Xishan Mountain in Guiping is one of the seven famous mountains in China, also known as Siling Mountain. It is named because it is located at 1 km west of Guiping City. Since Nanliang established Guiping County to govern Xishan Mountain, it has gradually become a tourist attraction. There is a popular saying that "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world, and Guilin is also half a mountain in Sung Hoon". There are towering old trees, clear springs, strange rocks and winding paths on the mountain. With Xishan as the center, there are jintian uprising Ruins, Longtan National Forest Park and scenic spots composed of Datengxia, Baishidong, Luocongfudi, Bauhinia Yaoshan, Xiujing, the ancient city of Zhou Xun, the Tropic of Cancer Sign Tower and the East Tower within 35km. It is "the first Xiushan in the South". Xishan Mountain is famous for its "Lin Xiu, strange stones, spring fragrance, tea fragrance and Buddha's sage". In the ceremony, the wood is shaded, the cave is psychic, the clear spring sprays milk, the fairy tea is fragrant, and the famous monk in the ancient temple is in tin. Under the Western Hills, Qianjiang River meets Jiang Xun, and the East Tower echoes. The ancient city of Zhou Xun is Xiujing, the capital of Dacheng in ancient times. It preserves the sites of Wang Fu, ancient kiln sites in Song Dynasty, Han tombs, Neolithic sites and other places of interest. The Tropic of Cancer Sign Tower, East Tower and Yujiang Hub are all within 3km of the bank of the Dajiang River. Baishi Cave is one of the "twenty-one caves" among the "thirty-six caves" in China. This is a typical Danxia landform, with a dangerous stone peak and the famous Madongli town at the foot of the mountain.
The Xishan Mountain in Guiping is mainly composed of many scenic spots, including the jintian uprising Site of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Taiping Mountain Animal and Plant Nature Reserve, the Zhuang Yao Village of Zijingshan, the Tiannan Fudi Cave in Luocong Cave and Baishi Cave, the Litchi Town in Madong, the ancient city of Zhou Xun, and the Tropic of Cancer sign. With a total area of about 2000 square kilometers, it is a national key scenic spot.
Lin Xiu: The forest in the western hills of Guiping is like the sea, lush, with a forest coverage rate of 98%, with more than 0.3 million trees/kloc-0.7 million cubic meters of timber reserves. The main tree species are pine, banyan, camphor and nightshade, which are called the "four big families" of Xishan jungle. There are more than 500 strains of Gu Song, Gu Rong and Guzhang, all of which are over two or three hundred years old. On the right side of Xishi Temple, there are several rare acacia trees in Guangxi, towering trees, which are the pillars of the building. In the Travel magazine published on 1943, it is introduced that the western hills are densely shaded, "much like the Yun Qi Bamboo Trail in Hangzhou and Feilaifeng Road in Lingyin Temple, but there are many kinds of trees with various postures, which are much better than Lingyin".
Shi Qi: The rocks on the Western Hills belong to biotite granite, which was formed in the early Mesozoic about 654.38+0.8 billion years ago. It has the characteristics of "rough and abrupt", with various forms and unique skills. There are chessboard stones that look like stone platforms, flying stones that come from nowhere, those that are pulled up like mountains and plains, and those that crouch by the roadside like tigers; Li Yin Cave is formed by three huge stones supporting each other, while Yao Wengyan is a cave formed naturally by the sudden depression of one side of a huge stone mountain. As Master Juzan said in the article "Xishan in Guiping", "Even the stones (from Xishan) are more delicious than Feilaifeng (from West Lake in Hangzhou), which seems to be arranged strangely and carefully." It is no exaggeration.
Quangan: There is a milk spring near Longhua Temple. This is Gu Quan, which is about 65,438+0 meters wide and deep at first glance. The east is inexhaustible, and summer does not overflow. Maintain a certain water level and a water temperature of 22-22 degrees Celsius all year round. Zhou Xun County Records said that this spring is as clear as Hangzhou Longjing, but it is too sweet, and sometimes it spits out juice as white as milk, hence the name Ruquan. Ruquan is a rare natural soft water with clear water quality and few impurities. Spring water contains a lot of natural oxygen, which can react with impurities in tea and wine and make it volatilize. Therefore, the tea soaked in milk spring water is particularly fragrant, and the wine soaked in milk spring water is particularly mellow.
Tea fragrance: Xishan Mountain is full of rainfall, sunshine, spring and fragrant soil. As early as the Tang Dynasty, tea trees were planted on the mountain. By the Ming Dynasty, Xishan Tea had enjoyed a high reputation in Guangdong, Guangxi and Hunan. According to the records of Guiping county in the Republic of China, Xishan tea leaves Guanyin rock in Ruquan well on Xishan chessboard, with low plants scattered and green leaves on the floor. Promise? Roots suck stone pulp, leaves are opposite to piers, and it tastes sweet and fragrant. On a hot day, it's hot. I avoid meditation, take milk spring water and cook it, and rush to the dust. Hangzhou Longjing failed to catch it.
The other seven scenic spots in the western hills of Guiping are:
Dangerous Peak Chaoyang: Guanyin Rock has a strange cliff right in front, and there is a pavilion on the cliff, facing east. Photographers like to take photos of sunrise in the western hills here, hence the name Chaoyang Pavilion. If you look far from the railing, the scene is open and spectacular, which seems to be better than Longhua Temple. This is the "dangerous peak and rising sun" in the new scene of Xishan.
Ding Quan, Hongqiao: Climbing from "reaching the sky in one step", about 500 meters, you can see a bridge flying between the cliff and the dangerous road of the eight-character stone, which looks like a rainbow, also called Hongqiao. Get on the bridge. Looking down from the mountain, it seems to be in the clouds. By the bridge, a trickle flows down from the cliff to form a clear spring, which is actually the same source as the milk spring.
Huixian County in Changsha: about 100 meters above Hongqiao. The canyon is 40 meters long, with towering cliffs on both sides and a path in the middle, which can only accommodate 1 person. The wind blows gently in the gorge, and you can only see a ray of blue sky when you look up, so it is also called "a ray of sky". According to folklore, people with fate can often meet immortals here. On the stone wall at the entrance to the southern end of Longxia, there are three big characters inscribed by Master Kuan Neng. It turns out that Huixian Gorge is also called Shenxian Gorge.
Long Ting Watching the Sun: Standing on the precipice under Huixian Gorge, it is a two-story hexagonal pavilion. The eaves and ridges are decorated with six dragons, which are eager to fly and have extraordinary momentum. This is the highest place in Xishan Scenic Area. If the rooster crows, you can enjoy the new scene of "dragon pavilion watching the sun": at the end of the river, it is vast and chaotic, gradually turning from dark to bright, showing a glow; In an instant, the rising sun is like fire, bursting out and rising slowly; There are thousands of golden lights, reflecting the three rivers of Xun, Qian and Chongqing. The earth wakes up from a deep sleep, and the countryside is full of vitality and weather.
Hanging on the plank road: From Long Ting, you should walk slowly down the mountain, about 300 meters long. The plank road winds down along the cliff, and the stone steps are paved with cement, about 1 m wide, with railings next to them. Because of the high terrain, tourists will feel adventurous and fearless when walking on it. Looking from the plank road, the three rivers are vast and the land is vast, which is a different scene.
Listen: After walking on the plank road and through the dense jungle, you can go to "Listen to Songxuan". Here, the pine forest is like the sea, the mountain wind blows, making waves, blowing sand on the flat land, raining at night in the valley, forgiving the tide in the sea, and roaring tigers in the deep mountains ... There is a poem by predecessors to describe this scene: "Suddenly lying on a couch, dreaming of a tiger howling, thousands of forests shaking, strong winds blowing the waves."
Lianxi Waterfall: From Tingsongxuan to the north, about 50 or 60 meters down the stone steps, you arrive at Lianxi, formerly known as Catfish Creek. Because Zhou Dunyi (no. Lianxi), a Neo-Confucianist in the Northern Song Dynasty, came to Guiping to give lectures and often visited the Western Hills. Later generations named this stream after his nickname. Lianxi has been flowing for years, and the stream falls along the mountain. If the mountain spring is steep and long after the rain, the silver flow will fly down. From a distance, it looks like white practice hanging high, and from a distance, it looks like green sea smoke.