Speaking of Jiuri Mountain, it can be said that "a small mountain has a great reputation". Naturally, there isn't much to see if you just walk around, but if you want to learn about the humanities and history of this mountain or appreciate the cliff carvings, it will be a lot to see. There are 75 cliff stone carvings in Jiuri Mountain, 13 of which are related to the history of overseas transportation and wind praying stone carvings. Four are on the east peak and nine are on the west peak. They record the grand ceremony of officials praying for wind for businessmen at home and abroad throughout the ages. (In ancient times, sailing at sea relied on wind power, so every May or November, local governors and officials from the Municipal Shipping Department often prayed for ships returning to the sea and wished them smooth sailing.)
Nine days The mountain is located in Fengzhou Town, Quanzhou City, beside the provincial highway Quan-Yong Highway, 7 kilometers away from Quanzhou City. It is my country's famous overseas transportation historical site and the starting point of the "Maritime Silk Road". Because of the traditional custom of climbing on September 9th during the Double Ninth Festival, it is called "Nine-Day Mountain". In May 1961, "Jiuri Mountain Wind Praying Stone Carvings and Stone Buddha Pavilion" were announced by Fujian Province as "the first batch of provincial cultural relics protection units"; on January 13, 1988, "Jiuri Mountain Cliff Stone Carvings" were confirmed and announced by the country It is a "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit".
In 1990, the Quanzhou City Cultural Relics Management Committee erected a monument to record the following: "Jiuri Mountain..."Yanfu Temple" was built in the ninth year of Taikang of Jin Dynasty (AD 288). After Yiguan crossed south, he settled in Jinjiang Immigrants from the Central Plains would climb high and miss their hometown during the Double Ninth Festival, hence the name. During the Southern Dynasties, the Indian monk Kunalada translated scriptures here and returned to China. In the Tang Dynasty, the poet Qin Xi, the famous prime minister Jiang Gongfu, and the scholar Han. The Shifo Rock, Jinji Bridge, and Tongyuan Wang Temple were formed one after another. During the two Song Dynasties, it became a tourist attraction in Quannan and a place for sailing and praying for wind. It also promoted the development of maritime trade and Sino-foreign friendship between our country and Asian and African countries. "Historical evidence..."
On February 16, 1991, the "Maritime Silk Road International Expedition Team" visited here for inspection, leaving behind stone carvings on the cliffs and signatures of the expedition team members from various countries. The article in Mo wrote: "More than seven hundred years after the last wind prayer ceremony at Jiuri Mountain, our 'UNESCO's' Maritime Silk Road international expedition team from Africa, America, Asia and Europe took a The research ship "Mir" provided by the Sultan of Oman came here. As pilgrims, we not only relive this ancient prayer, but also bring the message of peace to people from all over the world. This is also the UNESCO Silk Road. - The ultimate goal of the comprehensive research project on the Road of Dialogue. To this end, this stone carving symbolizing friendship and dialogue is left behind - the cliff stone carvings of the Maritime Silk Road International Expedition. , since the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, among the inscriptions and travel notes inscribed by celebrities in various eras, most of them are cliff inscriptions from the Song Dynasty. On my mountaineering trip, I climbed up from the right path, took the East Peak, and continued upward past "Guo Ran Pavilion". Speaking of "Guo Ran Pavilion", Zhu Xi, a famous Neo-Confucian scholar in the Song Dynasty, visited this place with his friends in the 26th year of Shaoxing (1156 AD). And wrote the poem "Inscribed on Guo Ran Pavilion": "...I pity the stick-planting old man from afar, the crane's bones are blue. In the whistling moon, the autumn wind is full of sweet-scented osmanthus." The second time Zhu Xi visited Jiuri Mountain with his friends was twenty-eight years later, in the eleventh year of Chunxi (1184 AD). He wrote in the poem "A Work as a Reward for Nine Days Dongfeng Taoist Pugong Seeing": "There is no basis for the three lives to be discussed, and the origin of all dharma is free".
After taking a small turn at "Guoranting", I continued to climb up to "Jiang Xiangfeng". Speaking of the origin of "Jiang Xiangfeng", there is a lot. It turns out that Jiang Gongfu, the famous prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, once lived in this mountain after he was demoted to Quanzhou. Later, he was buried here after his death. Later generations renamed the peak "Jiang Xiangfeng" in memory of his virtue. When Su Shen, a Hanlin scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty and a calligrapher from Tong'an County, came here to visit, he once wrote the three characters "Jiang Xiangfeng" here. In the eighth year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1138), Huang Gongdu and Gong Maoliang, two people from Putian who were from the same hometown, were in the same list, were appointed to the same government, and retired to Quanzhou together. After they retired, they traveled to Jiuri Mountain together. In memory of Jiang Gongfu, they wrote a poem behind the stone of "Jiang Xiangfeng": "Hold the Qin at the peak of the calendar, and the Buddha stone will be in the evening cloud; the empty mountain will shake down, cherishing the eternal heart."< /p>
Climbing to the highest point of "Jiangxiang Peak", you can have a bird's-eye view of Quanzhou City and Luojiang District in the east. Because of the trees, the view is not very wide, but it feels like it is not cold at the high place. After getting off "Jiang Xiangfeng", walk along the stone path to the west, passing by "The Best Fortune in the World" and "Bajie Stone". Because the "Bajie Stone" is shaped like Bajie leaning on the stone and sitting to the west, it is named. Looking down from the "Bajie Stone", in the direction of Nan'an Shilong, a highway stretches across the village, which is very spectacular. After that, I walked along the stone path and finally climbed to the "Shifo Rock".
"Shifoyan" is located at the highest peak of "Gaoshi Peak". "Gaoshi Peak" was originally the secluded place of Qin Xi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, hence its name. The Buddha statue on the "Stone Buddha Rock" was engraved on the initiative of Chen Hongjin in the third year of Qiande in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 965). It was based on a huge stone on the "Gaoshi Peak" and was originally intended to dispel evil and suppress fire. The sitting Buddha statue is 7.5 meters high and 1.86 meters wide. It is one of the earliest stone Buddha statues in Quanzhou. It is rare to build a stone pavilion around the Buddha statue for protection. After walking through the "Shifo Rock" and walking down, you will reach the "Yigao Rock" where you can climb up and take a long view. Standing here, visitors can have a bird's eye view of the Jinjiang waters and the beautiful landscape near the Jinji Bridge.
Continue going down and there is a small pavilion called "Qinjun Pavilion". "Qin Jun Pavilion" was built by the county people to commemorate the hermit Qin Xi of the Tang Dynasty. It has been built and destroyed several times.
The existing "Qin Jun Pavilion" was donated and built in 1990 by Mr. Lu Zhenwan, an overseas Chinese. The Qin Dynasty's courtesy name was Gongxu, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. After his death, he settled down in Xifeng, next to the famous Prime Minister Jiang Gongfu. He annotated the "Tao Te Ching" throughout his life, and his poems were written in five characters. He then traveled east to Moling, not knowing where he ended up. Next to the "Qinjun Pavilion" is the stone inscription "Gao Shifeng" inscribed by Su Caiweng, the Fujian sentencing observer in the Song Dynasty, who visited Jiuri Mountain when he came to Quanzhou.
Walking all the way down from "Qinjun Pavilion", you pass by a rock with a cave underneath and the words "Quannan Buddhist Country" written on it. It is said that these four characters were inscribed by the eminent monk Wu Deng in the Tang Dynasty, and were republished by Qi Yuli, the official in charge of government affairs in the 10th year of the Yuan Dynasty. After passing the "Quannan Buddhist Kingdom" and going down, you will turn to the west peak of Jiuri Mountain and halfway up the southeast slope. This is the place where the cliff carvings are most concentrated. I have no idea how many cliff carvings there are. But looking around, you can see large and small square and square calligraphy and engravings, crowded all over a large rock, which makes people have the urge to write poems and carve words.
On top of these stone carvings, there is a poem by Qiu Lingxiao, the magistrate of Nan'an County, in the fourth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty (1570), "...the peaks on the sea are often like this, and everything in the world will turn upside down..."; there is also a poem in the second year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty. (1568), Ding Yizhong's "... Yue Valley has won more than a thousand years of victorious scenery, and its crown is thousands of miles away, and the spring light..."; in the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1371), Quanzhou Prefecture General Hao Zhong's "... the spring scenery is full Outside Linsan Island, Qingyan Hengdai and the sky..."; there is also Qi Yuli from the Yuan Dynasty: "...when I meet someone in the water, I smile, and I forget what year the festival is when I am drunk"; there is Ma Fushu, the admiral of Fujian during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. There are three characters: "Jiuri Mountain"; as well as many stone carvings of praying for wind over the past dynasties, and stone carvings with inscriptions inscribed by the International Maritime Silk Road expedition team.
After leaving this group of cliffs and stone carvings and walking down, we have returned to the confluence of the two mountains. There are also many cliffs and stone carvings here, which we have seen when we went up the mountain. Under the longan tree on one side, there were three old men sitting on a stone bench to rest. They were walking up from the West Peak. After I came down, I saw them walking down the mountain road from the East Peak. I walked up to them and chatted with them. They said they were a little tired from climbing the mountain and needed to take a rest. I took a photo of them and waved goodbye to them.
The afternoon sun was very hot. At this time, I felt that I was indeed a little tired. I wiped the sweat from my head and waved goodbye to Jiuri Mountain!