The Lotus Hill tourist area

Lianhuashan tourist area, Panyu, Guangzhou

synonym

Lianhuashan tourist area generally refers to the Lianhuashan tourist area in Panyu, Guangzhou

Lianhuashan tourist area in Panyu, Guangzhou is a national AAAA tourist area and a provincial scenic spot in Guangdong Province. It is 20 kilometers away from Guangzhou. Lianfeng Guanhai, one of the eight scenic spots of Yangcheng in the new century, has been awarded as the national key cultural relics protection unit. The main scenic spots are lianhuashi, yanziyan, Baxianyan, lianhuayan, Guanyinyan, feiyingyan, Nantianmen and Shenxianqiao.

geographical position

Lianhuashan tourist area in Panyu, Guangzhou is located in the eastern suburb of Panyu, on the Bank of Shiziyang in the Pearl River Estuary, 20 kilometers away from the urban area of Guangzhou and 60 nautical miles away from Hong Kong.

Main attractions

Remains of ancient quarry

According to scientific research, Lianhuashan ancient quarry is the main producing area of stone materials from Nanyue King's tomb in Guangzhou. It is famous for its stone landscape spectacle of "artificial and unintentional seizing the heavenly work". Together with Daye ancient copper mine in Hubei Province, it is known as the site of two ancient mines in China. It is the fifth batch of national key cultural protection units announced by the State Council.

Lianhua Mountain is composed of 48 red sandstone low mountains, belonging to the geological structure of Danxia landform. The red sandstone of Lianhua Mountain is of good quality, high density and fine sand. It is an excellent building material. It is especially suitable for wall foundation and has the function of moistureproof. The ancients also used it as a grindstone, so Lianhua Mountain was formerly known as "shiligang". According to scientific research, the Nanyue King's tomb (now located in Xianggang, Jiefang North Road, Guangzhou) was built more than 2100 years ago. Among the 12 kinds of stone materials used in the tomb, 8 are from Lianhua Mountain. Lianhua Mountain is located next to the Pearl River waterway. It is a necessary place for shipping in Guangzhou. The stone materials mined here were transported upstream from the waterway to Xianggang mountain in Guangzhou. For thousands of years from the Western Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the ancestors of southern Guangdong exploited stone here for generations, forming stone forests and caves winding for several miles along the eastern coast of the mountain, leaving dazzling red sandstone cliffs, dangerous peaks and stone pillars, forming a rare stone landscape spectacle of "man has no intention of seizing natural engineering" in China.

Lotus City

Lotus city was built in 1664, the third year of Kangxi reign in Qing Dynasty. It is located in the north corner of Lianhua, covering an area of more than 10000 square meters. It is an irregular oval castle with a wall of more than 10 meters high. It has crenels and horse steps for lookout and patrol. Lotus City overlooks the lion ocean. The terrain is very dangerous. It dominates Humen from afar and controls the lion Ocean near. Therefore, it is said that "Fucheng defends the mountain". At the beginning of the construction of the city, there were soldiers stationed here until the end of the Qing Dynasty. According to the records of Panyu county annals, on January 26, 1841, the British occupied Hong Kong, and on January 27, Yilv forced Qishan to admit and sign an agreement in Lianhua City, but Qishan did not dare to promise. It was not until one year and seven months later that the Qing government had to sign the Treaty of Nanjing with Britain, which was humiliating and humiliating. Hong Kong was officially ceded.

In the early 1980s, with the support and help of the State Administration of cultural relics, the lotus city was restored on the basis of the original collapsed city wall. There are lotus city exhibition hall, eight flag army exhibition hall, conference hall, general account, husband and wife account, entertainment account, etc. visitors can learn more about the history of the eight flag army of the Qing Dynasty. In the open space of the city, there are iron guns, banners and interesting Kongming eight trigrams. Standing on the city wall, looking to the north is the Huangpu new port of Guangzhou, which is shuttled by giant ships, and looking to the East is the new countryside of the Pearl River Delta, which is full of fields.

Wanghai Guanyin

Wanghai Guanyin statue was initiated by Mr. He Houhua, assisted by He Xian social welfare foundation and other good faith parties. The Lotus Mountain tourist area, 40.88 meters high, is made of 120 tons of copper and covered with 180 Liang pure gold foil. The bronze statue of golden Guanyin was completed in 1994.

The inscriptions on the statues are as follows: "guide Cihang to protect Sangzi, give manna to moisten Su and Yu, protect the safety of the residents, protect the obedience of the people, bless the good to prosper, enlighten the foolish to be enlightened, and spread the cause and effect among all living beings, crossing over the believers and becoming Bodhi.". In front of the statue is a pair of Unicorn beasts, which are engraved with the words "peace for the people" and "good weather".

Lotus Temple

Lotus Temple, formerly known as Guanyin Pavilion, is a temple dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva. It is ancient and magnificent. There are various kinds of Avalokitesvara with different expressions and materials, and there are monks resident there.

In the main hall on the first floor, there is Guanyin with thousands of hands and thousands of eyes. Thousands of hands mean to protect all living beings, while thousands of eyes mean to see the world. The main hall on the third floor is dedicated to the audio and video of the Han white jade holy temple. The head of the holy Guanyin wears a crown of heaven, and the statue of Amitabha sits on it.

Lotus tower

It was first built in the 40th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1612 A.D.), and was financed by Li Weifeng, Liu ruxing and Chen kuiju. The pagoda is octahedral in shape, which means "heaven, earth, Yin, Yang, wind, thunder, water and fire". There are 72 wind swinging copper bells in the eaves of each floor, which is a typical ancient Chinese architecture.

Originally known as "Wenchang tower", also known as "lion tower". The tower is 50 meters high, with 9 external floors and 11 internal floors. Pink walls and red columns, with doors and windows or niches on eight sides. It is a provincial-level cultural relic protection unit in Guangdong Province. On the top of the tower is a statue of Confucius.

"Guangdong new language" contains: a group of thousands of people in it, hammering day and night. Down to Sanquan, Zhonghong thousands of acupoints, the earth vein for the middle, mountain gas for the flow. The skin of a peak has been peeled, the bone marrow of a hole has become poor, the earth has withered and the fire has died, and the water springs are gradually scorched. There is no way to make clouds and rain and nourish all things.

According to the annals of Panyu county (Tongzhi, Qing Dynasty), the government of Guangzhou was forbidden many times during the Ming Dynasty, but it was still forbidden to dig stones without permission. The squire Cui Qiguan and others repeatedly claimed that "Shili mountain defends Humen, Shangwei Yangcheng, saves fengshui, leans on it as an important town, makes it sink, injures fengshui, and beggars for approval.". At that time, the plague was rampant in southern Guangdong, and the people were in dire need of living. Therefore, the tower was built on the main peak, the height of the tower was increased and the thickness of the tower was increased, and the local conditions were consolidated to eliminate the plague.

Therefore, lotus tower is Fengshui tower.

In 1938, the lotus tower was bombarded by Japanese artillery. The tower on the southeast of the second, third, fourth and seventh floors was destroyed, but it was never knocked down. In 1981, brothers He Tian and he Xian, who are well-known Macao people from Panyu, donated money to build the pagoda, and the lotus pagoda regained its glory.

Magic three stones

Lotus stone

Next to the South Gate of the stone scenic area, there is a huge stone that looks like a lotus, which is named lotus stone because of its unique shape. It is said that the name of Lianhua Mountain is due to this huge stone.

It is said that a long time ago, there was an evil dragon in the South China Sea, making waves in the Pearl River Estuary, which often flooded the fields and made the coastal residents suffer from it. When Bodhisattva Guanyin of the South China Sea passed by, he saw the evil dragon, and his life was ruined. He could not help but be merciful, so he threw the lotus under his seat into the water to suppress the waves. The lotus is an aquatic plant, no matter how deep the water is. From then on, the nearby mudflats gradually accumulated into sandbars, and later evolved into thousands of hectares of fertile land for the benefit of the people. And this lotus turned into a huge stone. In Yongzhen mountain, it became the lotus stone beside the South Gate of today's Lotus Mountain. This is the name of Lianhua Mountain.

Lion stone

Lion rock is located near Guanyinyan. It looks east from the West and is more than 3 feet high. It looks like a mighty lion. It lives on the cliff and roars at the Pearl River. Its shape is lifelike. Therefore, Lianhua Mountain is also called "Shishi mountain", and the Pearl River section in front of it is called "Shiziyang". According to the analysis of geologists, ten million years ago, Lianhua Mountain was just an island on the sea. With the change of time, the land rose, the sea receded, and Lianhua Mountain became a land hill. Lion rock is a rock on the island. It has been pounded and eroded by waves and sea breeze for thousands of years, becoming the shape of today.

Dolomite

Baixiangyan is located at the entrance of the east gate at the south foot of Lianhua Mountain. There is a xixianchi in front of it. Enjoy it from different angles, or bow your head to meditate, or step forward, or touch the earth with the tip of your nose, or play with the water.

The white elephant is the mount of Puxian Bodhisattva, who is the right flank of Sakyamuni Buddha. Xiang, the five elements belong to gold, good at absorbing water, ancient and modern, both at home and abroad for the beast, a symbol of good luck, can be described as a gift left by the ancestors of South Vietnam in the hard work of quarrying.

Buddha rock

The vigorous and mellow word "Buddha" has a history of hundreds of years. The ancestors worked hard in the ancient quarry, surrounded by dangers, and worshipped the statue of "wuzixi Maitreya", which was used to protect the peace of generations.

Guanyinyan

Guanyinyan used to be just a stone chamber left by quarrying. In Lianhua Mountain, there are many stone chambers hollowed out like Guanyinyan. In fact, the hollowed out place is often the place with the best stone quality. Because, once found a good stone, the masons will continue to mining, the result is one after another stone chamber. Guanyinyan was originally a nunnery, which mainly worships Guanyin. Looking up at the stone wall in the inner hall, we can see the four words "the seventh year of Yongzheng". However, the historical records of these four words have not been found yet. I hope that interested tourists can help us find out. It is said that during the Opium War, Lin Zexu used it as an official hall, while many other stone chambers on Lianhua Mountain were used as barracks for soldiers.

Flying Eagle cliff

Looking from the fence on Feiying cliff, I feel quite condescending and willing. It's just like looking at the stone forest in Lunan of Yunnan Province from the high mountains. There are not only stone pillars pointing directly at the clouds, but also "outstanding" stalagmites, and the towering stone screen wind, which is steep and fluctuating in layers. However, there is a contradiction between "man-made" and "natural creation" between it and stone forest

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