Nanxishan Park

Only one kilometer away from Guilin railway station, Nanxi mountain was first discovered by Li Bo during the period of Shili in Tang Dynasty. There are still stone carvings of his poem "farewell to Nanxi" in the cave. Due to the early development of Nanxi mountain, nearly 200 stone carvings have been left on the cliff since the Tang Dynasty. Bailong cave, the highest cave in Nanxi mountain, is 20 meters high. The outer cave is bright, open and flat. Photographers don't have to worry about camera exposure. At the entrance of nanxishan Park, there is a stone tablet inscribed by Wang Zhenggong of Song Dynasty, "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world".

In March every year, cherry blossoms can be seen in the park.

Nanxishan Park

Nanxishan park is one of the eight scenic spots in Guilin.

Nanxishan park is located at Jiangjun bridgehead in the south of Guilin City, about 1km away from the railway station. It is named after the lingering Nanxi River. It has two peaks in the East and the west, juxtaposed with each other, towering thousands of feet. To the north, there are cliffs with white rocks. It's sunny after the rain, the clouds are beginning to disperse, and the sun shines on the rocks, reflecting a dazzling brilliance. In ancient times, "Nanxi Xinji" was one of the eight scenic spots in Guilin. There are many and strange caves in Nanxi, and Bailong cave in the north is the most famous. Its opening is high and open, like a tall stone house. The stone wall is white, and there is a stone milk hanging down, which is very similar to the dragon head, so it is called Bailong cave. Inside the cave, there are some wonders, such as double lion stone, jade bamboo shoots to welcome spring, white dragon to spit pearls and so on. Right out of Bailong cave, you can see Xuanyan, a colorful Gallery of stalactites. The hole is divided into two channels. On the right side of the road, you can get to chuanyunyan. The tunnel is short, and there are often clouds and mist passing through the gate. There are many precious stone carvings at the mouth of the cave.

Development history

The earliest developer of Nanxi mountain was Li Bo, an observer of Du Guan during the period of Tang Shili. He loved the green water and secluded forest of this mountain. Today, there are still stone carvings of his poem "farewell to Nanxi" in the cave. There are many caves in the park, such as Bailong cave and liuxianyan cave, and there is a Dragon Ridge pavilion between the two peaks, which is a good place for climbing and enjoying the north and South scenery of the city. On the Nanxi River, there is a Bailong bridge. Bailong spring is one of the famous springs in Guilin.

It is because of the painstaking efforts and words of the poet that Nanxi Xinji is on the list of eight scenic spots in Guilin.

Guilin Stone Mountain, mostly indigo, after the rain Qianshan ink like iron. However, Nanxi mountain is jade colored. The setting sun after the rain gives birth to colorful light. It reflects Nanxi mountain in various colors, like a color screen. In the old days, lotus roots were planted all over Nanxi. After the rain, it's not hard to imagine how beautiful Nanxi mountain is.

Nanxi mountain is not big. It's hollow up and down. It's said that all the caves are broken

The total area of Qixingyan, the largest cave in Guilin, can exceed that of Qixingyan. Therefore, the story happened in Nanxi mountain is told by the common people.

During the Five Dynasties, general Peng Huiyan stationed in Guilin and set up a guard card in Nanxi mountain to repel the invasion of the Southern Han Dynasty and protect the safety of the people in the city. The people in the old city changed the name of Anxi bridge at the foot of Nanxi mountain to Jiangjun bridge to show their respect for general Peng.

In the Qing Dynasty, when the Taiping army attacked Guilin City, it also set up an ambush in the area of jiangjunqiao in nanxishan. It hit Wu Lantai, the general of the Qing army who came from Guangzhou for reinforcement with artillery. Wu Lantai was defeated and retreated to Yangshuo, where he lost his life and became a "wulangdi". But the most legendary person in Nanxi mountain is immortal Liu.

According to the textual research of Su Hongji, a great master of literature and history in Guilin, Taoism reached an unprecedented heyday in the late Southern Song Dynasty, after Nanzong of Taoism gave birth to Quanzhen religion, which was popular all over the country. The first ancestor of the Southern Sect of Taoism was immortal Zhang Ping Shu of Ziyang, and his Daoist, Zhihang, was immortal Liu of Guilin!

Liu Xian, whose name is Jing Zhongyuan, is a native of Guilin. He was born in the fifth year of Qiande reign of emperor beizong and died in the eighth year of Yuanfeng reign of emperor Shenzong of Song Dynasty at the age of 118. He is the oldest person in Guilin's history. In order to prevent mystification, local officials LV Yuanzhong and Zhang Xiaoxiang of the Song Dynasty carefully examined the authenticity of his age, and finally believed that it was true, while the stone inscriptions showed the descendants in Liu Xianyan.

Liu Xianyan is located in the middle of the southern foot of Nanxi mountain. The rock is bright and spacious, in which stone beds, stone tables, stone benches and stone stoves are naturally formed. Another thing that is quite different from other caves in Guilin is that almost all the stone carvings on the rock wall, regardless of the dynasty, are related to Liu Xianren.

As far as the history of Taoism is concerned, from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, there is a relatively clear development vein. Only in the middle period of the Northern Song Dynasty, it seems that the mantle of Taoism is not clearly handed down. Scholars who write about the history of Taoism all know that the history of Taoism in this period is the most difficult, because there are too few historical materials that can be used as circumstantial evidence. The stone carvings in liuxianyan, nanxishan, Guilin, just filled the gap of this period.

According to the biography of Guilin immortal Liu and other relevant historical materials, when Zhang Pingshu met immortal Liu in Guilin, he was still a petty official who was assigned to Lingnan due to the burning of official documents. At this time, immortal Liu was already a real person with considerable Taoist skills and was 17 years older than uncle Zhang Ping. Uncle Zhang Ping learned from immortal Liu, who was naturally his master and successor.

After Zhang Pingshu came to Guilin, he became an official of Lu Shen, the then governor of Guizhou. It was the first year of the reign of Yingzong in the Northern Song Dynasty. He was 80 years old at that time. Later, Lu Shen was transferred to Sichuan, accompanied by Zhang Pingshu, and finally became a key figure of the Taoist generation in Sichuan.

Because of the existence of immortal Liu, Nanxi mountain is a holy land of Taoism, and its position in Guilin as a famous historical and cultural city is naturally extraordinary. Although pop culture can make a sensation and make a splash, it is a flash in the pan after all. Only traditional culture can last forever.

Main attractions

Nanxishan

On the east side of Bayi Bridge at the junction of Zhongshan South Road and Chongxin Road, the elevation is 291 meters, the relative height is 141 meters, the length is 350 meters, the width is 180 meters, and the mountain area is 7.75 hectares. Nanxi Qingliu, lingering in the north foot, into the Lijiang River. Nanxi mountain, Xiangbi mountain and Duxiu mountain belong to pure and thick limestone. They were originally the same as douji mountain and Luohan mountain. They were eroded by water millions of years ago and divided into solitary peaks. Nanxi mountain was developed earlier, and nearly 200 stone carvings have been left on the cliff walls since the Tang Dynasty. Li Bo's "poem and preface to Nanxi mountain" records the process of his development of Nanxi mountain more than 1000 years ago. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has been repaired in all dynasties. After it was turned into a park, it was newly built and became a distinctive landscape park. ??

Bailong Bridge

On the Nanxi River between Nanxi mountain and Nanxi Park Square, there is the famous bailongjing beside the bridge. It was built in 1965, imitating the style of Zhaojia bridge in Sui Dynasty. It has a single arch and reinforced concrete bridge with a span of 30 meters, a length of 30 meters, a width of 5.5 meters at both ends, a main part of 9 meters and an area of 210 square meters. There are five pavilions on the bridge, and three in the middle are higher than the two at both ends, and they are picked out. Tinglang is a small slope top, covered with green tiles, and the corridor is made of terrazzo, gray. The whole bridge is full of the traditional characteristics of Chinese bridge architecture.

Bailong Cave

Bailongjing Pavilion is located at the side of bailongqiao in Nanxi park. It was built to protect bailongjing. The pavilion is 8 meters high, 5 meters long and 5 meters wide, and covers an area of 25 square meters. It has 6 columns, single eaves, high warping, 2-story, steel frame and concrete 6-corner pavilion with a sharp top. The lower layer is for Bailong well protection, and the upper layer is for sightseeing. Bailongjing, also known as bailongquan, bailongchi. Bailong spring is one of the best springs in Guilin, which is named "Gongquan". Spring out of the well, set up wells to protect the spring. In Tang and Song Dynasties, stone was built to protect the well. In 1987, a pavilion was built to protect the pool.

Bailong Cave

At the waist of the North Mountain in the west of Nanxi, the cave entrance is located at the north foot of the mountain, with an elevation of 155 meters, 10 meters higher than Nanxi River. The cave is 20 meters high and 12 meters wide. The highest and widest parts are 23 meters, 499.5 meters long and 1828 square meters in area. It is the highest and largest cave in Nanxi mountain. It connects with the bottom of the pot from north to south. There are two pairs of caves penetrating each other in Nanxi mountain. Yuanyan and chuanyunyan also cross from north to south, while Guanyin cave and Longji cave are connected from east to west. These groups of interconnected caves are small underground channels developed in different periods. Longji cave is the first one to develop, which began to be eroded about one million years ago, until the formation of Guanyin cave tens of thousands of years ago. Most of the other caves developed along the North-South steep fissures of the rock strata. Bailong cave and Guodi cave, yuanyan cave and chuanyunyan cave began to develop about 100000 years ago, and formed a relatively complete underground river tens of thousands of years ago. Through the three groups of caves, six caves are connected as a whole. They enter from the stone trough of Bailong cave, turn back to the "Jinshan Yinshan" of Guodi cave, turn into the "prawn hanging wall" of Yunyan and the "Guanyin statue" of yuanyan, turn eastward, and pass through the "high mountains and deep valleys" exit of Longji cave, with a total length of 523 meters, Form a zigzag, turning, ups and downs, ups and downs, deep, illusory cave world.

As one of the most famous tourist attractions in Guilin, Xishan can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty more than 1100 years ago. Nanxi mountain towered thousands of feet, because of the green flying, the ancients described it as "dressed like dye". Under the pedestrian wall, you can often hear the mountain whistling sound of the wind blowing on the cliff. It is a unique landscape in Guilin. At the southwest foot of Dongfeng, there is an isolated pillar about 30 meters high, just like a half length woman looking east. It is said that this is Meng Jiangnu.

Nanxi mountain is very popular among the people. One is Liu Xianyan, who is a famous poet

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