The Yandang Mountain in Wenzhou is a wonder of the world, but no one has talked about it since ancient times. Among auspicious symbols, it is seen by people because it was built in Yuqing Palace and was cut down from the mountain. According to western books, Arhat Norodom lives at the foot of Furong Peak in Yandang Mountain, southeast of Aurora. The Tang Priest Guan Xiu named it "Nuoluo Dun Luozan" with the words "Yandang Jingmo Yunmo, Longling". There are two pools of water at the foot of the mountain, thinking it is a dragon. There is a big lake at the top of the mountain, which is said to be called Yandang. At the foot of the mountain, there are two pools called Longba. There is also a canyon for walking and a peak for feasting, both of which are named after Guan Xiu's poems. Xie Lingyun kept Yongjia and traveled all over the country, never talking about this mountain. Beggars didn't have the name Yandang at that time.
Looking at the peaks of Yandang Mountain, all of them are steep and strange, towering over thousands of feet, and the huge valley on the cliff, unlike other mountains, are all wrapped in valleys. From the outside of the ridge, you can't see anything; In the valley, the clouds are dry. The original reason is that the valley is flooded and the sand is gone, but the boulder stands upright. For example, dragons, water curtains and the first moon valley are all water-dug caves. From the bottom, the high cliff is suitable for the horizon, even the peak, and is lower than the ground at the top of the mountain. The water there was chiseled in the gullies of the world.
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Yandang Mountain in Wenzhou is a strange and beautiful mountain in the world, but it has never been recorded in maps and geographical data since ancient times. In the period of Xiangfu (Song Dynasty), this mountain was discovered because of the need to build Yuqing Palace and cut down wood. There is no mountain name at this time. According to the records of the Western Regions, Luohan (name) lived in Yandang, a seaside in the southeast of China. There is a poem "Wild geese wave clouds, dragons feast and sit in misty rain". There is a lotus peak in the south of this mountain, and there is a lotus column under the peak, which overlooks the sea, but most people didn't know where Yandang and Longyan were, and later (Song Dynasty) they began to see it because of logging. There are two pools (big and small) under the mountain, so it is regarded as (big and small) Longtan. There is also a canyon and a mountain peak for feasting, both named after Guan Xiu's poems. When Xie Lingyun was appointed as the prefect of Yongjia, he almost visited the landscape of Yongjia (the region), but did not mention it.
I have observed many peaks in Yandang Mountain, some are steep, some are steep and some are strange. They are thousands of feet high, with towering cliffs and huge valleys, unlike other mountains. (Many peaks of Yandang Mountain) are contained in some valleys. I can't see anything from the outside of the surrounding mountains. Walking into the valley, (only these peaks are visible) stand steeply and soar into the sky. The reason for its formation should be that it was washed away by the flood water in the valley, and all the sand was washed away, but the huge rock stood upright. Like the dragon dragon, the water curtain, the first moon valley, (also) all (yes). From above, (the peaks in the valley are as high as the surrounding mountains), and (even so) the tops of many peaks are lower than the ground of the surrounding mountains. Where streams and valleys in the world are washed away by water, there are towering soil layers and rocks with sunken bottoms like shrines. This is the case. The principle is the same. ) At present, in the Grand Canyon to the west of Shaanxi, the towering soil layers are often hundreds of feet high and stand tall, among which there are many intact and small-scale Yandang Mountain peaks, but here is loess and there is stony. Many peaks of Yandang Mountain were not found by the ancients because they were not standing on the ground, but covered by deep valleys and old forests. Xie Lingyun.