Taiji cave

Taiji cave

Taiji cave is located in Xinhang Town, Guangde City, Xuancheng City, 35km away from the county seat. It is named after "the cave surface is textured, similar to Taiji map".

Taiji cave has many ancient names, or Taiji Zhenjing, or Guangde buried, or Changle cave. As far back as the Han Dynasty, it became a tourist attraction. In song and Ming Dynasties, it was regarded as a wonder in the world.

Taiji cave has the reputation of "the first cave in the Southeast". It is located in Guangde City, Xuancheng, south of the Yangtze River in Anhui Province. Feng Menglong, a great writer of the Ming Dynasty, praised Taiji cave as one of the "four wonders in the world" and was rated as the national AAAA scenic spot in 2001. It is one of the most famous Taoist temples in China.

On May 25, 2015, it was selected into the National Tourism Administration and announced the first batch of "National Tourism Price trustworthy scenic spots" list

History of scenic spots

Taiji cave is an ideal place for people to visit as early as 2000 years ago. The word "Taiji cave" was written by Wu Tongchun, the governor of Guangde Prefecture in Ming Dynasty, in April of the year of wanliyin. It is said that Taiji cave is famous for its unique scenery and long stay in the cave.

Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, there have been traces of scholars, dignitaries and other visitors. Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty have toured the cave, and some traces can be found. The inscriptions of Wu Tongchun in Ming Dynasty. In Ming Dynasty, Feng Menglong called "Guangde buried (Taiji cave), Qiantang River tide, Leizhou drum changing, mirage" as the four wonders of the world.

In the song, yuan, Ming, Qing and Republic of China, many celebrities came to China with admiration. They wrote in the history of the Qing Dynasty, inscribed on the rocks, and left precious ink seals on the wall of Taiji cave and the stone carvings inside the cave. It is found that there are ten ancient poems and three ancient travel notes with more than 10000 words praising Taiji cave. Taiji cave is also one of the ancient battlefields of Yuefei's resistance to Jin Dynasty in Southern Song Dynasty, which fully shows the long history and rich traditional culture of Taiji cave.

In 1986, ancient pottery fragments and vertebrate fossils were found in the cave. According to archaeologists, it is proved that it is the fossil of Greyhound and the remains of human activities 100000 years ago, which provides materials and places for the multi-disciplinary research of paleozoology, paleoanthropology and paleogeology. In the same year, with the opening to the outside world, the scenic spots successively improved the facilities and service supporting system, forming a comprehensive tourist area.

In 2008, the taijidong Scenic Area Management Committee was established as a public institution directly under the county government, with a deputy department level system.

Main scenery

Taiji cave is a limestone cave, 5.4 km long, composed of upper cave, lower cave, water cave and dry cave. Moreover, there are holes in the cave, which are connected with each other, forming a precipitous, spectacular, magical and gorgeous big cave. It has opened 19 halls and more than 160 scenic spots, among which the most famous one is the "top ten landscapes". The so-called top ten landscapes are: taishanglaojun, dripping water wears away the stone, ancient tree of Huaiyin, immortal boat covering, double tower soaring to the sky, Golden Dragon Panzhu, Huangshan Mountain in the cave, Vientiane Range Rover, Taiji mural and extreme view of Hutian. Most of them are named after "objects" and their shapes can be known by their names.

Only some are named after "single image" and some are named after "group image". For example, "taishanglaojun" is like an old man with white hair and close hands to chant scriptures; "Huaiyin ancient tree" is like an ancient tree with tall and straight trunk and luxuriant branches and leaves; "immortal boat" is like a boat with the bottom facing up and hanging in the air; "Twin Towers soaring to the sky" is like an ancient tower with upside down and its base in the clouds; "golden dragon column" is like a jade column surrounded by auspicious clouds and long dragons; "Huangshan in the cave" is majestic and beautiful Huangshan in fantasy. The above "six wonders" are named after "single image". "Vientiane Range Rover" is the most important Hall of Taiji cave "Vientiane Palace" wonders, its scenery gathering, magnificent. "Taiji mural" is a marvelous scene on the stone walls on both sides of the cloister of Taiji cave. It is like the gathering of immortals, the battle of great masters, the battle in the battlefield, the battle of trapped animals and so on.

"Hutianjimu" is the wonder of stalactite in "hutiangong" of Taiji cave, with its suspended ceiling and various postures. The above "three wonders" are named after "group image". The name "drips through the stone" is the only exception. It reveals the origin of the small holes on the rabbit shaped stone and is named after "Genesis". This spectacle was also quoted in an argumentative paper entitled "the Enlightenment of dropping water wears out stone" in volume 9 (Volume 1, grade 5) of the national standard edition of Jiangsu education.

Taiji cave water cave is also a wonder, its water surface is open, can allow boats to roam in it, anything. If you take a boat to swim in the water cave, you can see the strange stones on the wall of the cave. Under the five colors of light, they are as bright as stars, making you feel like you are in the Milky way. The most famous landscapes in the water cave are "Qingtian Yuzhu", "bat shencan", "Xuanguan pass", etc. they are named after "single image" or "group image", and their shapes can be seen from their names.

In February 2004, taijidong scenic spot was approved by the State Council to be listed in the fifth batch of national scenic spots.

Taiji cave has beautiful scenery and many historic sites. The scenery includes rolling mountains, wild bamboo sea, crowing and barking cottages, etc. The historical sites include Wolong bridge where Liu Xiu took refuge in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "jiangjuntai" where Lu Meng of the Three Kingdoms ordered, "diyanchi" where Fan Zhongyan made diyanchi in the Northern Song Dynasty, and "Jianxia stone" where Yue Fei made Mingzhi in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Development Notes

This is a brief account of the development of Taiji cave.

The materials were provided by Qian Jishan, Shen Bo, Yuan Zulin, Wu Mingping and Tian Shangyu. Due to the shortage of information, omissions are inevitable, please correct.

On June 30, 1984, county magistrate Cheng Jian presided over the county magistrate's office meeting and decided to develop Taiji cave after research.

On July 27, 1984, the people's Government of the county set up a leading group for the development of taijidong. Fan Qingmu was appointed as the group leader and Deng Guangping and Qian Jishan as the Deputy group leaders.

On August 1, the production team leaders from Taihua Township and taijidong District of Yixing county were invited to taijidong to discuss the development issues. Secretary Feng of Taihua Township, director of Baiyan Township and comrades Qian Jishan, Deng Guangping and Gao Yingchang attended the meeting.

On December 6, 1984, Xuancheng Administrative Office approved the development of Taiji cave in Document No. 136, which made specific provisions on land requisition and highway widening.

On December 18, 1984, with the approval of Nanjing Military Region, Taiji cave was handed over to the local people's Liberation Army garrison in Santianmen, Huzhou, and a forum was held. The army representatives were staff officer Tang and Guangde representatives were Chen Tiantai, fan Qingmu and Qian Jishan.

1985

On March 6, Lei Tianqing was appointed by the county people's government as the director of taijidong development office.

On May 4, the ground was broken and the development of Taiji cave began.

1986

On July 1, Taiji cave was officially opened on the occasion of the 65th birthday of huatuan Jinqun party, which is the anniversary of Taiji cave's history.

Representative scenic spots

Karst Cave Scenic Spot

In the Taiji cave in Guangde, Anhui Province, there is a block of stone like a rabbit lying in the middle of which is a smooth and round hole. How did this little hole come into being? It turns out that above this stone, there are water drops dropping down from the rock cracks one after another, and always in one place. Hundreds of years have passed, thousands of years, tens of thousands of years have passed Finally, the stone is penetrated by the water, which has become a wonder in today's Taiji cave.

Related texts

The power of a water drop is negligible, but it is purposeful and persistent, so it can drop through the stones. If we can be like water drops, what else can't we do?

Li Shizhen, a famous medical scientist in Ming Dynasty, was determined to learn medicine from childhood. After more than 20 years of unremitting efforts, he finally wrote the great work compendium of Materia Medica. American inventor D í Sheng, who had no formal education, made his own living as a peddler and waiter when he was young. However, he is infatuated with the experimental research of electricity and has devoted his whole life to it. He owns more than 1000 invention patents, such as incandescent lamp, phonograph, carbon phone, movie projector and so on! Qi Baishi, a famous modern calligrapher and painter, has never stopped painting in his decades of artistic career. In his studio, there is a banner that he uses to encourage himself: "don't teach for a day." Even in his later years, he continued to paint three paintings a day. It is because of his unremitting creation that old man Baishi's skill has reached the level of perfection You see, all the people who have made great achievements at all times and in all over the world, do not rely on this spirit of "dropping water pierces stone" to "drop through stone" and finally achieve success?

We know that the rain falls from the sky at a very fast speed. Its power is certainly much larger than the water drops in the Taiji cave, but it can't drop through the stones. What is the reason for this? Because it doesn't have a specific goal, and it can't be persistent.

We should bear in mind the Enlightenment of "dropping water wears away stone": if we are single-minded but not half hearted, persevere but not give up halfway, we will be able to realize our beautiful ideal.

Special food

Huizhou snacks. In advance, the mung bean sprouting, until the skin broken bud dew, mixed with wheat flour, salt, water mixed into paste, scoop into the shovel on the strip hoop, slowly

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