Zilai cave

Zilai cave

Zilai cave is located on the hillside of Yuhuang mountain. There are three caves with different heights below the cave. There are caves in the cave. It is one of the "seven ancient caves in the West Lake". There is a rockery garden in front of the cave. You can look down at the eight trigrams field. There is a seven star Pavilion above Zilai cave. Beside the pavilion, there were seven iron VATS set up in Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty, such as the "Big Dipper seven stars", which were called the Seven Star VATS by zhenhuolong.

brief introduction

Zilai cave, also known as Feilong cave, is located on the hillside of Yuhuang mountain in Hangzhou. Yuhuang mountain has been a holy land of Taoism since ancient times. Zilai cave was opened up in the Qing Dynasty by Zidong Taoists at the Fuxing temple on the top of the mountain according to the mountain situation. Today's Zilai cave is spacious, moist and cool, with three floors in total. It is also known as one of the "seven ancient caves in the West Lake". It is on the left side of Zilai cave There are four characters "Ziqi Donglai" carved on an inclined wall beside the cave, which skillfully include the name of Zilai cave and the name of Zidong Taoist. It can be said that it is unique. In the morning, standing in front of Zilai cave, you can see that the fog near the cave appears purple in the sunlight, so it is called "Ziqi Donglai".

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evolution

Zilai cave is located in the south of Hangzhou West Lake scenic spot and on the hillside of Yuhuang mountain. It was artificially opened by Zidong, Taoist priest of Fuxing temple in Qing Dynasty. It is also called Feilong cave. It is characterized by a hole in the cave, deep and quiet, moist and cool, which is a summer resort. There are four big characters "Ziqi Donglai" written on the inclined wall, which are cleverly embedded with the word "Zilai". At the same time, the cave is called Zilai cave. There is only one stone step on the cut wall at the entrance of the cave. Visitors like to cross it, which is full of fun. It was renovated in 2006.

legend

Until now, Hangzhou people still have an old saying, "seven stars nail flying dragon, only one bucket of water is needed", which refers to this story.

The Zilai cave on the hillside of wanghuangshan was originally called "Flying Dragon Cave" because there lived a flying dragon in that Chenguang cave. This flying dragon is strange. Every ten days, in the evening, it always flies out of the cave, flying in the sky, spitting out fire beads, blowing and sucking. As soon as the fire bead is far away and near, the flying dragon is chasing and playing. In this way, many Martian stars will be scattered. Where Mars falls, it will burn. Therefore, when the Dragon comes out, many families in Hangzhou suffer.

Everyone hated this hateful flying dragon, but there was no way to cure it. They had to calculate the time when it flew out. Men, women, old and young all climbed up to the roof, watered it and guarded it all night. On the other hand, he threatened Feilong by beating gongs and drums to fly further. In spite of this, there are often fires in Hangzhou.

This day, an old fellow in Hangzhou came to a small inn with a hammer in his hand. Coincidentally, it was the night when Feilong came out of the cave. The whole family of the shopkeeper climbed up to the roof, and no one called him. The old fellow Smith saw the scene very strangely and climbed up the roof. After he understood this question, he climbed down the roof without saying a word and left with a hammer.

On this day, the flying dragon danced in the sky for a long time, and the sparks of the fire beads scattered one after another. When the old fellow went back to the inn, the shop was burned. The owner's family is wailing around some of the wrecks. Old fellow Smith was very sad. He said some comforting words to his shop owner, and gave him some pieces of silver around him. He said, "don't be sad. Just now I saw the flying dragon with my own eyes on Yuhuang mountain. " The owner thanked the old fellow and heard him say that he had seen the flying dragon in the Jade Emperor mountain. He was very appalled. He asked, "is this true?" "Old fellow Smith said," it is true. I saw the flying dragon flying out of the cave, beating the fire beads in the sky, and I saw the flying dragon flying back to Yuhuang mountain and sleeping at the entrance of the cave! " The owner of the shop was even more shocked. Because Yuhuang mountain is occupied by flying dragons, no one dares to go up. Old fellow Smith thought for a moment, and suddenly knocked his head on his hand and said, "there is a way, there is a way, I can conquer this flying dragon!" After hearing this, the owner asked, "old man, what can I do for you?" "Old fellow Smith said," as long as every family in Hangzhou can give me a knife, I can defeat the dragon. The owner looked at the old blacksmith, not like a big old fellow, and believed he had a way. When the news spread, people were both surprised and happy. In order to put out the fire, who is not willing to put out a kitchen knife! In a few days, the kitchen knives were piled up like a hill.

The old fellow smithy invited the whole city blacksmith to build an ironmaking furnace and melt the kitchen knives into the furnace. All of us joined forces and made seven large iron cylinders in three days. Many people gathered to see the seven iron vats and felt very strange. Old fellow Smith asked everyone to lift up and look. Some young people rolled up their sleeves and tried them. It takes nineteen people to lift an iron jar! So the old fellow went alone to the Jade Emperor mountain and looked at the dragon hole. Hey, the dragon is still sleeping. He ran back quickly and cried out, "come with me to subdue the flying dragon! One hundred and thirty-three young and strong people will carry the iron VAT, nineteen people will carry one and follow me up the mountain. All the people behind will have to carry a bucket of water and follow me. Don't be afraid, everyone. I have a hammer. If the Dragon moves, I will fight with it

Then old fellow blacksmith climbed the Jade Emperor mountain and arrived at the Dragon cave entrance. The old fellow Smiths whispered that they should press the two beard, four feet and tail of the dragon with iron cylinders, because they were all pressed on the hair, so the Dragon did not feel it. The old fellow was holding a hammer against the dragon's head. If the Dragon woke up, it would go down. Old fellow Smith again asked the man behind to pour the bucket of water into the iron cylinder. When the water of the seventh iron cylinder was almost full, only one man tripped over the bucket and splashed the bucket of water into the nostrils of the dragon, causing the dragon to sneeze, but old fellow blacksmith could not see it.

Feilong felt that Xuxu was being pulled by something. He couldn't lift his head. As soon as he earned money, he knew that he was being held down. So he roared and rolled on the spot. He hurt his hair. He turned and fell into Feilong cave. From the ground, has been drilling to the territory of Anhui to drill out, shake body, fly to the sky to escape. From that time on, I never saw Feilong come back. It's said that the Flying Dragon Cave in Hangzhou leads directly to Anhui.

The flying dragon fled. The seven iron tanks that suppressed the flying dragon were still at the entrance of the Flying Dragon Cave, arranged like the Big Dipper in the sky, so people called them "Seven Star tanks". It is said that if all the seven tanks were filled with water, the flying dragon would never be able to move.

Address: Yuhuang mountain scenic area, Xihu District, Hangzhou

Longitude: 120.14599047601

Latitude: 30.21489201317

Ticket information: no ticket required. Included in the ticket of Yuhuang mountain scenic spot.

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