Kongwangshan scenic spot

Kongwangshan scenic spot is a national 4A scenic spot, 2.5km away from Lianyungang City. More than 2500 years ago, the famous story of "Confucius asked officials" (Confucius asked Tanzi about the official system) happened here. One of the most noteworthy is the earliest Buddhist statues found in China so far. It is built according to the mountain situation. More than 100 personal statues are distributed on the cliff, with standing, sitting, jumping and lying, which challenges some of the final conclusions in the history of Buddhism. The cliff stone carvings distributed in the southeast corner of the mountain, such as "sacrificing oneself to feed a tiger", "banquet of Han Dynasty" and "overlapping Han Dynasty", are of high archaeological value. Its appearance shows that Lianyungang in Han Dynasty was one of the starting points of "maritime Silk Road".

Kongwangshan scenic spot

Kongwangshan scenic spot is a national 4A scenic spot, 2.5km away from Lianyungang City. It is named after Confucius' mountaineering and looking at the sea. There are stone carvings of cups and plates worshipping the sea in the new era of primitive society, the East Gate site of the Qin Dynasty, the earliest Temple site of the East China Sea in China, the only round carved stone statue of the Han Dynasty, the Millennium Temple in the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Tang, song and Yuan Dynasties The inscriptions of officials and literary giants in the Ming Dynasty, especially the discovery of cliff statues in the Eastern Han Dynasty, replaced the laurel of "mother cave of China" in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, confirming that the value of the maritime Silk Road starting from Kongwang mountain is immeasurable and can be called a national treasure. In addition to the wonderful Dragon Cave, the legend of magic and beauty, the title of "the 71st blessed land of China" is well-known at home and abroad.

geographical environment

Kongwang mountain is located in the northern part of the east of Jinping, adjacent to Yanhe River in the East and Yudai River in the north, 4 kilometers east of Haizhou ancient city. It is 800 meters long from east to west and 300 meters wide from north to south, with an altitude of 123 meters and an area of 73 hectares. The mountain is composed of granite and gneiss with a history of 1.8 billion years. According to Yu Di Yao LAN, "Confucius asked an official to visit Tanzi and enjoy the mountain to see the East China Sea, so it's named after him. It is also called Gucheng mountain. Because there is the base of the old city by the side of the mountain. " "Jiaqing Haizhou Zhili annals" contains: "there is a Dragon Cave in Kongwang mountain, and it was Longxing mountain in Tang Dynasty." During the war between Song Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, Wei Sheng, the leader of the rebel army, set up troops to patrol the mountain.

natural resources

The scenery sources of Kongwang mountain are rich and colorful, which can be divided into two categories: natural scenery sources and humanistic scenery sources. In terms of natural scenery, the humid climate of Kongwang mountain has created a rich biological community. The vegetation types are coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest, bamboo forest, hilly grass and artificial economic fruit forest. There are more than 30 kinds of tree species, including Quercus acutissima, Broussonetia papyrifera, Melia azedarach, mulberry, Catalpa bungei, Pinus thunbergii, Pinus densiflora, elm, Sophora japonica, willow, maple, Ligustrum lucidum, Magnolia, polygonatum odoratum, Phyllostachys pubescens, etc. There are 1200 year old ancient cypresses and 800 year old glutinous rice tea trees in Longdong nunnery. The forest coverage rate here is as high as 80%. It is a gathering place for egrets, magpies, turtledoves, some unknown birds and small wild animals. A egret reserve has been established in northern Shandong. It can be divided into historical and modern humanistic sources. There are more than 10 historical and cultural sources, such as the stone carvings on cups and pans offering sacrifices to the sea in the new era of primitive society, the cliff statues of Kongwang mountain, the Longdong nunnery, a thousand year old ancient temple, and the East Gate site of the Qin Dynasty. Kongwang mountain once attracted many ancient celebrities to sing here. Liu Changqing, Su Dongpo, Shi Manqing, Lin Zexu, and Tao Shu all visited Kongwang mountain and wrote popular poems. There are nine sources of modern cultural scenery, such as the statue of Confucius looking at the sea, the hook center of quhai lake, and the cave of gods. In the past 20 years, we have successively built the infrastructure such as mountain roads, parking lots, walking paths, squares, Confucius statues, tourism toilets, further improved the tourism road network, and effectively combined the scenic spots into a whole. By constantly strengthening the construction of supporting facilities and greening the surrounding environment of the scenic spot, and rectifying the soft environment of the scenic spot, the image of the scenic spot has made a qualitative leap, and the tourism resources have been effectively integrated. On January 8, 2004, kongwangshan scenic spot was approved as a national 4A scenic spot by the National Tourism Administration.

Main attractions

1. Buddhist cliff statues, located in the southwest of Kongwang mountain, are chiseled according to the natural situation of the cliff. There are 105 existing statues, which are distributed on the cliffs 17 meters long and 8 meters high from east to west. There are Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, disciples, strongmen and donors. Most of them reflect Sakyamuni's Bunsen story and Buddhist tradition. The story of Bensheng has a picture of the prince of Saji "sacrificing his life to feed the tiger". Buddhist stories include "the picture of saying", "the picture of Nirvana" and so on.

2. Longdong nunnery, located on the south side of Kongwang mountain, was first built in the Northern Qi Dynasty and rebuilt into Longxing Temple in the middle of Tang Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, it was rebuilt on the old site and renamed "Longdong nunnery". During the "Cultural Revolution", Longdong nunnery also suffered a disaster, with statues destroyed and cultural relics scattered. The whole building of Longdong nunnery takes the Mountain Gate of the main hall as a central axis, forming a high-low and symmetrical building group. Step up from the mountain gate, pass through the round cave gate, and enter the courtyard. In the center of the hall with single eaves and hard hilltop, there is a Buddha statue of Sakyamuni. On both sides are two disciples, Anu and Kaya. On both sides are painted statues of the eighteen Arhats. On the God seat in the front Mountain Gate, Maitreya Buddha is in front, Weituo statue is behind, and four heavenly kings are on both sides. The East chamber is Guanyin hall. The whole building has a magnificent outline. On both sides of the hall is a thousand year old cypress, which is still green. In the East, there is a glutinous rice tea tree which was first planted in the Song Dynasty. In spring, when the flowers bloom, the chrysanthemum garden is fragrant. There is also an ancient well in the courtyard, which is called "mannuquan".

3. The carved stone on the cup and plate of kongwangshan is located at the highest point of kongwangshan. It was chiseled on a large natural stone. The whole shape of the big stone is like an inkstone, so it is called "inkstone". The big stone is slightly rectangular, 320 cm from east to west, 200 cm wide, 70-120 cm thick, and supported by three small stones at the bottom. The eastern section of Dashi is chiseled into a plane. In the middle of the plane, there is a disc-shaped concave with a diameter of 40 cm, and there are 8 standard shaped concave around it. The thick wall at the northeast end of Dayan is engraved with the word "inkstone" in Lishu style, with a diameter of 14 cm. The carved stone on the cup and plate of kongwangshan is a sacrifice to Donghai king in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

4. Kongwangshan stone statue is located about 70 meters to the east of kongwangshan cliff statue. The stone statue is the main round sculpture, carved according to the natural shape of a granite boulder. It's much bigger than the normal body. He is 2.60 meters tall, 4.8 meters long and 3.5 meters wide. On the west side of the elephant, there is a concave chisel with a height of 88 cm, a width of 49 cm, and a depth of 0.2 cm, which is the title list without inscription. On the east side of the elephant body, a box with a height of 113 cm and a width of 62 cm was carved on the Yin line, and the character "elephant stone" in Lishu style was carved inside. Between the inscription and the elephant's front leg, there is a flat relief elephant slave, 92 cm high, with a T-shaped bun on his head, foot bells on his feet and an iron hook in his right hand. The stone elephant is carved with a lotus flower under its feet.

5. Longdong stone carving is located on the inside and outside stone walls of "Longdong" on both sides of Longdong nunnery in kongwangshan. There are more than 20 inscriptions, from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. Among the Longdong stone carvings, the Ming Dynasty stone carvings are the most abundant. The Ming Dynasty Huaihai an Prefecture magistrate Chen Wenzhu wrote "Kong Wang Shan Ming.". There are inscriptions of "Guiyun flying bird" by Wang Tong, the governor of Haizhou in Jiaqing period of Ming Dynasty, and "Guiyun cave" by Shao Ruiliang of Ming Dynasty. Lin Tingyu's poem inscription in Ming Dynasty: "look at the Dragon Cave formed by chance, it turns into mingmeng, and the Danya cave is empty. The spirit of the earth should call, and it should be surprised to meet. " There is also a six character poem engraved by Wang Tong in Ming Dynasty, which is the most representative. The poem says: "the moon shines on the night of the Dragon Cave, and the yellow flowers fill the ground with autumn fragrance. At this time, Wen Yan will be here, one mourning and one chanting. The mountains and rocks are winding, and the sea flows eastward. When the Ming Dynasty separated from the city, Qin Zun recalled and prepared for it. " The style is just like the seal script of Song Dynasty, and the scenery is lyrical, which gives people a high artistic enjoyment.

6. Donghai Temple site and Donghai Temple stele are located in the south of Kongwang Shanxi. The contents of the stele are the origin and process of Donghai xianghuanjun's repair of Donghai temple and the purpose of "respecting spirits and ghosts". There is a line of 17 characters on the back of the stele: "the que was set up by the first emperor of Qin Dynasty. It is the que of the east gate of Qin Dynasty. It is in the historical records."

Related events

On December 5, 2016, the National Tourism Administration held a press conference and was seriously warned in the list of 4A scenic spots.

Address: Yanhe South Road, Haizhou District, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province

Longitude: 119.174145

Latitude: 34.564747

Tel: 0518-5115167

Tour time: 5 hours

Traffic information: public transportation: No.5, 118 kongwangshan scenic spot station

Ticket information: 40 yuan (annual card does not include Longdong Temple ticket, 2 yuan for Longdong Temple ticket)

Preferential policies: children under 1.2 meters in height are free of charge; senior citizens over 70 years old, soldiers and disabled people are free of charge with valid certificates

Children 1.2-1.5 meters tall, aged between 60 and 70 years old (with senior citizen's card or ID card), full-time undergraduate students and students with bachelor's degree or below can buy scenic spot tickets with student card

Opening hours: 7:00-18:00

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