Gusheshan

Gusheshan

Gushe (Y è) mountain, also known as Shikong mountain, is located in Gushe village, Jindian Town, Yaodu District, Linfen City, Shanxi Province, 35 kilometers west of Linfen City, with a radius of 40 square kilometers.

historical origin

Historical records

Gusheshan is famous since ancient times. It was recorded in Lu's spring and Autumn Annals written by LV Buwei that Yao, in order to recruit the world's sages, came to Jingushan and met the four sages. According to legend, Yao's wife, the deer fairy, met Yao here and became husband and wife. Chuang Tzu in the Warring States period also recorded Yao's visit to the four sages. At the same time, he recorded in his "xiaoyaoyou" that "the mountain where Yao Gu shoots is inhabited by gods and men; the skin is like ice and snow, and the lake is like a virgin; he doesn't eat grain, but drinks wind and dew; he rides the clouds and flies the dragon, but travels all over the world; his spirit makes things not flawed and ripe. "。

Research on pronunciation

In addition to the basic pronunciation, there are also different pronunciation (ancient phonetic notation) and different pronunciation. Among them, y è is interpreted in the dictionary of the origin of Chinese characters, and Y è is used as "pushe", which also refers to the ancient official name. Shegan (Shegan: animal name, grass name) can be seen in etymology. In Kangxi dictionary, the sound of "Ji", "Hui" and "Zheng" is y è. In the early Tang Dynasty, Confucianists, Confucian classics scholars, linguists and historians said in ancient times, "the original is like the pronunciation of a character. Today's sound is the same as that of Guanzhong language." Gushe (Y è) is interpreted as the name of mountain in Cihai (Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House, 1st edition, August 1980, 6th printing, August 1985).

Rare animals

Black stork, also known as black stork, is distributed in Northeast China, Hebei, Xinjiang and Northern Gansu, and overwinters in the Yangtze River Basin and the south. Animals under first class state protection. Large wading birds. The total length is about 110 cm. The mouth is long and stout. The upper body, wings, tail and chest are black with purple green luster. The naked skin around the eyes is red. The lower body below the chest is white. Mouth and feet are red. It inhabits along rivers and near streams in swampy mountain areas. Wading for fish, frogs, snakes and crustaceans. It began to breed in April, and built nests in crevices of cliff or on big trees. It laid 3-6 eggs per flight, milky white, with a small amount of light orange yellow hidden patches. The hatching period is 31-34 days, and the young birds aged 65-70 days have the ability to fly.

Brown eared pheasant, an endangered species, is only found in Luliang Mountain of Shanxi Province and northwest of Hebei Province. The total number is about 5000.

Shanxi Province has designated brown eared pheasant as provincial bird. In China, brown eared pheasant is rarely distributed in Guandi and Guancenshan forest areas of Luliang Mountain in Shanxi Province. In the area of more than 360 square kilometers of Xiaowutai Mountain Forest Area in Northwest Hebei Province, only a few hundred were investigated in 1987, and about 2000 in 2014.

Main attractions

Landscape overview

Jingushe mountain in Linfen has been listed in the first batch of provincial scenic spots in Shanxi Province, and the number of tourists here has increased year by year. By 2014, the total area of the scenic spot is about 40 square kilometers, with nearly 100 landscapes distributed in the mountain, such as Shenju cave, Lianhua cave, Tiefo cave, Wangmu Pavilion, Baxian cave, Yunwu temple, huixiantai, hanxiangzi temple, sheshenya, Wulongtan, ruyigou, songwangshi, dressing table, Jiangjunmao, Nantianmen, shuanmazhu, Xianjing stone, chessboard stone Horseshoe battle, jiukongshan and so on.

Sleeping fairy peak

Sleeping fairy peak is located in the scenic spot shortly after entering the mountain, which is a natural landscape. A mountain peak is like a young girl lying on her back. She has a slim and beautiful body and a plump chest. It is said that sleeping fairy peak is transformed from a young girl ugly aunt. Gusheshan also got its name because the girl shot tiger for the people and became a fairy after she was killed. In this scenic area, there are emperor slope, Tianguang temple, xianti, Xianmo and other landscapes.

Beixian cave

Beixian cave, also known as foxing temple, is composed of more than 50 temples and more than 30 cave dwellings. The main buildings of Beixian cave are datu hall and Wangmu Pavilion. The main hall is built on the cliff and lies in the hollow. There are xiangtouling, huixiantai, Wulongtan, sheshenya, ruyigou, Lugou and other scenic spots in Yunwu temple. Yunwu temple, also known as zhaotianchi, has an existing gate tower with the word "Yunwu Temple" inlaid on it. The peaks gather here. Facing mountains on three sides and rising sun on one side, there are many clouds and mists in a year, wind and rain day and night, all kinds of scenery, four seasons scenery, changeable. People say that it is a good place to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the fairy cave to see the drizzle in spring, the green in summer, the red leaves in autumn and the snow in winter.

Nanxian cave

Nanxiandong is the main scenic spot of xiandonggou in gusheshan. Here, in history, was the place of Taoism. Huang Fujing, a Taoist in song and Jin Dynasties, and Ren Zhizhen and Wang Deren, a Taoist in Yuan Dynasty, practiced here. In the Yuan Dynasty, Ren Zhizhen and Wang Deren, the great masters of Fengguo school, built more than ten pavilions here according to the decree of Dong Mingzhen Qi, making the statues of the three invited, the four emperors, the five ancestors and the seven real people take on a new look. During the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, Buddhist monks in Wutai Mountain opened the mountain gate, built the main hall and built Biyan temple. In the eighth year of Tongzhi reign in the Qing Dynasty, Biyan temple was rebuilt again, with the building format of zushi hall in the west, Weituo hall in the East and Guanyin Pavilion in the north, forming the basic outline of Nanxian cave. The gate of nanxiandong mountain is Xuandi building, the lower one is corridor, the upper one is yuelou, and the southwest one is Guoli stage. The whole Nanxian cave is mainly composed of Xinglong temple, Shenju cave, Biyan temple, Guanyin Pavilion, theater, more than 70 houses and more than 40 cave dwellings. At the entrance of Shenju cave, there is a stone tablet of Xining in the Song Dynasty. Inside the cave, there are colored sculptures, murals and stone tablets of past dynasties. The back wall is connected with a stone cave tens of meters deep.

Goddess of Mercy Pavilion

The construction of Guanyin Pavilion is very ingenious. Inside the pavilion, there are statues of Guanyin Bodhisattva. On both sides are statues of Manjusri and Puxian. There are twelve Yuandang, Yama, arhat and twenty-four heavenly statues on the two walls and four floors. In the pavilion, there are also statues of Songzi Guanyin, Xingnian Guanyin, Weituo, Vajra, and the real king and Xuanwu emperor in Taoism. Buddhism and Taoism coexist, and the art level of hanging sculpture is very high.

main hall

Daxiong hall, the main hall of Nanxian cave, was built in the Zhengde period of Ming Dynasty (1507 AD). In 1986, it was rebuilt. There are four Bodhisattvas in the hall, Vipassana Buddha, Sakyamuni Buddha, Lutana Buddha, Guanyin, Puxian, Manjusri and dizang.

Biyan Temple

Biyan temple, with a main hall, originally dedicated to deer fairy, now for white jade Avalokitesvara. It is said that Zhao Kuangyin, the song Taizu, visited the cave three times. The cave is very open. The chongdao temple at the entrance was built in the Tang Dynasty, with 28 murals on its four walls. In the hall, there are 89 statues, including Yao, four ministers, Shun, Yu, three immortals, three requests, seven halls, Yan Jun, Luohan, Sakyamuni, jade emperor and so on. Most of them were created in the Qing Dynasty, which has become a situation where Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism coexist. There are fairyland platform, dressing table, Longxu waterfall, coffin horseshoe shovel, king song stone and chessboard stone that emperor Zhao Kuangyin of the Song Dynasty sat on twice, and Nantianmen that Emperor Li Yuan of the Tang Dynasty set foot in.

Traffic information

Self driving line

1. Beijing tourists: Jingda Expressway (Datong exit) - Dayun Expressway (Linfen exit) - Linfen urban area - Banxia of Development Zone - mawuqiao - South of Liucun - 309 National Highway - nanwo village in the north section - road sign to gusheshan scenic spot

2. Tourists from Hebei: Beijing Kunming Expressway (Linfen exit) -- Linfen City -- Banxia of Development Zone -- mawuqiao -- south of Liucun -- 309 National Highway -- nanwo village in north section -- road sign to gusheshan scenic spot

3. Tourists from Henan: Er Guang Expressway (Tunliu exit) - National Highway 309 heading west - nanwo village in the north section - there is a road sign into the mountain to gusheshan scenic spot. Bus: there is no direct bus to the scenic spot in Linfen City. Tourists can choose to charter a bus directly to the scenic spot.

Railway

There are Tongpu railway lines running through the north and south ends of Shanxi Province in Linfen City. The Houxi and Houyue Railways of China's Second Eurasian continental bridge cross the East and West. There are direct trains to Beijing, Xi'an, Taiyuan, Shijiazhuang, Tianjin and other places. After arriving at Linfen station or Linfen west station by train, you can charter or rent a car to go directly to the scenic spot.

Related Legends

Source of bridal chamber

One day, Emperor Yao visited mumapo in Xiandong and talked with herdsmen about animal husbandry. By the way, the herdsmen also told the story of the deer fairy killing the people. Just then, suddenly, a fairy flew to the cave, and the herdsmen pointed out to Emperor Yao in surprise that it was the deer fairy who was called the goddess of Gu she. After Emperor Yao returned to Yaodu, the image of deer fairy always appeared in his mind. In the night, I dream that the deer fairy comes down from the sky with a smile. She walks to him and shares her heart with him. Emperor Yao went to gusheshan to visit, went to the fairy cave, and saw a young woman dancing on the lawn beside the forest. She was graceful and graceful. She suddenly soared into the sky and ran away from the ground. She was as empty as a man and as empty as a flat. She was accompanied by a deer. Emperor Yao thought that she must be a deer fairy, so he stepped forward and bowed to her. Unexpectedly, she didn't answer. She hid behind a pine tree and combed her hair with a wooden comb. When Yao Jiang came near, she put the comb on this tree and turned to the back of another tree, laughing. Emperor Yao is also laughing to catch up with him. Suddenly, he comes to a quiet place. Suddenly, a python rushes out of the valley, spitting out a red letter. His eyes are dim. He holds his head high and pours at Yao. Emperor Yao can't step back and trips over the grass on the ground. At this critical moment, seeing this, the deer fairy took a lunge and jumped in front of Emperor Yao to protect him,

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