Xiushan Park

Xiushan park is one of the most important scenic spots in Yuxi. There are many ancient buildings and couplets on Xiushan. The rare Songbai, Yuanshan and mingyulan on the mountain are known as the "three wonders" of Xiushan. Xiushan is known as "the mountain and the sea with plaques" and "the forest of Steles". The plaques and inscriptions preserved so far have formed a scenic spot characterized by cultural landscape and rare ancient trees. When you climb Xiushan, you can also see the scenery of Qilu Lake, Tonghai County and Bazi. When it comes to festivals, many people will come to pray.

Xiushan Park

Tonghai Xiushan Park, located in the south corner of Tonghai County, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, is one of the important scenic spots in Yuxi area. The peak is 2060 meters above sea level, with a vertical height of nearly 200 meters. It covers an area of 7.6 square kilometers, a tourist area of 1.55 million square meters, and a construction area of more than 50000 square meters. Xiushan historical and cultural park.

In the Ming Dynasty, Tonghai Xiushan, together with Jinma mountain, Biji mountain in Kunming and Cangshan Mountain in Dali, was known as the four famous mountains in Yunnan, known as "Xiujia South Yunnan". There are Sanyuan palace, Puguang temple, Yuhuang Pavilion, qingliangtai, Longevity Palace, doutian Pavilion, Yongjin temple, Bailong temple and other ancient buildings. Now it is a national 4A tourist area.

About the park

Xiushan Park, located in the south of Tonghai County, is one of the important scenic spots in Yuxi, and is also a national AAAA scenic spot.

There are many ancient buildings and couplets on Xiushan mountain, which has a strong cultural atmosphere.

Park history

Xiushan historical and cultural park is located in central and southern Yunnan. It was built in 82 B.C., the fifth year of emperor Zhao of Han Dynasty, more than 2000 years ago. It was built on a large scale in the Tang Dynasty. After the song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has formed seven large-scale, magnificent and different styles of ancient buildings.

Xiushan has a total area of 1.55 million square meters, with an area of more than 50000 square meters of ancient buildings. There are more than 250 plaques, couplets, steles and carvings inscribed by famous ink men of all dynasties, which are known as "plaques, mountains and sea". Xiushan is well-known for its small, delicate and rich green appearance. The forest coverage rate is 94.2%. It is rich in plant resources and still maintains a complete primitive community state. Xiushan used to be a popular place for Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism in history. In Ming Dynasty, Xiushan was one of the four famous mountains in Yunnan, known as "Xiujia Southern Yunnan".

Xiushan has a long history and culture, rich religious customs, rich cultural landscape and beautiful natural landscape as a whole. A number of ancient buildings, such as gubaige, a Song Dynasty building in Yongjin Temple of Xiushan, and inscribed tablets and couplets, have high scientific research value and artistic value.

Xiushan, with temples built since the Tang Dynasty, was a Buddhist resort in the yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are ancient buildings on Xiushan in song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In 298 BC, during the Warring States period, Zhuang zuqiao of the state of Chu led the people to Yunnan and established the Dian state in the south of Dianchi Lake. Tonghai and Hexi belonged to the Dian state at that time. In 937, Duan Siping, the governor of Tonghai, destroyed Dayi Ning state and founded Dali state. Tonghai County was set up. Tonghai was the seat of the county, which governed today's Southeast Yunnan. It was an important military, political and cultural place in southern Yunnan. Duan Siping, king of Dali, cast more than 100 bronze statues at Daxing temple in Xiushan.

Through the great construction of dynasties, Xiushan now forms six groups of buildings with Sanyuan palace, Puguang temple, Yuhuangge, qingliangtai, Yongjin temple and Bailong temple as the main body, which can be described as an ancient architecture museum. Since Xiushan successfully passed the National Tourism Administration's 3A grade tourist area assessment and acceptance in 2001, Tonghai County has made it the key goal of the next few years to apply for the national 4A grade scenic spot and realize the improvement of the quality level of the scenic spot again. Around this goal, Tonghai County invested a lot of money to further improve the resource grade and service quality of Xiushan scenic spot, and improve the construction of the scenic spot.

Over the past few years, more than 20 million yuan has been invested in opening Xiushan passage, renovating and reconstructing the main streets, burying the communication and cable of many road sections into the ground, laying bluestone slabs, greening and lighting, protecting and repairing the Confucian temple and the Longevity Palace, and connecting the Confucian temple with Xiushan. At the same time, more than 5 million yuan was invested in the renovation and construction of the environment, ancient buildings, parking lot, toilet, tourist signs, safety and health facilities of Xiushan scenic spot

geographical position

Tonghai Xiushan Park, located in the south corner of Tonghai County, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, is one of the important scenic spots in Yuxi area.

The peak is 2060 meters above sea level, with a vertical height of nearly 200 meters. It covers an area of 7.6 square kilometers, a tourist area of 1.55 million square meters, and a construction area of more than 50000 square meters

Square meters.

Xiushan historical and cultural park. In the Ming Dynasty, Tonghai Xiushan, together with Jinma mountain, Biji mountain in Kunming and Cangshan Mountain in Dali, was known as the four famous mountains in Yunnan, known as "Xiujia South Yunnan".

There are Sanyuan palace, Puguang temple, Yuhuang Pavilion, qingliangtai, Longevity Palace, doutian Pavilion, Yongjin temple, Bailong temple and other ancient buildings. Now it is a national 4A tourist area.

The rare Songbai, Yuanshan and mingyulan on the mountain are known as the "three wonders" of Xiushan, and Xiushan is known as "Banshan Lianhai" and "Beilin". Up to now, the reserved Banlian and tablet inscriptions have formed a scenic spot characterized by humanistic landscape and rare ancient trees.

Mount Xiushan offers a panoramic view of Qilu Lake, Tonghai County and Bazi.

Main attractions

Puguang Temple

Puguang Temple

Located in the middle of Xiushan, Puguang temple was built in 1249, the 11th year of Dali national highway. The Puguang temple building complex is one of the oldest buildings in Xiushan, including Zhiguan hall, pangfu temple, pangfu tower, Xibo pool and so on.

The stele of "zhizhaolanruoji in Puguang mountain", which was erected in 1377 A.D., is well preserved in the courtyard. This stele is of great value to the study of the history and culture of Tonghai in Yuan Dynasty.

Cooling platform

Cooling platform

Qingliangtai, formerly known as Qingliangsi, was built in the late Tang Dynasty after Yuhuangge. It was rebuilt in 1898 (A.D. 1478) by Jingzong, a monk of Puguang temple.

Qingliangtai building Haiyun building, qianfengwanhe building, Penglai Pavilion, Luxian temple, Guixiang hall, Wuhou Temple, Yaowang hall, etc. form a four courtyard and three connected building.

Qingliangtai is indeed "the ancient hall is windy and cold in June". The temple is high and precipitous, surrounded by green trees, backed by mountains and facing lakes, with constant cool wind. It is a good place for summer games and tea. Plaques and couplets of celebrities of past dynasties are all over Taiwan, which is worthy of the reputation of "plaques, mountains and sea".

Yongjin Temple

Yongjin Temple

Yongjin temple is located in the upper part of Xiushan mountain. It was founded during the reign of emperor Jiaxi of Song Dynasty (1237-1240 A.D.) and built in Zhizheng of Huizong of Yuan Dynasty (1340-1368 A.D.). It has been a big temple in Central Yunnan for nearly a thousand years, and its descendants are in the jungle. In Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were more than 100 monks in the temple.

Yongjin temple is built on the mountain. The temple is majestic and magnificent. The Song Dynasty cypress and Yuan Dynasty Xiangshan, two of the "three wonders" of Xiushan, are planted in the courtyard. The ancient literati's steles are mounted on the wall. The hall is full of fragrance and chanting. The cypresses outside the hall are towering, and the bells and drums are corresponding. Yongjin temple, commonly known as Dading temple, is the highest building in Xiushan mountain. It is named after the mountain like "Diyong Jinlian". It covers an area of more than 6000 square meters. The temple is divided into three parts, the temple is vast and deep, the temple gate is majestic on the semicircular stone steps, and the three gilded characters of "Yongjin Temple" are majestic and solemn.

In the middle is the ancient cypress Pavilion in Xiushan, which is all made of wood and is extremely ingenious. In the hall of Mahatma, the third Buddha is shaped with a kind face and a well proportioned body. In front of the hall, there are three squares, white horse, yellow dragon and Fahai Yuanming, which stand in the East, West and North. In the courtyard, pines and cypresses are vigorous, camellia is gorgeous, and Yuanshan is fragrant. Song Bai, Yuan Shan and Ming Yulan are known as the "three wonders of Xiushan".

The left chamber of Yongjin temple is a courtyard. There is a unique plaque on the door, which says "come here". The entrance is a quiet courtyard, with tanhuaxuan in the East, Zuohua building in the West and a small courtyard in the north. "Come here" there are magnolia, peony, peony and other famous flowers and herbs in the courtyard. People feel fragrant when they enter the courtyard. "

Bailong Temple

Bailong Temple

Bailong temple is located in the deep forest on the west side of Yongjin temple. It was founded in 1486 A.D. In front of the temple, there is a pool of clear spring, named bailongquan. The water is sweet and refreshing, which is suitable for the body and has endless aftertaste. It is the only building in the back mountain. The temple is simple and elegant, and it is very harmonious with the surrounding environment.

In recent years, some pavilions and service facilities have been expanded, water has been diverted to the mountain, and lotus and various flowers and plants have been cultivated in pools. It has become another new tourist spot in Xiushan park.

Located in front of Bailong temple, the new building complex was built in 1988. It includes Baiyun Wu, silk and Bamboo Museum, calligraphy and painting exhibition room, pool corridor, God of wealth hall, orchid garden and tea garden. There are more than 10000 pots of various kinds of rare orchids in the orchid garden. There are thousands of various kinds of rare Camellia in the tea garden. In winter and spring, the orchids are fragrant and the camellia are blooming. The scenery and taste are endless.

Traffic information

Transportation: take the bus from Kunming east station to Tonghai County, the fare is 42 yuan, about 138 km from Kunming to Tonghai.

Xiushan is just beside the city. When you get to Tonghai, you can walk along South Street to Xiushan park.

Address: No.49 Wenxue Li, Tonghai County, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province

Longitude: 102.74654301581

Latitude: 24.108852836915

Tel: 0877-3014049

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