Mengkeng stone

Mengkengshiyou (famous Shikengkong), 1902.3 meters above sea level, is the highest peak of Mang Mountain. Because it is located at the junction of Hunan and Guangdong provinces and three cities, it is also the highest peak in Guangdong Province, known as "the first peak in the south of heaven". It rises high into the clouds and is surrounded by mountains. It is an excellent place for visitors to watch the sunrise and the sea of clouds. It used to be a military restricted zone and was stationed in the radar unit of the air force of the Chinese people's Liberation Army. Now, there are still carved fort like observation posts, radars, remains of pits and tunnels for hiding armaments. The main scenic spots are golden turtle stone, toad stone, military camp cave, alpine forest and so on.

Mengkeng stone

Mengkengshi, 1902 meters above sea level. This is the highest peak of Mangshan Mountain. It is located at the junction of Hunan and Guangdong provinces and cities. It is tall and straight and surrounded by peaks. It is also the highest peak in Guangdong Province, known as "Shikengkong" and "the first peak in South China".

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Love at the foot of mengkeng Stone Mountain

At the foot of mengkeng Stone Mountain is Acacia pit, and the east gate of Mangshan Forest Park is also here. Surrounded by mountains and luxuriant ancient trees, there are hundreds of acres of golden bamboos nearby, with silver waves and blue waves. The scenery is elegant and charming. It is a "Grand View of golden bamboos". To the north of Acacia pit, a gentle rolling mountain rises, opposite to mengkeng stone. The middle part of the peak is concave, and the two dangerous peaks are protruding, which makes it extraordinary. Because it looks like niubeiji mountain, with an altitude of 1824 meters, it is the second highest peak of Mangshan Mountain after mengkengshi. Looking up at niubeiji, the cliffs seem to hang in the sky. They appear and disappear in the sunshine and clouds. It is frightening and doubtful whether they are mountains or clouds in the sky. It's this cow ridge that is as high as heaven. Because of a beautiful and moving story, it gave birth to the eternal reputation of "Acacia pit" at the foot of the mountain. According to legend, there was a pair of Yao youth in the mountains in ancient times. The male was called Jinye, handsome and simple, and the female was called Prynne, beautiful and kind. They are childhood sweethearts and love each other freely. However, Prynne's parents think that Jinye's family is poor, and their clansmen also alienate, provoke and break up by force. Later, brandy Acacia became seriously ill. When Jin Ye learned that she was restless day and night, she climbed up the cliff and bravely went down to the Tiankeng to pick the elixir. Unfortunately, she fell off the cliff and died. So Prynne also indignantly climbed the cliff and jumped down, to achieve the same wish with Jinye after death. The girl and boy who died for love moved the immortal. They saw that the golden leaf and Prynne who had fallen into the abyss turned into beautiful Acacia one after another and flew away. Since then, golden leaf Prynne trees have grown all over the mountain, and pairs of Acacia birds have been flying in this ancient forest. The sad and moving beautiful story reposes the perfect ideal of faithful love in the world, and attracts countless young lovers to Jueya to pledge their life to each other. When visitors enjoy the beautiful scenery here, they can even see the red billed, yellow clawed, green backed, yellow breasted and colorful Acacia singing and dancing in the branches and treetops. The male and female are interdependent, affectionate and affectionate. Even when they sleep, they put their heads under each other's wings. If a man catches one of them, the other will automatically throw it. It is said that the Acacia here are the offspring of golden leaf and Prynne.

The legendary beautiful Acacia girl and brave infatuated man have already stepped into the new era of socialism and become the new owner of Dashan. Acacia pit has become a fertile land for literature. In those years, Gu Hua, a literary talent, was attracted to Mang Mountain and became famous by the birth of "Acacia woman's Inn" in the hut under the Acacia pit. Of course, he did not forget to write a beautiful and moving "golden leaf Prynne" with a wonderful pen, and built another story in Mang Mountain's real life into "a wooden house full of green vines" to shock the literary world. He also made a great achievement in the new era here The famous work "Furong Town" won the first "Mao Dun Literature Award".

Acacia pit, is really always Acacia!

The main peak of mengkeng stone is half way up the mountain -- toad stone

From xiangsikeng to the hillside of mengkengshi main peak, it is toad ridge on the border of Yiru. The mountains are winding. Although there is no danger of precipitousness, there are strange stones. The most wonderful thing is that on the green waves in the forest, a group of lifelike giant rock toads, or jump like squatting, with perfect shape and spirit, make people very happy. The big one is 20 meters high, singing to heaven; the small one is several meters square, crawling to jump, just like a female toad leading a group of little toads playing. Some are looking down for food with a charming naive manner; some are looking up at the sky, just like "toad should regret stealing the elixir, blue sea and blue sky, heart at night". The tourists who are not afraid of the danger of climbing the "first peak" can't bear to laugh and feel tired and tired when they come here to see the wonderful scenery of toad stone. Corresponding to the toad stone is the Lingnan lion under the neck of mengkeng stone peak. This is a 150 meter high stone peak, its shape is like a live lion roaring in the air, proud of all peaks.

The expression of the big stone carving on the upper wall of toad ridge

From above toad ridge, because of the high ground, strong wind and cloud pressure, it is difficult for trees to grow into big trees, especially the primitive low forests of high mountains and the ice cover of thousands of miles in winter. You Xi mountain Nanling Fargesia, a dark green, about meters high, dense airtight, large bamboo seedlings like a whole piece of fresh tofu, push a corner, the whole tremble; people lying on bamboo, like a sponge, full of fun. When you are here, you can watch the toad, the lion, the magnificent stone pit, the complicated fog, the green forest and the jumping mountain stream. It's like watching a variety of landscape freehand brushwork, with its own unique scenery. A large stone carving on the side of the road expresses the feelings of an old man with ambition: "an old man ascends the stone pit in the sky. In the painting of Nanling forest sea, the mountains are towering green and the clouds are white, and the most is the vast mountain pine.".

Secret World: military camp secret cave

When you climb the mengkeng stone, you will be curious about a visible and invisible landscape. Since it occupied the highest peak in Guangdong and was a military center in South China during the period of "preparing for war and famine", it has become a radar station of a certain Air Force Department of the people's Liberation Army since the 1950s. The military facilities around mengkengshi are complete, and roads can reach the peak directly. Until the mid-1990s, with the modernization of national defense construction, mengkeng Shibing station with high mountains and dangerous roads was withdrawn. Leave a barracks post full of temptation. Tourists come here. You can see the complete barracks and experience the hard environment and indomitable will of the PLA officers and men guarding the mountain. At the highest point of mengkengshi, there are carved fort like observation posts, radar navigation sites, and mountain top signs. The underground rocks are tunnels for hiding radar equipment and military supplies. It is said that it can prevent the attack of atomic bomb and become the mystery of winning.

"Three sisters" in the west of mengkengshi observation post

Standing at the observation post of mengkengshi, the mountains are endless, which makes people relaxed and happy. The "three sisters" in the west is particularly striking among the peaks and seas that gather all kinds of mountains. The three peaks, 1569 meters high, stand upright in the towering mountains, like a group of exciting men in the army, with three elegant and handsome "sisters in the army". It is said that they were three fairies under the Queen Mother's gate. They secretly went down to the earth to play. They were intoxicated by the beautiful scenery of the mountains, and they were too happy to return. Unconsciously, they had more time to return to heaven. The three fairies did not want to go back to heaven to receive the precepts, so they turned into three peaks on the spot and integrated themselves into the beautiful scenery of the mountains to stay together forever. If you join the "three sisters" in your arms, you can see different paths in the mountains, luxuriant plants and flowers, fragrant flowers and fruits. It is said that after climbing the three sisters peak, fairies will come to meet in your dreams! From the barracks, you can see the "three sisters": the three peaks are standing at the top of each other, tall and dignified. They are graceful and graceful. On a sunny day, they are tied to the misty white clouds. On a cloudy day, they are hidden in the rain and mist. They are beautiful all the year round.

The secret cave of mengkengshi military camp is an ideal place to organize youth summer camp and carry out patriotic national defense education. It is also a scenic spot for tourists to read the mountains.

Golden turtle watching the sea

The highest point of the main peak of mengkeng stone is above the primeval forest. There is a steep and towering stone peak shaped like a turtle, so it is also called "golden turtle". Its head and neck are tens of meters below the peak. At the top of the peak is the turtle's back, about 80 meters long and 30 meters wide. The stone wall is about 100 meters high. The tortoise looks up at the sky. It is said that he is looking forward to the emperor of heaven to accept him as a tortoise. On the stone wall of the turtle body, there are three big red characters "Shikengkong", which are as elegant as auspicious clouds. On the cliff, it can be seen that the thousand year old dwarf trees bite the stone clumps, vigorous and green, like a natural bonsai sculpture. The most pleasing is the high mountain rhododendrons. They are not afraid of the high sky and the strong wind. They are luxuriant and exuberant all the time. The mountains are white in spring and summer, and the red candles are high in autumn and winter. Their branches and leaves are like steel and iron. When visitors climb the stone road like a ladder to the top of the mountain, they feel more magnificent. The sky covers the top, and the clouds pull their sleeves. Looking back, they are really three feet away from the sky. At the top, the original stone tablet of "the first peak in the south of the sky" inscribed by Guan Shanyue, and in 2015, a new hexagonal pavilion with glazed tiles was built on the Guangdong side. The pavilion has an inner diameter of 8 meters. On the top of the two-story Pavilion, there are dragon and Phoenix sculptures on six sides. The plaque of "the first peak in Guangdong" inscribed by Ye Xuanping, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is embedded. The top wall is decorated with poems and paintings inside and outside.

Scenery: far sighted

People stand at the top of mengkeng stone, overlooking from afar, the mountains run under their feet, like the dancing of dragons, the sea of peaks, the sea of forests, and the sea of clouds. On a sunny day, you can see Shaoguan City 260 miles away. It's hard to tell you the beauty of climbing here in the early morning to watch the sunrise. On the far eastern mountains, the blue sky seemed to be smeared with some white paint

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