Yaozhou site

Yaozhou site

Yaozhou site is located in Jiaoyu Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, China, also known as Jiuyao garden. In the third year of qianheng of the Southern Han Dynasty (919), the founding emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty Liu Xun used the original natural pool to chisel a long lake of 500 Zhang (about 1600 meters today) in the area of today's Xihu road and Jiaoyu Road, which is historically known as Xihu or Xianhu. Jianzhou lake, where alchemy for fairy medicine, called medicine island. There are nine rare and strange stones in the lake, which are called Jiuyao stones. There are pavilions, buildings, pavilions and pavilions along the lake. The scenery is very beautiful. In 1989, it was announced as a key cultural relics protection unit in Guangdong Province.

Human history

In the Southern Han Dynasty, there were nine famous stones, named "Jiuyao stone", and later generations commonly known as "Jiuyao garden". In the Five Dynasties, Liu Yan ruled Lingnan separately, established the Southern Han Dynasty, established the capital of Guangzhou, built the Royal Palace and other courtyards, and dug more than 500 Zhang of Lake in the west of the city to connect the southern palace. The sand bar in the lake is full of anthers, which is named Yaozhou. The middle of Yaozhou is Taihu Lake and Sanjiang stone. This area of lakes, bridges, stones and flowers make up an excellent landscape resort, which is a wonderful chapter in the history of ancient gardens in Guangdong. After the unification of Lingnan in the Northern Song Dynasty, Yaozhou became a summer resort for literati and officialdom to go boating and visit

The lake. In the first year of Jiading (1208) of the Southern Song Dynasty, Chen Xian, an economic envoy, renovated the lake. He planted white lotus on the surface of the lake, called the white lotus pond, and built the lotus Pavilion. In Ming Dynasty, Yaozhou Chunxiao was listed as one of the eight scenic spots in Yangcheng. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the lake gradually silted up and shrunk.

In 1949, the area of Yaozhou site was only more than 2000 square meters, of which the lake area was 440 square meters, and only eight Taihu mountains and stones were left. In 1988, the Yaozhou site began to be repaired. The buried Jingshi was upgraded and extended westward to restore part of the lake. In 1991, Cheng Jianjun of the school of architecture of South China University of technology redesigned the gate tower and stele Gallery imitating the style of the Five Dynasties. The gate tower is 7 meters wide in three rooms and 4.8 meters deep in two rooms, hanging on the top of the mountain. Dozens of inscriptions about Yaozhou Jiuyao stone are embedded in the new corridor in Hubei Province.

8 stone relics

The eight remains are as follows:

1. The stone with the title of "Yaozhou". On the North Bank of the pool, there is a famous calligrapher Mi Fu of the Song Dynasty who inscribed "Yao Zhou" and "Mi Fu Yuan Zhang ti". In the Qing Dynasty, the stone was moved to the East Court of Guangdong provincial government and the governor's office of Guangdong and Guangxi, and then moved back to the present place in the 1950s.

2. Sea Island stone. On the west side of the north bank, there are more than 10 sinuses on each side, with a round stone as the top and a cow's head. In the reign of Xining of Song Dynasty, Xu Yanxian carved a poem on the stone: "the anthers are dense on the sea island, the clouds and shadows in the water bring sand flow, Zhiying road is connected with Yinhuang, and the cha guest comes to fight the bull."

3. Chidongshi. At the eastern end of the lake, two stones are stacked up and down, the upper stone is black pig, the lower stone is like giant turtle, and the stone body has foam pores.

4. Andromeda stone. It's to the south of the stone in the east of the pool. There is a poem inscribed on the stone by Mi Fu: "Mirage appears in the blue sea, summer clouds rise in the blue sky, magnificent and strange stones are scattered, moving and writing." Guan Peng of Ming Dynasty inscribed the word "immortal palm" beside the palmprint of stone hand.

5. The first stone of Jiuyao. On the east side of the stone dike, the stone looks like a fish. In 1988, when the stone was repaired, it was raised about 2 meters. At the bottom of the stone was inscribed "this is the first stone of Jiuyao" in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. In addition, Weng Fanggang, a calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, inscribed seal script "worship stone" and official script "Dragon Cave".

6. Yaozhoushi. In the west of the lake, it is shaped like a bamboo shoot peak, 2.4 meters high, and inscribed with the word "Yaozhou" by Weng Fanggang.

7. White hollow stone. To the west of Yaozhou stone, there are two inscriptions of the Qing Dynasty.

8. Zhuquan stone. In the southwest of the lake, "Zhuquan" is engraved on the West and "diaoji" is engraved on the East.

In addition, there are still large stones scattered in the southwest corner and West Bank of the lake.

In June 1989, the government of Guangdong Province announced it as a key cultural relics protection unit of Guangdong Province.

Address: No.86, Jiaoyu Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou (north side of Southern theater)

Longitude: 113.265989

Latitude: 23.123708

Ticket information: free.

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