Peach blossom cave

Peach blossom cave

Taohua cave is located in Houzhuang village, Xiangyang City, Fenyang City, Shanxi Province. People here say that the canyon is 15 kilometers long, which is the road that Erlang God used to break up with a shoulder pole. To commemorate this place, local people hold a temple fair in dafoyawan on the third day of March every year. Taohua cave, located in Taohua village, Xiaocheng City, is a large karst landform in Shao city.

geographical position

Xiangyangxia, also known as Sanli Taohua cave, is located 30 kilometers west of Xinghua town. The scenic spot starts from the mouth of xiangyangxia Valley in the East and ends at the bottom of huangluoling mountain bordering Lishi city in the west, with a total length of 15 km.

Cave landscape

The scenery inside the cave is unique. "If you look at the left and right of the cave, you can see the water whirlpool, the waves, the tiger squatting, the summer clouds, the old ice pouring, the stone covered with milk and congealing", "the stone room is vast, the earth is numerous, and there are stone benches and stone beds. There is a round sinus on the top of the stove, which looks like a mirror and receives sunlight. " (see "Baoqing Fu Zhi" by Daoguang), there is underground current in the cave. In the past, there were many peach trees in front of the cave. In spring, peach blossoms were in full bloom, petals fell into the water, passed through the Yinhe River in the cave, and then flowed out from the stream behind the mountain, so it was called "peach cave flowing fragrance". Fu Luanxiang, the magistrate of Baoqing in the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem "peach blossom cave": "the staff is searching for seclusion, the lonely Pavilion is hanging, the dangerous peak is coming to the far Xiu, the Deng is stacked to cut the cold smoke, the Jue is Jue, the peach is fresh in the spring. Where can I find fishing boats Outside the peach blossom cave, there is a huge stone standing. Its rhizome is thin and slightly like a mushroom shaped cloud. Song JINGDING Jiazi (1264) Shaozhou prefect milden book "ancient cloud root" three characters carved on it, and named "cloud root stone". Milden also wrote two ancient seal characters "Dongyang fairyland" and "Taodong Liuxiang" carved at the entrance of the cave.

Original name

Xiangyangxia is a long and narrow valley with steep cliffs on both sides and towering dangerous rocks. In the middle is an ancient post road. Because of its closed terrain, such as "box" shape, it was called "Xiangyang box" in ancient times; in early March every year, the peach blossom blooms on the stone wall, red as rosy clouds. From a distance, the peach blossom clusters on the two walls have a sense of crisscrossing in the sky from the perspective. It is like drilling a hole in the imagination, so it is called "thirty mile peach blossom cave".

Legend

A long time ago, there lived a hardworking and kind-hearted young man who cut firewood for a living in Beipo village. People called him Wang Qiao. One day in the spring of this year, Wang Qiao took a pole and went into the mountain to cut firewood. At the foot of the mountain, he saw two old men with white hair and long beard walking into the cave of Langke mountain hand in hand. Wang Qiao is very strange. He hasn't seen these two old people in the village. Who are they? What to do in the peach blossom cave? Because of curiosity, he went into the cave. As soon as I entered the cave, I saw the flowing water gurgling in the cave, the peach blossoms on both sides were bright red, and some trees had already borne rich fruits. The two old men sat down on both sides of a bluestone board, opened the chessboard and began to play chess. When Wang Qiao saw this scene, he put down his shoulder pole, put down his axe, and squatted to watch the game. After a long time, he saw two old men, sometimes picking a peach to eat, sometimes giving it to Wang Qiao. I don't know how long it took. After playing chess, the two old men got up and went to the depth of the hole. At this time, Wang Qiao remembered that he was here to cut firewood. He went to pick up the shoulder pole. The shoulder pole was rotten. When he went to pick up the firewood axe, the handle of the axe was rotten. The firewood couldn't be cut, so he had to go home by the same way.

As soon as he got out of the cave, he felt that the shape of the mountain, the trees and the road had changed. He could only vaguely recognize the way back. Finally, when he came back to the village and saw that all the villagers were strangers, he asked in surprise, "where is Wang Qiao's home?" An old man replied, "Wang Qiao went into the mountains to collect firewood, but he never came back. It's 800 years now. " At this time, Wang Qiao realized that he had met an immortal, and he had become an immortal. He knew that it was useless to search further, so he had to return to the mountain and enter the peach blossom cave again. Unexpectedly, as soon as he went in, the hole closed slowly. Later, Wang Qiao disappeared.

Related information

The mouth of the valley is the source of the Xiangyang River, which was called "jinsuoguan water" in ancient times. The spring mouth is 1150.88 meters above sea level. The clear spring flows southeast from the canyon and flows through Xiangyang ancient town, Songjiazhuang village, Potou village, and into Yumen river through baochengsi village in yudaohe Town, with a total length of 25 kilometers and a drainage area of 29.4 square kilometers. This spring has been built into Xiangyang canal to supply domestic water and farmland irrigation for more than ten villages, such as Potou, Songjiazhuang, shangjiazhuang and xiazhangjiazhuang. There is a village run rainbow trout farm at the head of the canal. In the mid-1970s, the educated youth in Xiangyang village used spring water to build the earliest hydropower station in Fenyang. At that time, it could meet the needs of lighting power and grain processing in the whole village. Now the machine room and the reservoir in front of the dam are still in good condition, and the machinery and equipment have been destroyed. Xiangyangxia Grand Canyon is the only ancient post road leading to Fenzhou in ancient times. It has been an important military fortress since Han and Jin Dynasties. At present, the great wall and jinsuoguan of the Northern Qi Dynasty, which were more than 1400 years ago, were listed as "the great wall of China 100 passes" in 1997. There are also three scenic spots: xiaofowan, dafowan and huangluoling. Fenzhou walnut has a long history in Shanxi Province. Its kernel is sweet, rich in fat and protein. It is delicious whether eaten raw or made into cakes and sweets. It is also a kind of food for replenishing intelligence and strengthening brain, which can replenish qi and blood, moisten dryness and remove phlegm, treat lung and intestines, and taste sweet and smooth. It has certain curative effect on "warming kidney and lung, relieving asthma and resolving phlegm". The protection scope of Fenzhou walnut geographical indication products is subject to the notice on the protection of Fenzhou walnut geographical indication products (lzh [2007] No. 126) issued by the people's Government of Luliang City, Shanxi Province, which is Xinghua Town, Jicun Town, jiajiazhuang Town, xiaojiazhuang Town, Yanwu Town, yudaohe Town, Xiangyang Houzhuang village, Sanquan Town, Shizhuang Town, Xiangyang Houzhuang Town, yudaohe town There are 14 Township sub district offices in Yangjiazhuang Town, Yangcheng Township, Xihe Township, Lijiazhuang Township, Wenfeng sub district office and taiheqiao sub district office, which are under the jurisdiction of administrative regions,

Address: Taohua village, Daxiang district, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province

Longitude: 111.46747006497

Latitude: 27.20358249947

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