Fujiang River, 25km north of jiangyou city. Because it rises in the fertile plain of western Sichuan, the altitude is only1140m, which is enough to stand out from all directions. It has three iconic peaks, namely Dongyue Peak, Feixian Peak and Shenfu Peak.
Looking from a distance, the three peaks rise into the sky like a screen, which makes people feel that behind the huge screen, it is an isolated world. This strange and ancient natural landscape made Li Bai, a teenager, think about it and wrote a beautiful poem "The woodcutter and the tiller go in and out of the painting screen".
Adventures and beautiful scenery of Douyong Mountain
Yu Youren wrote Li Bai's poems in calligraphy.
The three peaks of Doulie Mountain, such as screens, like knives and axes, are straight and steep, which constitute its main attractions. Dongyue Temple, Douzhen Hall and Luban Hall stand at the peaks of the three peaks respectively. Since ancient times, only Dongyue Peak, where Dongyue Temple is located, has a trail to climb, and the other two peaks have no road to climb.
When tourists came to the foot of Dongyue Peak along the only stone road leading to the top of the mountain, three towering cliffs suddenly appeared in front of them, which made people feel that they had entered a huge dead end with only a glimmer of skylight. Hesitantly, on the cliff ahead, the stone carving of "Don't have a hole in the sky" one meter square is even more mysterious. These three indomitable figures are one of the main landscapes of Douyong Mountain. At this time, all the tourists stopped to wander, some looking for the way to the top, some enjoying the three vigorous and clumsy Chinese characters in Weibei.
According to records, during the reign of Kanggan in Qing Dynasty, there were three characters of "the gate of hell" made of three kinds of clay on this cliff. During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, it was renamed "Don't have a day". In the 1920s, the stone carving "Don't Have a Sky" was eroded by wind and rain and was about to be annihilated. 1930, Dong Songheng, the brigade commander of the 2nd/4th1division of the National Revolutionary Army stationed in Jiangyou, ordered Jiangyou County Public Security Bureau Director Jian Youqiao to organize craftsmen to repair "another day".
Therefore, people collected four high-quality natural white grout stones in the mountains of Pingwu, and cut them into huge stones with a length of 2 meters and a width of 1.6 meters, each weighing more than 1000 kg.
In order to transport these four huge stones to Doukuang Mountain, tens of thousands of workers were used. In two months, a temporary bridge was specially built on the Fujiang River, which was dozens of kilometers long.
Yin Zhuangbo, secretary of the 41st Brigade, wrote the words "don't", "swim" and "field" on three huge stones, each of which is 1.3 meters square. The outer circle of strokes is inner circle, and the internal structure is tight and overhanging. On the fourth boulder, nine cursive characters are written: "Chang Dong 'an was established in the afternoon of the Republic of China". From quarrying to finally embedding the stone wall, the gentry estimated that the cost of the whole restoration project was equivalent to four pieces of gold of the same size.
Under "another day", this narrow place with "mountains and heavy waters and no road to doubt" has since become a place for literati to linger.
1942 In August, Xie Wuliang, a poet and calligrapher, accompanied Yu Youren to visit Douyong Mountain, accompanied by painters Zhang Caiqin and Wu Yifeng. Probably to thank Jane Youqiao for restoring the stone carving of "Another Day" and to thank him for his hospitality, Mr. Yu Youren wrote an inscription for Jane Youqiao's residence "Shuizhuju" in Jiangyou County (now Wudu Town), "People will have fun in the future if they are interested in water and bamboo." Bamboo pavilions are suitable for summer, but rice winds don't wait for autumn. "
After going up the mountain, Yu Youren was full of praise for the beautiful scenery of Dou Feng, so he had a brainwave and wrote "Woodman and Tiller, Going in and out of the Painting Screen". People carved his handwriting on the stone tablet, and you can still see it on the way up the mountain. As the host of this trip, Xie Wuliang also touched the scene and wrote a poem "There is another sky in Doukuang Mountain": "The twin peaks rise high in the sky, and the thin road is entangled with silk. The stone ridge is cool and suitable for temporary residence, and the flat land is leisurely leaning on Bai Yunbian. "
Yu Youren calligraphy Li Bai Dou Li Shan poem tablet.
Dou Feng Bao Guo Tian Fei Cang
Not far from Another Day, under the seemingly hopeless cliff, there is a natural tunnel leading to Yuefeng Mountain Road in Shandong.
Walking on the mountain road leading to the summit, it is curious that its mountain is composed of stones as big as beans. Before the Tang Dynasty, this mountain was called Doukuangshan because it was like a pile of beans and shaped like a farmhouse. Later, because the master of the Tang Dynasty, Bo, was amazed at the clarity, strangeness, seclusion and beauty of this mountain, he abandoned his official to live in seclusion on the mountain, built a cableway, built a temple and became an immortal. Later, in order to commemorate him, Doukuangshan was renamed Doukuangshan. Today, Doukuangshan Mountain is rated as a national geological park, with the largest gravel cliff group in China.
Douyong Mountain and Ancient Temple
It is really "the mountain is not high, and the fairy is famous in the world." Because of the legend of Dou Xiuxian, and because Lu Ban built a temple here, two axes went down to split the original solitary peak into the myth of three peaks standing side by side, and Jiangyou people had the custom of "facing the mountain on March 3". Every year on the third day of the third lunar month, people from eight neighboring towns and villages helped the old and brought the young to Doukuangshan to catch the temple fair, burn incense and worship Buddha and pray for peace.
Douyong Mountain and Ancient Temple
This custom, for Jiangyou people, is even more convinced after a tragic historical event. According to historical records, in March of the 11th year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 186 1), Yunnan peasant rebel Lan led more than 100,000 people to attack Mianzhou. At the same time, an adventurous successively attacked Anxian, Zhangming and Jiangyou Zhongbachang. /kloc-at dawn on 0/2, the rebels attacked Jiangyou County (now Wudu Town).
Fortunately, tens of thousands of squires in the city fled to the steep Doukuang Mountain, and their lives and property were preserved. Therefore, the local people also called Dougong Mountain a "blessed land", and wrote down the couplets of "the land is protected by clouds and smoke, and the natural stone walls are separated from the smoke", which were engraved on the gates of the ancient village of this mountain.
The only remaining ancient village gate in Doulie Mountain is not in the tourist area developed by the scenic spot, but on the mountainside cliff in the north direction of Shandong Province, which is worthy of the name "one person defends it and ten thousand people cannot force it".
Yunyan Temple on Dongyue Peak is the most famous scenic spot in Doukuang Mountain. Yunyan Temple was founded in the Ganfu period of the Tang Dynasty, and experienced natural and man-made disasters and disputes between Buddhism and Taoism in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Destroyed in the late Ming Dynasty, it was rebuilt in the third year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1725).
Its existing architectural pattern is the same as that of ordinary Buddhist temples, with the north facing south. On the central axis, there are five main buildings: the mountain gate, the civil and military hall, the protector hall, the Daxiong hall and the earthquake terminal building, supplemented by the attached hall, lecture hall, meditation hall and living room. The whole ancient building complex has distinct layers and is strewn at random.
Flying Tibetan in Doukuangshan Mountain
The essence of Douye Mountain is the Taoist flying Tibetan (also known as "Star Car") collected in the temple. Located in the West Annex Hall of Yunyan Temple, it was built in the eighth year of the Song Dynasty (A.D. 1 18 1) according to the principle and structure of the middle wheel stitching in the Song Dynasty architecture, with a history of more than 800 years.
As a national key cultural relic, Tian Fei Tibet Museum has a huge scale, with a car height of 9.82 meters and a diameter of 7 meters. The upper and lower floors are neutral cylinders, and the lower end of the cylinder is fixed on a Tibetan needle named "Shoushan Buddha Sea" in the pit. Its exquisite craftsmanship, carved palaces and pavilions, painted wooden columns and arched eaves. Each floor is carved with handsome figures and smooth clothes. According to the research of cultural relics experts, this is the oldest Taoist flying Tibetan in China.
Accompanied by the vicissitudes of Tian Fei Tibetan, it is a rare plant Pinus bungeana growing on the cliff of Doukuangshan. It is endemic to China, and only grows in Doukuang Mountain and adjacent Guanwu Mountain in Sichuan.
Pinus bungeana mostly grows on cliffs, and its abnormally developed roots cling to the green hills. Its branches and leaves are like cypress, its branches are graceful, and its fish-scale bark shines silver in the sun. The oldest Pinus bungeana in Doucheng Mountain is 500 years old, and they are still full of vitality.
Whether climbing Emei Mountain or Qingcheng Mountain, tourists overlook the ups and downs of the mountains after reaching the top, while standing on Dongyue Peak at the top of Dougong Mountain, tourists see the verdant Tan Plain, and the Fujiang River is like a ribbon, as if flying in front of their eyes. The rich Jiangyou Middle Dam has a panoramic view, which makes people feel relaxed and forget everything.
Ling Yunfei stepped over the cold iron chain
Three hundred years ago, an iron cableway was built between Dongyue Peak and Feixian Peak, and the Douzhen High Hall and Luban Hall were built above Shenfu Peak.
In fact, the cableway with three lonely peaks hanging in the air on the steep cliff of Duanling can't be called Tao at all, but just two chains as thick as small wine glasses.
If you want to go from Dongyue Peak to the opposite Feixian Peak, and then from Feixian Peak to Shenfu Peak, you must grasp the upper chain with both hands, step on the lower chain with both feet, and fly unsteadily over the abyss of dozens of feet.
At the foot of the ferryman, the clouds are rolling and the flowers are fragrant.
It is precisely because of the contrast and temptation of this chain that a mouth-watering mysterious legend has long circulated in Douzhen Hall and Lubantang on the top of the lonely peak: there is holy water in Douzhen Hall, which can make you immortal if you drink it, and there is a treasury in Lubantang Hall, which can buy Jiangyou County.
At that time, after Xie Wuliang accompanied Yu Youren to climb the Dongyue Peak, he stood in front of the Dongyue Temple facing the abyss and the iron chain volley, staring at the Second Hall of Douzhen Luban, which was close at hand but out of reach. He couldn't help thinking and feeling. Therefore, a seven-character quatrain named "The Peak of the Bucket" blurted out: The flying bridge is broken and the cable is new, and the iron palace in Hanshan Mountain is covered with spring. The sunrise is extremely high, and I don't know where there is a fairy tale.
Fly over the iron rope in the bucket mine
At the end of 1960s, a soldier of a certain unit in Jiangyou, perhaps for bravery training or treasure hunting, ignored the warnings of the villagers and "flew over" the ropeway privately, and tumbled to death in the depths. When I went up the mountain before, I saw that two chains had been cut off and hung silently on the cliff. According to the villagers, it was the person in charge of the unit who sent engineers to cut the chain in order to prevent future troubles.
Therefore, the performance that tourists watch walking high on the iron rope in Yue Feng now is called the dance of death. The performer of this dance of death is an old man who has lived on Dougong Mountain for generations, calmly walking on the iron rope. He first walked slowly like a cloud, then raised his legs like a golden rooster, and then spread his arms like a crane spreading its wings. At the same time, he suddenly rolled over and fell off the cliff ... people watching the performance screamed from time to time.
When I jumped the queue to settle down, I often went to Doulie Mountain to collect firewood. I also heard that there was a flying man on the mountain who came and went freely on the iron rope. Now that I think about it, he should be the old man named Yang Haiping.
At the age of 65,438+03, he witnessed Master Chang Cong of Yunyan Temple walking on the iron rope every day, and then, driven by strong curiosity and competitive spirit, he worshiped Chang Cong as his teacher devoutly, thus practicing his unique skills of walking freely on the iron rope and doing various ornamental movements.
The old man's difficult movements
In the interaction between performers and tourists, the most frequently asked question to Yang Haiping is "Are you afraid?" .
Yang Haiping replied: Since I learned to walk in chains, I'm afraid I've done it once, and I'll never forget it. The fear that he will never forget is the 5. 12 Wenchuan earthquake that all Sichuanese are afraid of.
Before the Wenchuan earthquake, Yang Haiping had just finished performing 10 minutes. At this time, the tourists dispersed and he sat alone in the pavilion for lunch. Suddenly, a sudden earthquake shook the mountain and threw him out of the pavilion and rolled to the edge of the cliff. He did some reflexive somersaults, got out of danger, and then lay on his back in the square outside the pavilion to watch the performance. At this time, I saw a strong yellow smoke permeating the top of the mountain. The three peaks, Dongyue Peak, Feixianfeng and Shenfu Peak, closed one after another, and were about to collide with each other and separate instantly ... Fortunately, he lived behind Dou Mine, although all his houses collapsed, but his family was not injured.
In recent years, I have been to Doulie Mountain many times, and my mood is different from other tourists. Because more than 30 years ago, I used to hunt birds and animals here and cut down trees indiscriminately, leaving a lot of bad records. Fortunately, Castle Peak is still there, and Dou Feng is still there.
Proofreading: Luan Meng
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