Dongting Dongshan

Visit Yuhua scenic spot and Luxiang ancient village. Dongting Dongshan, also known as Dongting mountain, is commonly known as Dongshan. Dongshan is a peninsula extending in Taihu Lake. It is surrounded by water on three sides. It is a beautiful and broad Taihu Lake scenic spot, which is connected with 72 peaks such as Dongting Xishan and Guangfu Dengwei.

Located in Dongshan Town, Dongting, Suzhou, the woodcarving building is the representative work of Xiangshan architectural sculpture in Yixian County. Woodcarving relief is made by Xiangshan woodcarving artist Zhou Yunlong. It is a rare object for studying the tradition, local schools and techniques of modern and contemporary Chinese folk carving art (different from Xishan woodcarving building)

Dongting Dongshan

Dongting Dongshan, also known as Dongting mountain, is located in Wuzhong, Suzhou. Dongshan is a peninsula extending in Taihu Lake. It is surrounded by water on three sides. It is a beautiful and broad Taihu Lake scenic spot, which is connected with 72 peaks such as Dongting Xishan and Guangfu Dengwei.

According to legend, general Moli of Sui Dynasty lived here, so it was called Moli mountain. According to the Sui book shidaozhi, Dongshan Island was more than 30 li away from the land in the Sui Dynasty. In Song Dynasty, Dongting mountain is a lake island. In 1830, the distance between Dongshan and the land (now facing the lake) was reduced to 50 meters. More than 100 years ago, the island linked sand mouth to the north of Dongshan and the land joined to form a peninsula.

Dongting Dongshan is the origin of Biluochun, one of the top ten famous teas in China. It is also a national 5A scenic spot. It has a profound historical and cultural heritage, a large number of celebrities, numerous historical sites, and superior regional ecological environment. There are fish and shrimp every day, flowers and fruits every season. It has rich natural mineral water resources in the deep underground. The main source of Dongting mountain mineral water is located here.

brief introduction

Dongshan has a long history. Many emperors, generals, literati and scholars have come here for recreation, leaving many places of interest. At the East and West ends of Dongshan Town Street, there are still nearly 1000 meters of ancient stone streets with 34 ancient alleys on both sides. There are well preserved antique carved buildings, Xijia garden near mountains and rivers, and nanmu hall in Ming Dynasty. Around the town, there are many scenic spots, such as the painted arhat in zijin'an, the ancient buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties in Lu Lane of ancient village, and Lingyuan temple under Biluo peak. Dongshan is famous for its beautiful scenery. It is also a real Huaguo Mountain and Yumi township. It is rich in more than 50 kinds of local products. Among them, Biluochun tea, one of the top ten famous teas in China, Baisha loquat, Dongting red orange, Taihu water shield and Taihu three treasures are the most famous.

Dongting Dongshan is located on the Bank of Taihu Lake, 40 kilometers outside Suzhou. It is a typical ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River. Dongshan is a long strip-shaped peninsula extending in the east of Taihu Lake. It is named Dongting Dongshan because it is to the east of Dongshan and Tingshan in Taihu Lake. It is also called dongdongting mountain. It was called Moli mountain and Xumu mountain in ancient times. Moli peak, the main peak, is the second of the 72 peaks in Taihu Lake, with an altitude of 293.5 meters. Its mountains are shaped like a fish Dragon Ridge, rolling and majestic. The northeast is connected with Ducun town (now Linhu town), and the rest is near the lake. It faces Xishan island in the west, Huzhou in Zhejiang Province in the South and Wujiang River in the southeast. Dongshan Town also administers 11 islands, such as zhongsanshan, Zeshan, Jueshan, lianzhushan, nanjianhu, beijianhu, Yushan, xiaofushan, Guting, Yuzhou and xiaoleishan.

Dongting is rich in natural resources. Rich resources contain many famous flower and fruit products, such as Biluochun tea, Baisha loquat, Wuzi bayberry, dafuoshou ginkgo, crystal pomegranate, juicy peach, niuxin persimmon, green plum, orange, Baihe jujube, plum and so on, known as "Dongting 18 ripe". There is also the world-famous Taihu Sanbai

——Silver carp, Coilia Mystus, white shrimp): white fish, white shrimp, silver carp, Taihu hairy crab, Taihu crystal shrimp, green shrimp, etc.

Dongshan Town is a typical ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River and a famous tourist town in Suzhou. Since ancient times, with its unique geographical location, beautiful scenery of lakes and mountains, as well as many places of interest and precious cultural relics, it makes people linger.

Dongshan scenic spot is one of the 13 scenic spots of Taihu Lake scenic spot, the first batch of national key scenic spots announced by the State Council in 1982. It is a scenic spot with many landscapes and long cultural history, such as flower and fruit jungle, natural scenery, ancient buildings of yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and Sanshandao Paleolithic site representing the ancient culture of the Yangtze River Basin.

Main attractions

Yuhua Wonderland

Yuhua scenic spot is the longest history, the most beautiful scenery and the largest tourist attraction in Dongshan. The scenic area covers an area of 500 mu, with a travel path of 7500 meters and a direct access to the top of Moli peak. There are more than 100 precious ancient trees with more than 100 years old in the scenic area, so it is also called Dongshan forest park. More than 20 places of interest in Tang, song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties are preserved. Yuhua Shengjing is a Historical Museum of Dongshan ancient architectural art, sculpture art and calligraphy art.

The name of "Yuhua" in Yuhua scenic spot comes from the Ming Dynasty, when peach trees were planted all over the mountain. At the end of spring, the petals of the flowers fell down like rain from the sky, thus the name of "Yuhua" came into being. There are 18 scenic spots in the scenic area, including viewing lawn, dongtingxuan (judetang) ancient house, Tang Song poetry Gallery, Ming Shuangquan, Bajun Benz, Songqiao Mingji, Yinxin stone house, Rongyang Tanyou, Huanqing relics, Yuhua temple, zuimolou, etc.

Luxiang ancient village

Luxiang ancient village is located at the edge of Taihu Lake in Houshan (West of Dongshan). It is the hometown of Wang Zhen, the prime minister in Zhengde period of Ming Dynasty. It was built in the Southern Song Dynasty and got its name because there are six ancient lanes in the village. There are three Ming Dynasty archways in Jieyuan, Huiyuan and Tanhua, and more than 30 Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings in ancient streets and lanes. It is a rare Ming and Qing Dynasty architectural museum in Jiangnan.

Fengshan Temple

Fengshan temple is located on Longtou mountain in the southeast of Dongshan mountain. Its mountain was originally named Fengshan mountain. It was named Longtou mountain because there were demons in Taihu Lake in the early Ming Dynasty, and stone Longtou was built on the mountain to suppress demons. There are Fengshan temple, twelve zodiac stone, Lu Gong temple, snake king hall and other Ming and Qing buildings, as well as ancient fort, Millennium stone turtle, stone dragon head and other monuments.

Wendetang

Wendetang, built in 1905, is the representative of the imperial residence of the Qing Dynasty. It covers an area of 1500 square meters. It is composed of a hall, a front hall, a middle hall and a back building. On the left and right axes, there are corridors, alleys and courtyards. The whole building Liang Huadong, magnificent, Dongshan carved building is the second.

Carved building

The original name of Diaohua building is Chun Zai Lou, which is a famous sentence of Suzhou poet Yu Yue in Qing Dynasty. The building, originally the private residence of Jin Xi, a wealthy businessman in Dongshan, was built in the 11th year of the Republic of China. It cost 170000 silver yuan, equivalent to 3741 taels of gold at that time. The brick carving, wood carving, gold carving, stone carving, color painting, clay sculpture and floor paving art of the whole building are superb. The carving is exquisite and exquisite, and "carving everywhere, carving everywhere", enjoying the reputation of "the first building in the south of the Yangtze River". "Hidden treasure Pavilion, mysterious secret Road, child Lotus" is the magical landscape of the scenic spot. "Entering the gate has treasure, extending the hand to have money (later renamed the handshake is rich), the foot is blessed, the rise has the life, the back has official, goes out happily" is the essence of the building carving. There is a poem praising: "this building should be in the sky. How many times can we hear it in the world?".

Zijin Temple

Zijin nunnery was built in the Liang Chen period and rebuilt in the Zhengyuan period of Tang Dynasty. It has a history of more than 1400 years. The two walls and sixteen clay sculptures of the hall are painted by Luo Han. They are the works of the famous sculptures of the Southern Song Dynasty. They are "the best and the best." The three Tathagata Buddhas in the main hall are simple in shape, which are rarely seen in similar statues. The statue of Guanyin has a serene and solemn expression, which is known as "Wu Dai Dangfeng" in Tang Dynasty. The hall is famous for its three treasures of "wise eye", "Huagai" and "Jinggai". Luohan group portraits and other color painting devices are exquisite, and they are the representative works of Suzhou plastic and color painting in the Qing Dynasty. The world calls zijin'an clay painted arhat one of the "two and a half Arhats in the world", which is a cultural heritage in the history of sculpture art in China.

Sanshan Island

Sanshan Island, located in the middle of Taihu Lake, is three kilometers away from the East and West Mountains. It is known as "xiaopenglai" in the world. The three peaks of Beishan, Xingshan and Xiaogushan are connected, and the islands of Yishan, Jueshan and Chushu are listed, forming a group of beautiful and strange lake island scenery. There are Banbi peak, the first peak in Wuzhong, as well as Zodiac stone, Niubei stone, Baimao stone, Jinji stone, waterfall stone and Maitreya stone.

The discovery and excavation of the 12000 year old Paleolithic and ancient jitui animal fossil sites on Sanshan Island, known as Sanshan culture, proves that the Taihu Lake Basin is also the birthplace of the Chinese nation. The island is full of flowers and fruits all the year round. The clean and quiet Farmhouse Hotel and idyllic scenery are like a paradise.

Qiyuan

Qiyuan, commonly known as Xi's garden, was built to commemorate his ancestors' meeting Emperor Kangxi here. In 1984, it was approved by the State Council as one of the main scenic spots of Taihu Lake scenic spot. It is a rare Piedmont Lakeside Garden in the south of the Yangtze River. The garden has mountains and lakes, and easy to move. It not only integrates the artistic characteristics of small and exquisite Suzhou gardens, but also has the characteristics of "connecting 70 and two peaks, connecting 36000 waves" A thousand hectares

Liu Yijing, Emperor Kangxi's Wharf and ancient poplar and plum trees are the three treasures in the garden. The pavilions, pavilions, pavilions, flower paths and curved bridges are scattered among them. They are integrated with the natural landscape with beautiful scenery and make people relaxed and happy. There are Dongshan local chronicles Hall of fame, Kangxi emperor to Dongshan historical materials exhibition room, historical and cultural stele Gallery, etc.

Xuanyuan Palace

Xuanyuan palace is located in Yangwan ancient street

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