Twelve peaks in Wushan, Yu Yun
Wushan mountain range is located at the junction of Sichuan and Hubei, with Daba Mountain in the north and northeast and southwest. Wuyun Mountain, the main peak, is 2400 meters above sea level. The Yangtze River crosses the Wushan anticline from west to east, and a hundred miles of Wu gorge appears. Because Wushan is one of the famous rainstorm areas in China, with abundant rainfall and large limestone area, under the long-term wind and rain erosion and deep flow of rivers, magnificent peaks and beautiful mountain scenery have been formed, and the Twelve Peaks are fascinating leaders in Wushan peak forest.
Twelve peaks in Wushan are located on both sides of the Yangtze River in the east of Wushan County. There are six peaks in the north and south of the Yangtze River, each of which is 30 kilometers away from the county seat 10-30. The six peaks in Jiangbei are Denglong, Shengquan, Chaoyun, Wang Xia (Goddess), Songluan and Jixian, all of which can be seen one by one. Only Feng Fei, Cuiping and He Ju can be seen after the six peaks in the south of the Yangtze River rose from the altar to the clouds and hidden in the shore mountains. Twelve peaks are picturesque and have a myriad of postures throughout the ages. Be good at the world. These two ancient poems, "The boat goes down the Wuxia Gorge and the heart is at the Twelve Peaks", express people's admiration for the Twelve Peaks.
In addition to the beautiful peaks, the unpredictable Wushan Yunyu greatly increases its mystery. The humid air in the gorge area with high mountains and deep valleys rises slowly along the hillside, sometimes forming mist and drizzle, sometimes turning into rolling dark clouds, and sometimes turning into white fog. The Twelve Peaks are hidden from time to time, which is suspected to be a fairyland.
Many people in ancient China wrote poems in the name of the Twelve Peaks. Now we record one:
Zeng Bujing visited Jixian County in the altar, and Yun Qi Yunchu;
Climb to the top of the mountain to watch the sunset, and the bright moon shines on the emerald screen to gather cranes.
Only to see Longteng Hanyu, watching Feng Fei get Qingchuan;
On both sides of the strait, the pines and pines are all over the mountains, but they are friends drinking holy springs.
The relative height between the twelve peaks in Wushan and the river surface.
the goddess peak
Looking at Xia Feng, also known as goddess peak. Located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, about15km east of Wushan County. A huge stone stands out from the crowd in the clouds of Qingfeng-xiangguang fracture, just like a graceful and beautiful girl, hence the name goddess peak. The ancients said that "the peaks and mountains occupy the clouds, and the foot of the mountain goes straight into the river. Commentators say that Thailand, China, Heng and Lu are all strange". Whenever clouds fill the peak, human-shaped stone pillars are like gauze, which is more affectionate and charming. Every day, the first one greets the splendid morning glow, and the last one sends away the splendid sunset glow, hence the name "Wangxiafeng".
The 23rd daughter of the Queen Mother of the West lived in Yaochi Palace, and her name was Yao Ji. She is smart and beautiful, kind-hearted, lively and cheerful, and can't bear the lonely life in the palace. On August 15, she invited eleven sisters around her to travel around the world. When I came to Wushan, I saw twelve dragons making waves, and Dayu, who was in charge of water control, was also surrounded by floods. Yao Ji admired Dayu's spirit of water control and decided to help him with it. He gave Dayu a water conservancy gobbledygook. Before Yao Ji could tell Dayu how to decipher this gobbledygook, she was caught by the heavenly soldiers sent by the Western Queen Mother and sent back to the palace. The twelve fairies have long been tired of life in the fairy palace. They broke free from the chains of God and returned to the world to help Dayu clear the gorge for disaster relief. From then on, Yao Ji fell in love with the Three Gorges, running between the peaks of Wushan Mountain all day, killing water monsters for boat people, driving tigers and leopards for woodcutter, and spreading sex for farmers ... Twelve sisters forgot to go back to the palace. Over time, they have become twelve wonderful and beautiful peaks standing on both sides of Wuxia Gorge. Yao Ji, an outstanding representative of the twelve fairies, stands on the highest mountain peak and is the first to greet the morning glow every day, thus winning the reputation of "Wang Xiafeng".
The legend of goddess peak is widely circulated in the Three Gorges area, with different opinions. These legends have pinned the good wishes of the people of the Three Gorges to conquer the dangerous beaches and overcome the bad water. In order to commemorate the "goddess" in their minds, the people of Wushan revered her as "wonderful as a real person" and built a concentrated landscape (goddess temple) for her at Fengfeifeng. A platform on the mountainside is the desk where the goddess gave Yu Xia books.
After the impoundment of the Three Gorges Dam, tourists still need to look up at the pomegranate skirt as they do now in order to appreciate the graceful charm of the goddess.
From Yunfeng, 720 meters;
Cuiping Peak, 740 meters;
Feifengfeng, 740 meters;
Rise, etc. , 780 meters;
Juhefeng, 820 meters;
Songluan Peak, 820 meters;
Chao Yunfeng, 820 meters;
Jixian peak, 840 meters;
Wang Xiafeng, 860m (goddess peak);
Shengquan Peak, 870 meters;
Jingtan Peak,1020m;
Feng Long,1130m.
The legend of twelve peaks in Wushan
The mighty Yangtze River is the longest river in China. It climbed mountains and mountains, ran to Wan Li, reached the adjacent place of Sichuan and Hubei, cut off Wushan, and formed the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, which is famous at home and abroad. The Three Gorges is the general name of Qutang Gorge, Wuxia Gorge and Xiling Gorge, with a total length of 190 kilometers. The cliffs on both sides of the Three Gorges are steep and spectacular. Among them, the Wuxia Gorge is deep and beautiful, and it is famous for its "Twelve Peaks of Wushan". There is a beautiful fairy tale about the origin of the Twelve Peaks.
Legend has it that a long time ago, twelve dragons lived in the bluestone cave under Cuiping Peak on the south bank of Wuxia in the Yangtze River. One day, twelve dragons jumped out of the cave, resulting in darkness over Wuxia, people being swept into the sky by strong winds, houses and trees being smashed by flying sand and stones, and countless people and animals were killed and injured. At this time, Yao Ji, the youngest daughter of the Queen Mother of the West, has just returned from a trip to the East China Sea. When she drove the colorful clouds across Wushan, she saw twelve dragons and was very angry. Yao Ji pointed his hand and earth-shattering thunder rang out in the sky. Twelve dragons were blown to pieces and fell to the ground.
But the broken bones of dragons piled up into mountains, and the angular peaks went straight into the sky, filling the valleys and blocking the waterways. The rapid rise of the river flooded villages, fields and towns, almost turning Sichuan into the sea of Wang Yang. Yao Ji thought of Dayu, the hero of water control, and hurried to ask Dayu for help.
When Dayu heard about it, he rushed to Wushan in one breath. He waved an axe to drive the cattle and kept cutting mountains and scattered streams. Who knows that the stone that turns into a dragon is too hard to split. Yao Ji was moved by Dayu's spirit of water control and invited her sisters to come down to help Dayu dig a river. She also returned to the heavenly palace and asked the heavenly queen for help. The Queen Mother loved her little daughter very much, so when the Jade Emperor was taking a nap, she found the gobbledygook "Water in the Treasure of the Qing Dynasty" in his treasure house and awarded it to Dayu. After Dayu got this precious book, he called for rain, thundered and bombed it, electrocuted it and watered it with water. He quickly split the Three Gorges to clear the stagnant water. Since then, Sichuan has become a rich "land of abundance".
After that, Yao Ji will go back to the Heavenly Palace. However, she saw that there are many hard rocks hidden in the river, forming countless reefs and shoals, and ships often get stuck or sink on the rocks. Yao Ji was uneasy and decided to stay with eleven sisters to navigate for the boatman. Over time, the twelve fairies turned into twelve peaks, standing on both sides of the deep and beautiful Wuxia Gorge. This is the origin of the Twelve Peaks of Martial Arts.
Wushan goddess
The goddess Yao Ji is the 23rd daughter of the Queen Mother. She has a pure heart and a beautiful appearance. The Queen Mother loves her very much and regards her as the apple of her eye. However, Yao Ji must be cautious, thoughtful and active, just like the geese in the clouds, which can't be caged. Bored in the house, she often goes out quietly to see the lotus beside the Yaochi, climbs the flat peach tree to pick up the stars, and sometimes swims secretly in the Tianhe River. These things reached the ears of the Queen Mother. The heavenly queen dissuaded her daughter, but there was nothing she could do. She smiled for fear of speaking too softly. She pouted when she said too much.
One day, the Queen Mother was very unhappy and went out to play in a worse place. It happened that Yao Ji was looking down through the white clouds. When the Queen Mother saw it, she said angrily, "You can fight in the sky, so forget it. How can you look at the lower bound? It will pollute your eyes. Don't look! "
Yao Ji doesn't believe it. He stared at the flying crane below and said, "This crane is as white as jade. How can it be in the sky? I want to fly around like it, walk around and see what the lower bound looks like? "
The queen mother was even more angry when she saw that she had moved evil thoughts. She shouted, "Forget it and go back to the Forbidden Palace!"
Yao Ji had never seen her mother lose such a big temper and felt wronged and unconvinced. She decided to jump under the white clouds. The queen mother hurriedly reached out to hold her, barely suppressed her anger, turned her cold face into a hot face, and enlightened: "The sea of misery in the lower world is boundless. You are a golden branch and jade leaf. You must not go down! "
Yao Ji became more and more surprised and simply sat on the cloud and looked down. Sure enough, he saw most people living in huts, eating bran vegetables and wearing rags. She sighed and said, "How bitter it is!"
Hearing this, the Queen Mother was secretly pleased, and then said, "It is better to have endless delicacies and endless silks and satins in the sky ..."
Unexpectedly, the more the heavenly queen said, the more Yao Ji felt harsh; The more the heavenly queen compares, the more difficult Yao Ji becomes. She was cruel and determined: Go to the underworld! The heavenly queen twisted her, thinking: men should marry and women should marry. Maybe she wants to find a son-in-law, so she might as well play along. So she told her daughter to take a trip to the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea.
The Dragon King of the East China Sea has already tested Yao Ji's idea and proposed to the Queen Mother. Yao Ji was just too young to decide. Seeing her as a guest now is even more attentive.
The Dragon King of the East China Sea accompanied Yao Ji into the Dragon Palace. Wherever he went, the sea parted to both sides and became a crystal alley, bright and bright. You can see fish and shrimp swimming around, and the water plants sway gently. There are all kinds of corals and shells here, which dazzle Yao Ji. She felt particularly bright when she entered the harem. It turns out that night pearls are hung everywhere, string by string, from the stars to the moon. The Dragon King of the East China Sea asked Yao Ji to sit on the golden chair and let people put manna on the agate table. He poured his own wine and said respectfully, "Please give a banquet for the fairy!" " Please. "
Yao Ji saw that there was no one else in the seat, and his heart was pounding. The Dragon King of the East China Sea sneaked up to her and said politely, "A beautiful girl and a teenager are made for each other. Isn't it obvious that the heavenly queen asked you to come? "
Yao Ji blushed and knew that he had been trapped. In a rage, he left the Dragon Palace and went straight to earth. When she came to the foot of Wushan Mountain, she met many people, leaning on begging sticks, carrying broken bamboo baskets, holding the old and the small, crying and crying. When she wanted to inquire about her flight abroad, she suddenly saw dark clouds rolling, the wind whistling and twelve dragons making waves. When they stare, it is a flash of lightning, which is dazzling and untenable; A roar is a thunder, causing houses to collapse and villages to become ruins; When it turns over, it is a rainstorm, causing flash floods, flooding fields and overturning ships. Yao Ji thought about it. Aren't these all subordinates of the East China Sea Dragon King? How can you be so rampant and harm people casually!
Yao Ji hurried to the clouds, approached the dragons and coaxed them back to the East China Sea.
The dragon heard a voice in the air and looked up and saw Baiyun carrying a girl of seventeen or eighteen. They said, "What do you know, little girl? Don't talk! We can play as we please. What is your way? " When he spoke, the situation got worse.
Yao Qi couldn't help it any longer. He gently pulled out a jade hairpin from his head and waved it at the twelve dragons. It flashed by, and the wind stopped raining and the clouds opened. Twelve evil Longquan died and fell to the ground.
But after the death of the dragon, it still hurts people. Their bodies turned into twelve high mountains, namely Wushan Mountain, which blocked the river flowing eastward and turned into an ocean here. People still can't live and work in peace. Yao Ji couldn't bear to leave the people because they were suffering, so he stayed.
Later, Dayu came here to split the mountain and open the gorge. Knowing this, Yao Ji gave him a copy of Yellow Silk Baojuan, and taught him to chisel stones with hammers and chisels, and build cars to transport earth. With her help, Dayu led the masses and worked hard for several years to open the Three Gorges and make the river flow into the sea. It is said that the book-giving desk outside Wushan City was the place where Yao Ji gave books.
Besides, the queen mother was angry and resentful when she learned that Yao Ji had ruined the marriage of the Dragon King in the East China Sea and killed twelve dragons. I was distressed to hear that she stayed in the barren hills. So she found her twenty-two daughters in the sky and said to them, "I miss my little daughter. Come to earth and get her back! " "
Twenty-two girls came to Wushan by clouds and fog and found Yao Ji. When the two sisters met again after a long separation, they were both happy and sad, and both of them were in tears. The sisters said to her, "Mom misses her sister so much that her heart is breaking. You'd better come back with us. "
Yao Ji said: "My daughter looked at her mother and her eyes were pierced. But I can't go back, I have to take care of the suffering people. "
Sisters complained, "Man struggles upwards, but water flows downwards!" ! Why don't you love the Heavenly Palace and Dragon Palace? Why do you want to stay in this barren mountain valley? "
"Elder sister, you see, the people are suffering. I hate to go away! " Yao Ji said, pointing to the distance. I saw a tiger and a leopard chasing people on that hillside, getting closer and closer. Yao Ji quickly bent down to catch the sediment and threw it over. The sand turned into dozens of arrows, killing tigers and leopards. Seeing this, several sisters all nodded, so they no longer advised Yao Ji to go back.
After a while, someone climbed to the foot of the mountain, groaning step by step, lifting his feet to the sky and dying. Yao Ji immediately pulled out a few hairs from his head and scattered them in front of him. His hair immediately turned into ganoderma lucidum, which saved his life. Seeing this, several sisters nodded and stopped persuading Yao Ji to go back.
After a while, the river came to the water boat again, and the tracker's waist was almost bent to the ground. Yao Ji hurriedly blew a sigh to the west. Then, a downwind blew, telling the ship to fly. Seeing this, the sisters all nodded and stopped persuading Yao Ji to go back.
Yao Ji was very happy to see that her sisters were considerate of her and was about to persuade them to go back by themselves. Suddenly, when she saw that all the seedlings in the field were yellow, she couldn't help frowning again. Yao Ji thought, the drought is too severe. How will people live in the future? Yao Ji thought about it and cried sadly. Tears suddenly turned into rain, Hua, Hua, and it kept raining. Soon the pond was full and the weir was flat. The seedlings got rain and the fields turned green again.
My sisters are all smiling. They are all talking about it. Some people feel that they should help the people and are willing to stay with Yao Ji. Others can't live without their mothers and disapprove. Yao Ji counted eleven on each side, which is exactly half. She said: "Mom is old and needs to be taken care of; The people are suffering too much, please bless them. Half of my sisters will go back to heaven and half will stay on earth. "
So, everyone broke up happily. The rest are Cuiping, Chaoyun, Songlian, Jixian, He Ju, Jingtan, Denggao, Yun Yun, Feng Fei, Shengquan, Denglong and Yao Ji himself. Later, it became the Twelve Peaks of Wushan.
Next to the Yangtze River, towering into the sky is Wang Xiafeng, also known as goddess peak. Through the lingering clouds, we can see a delicate and beautiful shadow on the peak, looming like a stone and a person, heaven and earth, that is the goddess Yao Ji.