Qingxiushan scenic spot

Qingxiushan scenic spot, formerly known as Qingshan, is famous for its "beautiful mountain without high altitude and clear water without deep water". Looking around, the rolling mountains and lush green make people intoxicated. What is worth visiting is a tower and a spring in the mountain. The legend of the green mountain has been told. Climbing along the 207 level spiral ladder to the top of the Dragon elephant tower, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Yongcheng city; holding Dong Quan in your hand, sipping the fresh air that never dries up all the year round; visiting the 1300 year old cycads, you can caress the traces of time; enjoying the peach blossom luck on the Peach Blossom Island, and praying devoutly in the smoke of Guanyin temple. It's a good place to enjoy leisure and quiet.

Qingxiushan scenic spot

Qingxiushan scenic spot is located in Fengling South Road, Qingxiu District, Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is a national AAAAA scenic spot.

Qingxiu mountain is a key scenic spot in Nanning city. In addition to protecting and restoring the original historic sites such as Dongquan, jieqingyan cliff carvings, shixiangzao and so on, many new scenic spots have been built.

Qingxiu mountain scenic spot includes Fenghuang mountain, Fengyi mountain and Qingxiu mountain. The altitude is 82 meters to 289 meters. The climate is pleasant. There are strange mountains and different flowers. It is often open all the year round. The ancient poem says: "Qingshan mountain is not old all the time. You can enjoy the spring from Tianya. I bring the spring scenery to the mountain, and the mountain flowers welcome the spring." In ancient times, Qingxiu mountain was a famous summer resort in Yongnan.

On February 14, 2020, the scenic spot announced that from the date of reopening the scenic spot to December 31, 2020, medical workers, their parents, spouses and children will enter the park free of charge with valid certificates (doctor's certificate, nurse's certificate or other qualification certificates related to medical work).

geographical environment

Location context

Qingxiushan scenic spot is located on the Bank of Yongjiang River about 9 kilometers southeast of Nanning city. There is a high pagoda on the top of the Castle Peak, called Dragon elephant pagoda, commonly known as Qingshan pagoda. Qingxiushan is located at N22 ° 47 ′ 23.35 ″ N and E108 ° 23 ′ 4.26 ″ e, which is known as "the giant lung of Nanning".

The total area is 4.07 square kilometers, including water surface area of 14667 square meters, green space area of 25000 square meters, and main peak elevation of 289 meters.

topographic features

Qingxiushan scenic area is composed of 18 big and small mountains, such as qingshanling and Fenghuangling. The pagoda standing on the top of Qingxiu mountain is called Dragon elephant pagoda, commonly known as Qingshan pagoda. It is the symbol of Qingxiu mountain. It was built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. It has nine floors, 60 meters high, 12 meters in diameter at the base, and 207 spiral ladders. It is the highest Pagoda in Guangxi. The two giant artificial lakes, Tianchi Lake and yaochi lake, are set off against the verdant trees on the hillside. Tianchi Lake covers an area of 15000 square meters, with a water depth of 2-3 meters. The water is shimmering, with green pines and cypresses, blue sky and white clouds reflecting the water. Yaochi lake is located in the east of Sanbao hall, which houses three stone statues of Luojia, buertuo and bubo. It covers an area of 5000 square meters The relief of yaochi.

Historical development

Qingxiushan scenic spot was built in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, flourished in the Ming Dynasty, and disappeared in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. At that time, the tour area was more than 11800 mu. Taiqing, known as the eight sceneries of Qingxiu mountain, had a long-distance view of Taiqing, a beautiful meal garden, a mountain house, a moon at night, a sunset tower, a midnight pine breeze, river sails and waves, a cool Pavilion, a spring, and a Shapu fishing lantern. As a result of long-term disrepair, Bajing has been abandoned and forgotten by people. Only the sites left by the dynasties and all kinds of fairy tales still spread among the people.

After liberation, the people's government attached great importance to the construction of scenic spots. In 1986, the Nanning Municipal People's government began to allocate funds for the reconstruction of Qingxiushan scenic spot. First of all, the Dragon elephant tower was rebuilt. The Tianchi, Dongting and wangjiangting tourist areas covered an area of more than 500 mu, including the Dragon elephant tower, which is nine stories high and more than 60 meters. Among the tourist areas, 23 new scenic spots have been built, including Buyun gate, Yuntian Pavilion, tower shadow Lingyun, tianwai Yunxiang, Huagang Xiaolan, Qingxiu Shanfang, Liangyi Pavilion, panque Pavilion, Jinlin Xibo, lotus pool, Haohao Pavilion and ancient road.

scenic spot

overview

Qingxiu mountain is a key scenic spot in Nanning city. In addition to protecting and restoring the original historic sites such as Dongquan, jieqingyan cliff carvings, shixiangzao and so on, many new scenic spots have been built. For example, the Thai Garden is a scenic spot in the cultural exchange project between Nanning city and kongjing city of Thailand. It is designed by Thai architects, and the garden is full of Thai style.

Dragon elephant tower

On the top of the mountain on the right side of Tianchi, the pagoda stands called Dragon elephant pagoda, commonly known as Castle Peak pagoda. It is the symbol of Qingxiu mountain. Located in fengyiling, Qingxiushan scenic spot, Nanning City, the Dragon elephant tower was built in 1618 by Xiao Yunju, the Minister of rites of Dancun and Zaiyi in the suburb of Nanning City in Ming Dynasty. It was completed the next year. It is named after the meaning of the Buddhist scripture "the dragon in water has great power, and the elephant in land has great power". The original tower is more than 10 Zhang high, 9-story octagonal double eaves brick structure. Tomorrow, in 1624, the top two floors were collapsed by lightning, which has not been repaired.

In 1937, during the Anti Japanese War, Yongning County government was afraid that the tower would become a navigation target for Japanese planes to bomb Nanning, and county magistrate Chen Shoumin had the tower removed. According to the appeal of Nanning people from all walks of life, Nanning Municipal People's government restored the construction of Qingxiushan scenic spot and rebuilt the Dragon elephant tower in 1986 according to the style of Ming Dynasty. After reconstruction, the shape of the tower is still octagonal, with 9 floors, and it is changed into brick concrete structure. The tower is 52.35 meters high and 12 meters wide, with green glazed tiles. There are 207 steps of spiral ladder inside to the top of the tower. There are 72 copper bells hanging under the eaves of each floor. According to relevant people, it is the tallest tower in Guangxi.

It retains the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty, with green bricks and green tiles and octagonal eaves. It ascends the top of the tower, overlooking the scenery of Yongjiang River in the distance and Langdong new town in Nanning.

Tower shadow Tianchi

Tower shadow Tianchi is a beautiful landscape with dragon elephant tower and Tianchi Lake in the north. The water shadow tower and tower shadow into the pool. It is one of the "top ten landscapes" in Nanning and is located in Qingxiu mountain scenic area. The name of the tower is dragon elephant tower. Tianchi is a large artificial lake on the hillside of Qingxiu mountain. The water in the lake is shimmering. The shadow of the tower comes into the pool. The water in the pool reflects the tower. The green pines and cypresses, blue sky and white clouds reflect the water. It is called "tower shadow Tianchi".

Cycas Millennium Garden

Qingxiushan thousand year cycads garden covers an area of more than 100 mu, with nearly 100 cycads more than one thousand years old. The oldest "king of cycads" is more than 1360 years old. More than 50 kinds of Cycas have been collected in the park, with a total number of thousands. It is one of the largest ex situ conservation and breeding bases of Cycas fragrans, Cycas Debao, Cycas bifolia, Cycas Debao and Cycas Shishan in China.

Rainforest view

The rainforest grand view was built in 1998, covering an area of more than 500 mu. It has a wide range of species and overlapping vegetation. It has more than 3 million plants belonging to more than 200 families and 2500 species. It has unique rainforest characteristics, such as human face, nut nut, fruit gathering banyan and more than 180 national key protected plants, such as Wangtian tree, Alsophila spinulosa, Dalbergia odorifera.

Qingxiushan friendship corridor

Qingxiushan friendship corridor, 618 meters long, is located between Zhuangjin square of Qingxiushan scenic spot and ASEAN Friendship Park. The corridor is modeled on the characteristics of Fengyu bridge of Dong Nationality in Guangxi and combined with the architectural style of Lingnan Garden. The corridor body is made of Zhangzisong tenon and mortise joint instead of one nail and one rivet. Friendship corridor integrates bridges, corridors, pavilions and buildings into a scenic spot and a rest place. The gallery displays the photographic works of the production and life of the people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi and the representative buildings, costumes, food and other pictures of ASEAN countries.

ethnic customs

Board shoe dance

Among the Zhuang's literary and artistic skills, the most interesting are "board shoe competition" and "shoe pulling dance", which are as powerful and powerful as the army. Board shoes competition is a team of several people, we wear a pair of long board shoes race.

It is said that the board shoe dance originated from the Ming Dynasty. During the reign of Jiajing, the Zhuang heroine Mrs. wa led the Guangxi Lang soldiers to Zhejiang to fight against Japanese pirates. She trained Lang soldiers with the method of three leg race, which made the military discipline strict and made concerted efforts. Later, it became this kind of movement.

Lion goes to Jinshan

In the eyes of Zhuang people, lions are auspicious things.

Zhuang's unique skills of lion dance include high platform lion dance, double lion ball play, lion plum blossom toon, overpass, knife point lion dance, lion going to Jinshan, etc. This move is even more dangerous when the lion goes to Jinshan.

Jinshan is made up of about 35 benches in 17 layers, with a height of 8.5 meters. The performers dress up as lions to climb Jinshan, and jump, soar and dance on the wobbly Jinshan.

Playing football on stilts

This is the "high footed ball" of Zhuang nationality, which is very similar to football. But you can't kick with your feet. You can use that pair of "prosthetic limbs" in running, fighting and kicking.

The ball is football, but it used to be grapefruit.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, people in Nandan county of Guangxi had the game of kicking pomelo. Every Mid Autumn Festival, there was also a game of kicking pomelo. In modern times, it developed into playing football on stilts.

Festival activities

Qingxiushan peach blossom Art Festival

Activity time: every spring

Activity content: Qingxiushan peach blossom Art Festival is the theme of spring flowers in Nanning

The grand meeting. Every year, when the spring flowers are in full bloom, there is an endless stream of tourists from Nanning city and its surrounding areas. More than 300000 people visit the mountains to enjoy the flowers during the peach blossom period.

Qingxiushan new town

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