Sun Moon Spring

Riyue spring is located in Nantian Temple of yuncui mountain in Hongfanchi town. Nantian temple was founded in 1311 A.D. and was one of the four famous temples in China at that time. Qiu Chuji, the founder of daoshu Quanzhen school, once practiced here. The main buildings are Yuhuang Pavilion, Penglai Xianyuan, Changchun Pavilion, Zhenwu Temple, Sanzhen temple, theater and grandstand. The Sun Moon Spring is in the Laifu spring Huiyang cave of nantianguan. The moon spring is in the South and the sun spring is in the north. The two springs are adjacent but not connected. Yuequan is covered with a crescent shaped hollow stone slab, while Riquan is covered with a stone slab with a round hole in the middle. It is named because it looks like the sun and the moon. The spring can flow back and forth between the two holes. After several twists and turns, it finally flows into Tianyi hole from the underground. The spring is more than one foot away from the hole, so visitors can drink it. There is a beautiful legend about Sun Moon Spring! At the beginning of heaven and earth, when Nu Wa made man from mud, one of the most perfect men and women came to the present Pingyin area along the East Bank of the Yellow River. They lived a carefree life here. At dawn, they stand on the mountain to watch the sunrise. In the evening, they lie under the tree to watch the moon. The sun is very strong and warm, like a man, the moon is soft and beautiful, like a woman, so they have their own name: the man is the sun, the woman is the moon, what about the stars? The sun and moon in the sky have so many stars. What about their own little stars? The moon also found that life around has its own "little stars": the big Swan leads the little swan, and the little deer nestles up to the mother deer. With curiosity and desire, they begin to explore the origin of life. When they have a primitive impulse, the sun takes the moon to yuncui mountain, finds a stone cave and makes a home in it. One day, the sun was surprised to find that the moon's belly bulged up, in the long wait, the little star was finally born. However, what the moon gave birth to is not a small star like them, but a big smooth meat ball. What can we do? Inspired by the swan, the moon holds the meat in her arms, curls up in the cave, and the sun holds the moon in her arms. They want to use their own heat to warm the little life. The sun and the moon lie like this for 999 days. On the 1000th morning as like as two peas, the miracle finally appeared. The bigger and bigger meat ball suddenly split nine mouths, and every mouth crawled out with a tiny star identical to them. Nine small stars crawled on them. The sun and moon were not happy enough to speak. The little star rose slowly and stood up, calling the sun and the moon, "Daddy, mommy". The sun and the moon finally have their own lovely little stars, but they are too tired, exhausted and fall asleep forever. Later, a clear spring appeared where the sun and the moon went to sleep, and later generations called it the Sun Moon Spring. The stone cave is engraved with the words "Huiyang cave, Laifu spring", which means looking forward to the reincarnation of the life of the sun and the moon. What about the nine little stars? They scattered around yuncui mountain, turned into nine eyes spring, watching their parents day and night.

Sun Moon Spring

Around the 21st year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1593 AD), it was named tianyiquan, also known as laifuquan. In the Qing Dynasty, someone covered Yuequan with a crescent shaped hollow stone slab, and Riquan with a round hole in the middle. It was named riyuequan because it looked like the sun and the moon.

Located in Huiyang cave of nantianguan, yuncui mountain, south of Hongfanchi Town, Pingyin County, Jinan City, Shandong Province.

Development history

The legend of Sun Moon Spring

There is a beautiful legend! At the beginning of heaven and earth, when Nu Wa made man from mud, a pair of the most perfect men and women came to Pingyin along the East Bank of the Yellow River. They lived a carefree life here. At dawn, they stand on the mountain to watch the sunrise. In the evening, they lie under the tree to watch the moon.

The sun is very strong and warm, like a man, the moon is soft and beautiful, like a woman, so they have their own name: the man is the sun, the woman is the moon, what about the stars? The sun and moon in the sky have so many stars. What about their own little stars? The moon also found that life around has its own "little stars": the big Swan leads the little swan, and the little deer nestles up to the mother deer. With curiosity and desire, they begin to explore the origin of life. When they have a primitive impulse, the sun takes the moon to yuncui mountain, finds a stone cave and makes a home in it. One day, the sun was surprised to find that the moon's belly bulged up, in the long wait, the little star was finally born. However, what the moon gave birth to is not a small star like them, but a big smooth meat ball. What can we do? Inspired by the swan, the moon holds the meat in her arms, curls up in the cave, and the sun holds the moon in her arms. They want to use their own heat to warm the little life. The sun and the moon lie like this for 999 days. On the 1000th morning as like as two peas, the miracle finally appeared. The bigger and bigger meat ball suddenly split nine mouths, and every mouth crawled out with a tiny star identical to them. Nine small stars crawled on them. The sun and moon were not happy enough to speak. The little star rose slowly and stood up, calling the sun and the moon, "Daddy, mommy". The sun and the moon finally have their own lovely little stars, but they are too tired, exhausted and fall asleep forever. Later, a clear spring appeared where the sun and the moon went to sleep, and later generations called it the Sun Moon Spring. The stone cave is engraved with the words "Huiyang cave, Laifu spring", which means looking forward to the reincarnation of the life of the sun and the moon. What about the nine little stars? They scattered around yuncui mountain, turned into nine eyes spring, watching their parents day and night.

Zheng Lian

On the west gate frame of Huiyang entrance where the Sun Moon Spring is located, there is a couplet saying, "the sun and the moon are good by the Sun Moon Spring, and the sun and the moon are bright through the ages."

Although there are many couplets, such as:

Wu Bin (east gate frame unknown)

A big site, a big scene, a big Jiuzhou, a big day

Fighting ghosts in the field of fighting ghosts

Ancient corpse treasure in ancient corpse tomb

Ancient trees and ancient trees on Gumu mountain

Women's lakeside women's gorgeous women's Wanfang women's good (lizs2p)

Tianyi cave, Tianyi spring, Tianyi mountain

But there is no good one.

Other place names related to day and month

Riquan and Yuequan: located at the foot of Luoshan mountain northwest of caibian village, Panyu District, Guangzhou, 1.5km away from Shiqiao No.2 Middle School. Yuequan's spring is a semi enclosed granite slab, which is divided into three sluices from top to bottom. It is understood that this is to prevent the spring from being polluted. 800 years ago, the ancients left the couplet "the sun and the moon understand the water". Sun pool and moon pool: located on both sides of Shinto in Taiqing Palace on Yinshan Mountain, five kilometers east of Luyi County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province. Rixi and Yuexi: located in Mingxi County, Sanming City, Fujian Province. Riyue River: the reservoir is located 1.2km south of Mingxi County, Sanming City, Fujian Province. It is formed by the meandering confluence of Riyue River and Yuexi river. Rihe and Yuehe: located in Shanghai. Riyue Lake: located in Shanghai Songjiang City Square Tower Park. In the south of the square tower and the north of the hydrophilic flat, the water area is 26 mu. The name of "sun and moon" does not mean that it looks like the sun and moon, but that in ancient times there was a city river where the Sun River and the moon river flowed and mingled. Riyue Lake: located in Ningbo Fucheng (ancient Mingzhou), near the South Gate of the city. The sun lake is round and slightly smaller, so it is called "Sun Lake"; the Moon Lake is long and slightly larger, so it is called "Moon Lake". The two lakes are connected together, like a ring, separated by a lake dike, and the bridge is like a link. Riyue Lake: a scenic spot between the East and West urban areas of Yongcheng City, Shangqiu City, Henan Province. The water surface is 6 square kilometers and can store 20 million cubic meters of water. In the area, the sun lake is round like the sun, and the Moon Lake is slightly long like the moon. The two lakes are connected and separated by rockery. On the rockery, the temples of Sun God and moon god are built. The temples are decorated with poems and paintings praising the sun god and moon god. Riyue Lake: the park is located in the entrepreneurial farm of Jiansanjiang Administration Bureau of Heilongjiang Province. It covers more than five hectares. Riyue Lake: there is a lake in the campus of China Institute of metrology, which is called "Riyue Lake". It's named sun and moon. In fact, it's Yin and Yang. There are two pavilions on the lake, Xihe in the East and Wangshu in the West. It corresponds to the Sun Moon Lake. Xihe is the sun, Wangshu is the moon. Riyue Lake: located in Zhuhai Campus of Jinan University, it corresponds to "Minghu" in Guangzhou headquarters of Jinan University. The Ming character is divided into Riyue lake. Sun Moon Lake: located in shuishe village, Yuchi Township, Nantou County, Taiwan Province, it is the only natural lake in Taiwan. It is formed by accumulated water in the fault basin between Yushan and Alishan. The lake is 760 meters above sea level, covering an area of about 9 square kilometers, with an average water depth of 30 meters and a circumference of about 35 kilometers. There is a small island in the Sun Moon Lake, which looks like a bead floating on the water. It is named Zhuzi Island (Guanghua Island). Taking this island as the boundary, the north half of the lake is shaped like a round sun, and the South half of the lake is shaped like a curved moon. Hence the name of Sun Moon Lake. Riyue township: it is located in the southwest of Huangyuan County, with an average altitude of 3100 meters, a total area of 482 square kilometers, a cultivated area of 44000 mu, and the use of grass

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