Qixing Park is named after the mountain. It is a must-see place for people, which is a collection of mountains, humps, Mount Putuo, Qixingyan, Crescent Mountain and Guihai forest of steles. The main tourist attractions in the scenic area: Qixingyan Qixingyan is located in the abdomen of Putuo Mountain in Qixing Park. The cave is about 11 meters long, 5 meters wide and 2 meters high. Qixingyan is also called Qixia Cave, Bixu Rock, etc. The name of Qixingyan originated in the Song Dynasty. This rock was originally an underground river bed, but due to the crustal change, the underground river rose, exposing the ground and becoming a cave. Later, in the long years, the rain continued to infiltrate along the cracks in the rocks, dissolving limestone, and constantly crystallizing in the caves, thus forming many kinds of stalactites, stalagmites, stone pillars, stone curtains, stone flowers, etc., and there are many magnificent and interesting scenery, which is known as the "fairy cave house" and has a spectacular natural scenery. Qixingyan is now one of the most famous tourist attractions in Guilin. Qixingyan is magnificent and profound, with spectacular scenery. The cave is divided into three layers and the whole journey is 814 meters. Now the middle layer for sightseeing is divided into six caves, with the widest point of 43 meters and the highest point of 27 meters, and the cave temperature is kept at around 2℃ all the year round. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Qixingyan has become a tourist attraction, leaving many poems and inscriptions. Sean Z, a painter in the Ming Dynasty, called it "the first cave in heaven" and carved it on the stone wall, which became the first landscape that tourists saw when they entered the cave.
The gate of the scenic spot overlooks from the sky. The seven peaks of Seven Star Park are like the Big Dipper in the sky, and there are three peaks in front of them, like bucket handle, called "Crescent Mountain". There are four peaks in the north, like buckets, called "Putuo Mountain". Two mountains and seven peaks, like the "Big Dipper" in Tianshan Mountain, are collectively called "Seven-Star Mountain". Seven Star Park and Seven Star Rock are also named after this. In addition to the prestigious Qixingyan, there is also a national key cultural relics protection unit-Guihai Beilin Museum. Famous scenic spots include: The Big Dipper, Huaqiao Hong Ying, Crescent Moon Wonderland, Long Yin Miracle, Putuo Stone Forest, Qixia Real Land, Hushan Chixia, Guihai Stele Forest, Light of China, Bonsai Art Garden and so on. The whole park has a beautiful environment, and it has become a tourist attraction as early as the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Deng Xiaoping, Guo Moruo, Clinton and many other Chinese and foreign celebrities and heads of government have visited the park. There are four gates in Qixing Park. When you visit, you can try not to go back, and arrange the route reasonably in the west of Qixing Park and east of Huaqiao. Stone stands tall and straight like a column, so it has the name of "Tianzhu". Another example is the unopened hibiscus, also known as "hibiscus stone". The stone is about 1 meters high and engraved with seven characters "Long live Mao Zedong Thought". Lingjian River is in the north, and there is a small pavilion on the rocky stone in the river. Southeast lush trees, surrounded by shade. There are Ficus microcarpa on the top of the stone, which are graceful and covered. The flood marks in the fifth year of Chongning (116) and the eleventh year of Guangxu (1885) are engraved in the north of Tianzhu, which are important materials for studying ancient hydrology. Kuang Zhouyi, a famous Lingui poet in the late Qing Dynasty, once lived under Tianzhu Peak, and he had a small seal of "Tianzhu Peak is a family", which was often stamped on the stationery.
Flower Bridge
The landscape of Guilin is the best in the world. Meng Hanliang Calligraphy Flower Bridge is the oldest bridge in Guilin, which was built in the reign of Jia Xi in the Song Dynasty. It is located at the main entrance of the park, across the confluence of Xiaodongjiang River and Lingjian Stream, with a total length of 135 meters. There are wind and rain corridors on the bridge deck, green glazed tiles on the bridge pavilion, and the bridge is a rock with a strong national style. Every spring and summer, the flowers bloom brilliantly, and there are many flowers along the bridge. Peach blossoms and bamboos are planted on both sides of the bridge, and the bridge is hidden in the "full stream and half stream flowers", hence the name Huaqiao. The existing bridge is a four-hole bridge rebuilt in 1965 according to the original style, which is built by bluestone. Under the bridge, the four semicircular bridge holes and their reflections in the water form four jade plates, which are like a full moon, just like the beautiful scenery of "Flower Bridge Hong Ying" sung in the poem "Four bright moons with hibiscus, half into Chengjiang and half into the rainbow". Mount Putuo is the main body of Qixing Park. It consists of Tian Shu, Tianxuan, Tianji and Tianquan in the northwest of Qixing Mountain. At an altitude of 265 meters, it is commonly known as Putuo because Guanyin Bodhisattva is worshipped on the mountain. Mount Putuo is rich in landscape, with many caves and pavilions. Qixingyan is the most famous one, and the pavilion is especially unique with Qixia Pavilion and Bixu Pavilion. There is a yuan wind tunnel at the west foot of the mountain, which is hot in midsummer, but it is breezy here. From here, not far from the north along the osmanthus tree-lined road, Putuo Gate is the entrance to the mountain. There are many landscapes such as Putuo Stone Forest, Putuo Building, Guanyin Cave and Xuanwu Pavilion on the mountain. Until the Star-Picking Pavilion on Tianji Peak, you can see the magnificent scenery of "A Thousand Peaks Surround the Wild, One Water Holding the City Flow" written by Liu Kezhuang, a great poet in the Song Dynasty.
There are many cultural relics and historic sites in Putuo Mountain, including more than 2 stone carvings. The most precious ones are "Xiaoyao Building" in Yan Zhenqing in Tang Dynasty, "Bixuming" by Fan Chengda in Song Dynasty, and the relief of "tortoise and snake in one" in Ming Dynasty. Camel Mountain (Hump Mountain) is located behind Putuo Mountain, which looks like a camel squatting on the ground. Because it looks like an ancient hip flask, it is also called Hushan or hip flask mountain. Because its state resembles a camel, it is named. In the late Ming Dynasty, celebrities from the south of the Yangtze River lived here in seclusion and planted peach blossoms all over the place. Every spring, peach blossoms are flourishing, and the flowers bloom like red clouds, which seems to cover Camel Mountain with red clouds. The scenery is extremely beautiful. The ancients called it "hump red clouds" and it is one of the top ten scenic spots in Guilin.
In July, 1998, US President Bill Clinton gave an environmental protection speech on the lawn in front of Camel Mountain after holding a forum on environmental protection with China folk in the bonsai art garden beside the mountain, and said it while shaking a folding fan in Guilin, and humorously called it "energy-saving air conditioning".
whenever the morning dawns, the sunset glow reflects the rocks, which are colorful and spectacular. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, peach trees have been planted all over the mountain. If it comes in spring, the peach blossoms are brilliant and Jiangxia is purple, which is particularly enchanting. Therefore, "Hushan Chixia" is one of the new eight scenic spots in Guilin in Qing Dynasty. There are pavilions around the mountain, such as zoo, bonsai art garden, flower garden tea room and so on. Camel Mountain is related to Lei Jiuren, and Lei Jiuren is related to wine. Lei Jiuren, formerly known as Lei Mingchun, was a bright worker, a Confucian scholar in the south of the Yangtze River at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and then he went to Guilin and lived at the foot of the mountain. Lei Mingchun likes to drink, and he is often drunk. People sometimes call him "the wine man". He is good at poetry and writing, and has written works such as Da Wen Shen and Tian Hai Zhi of Guilin. He also planted peach blossoms in front of the mountains and behind the mountains. Every spring, when the peach blossoms bloom year after year, the hump is more lively and energetic among the flowers. Lei Jiuren died and was buried at the foot of Camel Mountain. Wen Linlang Fan Shu, a magistrate of Lingao County, Guangdong Province, carved the words "Tomb of the Drunken Man" on the camel neck of Camel Mountain in the fifty-second year of Kangxi, expressing his admiration for his helpfulness, loyalty and moral integrity. Peach blossoms remain the same, osmanthus trees become forests, flowers and fruits are full of gardens, and "Hushan Chixia" is more colorful. Long Yin Cave in Guihai Forest of Steles and the inscriptions in Longyin Rock nearby are right, so that "the wall elements finish the stone", so it is called Guihai Forest of Steles. There are more than 22 stone carvings in the forest of steles, covering economy, military affairs, culture, folk customs, etc., in various forms, including poems, essays, songs, couplets, images, etc., and the calligraphy styles are kai, Cao, Li and seal, etc., which have high historical value and calligraphy art appreciation value.
thousands of important stone rubbings of other rocks in Guilin have been collected in the stele pavilion of Guilin, all of which are rare treasures. The map of Jingjiang Fucheng, which is extended from Parrot Mountain in the north of Guilin, is one of the two oldest existing ancient stone carving maps in China and the largest stone carving city map in China. This map was the first to use landscape symbols, which is an important pioneering work in the history of map design. There are also Han Yunqing's Ode to Ping Man and Shun Temple Monument in the Tang Dynasty, which record the process of pacifying Pan Changan, the chief of Xiyuan in the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, Kong Yanzhi's "The Head Record of Yi Thief" and Yu Jing's "The Monument of Ping Man in the Great Song Dynasty" described the situation of the Song Dynasty's pacification of Ou Xifan in Yizhou. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Chen Mishou's "A Record of Newly-built Ku Ku" and Li Zengbo's "A Monument to Resist the Yuan Dynasty" recorded the course of the Yuan Army's attack on Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan and Song Jun. Yuan wind tunnel was called Xuan wind tunnel in ancient times, commonly known as labor volume rock. At the west foot of Mount Putuo, the entrance of the cave faces west, with a height of 3-24 meters, a width of 2-15 meters and a depth of 25 meters, covering an area of 1,945 square meters. The Yuanfeng Tunnel is connected with other caves in Putuo Mountain, forming air convection, and there is a strong airflow at the entrance, and the air in the cave is fresh. Due to sunshine and the accumulation and dispersion of mountain heat, the temperature in the cave is kept at around 2℃ all year round. The temperature outside the cave is as high as 39℃ in summer and -5℃ in winter. The temperature difference between inside and outside the cave is about 15℃. The characteristics and reasons of Yuan Wind Tunnel's warm in winter and cool in summer are accurately summarized by the inscription "Different conditions of warm and cool" in the cave and the record "It's as warm as fire in winter, and the sign of Gaiyang's crouching" in Tian Rucheng's Travel Notes. Zhao Shaoyin, a poet in Song Dynasty, once built a "Laifeng Pavilion" at the entrance of the cave, a "Seven-Star Temple" in Ming and Lu Dynasties, and a "Daxian Temple" in Qing Dynasty, which has now disappeared.