Tianfo Cave is the core area of ??Zhashui Cave National Geopark, connected by Tian Cave and Buddha Cave. It is located in the center of Zhashui Cave National Geopark, on the mountainside of Yingying Mountain at an altitude of 805 meters. There is plenty of sunshine, fresh air and quiet environment. The stalactites of different shapes in the cave are dazzling and colorful, and the stalagmites, stone mantles, stone curtains, and stone waterfalls are so beautiful; the stone birds, stone beasts, stone Buddhas, and stone monkeys are lifelike; the crystal clear stone flowers, stone fruits, and stone Mushrooms and stone grapes are mouth-watering; the vast and profound natural art palace amazes tourists!
Foye Cave, the entrance of the cave faces northwest, with an altitude of 797 meters. In 1998, a 3-meter-high bronze Buddha statue was placed at the entrance of the cave. Visitors can exit the cave through the sleeves of the bronze Buddha, which is quite interesting.
Before the seventh year of the Republic of China (1918 AD), there were two Buddha statues in the courtyard inside the cave, which were lifelike and full of ecology. In the eighth year of the Republic of China (1919 AD), local people moved the two Buddhas to Baishen Cave. The cave is a karst cave with four levels: upper, middle, lower and bottom. It has 7 large courtyards and 23 small courtyards. The large one is flat and open, like the Mahavira Palace; the small one is elegant and beautiful, like a Suzhou garden. The scenery in this cave is unique, majestic and bizarre. The most worth-seeing attractions are: Welcome Hall, Pincui Corridor, Wollongong, White Girl Cave, Lotus Column, Two Buddhas Guanhai City, Monkey King Orders Soldiers, Chrysanthemum Hall, Mushroom Pagoda, Qiying Cliff, Bijia Mountain, Turtle Breaking into the Sea, Our Lady of the Heavenly Palace, Water Curtain Pool, Water Curtain Cave, Water Curtain Palace, Lion Town Qifeng, General’s Night Patrol, Xiangzi’s Hard Study, etc. The poem in the welcome hall says: "With a radius of 200 meters, there is a cave in the sky. It is not the land of Wuling, but better than the Peach Blossom Spring."
The Zhuanjing Tower in Foye Cave is the most representative of the Zhashui Cave Group. The exquisite landscape is full of stone figures, stone arhats, stone elephants, stone horses, sea stone flowers, hanging stalactites and stalagmites, which is breathtaking.
Tian Cave is adjacent to Foye Cave. It is a corridor-style cave, and the scenery inside the cave is within reach. Because after entering the cave, step by step, you have the potential to reach the sky, so it is named. According to the analysis of geologists, this cave is connected with Foye Cave, but no passage has been found yet. Compared with Foye Cave, it has the characteristics of thrilling, clear paragraphs and simple images. The main attractions include: Jade Waterfall Hall, Lotus Pond, Dragon Palace, Jinghun Road, Luohan Hall, Guan'an Thatched Cottage, etc. The poem about the lotus pond says: "The sound is louder, the lotus blooms, and the smiles are on the jade pool. The goddess in the heaven is full of spring, looking for her lover by the lotus pond." On the mountainside 1 kilometer north of Shiwengzi, it is said that there is a small hole in the cave with strong winds. More than that, hence the name. The cave is about 15 kilometers deep and has twists and turns. There are 5 halls that can accommodate more than 1,000 people. They are large-scale and bizarre. The main attractions include: Mural Hall, Black Dragon Pond, Huanglong Pond, Guofeng Tower, Bat Hall, and the habitat of Taoist priests Chen and Yang. A poem written by Chen and Yang Erdao Tuqi said: "Put aside fame and wealth, fight for justice and denounce corrupt officials. It is difficult to imprison heroes, only the bones are left to inspire future generations."
The wind tunnel is also known as the cliff maze. It is located at the northern end of the main tourist area of ??the cave in Shiweng Town, Zhashui County. It is named because of the cold wind blowing in the cave and the four seasons. The cave is characterized by long and winding paths and charming trails. It is 30 kilometers deep. Inside the cave are Guanyin Rock, sails on the vast sea, dragon girl going out to sea, mandarin ducks swimming together, swans playing in the water, rhinos looking at the moon, birds paying homage to the phoenix, the King of Hell's Bianstone, Sun Slope, Jade Emperor Palace, Lotus Pond, Ecstasy Array and other natural landscapes.
The Wind Cave is located at the northern end of the main tourist area of ??Zhashui Cave, at the foothills of Putuo Mountain on the east bank of the Qianyou River. Looking from the road, the entrance to the cave is right in front of you.
I heard that the Wind Cave is a cliff maze. The cave is 30 miles deep and cannot be exited in one day. There is always a danger of getting lost.
The Wind Cave is a magical and famous cave. As early as the Tang Dynasty, there was such a record in "Mazhi": "The stone urn in the South Valley is hollow between the rocks, allowing people to come in and out. The wind coming from the soles of the feet resounds through the sky. There is Guanyin Rock above. Since ancient times, tourists Come to this scenic spot more often.”
Guanyin Rock is a small cave on the north side of Fengdong. "Tang. "Geographical Records" records: "There is Guanyin Rock near Yezhuping. In front of it is the Bianstone Road, which is quite steep. Residents have carved Buddha statues in the rock and built pavilions on it. Anyone who answers their prayers will hang a curtain to reward them. The green mountains of Qianshan are competing for admission. Among the rocks. When you climb up to the tower and look out at the mountains at Zhuping and Duifengtai at night, there are clouds flying outside the curtain, which is really a spiritual realm beside the road." According to the "Book of Tang", "Bai Juyi, a Hanlin scholar of the Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty, had a friendship with Jia Dao. Because the island was quiet and peaceful, Ju Yi visited him and wrote several quatrains." Among them, there is a poem "The Rock Curtain Amuses the Green" recorded in the old county annals of Zhen'an. Guanyin Rock is the most suitable for viewing the moon. It is a pity that there is no host and the poem goes like this: "The cliff is covered with green and exposed eaves. Who hangs the six-foot curtain on the top of the building? Old Bai The sky is full of mist, and the light and clouds are slender. The Lingzhao Han Pavilion has never been reduced, and the rain has stopped in the south mountain. The most is Pengdao next to the road. It is said that Bai Juyi and Jia Dao were there. After the Stone Urn Tour, we climbed Xiantao Mountain, passed Li Mountain, arrived at Yungai Temple, and hid in Baishilang Cave.
Before March 1950, Shiweng was under the jurisdiction of the town. The annals of Zhen'an County record that "in the seventh year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1802), the landlord Qian Zong Chen Fengzhang built a wall and battlements at the entrance of the cave to serve as a refuge for residents. After Jiaqing, those who fled from thieves and bandits returned home from far and near." In 1989, Development When the wind tunnel was built, based on historical data, the old city walls were restored and beautified, which can be regarded as a cultural landscape at the entrance of the wind tunnel. With the double eaves box office and entrance verandah, wouldn't it look more grand?
The wind tunnel The geological structure of the wind tunnel: The structure of the wind tunnel is complex, mainly due to the staggered roads in the tunnel. The routes in many places are like spider webs. It can be said that it extends in all directions, but it does not necessarily mean that "all roads lead to Beijing."
Before the wind tunnel was developed, the road was difficult and dangerous, and it was impossible to enter or exit the wind tunnel without a group of three or five people, equipped with torches, ropes, and straw sandals.
Coming in from the calm cave, there was not a trace of wind along the way, but when I arrived here, my clothes were dressed up and my eyebrows were fluttering, which was amazing. This is the "Guofeng Tower". According to the Zhen'an County Chronicle, "The cold wind blows here all year round. This is how the wind tunnel got its name." Liu Tai's poem of the Ming Dynasty goes: "The craggy and strange rocks lean against the clouds, and the caves lock in haze and clouds, and it's cold in June." Yuan Mei's poem in the Qing Dynasty said:
"There is a strong wind in the sky, who would have thought that this cave would come into existence. I went in with my body bent, and the wind greeted me and the wind blew away." Aren't these poems praising the unique phenomena of nature?
Go down from the side of Guofeng Tower and enter the "Dripwater Rock", also known as the "Ten Thousand People Hall". The size of this hall is like a modern stadium. The milkstones on the roof and walls of the cave are condensed into lifelike shapes such as "Sail on the Vast Sea", "Dragon Girl Going to the Sea", "Mandarin Ducks Swimming Together", "Swans Playing in the Water", "Rhino Looking at the Moon", "Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix" etc. . There is a deep pool on the side of the cave, which never overflows or dries up at all times. The annals of Zhen'an County record that "tens of thousands of people drink water without exhaustion", which refers to this pool. Very beautiful.
Crossing the "Yam Wang Bian", passing through: 'Taiyang Slope' and 'Xiaoyang Slope', you will reach the 'Eight Mu Field'. The old county records recorded this place as the 'Hundred Mu Field' , obviously describes its large area. In this place, the landscape is paved on the ground. The emulsion dripping from the cave roof condenses into farmland on the ground. There are dry fields, terraced fields, and cotton stalks. , there are ears of grain, melons and fruits, and crops are abundant.
Turn right and go down from the eight-acre field, bypassing several landscapes, and you can reach the "Nantian Gate". It is not the door for the gods to enter and exit the heavenly palace. ? Standing in the distance and looking into the door, you can see that the water inside the door is connected with the clouds, the clouds are connected with the sky, the water and the sky are the same color, and the sea of ??fog is a sea. It really has the charm of a heavenly palace. When you look closely at the door, you can see that there are eight tall ones. The stone pillars are neatly arranged together to form a city gate. In the old days, local people lived in groups here to avoid chaos, using torches as light and the smoke from boiling water and cooking. Over time, it has been difficult to distinguish. The pillar is still a door. After entering, you can see a forest of white jade pagodas with dense collection of scenic spots, some like the Leaning Tower, and some like the Liuhe Pagoda. In May 2008, when a famous poet and writer from Gansu Province and several journalists visited the cave, they took several color photos and paired them with a poem, which was published in Shaanxi Pictorial: "Perhaps you have traveled throughout the motherland and seen various The scenic view of various towers; when you come here and look around, you must marvel at the divine creation in the cave. All the pagodas in the world are gathered here, each showing off their different beautiful shapes. At this time, you seem to see the slanting shadow by the West Lake and hear the evening drums and morning bells of the Ci'en Temple in ancient Chang'an. "
Nantianmen is also called Toudaomen. The large hall between Toudaomen and Erdaomen is the "sitting place." According to the annals of Zhen'an County: "There is a stone at the entrance of the cave with an inscription from the Ming Dynasty on it. Taoist priests Chen and Yang lived in Qixia. Inside the cave, where he sat and died, his bones and tin staff still exist. It is surrounded by bricks and stones, and visitors are worshiped by the God of Salt. ”
According to legend, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, two Taoist priests, Chen and Yang, came from Wudang Mountain in Hubei, a world-famous Taoist mountain. They saw the beautiful stone urn landscape, dotted with temples, and the fairy spirit. Reciting sutras here will definitely lead to positive results. So they entered the wind tunnel, hoping to find a place to become immortals. They walked for seven days and seven nights, and when the candles were burned out and the dry food was exhausted, they walked. When they were in trouble, they found a shining Tianhe in front of them. They were saved and rushed to the Tianhe. They met an old woman sitting by the river washing clothes. They asked how to cross the river. The old woman persuaded them to return and gave them some wormwood. It was used for lighting on the way home. After receiving this advice, the two returned quickly. When they arrived not far from the Nantian Gate, the wormwood had burned out. Knowing that they could not survive, they closed their eyes and meditated, chanting something... and became immortals.
Bypassing the Jade Emperor Palace and the Lotus Pond, let’s not talk about the scenery of these two places. Let’s just talk about the “Bactrian Camel” located not far from the pond. Its origin is also very simple. Legend has it that Monk Tang came back from the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures. , the Buddha in the West gave a camel to carry scriptures to its owner. However, the animal was unwilling to endure hard labor and took the opportunity to desert when the masters and disciples were crossing the Tongtian River. However, it did not dare to return to the West. It traveled from west to east, passing through Xinjiang and Gansu, and finally arrived at Shiweng. It saw that this place was better than the western sky, so it stayed here and did not go anywhere else. Later, Sun Wukong found that the camel was missing, so he went back to the West to ask for it, and only then did he find it hiding here. . Although the Buddha was angry, he couldn't bear to kill, so he clasped his hands and chanted Amitabha towards the wind tunnel, and then fixed the animal here.
Walking inside, there is a hall on the left called "Ecstasy". There is a small entrance from this stone gorge, and you can enter the circular hall. There are countless caves around the hall, and they are so similar that it is difficult to tell which one you are coming from. Where you come in is where you should exit. Visitors often get lost when they come here. If you don't put a sign or mark the cave you entered, it will be troublesome when you return. If you want to give it a try, then you can try it. Some caves have long corridors that get further and further away, and you can't get out; some twist and turn, and then come back to where you started; some are dead ends, and you have to go back to where you started. < /p>
The ecstasy array has not yet been developed.
It would be a blessing to go into the cave before it is developed and appreciate the weirdness and dangers of nature...
There is a cave to the left from the enchantment array, which leads to the "Bat Hall". This is a hall that can accommodate thousands of people. As soon as he entered the hall, there was a sudden loud "pop" sound, which shocked people. When you are still in shock, the loud noise dissipates, but there is no sound. It turns out that there are thousands of bats here. When they hear external noises, they spread their wings and fly together, making a loud noise. When they realized there was no danger, they landed in small caves on the rock wall. It is located in the middle of the mountain in Silver Cave, Xigangou, with an altitude of 1,800 meters. At the entrance of the cave is a large tamarisk tree with a height of 30 meters and a trunk diameter of 1.5 meters. There are more than ten iron nails on the tree body and it is now growing vigorously. According to legend, Dahongliu has been guarding the entrance of the Dragon King in the cave for thousands of years and has great merits. The Dragon King was grateful and allowed her to transform into Miss Liu and marry Wu Xiaohai, a mortal. Later generations named the cave Yuxia Cave to commemorate Miss Liu's love that was as clear as jade and as moist as clouds. Its main attractions are: Eighteen Pools, Jingguan Terrace, Chongyan Waterfall, Crab Belly, and Sacrifice Gate. , Qinglongtan, etc. Chongyan fell down the waterfall and said: "The blue stream is rushing with waves, and the ups and downs are full of sound. The sky and the earth are shaking with thunder, and the thin willows are dancing in the east wind. I am proud and passionate, and I like to see thousands of horses galloping." Jinling Cave is located in the waist of the west valley, 1800 meters above sea level. meters, more than 100 meters away from Yuxia Cave. It is named after a golden bell tower at the entrance of the cave. The surrounding forests are lush, with pine, poplar, oak, and tamarisk covering the sky. Goats, wild boars, bears, and deer walk through the forest from time to time. The main attractions include: Pagoda, Thousand Buddha Cliff, Shouxian Palace, Jade Emperor Palace, Jiangjun Peak, etc. The Jade Emperor's Palace poem says: "The white jade blossoms are not distinguishable at night, and the world is still leaking out of the palace." The fragrance of the embroidered quilt makes people drunk, excited and excited, and they look at the dust in the sky. ”
The Karst Cave in Shiweng Town, Zhashui was developed and opened in 1985. Later, the road paving and lantern decoration in Foye Cave, Cave, Baishen Cave, and Feng Cave were completed, and many structures were built. Village. With the completion of Xikang Railway and Xikang Secondary Highway, the traffic conditions have been greatly improved. It only takes two hours by train or car from Xi'an. Domestic and foreign tourists flock to Zhashui Cave to feast their eyes on it.