Taogu maze

Taogu maze, also known as Dongya cave, is located in Dushan Town, Guangde County. It is 28 kilometers away from the county. There are 12 landscapes, such as Taogu Yingbin, Liuyun waterfall, taotang night moon, Dongshan tower shadow, Juxian Temple painting, auspicious grass Xiaguang, Qimen Youxia, Fushou Xiantao, aerial view of Suoqiao, song Mo legacy, ten thousand Buddha Chaotian, Tongtian Yimen, etc. The cave covers an area of 80000 square meters, with a tour route of 1800 meters. It has opened 16 palace halls, 53 gates, 24 Gorges and more than 200 scenic spots.

Taogu labyrinth has a long history. Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, it has attracted numerous scholars and become a tourist attraction. Su Shi and Yue Fei left stone carvings here. When Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, stayed in Guangde, he called it "the most beautiful place in the world". The scenery of Taogu labyrinth is valued in nature. There are flowing clouds, strange rocks, strange gates and secluded Gorges, which constitute a unique natural landscape and are full of magical colors. The grotesque rocks in the cave are rugged, deep and mysterious. They are ancient, spiritual, beautiful and strange in one. They seem to be too illusory and fascinating. There are majestic and spectacular "gold pagoda" on the mountain, the "peach blossom pond" under the mountain, the statue of Taogu Fairy on the island in the middle of the lake, the "dressing Pavilion" on the left and the "Juxian Pavilion" on the right. Zhu Lin, the governor of Guangde Prefecture in Ming Dynasty, wrote a poem praising: "in the suburb of tongshui, the rain is clear again. When you are free, you can see the sound of the five clouds, the spring clothes are wet at the mouth of the Liuyun cave, and the sound of the peach Blossom River across the cliff."

Taogu maze

Taogu maze, also known as Dongya cave, is located in Xinhang Town, Guangde County, with a total area of 310000 square meters, 28 kilometers away from the county seat. It is a karst cave kingdom with unique features, including flowing clouds, strange rocks, strange gates and secluded Gorges. There are 12 landscapes, such as Taogu Yingbin, Liuyun waterfall, taotang night moon, Dongshan tower shadow, Juxian Temple painting, auspicious grass Xiaguang, Qimen Youxia, Fushou Xiantao, aerial view of Suoqiao, song Mo legacy, ten thousand Buddha Chaotian, Tongtian Yimen, etc. The cave covers an area of 80000 square meters, with a tour route of 1800 meters. It has opened 16 palace halls, 53 gates, 24 Gorges and more than 200 scenic spots.

brief introduction

Located in Guangde County, Anhui Province, Taogu maze, also known as Dongya cave, covers a total area of 310000 square meters. It is a karst cave kingdom with unique features, including flowing clouds, strange rocks, strange gates and secluded Gorges. The craggy rocks, deep gorge cliffs and gorge walls here are all made of exquisitely carved Taihu stones. The labyrinth is full of grotesque caves and gullies, with various forms, changing scenery, complicated and confusing, and the clouds are steaming and the jade is splashing.

The most interesting thing is that there are many caves in the cave. The caves are connected with each other, and the doors are connected with each other. People walk between them. The winding path is continuous and circuitous, crisscrossing. The caves are often out of reach. Hearing the sound from the cliff and seeing people, it's like being in an ethereal dreamland in the palace.

Geological climate

The climate of Guangde varies greatly in four seasons, and it is very cold in winter. It takes a long time to be in winter, for four months;

It's hot in summer. Like other cities in Anhui Province, Guangde also has a Meiyu period (from mid June to late September every year), which lasts for a long time. At this time, the umbrella is like a close friend, and you should follow you every day. In addition, you should have enough clothes. It's suitable to travel to Guangde in spring and autumn every year. Spring and autumn are very short, the climate is suitable, the rain is moderate, and the air is humid.

Related travel notes

Against the scorching sun in June, we went to Shilong mountain in Guangde and visited Taiji cave. In Feng Menglong's "warning to the world", he has read "the four wonders of the world": Leizhou changing drum, Guangde burying, Dengzhou Haishi, Qiantang River tide. The "Guangde burial" here is Taiji cave.

"Jue" of Taiji cave can be summed up in three words: "ancient, broad and broad". Geological experts demonstrate that the cave is more than 200 million years old, 150 million years longer than Mount Qomolangma; it has a radius of more than 10 kilometers, and the mountain people say that it can reach Taihu Lake. It has developed a total area of 141000 square meters, with a depth of 5400 meters, ranking the south of the Yangtze River.

"Guilin landscape, Guangde stone cave" is developed simultaneously in Chinese stone forest. Taiji cave is also the carrier of Taoist culture. It is said that Laozi, the ancestor of Taoism, once practiced here. Even since the Han and Tang Dynasties, there have been many tourists throughout the ages, and now it has become one of the first batch of national "AAAA" scenic spots.

When we drove to the small entrance of the cave, we felt a cold air coming, which made the heat disappear. Looking up, I can see three big characters of "Taiji cave" in the cave, which was written by Wu Tongchun, governor of Guangde Prefecture in the sixth year of Wanli (1578 A.D.). According to friends from Guangde, Taiji cave is also known as "Changle cave", commonly known as "Dadong". However, the name of "Taiji" was first recorded and most widely spread. Is it really related to the mysterious Taiji Culture? When we enter the cave, we are suddenly enlightened. We are in a huge cave hall that can accommodate thousands of people. The cold wind is floating, the sound of water is faint, stalactites are everywhere, and lions and elephants face each other. On one stone platform, there are eight stone statues, standing or sitting, dancing or singing, worshiping a strange stone hanging in the air - taishanglaojun. But he has a high forehead, a good face, a flowing silver beard, and a very similar appearance and spirit. This is taishanglaojun Eight immortals pilgrimage is the first scene of "ten wonders" in Jidong. The wall of the cave is engraved with the word "Er Yi You Fen". It turns out that the main cave of Taiji is divided into two parts, one is water and one is drought. The big cave sets the small one. There are holes on the top of the cave, and there are holes under the cave. It is said in the book of changes - Xici that "Taiji in the book of changes is the birth of Liangyi, the birth of Liangyi, the birth of Sixiang, the birth of Sixiang, the birth of Bagua, and even infinity". Lao Tzu says: "Tao gives birth to one, life two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things.". north

Chen Tuan of Song Dynasty took Lao Jieyi as an example. Tao was limitless and Taiji was one. Li daochun, a Quanzhen master in the early Yuan Dynasty, said: "limitless and Taiji Zhang Sanfeng thinks that "Wuji is nameless, and nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth; Taiji is famous, and famous is the mother of all things"; the cave structure of Taiji cave coincides with the principle of Wuji Taiji biochemical all things, so it is valued by Taoism and becomes the cave of Taoist cultivation and alchemy.

Taiji cave is magnificent, with more than 700 famous scenes. From Liangyi palace to Laojun cave, you can see some scenic spots, such as "qingniutingfa", "Danzao fragrance", "water dripping through the stone", and pass through Tongguan, and the temperature drops to 18 ℃; local people say, "after Tongguan, the weather changes, and the climate inside and outside is unusual.". From the high temperature of 36 ℃ to here, we also feel the difference between "two Yi You Fen" and "Yin Yang". Entering the cloud realm palace, I suddenly saw a huge rock nearly 100 meters long, like a boat, with its top upside down. The bottom of the boat was flat as if it had been cut off. The wood marks on the side of the boat were just like that. The work of nature was breathtaking.

Friends said that this is the world's rare spectacle "immortal boat over hanging.". In front of it is a deep "alley", which is connected with the "ladder to heaven"; next to it is Fan Zhongyan, a famous official of the Northern Song Dynasty, who inscribed "qiaoran rock" and signed "Zhongda Xiangfu Bingchen Zhongdong" (A.D. 1016). Walking along the "Stone Lane", the sound of the foot is bright, which makes people feel alert and excited. I think that although fan wenzhenggong was the general manager of Guangde when he joined the army, he had lofty ideals and set a good example in his life. He should be alert all the time.

Turn around a few "holes in the cave" and get on the boat at "Baqu Yingzhou" (commonly known as Shuidong). I'm afraid it's only in Taiji cave that you can experience a boat in the cave. This is a 7500 meter long underground river. The depth of the river is about meters, and the bottom can be seen clearly. There is also a small scaleless fish in the water, which is said to be very rare.

There is also a "mountain stream" in Xianyuan palace, which is surrounded by dangerous cliffs and rocks. It can be called the "Three Gorges in the cave". Corresponding to the famous "Huangshan in the cave" - shenzui palace, the first thing you can see is a broken rock with an area of more than 100 square meters, such as the ceiling hanging over your head. The strange rocks in the cave are like the peaks in the west sea of Huangshan Mountain, with monkeys watching the sea, golden turtles watching the moon, Golden Rooster calling Tianmen and five old people visiting Tiandu The beautiful sceneries, such as the peak of bookshelves, the peak of Yuping, are so vivid that people are awed by the wonder and power of nature.

The deeper the hole goes, the more strange the scenery becomes. When the wind blows, the air is filled with water; under various lights, large and small stone pillars, stalagmites, stone curtains, stone peaks

Or alone, or accompanied, or forest; such as bell, such as trees, such as flowers and grass, such as waterfall, such as cirrus, such as human drama, such as animal dance, such as torrent, such as ice peak, such as mountain collapse and ground fissure

Or exquisite, or majestic, uncanny workmanship, magnificent. This is the achievement of tens of millions of years of groundwater baptism; water is still dripping, watering stalactites, stalactites are actually "growing", but it grows even slower than the peach in the sky, only 1.04 cm long in 1000 years, the formation of a stalactite takes hundreds of thousands of years!

They carry the mysterious information of time, which makes me feel the pressure of a huge magnetic field, and my breathing becomes urgent. Time is an infinitely continuous existence, but also a constantly updated existence. Are these stones suggesting to me the code to interpret the secret of time? I can't answer that. "Life between heaven and earth, if Baiju's fault, but suddenly just.". In this hundred million year old cave, I deeply feel the mood of Zhuangzi saying this.

We went into the cave from the foot of the mountain and came out from the "Tiandong" on the hillside. The sun was shining brightly. The experience just now seemed to be different from that of this time. On the cable car, friends point out several historical sites nearby: Wolong bridge, where Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty took refuge, sun drying desk, Yanchi lake, where Fan Zhongyan washed his brush and inkstone, Yuefei's sword testing stone, where Zhu Yuanzhang stationed his troops, and chess playing place, etc.

At the foot of the mountain, you can see a magnificent palace built on the mountain. At the gate, there is a tall Bagua stove with strong incense. The front hall is the Sanqing hall, and the back hall is the main hall of the supreme emperor. There is no doubt that this is a Taoist temple, but why is it called the yuan of reality? My friend said that the Academy of reality is originally a Buddha

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