Zizhou

On Zizhou, surrounded by green water and green bamboo, there are mountains in the East, such as Qixing mountain, Chuanshan mountain and Tashan mountain; on the west, there are Diecai mountain, Fubo mountain, Duxiu Peak, Xiangshan Mountain, Zhishan mountain, Nanxi mountain and douji mountain. Whenever there is a drizzle and misty waves, the island is shrouded in gauze and mist, like a fairyland in Penglai. It is known as "Zizhou misty rain", one of the eight scenic spots in Guilin.

Zizhou

Zizhou Island, located in the core area of Lijiang River of Baili Gallery, is the most famous island on the Lijiang River. It integrates with Lijiang River and Xiangshan water moon, complements each other, and is the historical origin of Xiangbi mountain. The total area of the island is 51.26 hectares, of which 24.5 hectares of land are visited. It concentrates the essence of Guilin Scenery and the history and culture. It is a comprehensive scenic spot integrating ecology, culture, tourism and leisure.

Zizhou is located on the East Bank of Lijiang River, opposite to Xiangbi mountain. It is a sandbar between Lijiang River and its tributary Xiaodongjiang river. According to the records of Guilin folk customs written by Mo Xiufu in Tang Dynasty: "first, the Zi family lived in Guilin, but it was named because of the classics. Every time a continent passes through a flood, it has never been submerged. It is said that it is floating. " Therefore, Zizhou is called zijiazhou, also known as Fuzhou. The head of the island is raised like a frog's head, and the middle part is raised like a frog's back. On Zizhou, surrounded by green water and green bamboo, there are mountains in the East, such as Qixing mountain, Chuanshan mountain and Tashan mountain; on the west, there are Diecai mountain, Fubo mountain, Duxiu Peak, Xiangshan Mountain, Zhishan mountain, Nanxi mountain and douji mountain. Whenever there is a drizzle and misty waves, the island is shrouded in gauze and mist, like a fairyland in Penglai. It is known as "Zizhou misty rain", one of the eight scenic spots in Guilin.

development history

Zizhou Island Scenic Area has a long history of development. It is the earliest garden site in Guilin. It was built in the 13th year of the Tang Dynasty (818 AD).

Pei Xingli, the governor and observer of Guizhou at that time, initiated the master planning of Guilin landscape garden. The scenery of Zizhou is beautiful. Liu Zongyuan, one of the eight great masters of Tang and Song Dynasties, was invited to visit Zizhou island. He wrote the first famous article about the scenery of Guilin, the pavilion of zijiazhou, and put forward that "today is the best Pavilion in the world". This is the first time to associate "Guilin scenery" with "jiatianxia", which is more important than "Guilin scenery is the best in the world" by Wang Zhenggong of Song Dynasty As early as 384.

In 2008, Guilin municipal Party committee and government decided to rebuild Zizhou island, The construction project of Zizhou island ecological scenic spot was carried out. In 2011, Zizhou Island Scenic Spot was rebuilt. The scenic spots of "Zizhou misty rain" and "Zizhou red leaf Guilin autumn" were restored, and more than 10 new landscapes were formed, including waterfall and rainbow, history of poetry and painting, maple leaf peony, misty rain and green, clear bamboo forest, Cinnamomum camphora, bamboo umbrella cover, Ginkgo biloba, stele Pavilion, river, mountain, water and moon.

Original name

According to the records of Guilin folk customs written by Mo Xiufu in Tang Dynasty: "first, the Zi family lived in Guilin, but it was named because of the classics. Every time a continent passes through a flood, it has never been submerged. It is said that it is floating. " That is to say, people with the surname "Zi" lived in the first place, so they called it zijiazhou, or Zizhou for short, also known as Fuzhou. The head of the island is raised like a frog's head, and the middle part is raised like a frog's back.

Main attractions

River, mountain, water and moon

As the representative of Guilin landscape, Xiangbi mountain is the symbol and emblem of Guilin city. Zizhou is the historical birthplace and the best viewing angle for the literati to visit Xiangbi mountain. As early as the Tang Dynasty, a large number of historical celebrities, led by Pei Xingli and Liu Zongyuan, came to Zizhou to visit Lijiang River and Xiangbi mountain. Zizhou island is located in a place with wide river surface and gentle water flow. You can enjoy the panorama of Xiangshan and the view of the invincible River by walking along the ancient plank road of Lijiang River.

Xiangbi mountain, or "Xiangshan" for short, is located at the confluence of Lijiang River and Taohua River (formerly known as Yangjiang River). It is named because its mountain shape is similar to an elephant standing on the edge of Lijiang River and stretching its trunk to drink water. Xiangbi mountain was originally named "Li Mountain" because it is on the shore of Li River. In the Huichang period of Tang Dynasty (841-846), Yuan Hui, a poet of Tang Dynasty and an observer of GUI Guan, had the same pronunciation as "Lishan" in Lintong, Shaanxi Province. In order to avoid misunderstanding, he changed his name to "Yishan" with the idea of pleasant scenery. Later, Yishan was written as Yishan, because the ancient Chinese "Yi" and "Yi" are connected, so is the sound. In Guilin local records, Mo Xiu Fu of Tang Dynasty said that Li Mountain "is a submerged mountain, so it is named because it is in the water." The name of chenshui mountain is very rare among the literati in history. It is estimated that it is a folk name. Kong Yong also served in Guangdong, Shanxi, Guizhou and other places in the Ming Dynasty. He has a famous poem "elephant trunk mountain", which vividly describes the object of the poem: the elephant trunk clearly drinks the jade river, and the west wind absorbs water in response to the wave.

Qingshan is a wonderful place to see each other in the daytime.

Between the trunk and legs of Elephant Trunk Hill, there is a large semicircle cave with a rolling canopy. On a moonlit night, it forms a big circle with the reflection in the river, just like a bright moon floating on the water, so it is called "Shuiyue cave". Shuiyue cave is 17 meters long, 12 meters high and 10 meters wide. In Song Dynasty, Ji Bei's poem "the rhyme of heshuiyuedong" says: "there is a bright moon at the bottom of the water, and the moon floats on the water. If the water doesn't go away, the moon will go away and the water will still flow." This poem describes the most beautiful scenery of Shuiyue cave incisively and vividly. In the evening when the moon is in the sky, people can see the moon in the sky, the moon in the cave and the moon in the water, reflecting each other, giving people a feeling that the water in the moon is like the sky. In September 2013 and September 2014, he was awarded the title of "China's most beautiful place to enjoy the moon" by CCTV news channel.

On the cliff of Xiangbi mountain, there is a large-scale list of "free pool" written by Huang Guocai, the governor of Guangxi in Qing Dynasty. The free life pool is a custom handed down from ancient times. On the 15th day of the first lunar new year, some people who believe in Buddhism and good will come here to worship and free life. Over time, it is called the free life pool. Huang Guocai is particularly good at writing large-scale inscriptions on the list of books, and the cliff carving of "a pillar in the South sky" at Duxiu Peak in Guilin is also his work. Beside the list of "free life pool", there are four big characters "Xiangshan Shuiyue" inscribed by Mr. Ding Yaojiang, an overseas Chinese from Thailand, in 1984. On the cliff of Xiangbi mountain, there is also a precious stone inscription, the stele of emperor Qing Zhongxing Shengde song, which is the largest cultural relic among more than 2000 historical stone inscriptions in Guilin and the only article strongly criticizing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Misty rain in Zizhou

It is one of the eight scenes of Guilin since the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Shude, a painter of the Qing Dynasty Guilin, has recorded in the 1891 "Guilin eight landscape inscription" in Guangxu's 1891. It is still the only stone inscription that introduces the scenic spots of Guilin. In the Yuan Dynasty poet Liu Zhixing's Zi Zhou misty rain, it is said: "the fisherman will come back at dusk, and every family will buy fish to cook in the evening. The grass and trees in Sha Ting will be far away and near, and there will be two clusters of Qingming fans. The bamboo branches will sing in the depths of the reed flowers, and the wind and waves in the world will tell us that Du ruochang will come after the rain in the Ming Dynasty." The poem depicts the scenery of Zizhou in the misty rain season, just like a mysterious fairyland. Whenever drizzle, misty rain diffuse, the island is shrouded in gauze mist, looming, just like Penglai fairyland.

Zizhou red leaf

"Zizhou red leaf" has been one of the most beautiful scenic spots in Guilin since ancient times. In his poem "taking a unique wall at the mouth to record the journey", the Qing Dynasty poet Zhang Bao wrote: "the ancient ferry is located on a precipitous cliff, Zizhou red leaf is in Guilin autumn." The poet praises Guilin autumn with the red leaves of Zizhou. When the frost stains the red leaves of Zizhou, it is the arrival of Guilin autumn. This kind of scene of red maple floating on the branches is also known as good luck. Every autumn, the red and yellow maple leaves on the island are gorgeous and magnificent.

Stele Pavilion

Liufang Pavilion is composed of an antique style pavilion Liufang Pavilion and Liu Zongyuan stone sculpture. It was built in memory of Pei Xingli, the earliest developer of Zizhou, and Liu Zongyuan, who made Zizhou famous. Liu Zongyuan's stone sculptures integrate figures and inscriptions. The sculptures are 8 meters long, 2.5 to 3 meters high and 80 cm thick. They are all made of granite and weigh 45 tons. The stone sculpture is divided into positive and negative sides, with two poems carved on the back, both written by Liu Zongyuan. On the right is an excerpt from Liu Zongyuan's prose "farewell to my brother Zong 1" written by Mao Zedong: the scattered ghost is more gloomy than ever, and the two parting tears cross the river. He went to the country for six thousand miles, and died in famine for twelve years. The miasma in Guilin is like ink, and the water in Dongting is like sky. Want to know after that, Acacia dream, long in Jingmen Yingshu smoke. On the left is Liu Zongyuan's "snow on the river": thousands of birds are flying away and thousands of people are disappearing. A lone boat and a bamboo hat are fishing alone for the snow on the cold river. The red seal "liuhedong" is carved in the upper right corner of the stone sculpture. Liu Zongyuan's ancestral home is Hedong, which is the location of Yongji in Shanxi Province today. Later he moved to Chang'an (now Xi'an in Shaanxi Province), so people call him liuhedong. He was also called Liuzhou because he was the governor of Liuzhou in Guangxi. Liu Zongyuan, a famous thinker and writer of the Tang Dynasty, is the figure carved on the stone tablet. At the invitation of Pei Xingli, he came to Zizhou island in Guilin and wrote the story of zijiazhou Pavilion, which describes the beautiful scenery of Zizhou in detail.

Falling rainbow

The waterfall is composed of a group of scattered rocks and artificial waterfalls. The water flows down the stacked rocks and the sound of the water is clear and transparent. Four groups of inscriptions are carved on the rocks: shengjiatianxia, guanyue, Zizhou Hongye Guilin autumn and Zizhou Yanyu. These inscriptions are highly praised by the ancients for the scenery of Zizhou island.

Misty rain

When Yanyu lake is calm, it looks like a mirror, reflecting the surrounding scenery, like the ink splashing landscape painting of Guilin,

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