the seven star crag

the seven star crag

Qixingyan is located in Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province

With a total area of 8.23 square kilometers, it is named after the seven limestone peaks arranged like the Big Dipper in the sky, with peak forest, karst cave, lake, inscription and temple as the main landscape. Known as "the first wonder of Lingnan", cliff carvings in the scenic area are the most preserved and concentrated group of cliff carvings in Lingnan. The main scenic spots are shuiyueyanyun, xingyanchunxiao, Tianzhu Jiexing, xingyanyanyanyanyanyanyu, yupingdiecui, Millennium poetry Gallery, shuizhonglinqu, Wofo Handan, Xianhe Chengxiang, Shidong ancient temple, etc.

Background of scenic spot

Qixingyan cliff carvings, a state-level cultural relic protection unit, is the most preserved and concentrated group of cliff carvings in southern China, so it is named Qixingyan.

The main body of Qixingyan is composed of seven limestone peaks, namely langfengyan, yupingyan, shishouyan, tianzhuyan, Bufo rock, xianzhangyan and apoyan (also known as hepaoyan), which are arranged like the big dipper and scattered on nearly 600 hectares of lake surface. Xinghu Lake was originally a Lihu lake formed by the ancient river course of Xijiang River. The 20 kilometer long tree lined Lake dike connects Xiannv lake, Central Lake, Bohai lake, Qinglian lake and Lihu lake like a green belt. The lake is full of beautiful scenery.

By borrowing the water from the West Lake, we can move the seven mounds of Yangshuo, add silk willows to the embankment, and keep the painting between heaven and earth for a long time. " Marshal Ye Jianying's poem "you Qixingyan" outlines the beautiful scenery of Qixingyan. Qixingyan is mainly characterized by karst karst landform of rock peaks and lake landscape. Seven limestone peaks arranged like Beidou Qixing are skillfully distributed on the surface of the lake with an area of 6.3 square kilometers. The lake is divided into five lakes by more than 20 kilometers of levees, with beautiful scenery. It is known as "fairyland on earth" and "the first wonder in Lingnan". Qixingyan cliff carvings, a national cultural relic protection unit, are the most preserved and concentrated group of cliff carvings in South China. More than 500 famous poems of Tang, song, yuan, Ming, Qing and contemporary dynasties, such as Li Yong, Li Shen, Bao Zheng, Zhou Dunyi, Yu Dayou, Chen Gongyin, Zhu De and Ye Jianying, add luster and color to Qixingyan.

Admission: 78 yuan for student card, half price for senior citizen card (some scenic spots need to be charged separately)

Famous scenic spot

Qixingyan memorial archway

Located in the center of the scenic spot in Hunan, completed in 1959, reinforced concrete antique building, 12 meters high, 17.5 meters wide, four columns and three rooms, column base basket shaped, four large columns decorated with vermilion, imitation Xie peak, covered with glazed tiles, above the middle door inlaid with Zhu De's handwritten "Seven Star Rock" in 1959, is an important symbol of Zhaoqing. There is a square on the north side of the archway, covering an area of 28300 square meters. It is an activity center and a large public activity place integrating entertainment, leisure, viewing and shopping. The square has the largest music fountain in Guangdong (three performances every night). The square culture is quite famous in Guangdong. Visitors can enjoy free artistic performances here on weekends.

It is composed of Longyan cave, Bixia cave and Lianhua cave. Longyan cave is guided by boat, and the last two caves can be visited on foot. Longyan cave is the earliest and most scenic cave in Qixingyan. The lofty, varied and dreamlike landscape intoxicated the literati and poets of the past dynasties and left poems of praise. There are 333 stone inscriptions of various styles in the cave, which shows how remarkable the cave is in the Seven Star Rock Scenic spot.

Boating in Lianhu Lake

The best viewing point is the South style wharf of honglianqiao.

There are bamboo rafts, rowing wooden boats, battery boats and so on. The boats can travel in the water and walk on both sides of the scenery. If you are in the middle of a painting, you can enjoy leisure and pleasure. There has been a saying since ancient times: "if you don't take a boat to swim in the lake, you don't know the victory of the lake light, you will come to Xingyan in vain."

Taohua Island

Qixingyan Peach Blossom Island has more than 530 peach flowers and more than 20 pear flowers. The best viewing time is from January to March every year. After the Spring Festival, a large number of tourists come to visit every year, some of them are lucky with peach blossom, some take photos as a souvenir.

Crouching Buddha Handan

"Reclining Buddha with pill"

Standing on the Buddha platform of Xiannu lake, the "Reclining Buddha" is a unique celestial spectacle of Qixingyan. Its feet face south and head north, and it lies peacefully on the lake. Its eyes, ears, mouth, nose, chin, bun, shoulders, chest, hands, feet and toes are all clearly visible. Its figure is even and lifelike. It is amazing. In the middle of October every year, around 6 o'clock in the evening on a sunny day, the setting sun can be seen slowly falling, as if embedded in the mouth of the reclining Buddha, thus forming the strange celestial spectacle "Reclining Buddha with Dan" of the star lake.

Stone cave temple

The stone cave is commonly known as the rice cave, also known as the God of wealth cave. The cave is like a vast hall. A skylight with a diameter of more than 5 meters is exposed from the dome. The light shines into the cave, forming a unique landscape. There are many strange stones in the cave. One of them is a man-shaped stone standing in the north with a firm grip in one hand. It is said that in ancient times, the sun rose and the rice rose in the orifices. There is an ancient stone cave temple in the cave, which was built in the early Tang Dynasty and is a key cultural relic protected by the state. Zhou's god worshipped in the temple, known as the God of wealth among the people, is in charge of farming and mulberry, which can ensure the peace and prosperity of the world. Pilgrims and tourists from all over the world are attracted by many places, planting Futian extensively, and incense is constantly on the rise. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the God of wealth opens the Treasury on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month. "Rice in the cave" and other legends, beautiful legend.

Water moon rock cloud

Cross the Seven Star Bridge to the left, and walk tens of meters to the intersection of wulongting. On the rock wall beside the intersection, the four characters "water moon rock cloud" inscribed by Shen Junru, vice chairman of the National People's Congress in the early 1960s are engraved. Standing on the Shuiyue dyke opposite wulongting, looking up at shishiyan, hanging cliff, high into the sky, overlooking the lake, the water is as flat as a mirror. The mountains and rocks enter the water, and the scenery is pleasant. If the jade rabbit is hanging high at night, you can also enjoy the taste of water, moon, rock and cloud. There is a poem: "if you don't look at the mountains when you come back from the five mountains, you should not go to the seven star rock. I urge you to look for the future, and Penglai is in the world. " (poems by Chen Jianhou in Qing Dynasty)

Spring dawn in Xingyan

Spring in March, one by one palace powder Bauhinia bud in full bloom, flowers hanging all over the branches, coincided with the drizzle, the scenery is more charming, only to see the mountains reflecting water, water around the mountains, misty. In addition, there are Hongqiao, Wobo, Longting, Yingbi. The scenery is in pairs. Together, the scenery of Qixingyan is more charming and beautiful. It feels like a dream, as if it has entered a fairyland on earth.

Star picking in Tianzhu

Standing in front of the pavilion, you can see the green cages on both sides of the river, a lake light and picturesque scenery. In the distance, there is a pillar of Optimus, towering into the clouds, with a star picking Pavilion on it. I saw the plank road hanging high, often someone climbing Range Rover, sometimes issued cheers and exclamations. Huang Yu, a modern poet, wrote: "laughter goes down to the world with the wind, and happy faces are reflected in the clouds. I believe it's not difficult to reach the moon. I won't return the stars. " Describes the beauty of heaven and earth!

Xingyan misty rain

Whenever the rainy season comes, the common smog misty in the mountains and rivers, the peaks are faint, hazy, a beautiful charming, such as into a dream fairyland. Duan Yun, a modern poet (former deputy director of the State Planning Commission), wrote: "the water in the yaochi lake is sunny, and the seven star mountain is rainy. The way is heaven, but the world. "

Jade screen

Yupingyan is connected with langfengyan. The south slope of the rock is like a screen, facing the lake to the sun. It is warm and moist, without the wind of Xiaosha. The trees are dense and green all the year round. In summer and autumn, the white Plumeria and swordfish are full of trees and mountains. The name of jade screen is jade like flowers and jade like stones. In addition to the evergreen trees all over the rock, the name of jade screen is emerald. Yupingyan is a famous Taoist mountain. There are three immortals temple, yuhuangdian temple and other temples on the mountain. There are immortal Qi and aura. The incense is prosperous all year round. Along the way, there are Shiyou Pavilion, Zhuangyuan stele, three immortals temple, bayinshi, hanzhujing, Yuhuang hall, waiting platform, small stone forest and so on.

Millennium poetry Gallery

Qixingyanmo group is one of the most famous cultural relics in China and abroad. Li Yong, a famous writer and calligrapher in the Kaiyuan period of Tang Dynasty, left the famous Duanzhou stone chamber at the entrance of the stone chamber. After that, Li Shen in Tang Dynasty, Bao Zheng, Zhou Dunyi, Guo Xiangzheng and Huang Gongdu in Song Dynasty, Yu Dayou, Wu Guolun, Guo Duxian and Chen Yu in Ming Dynasty, Li Jian and Feng MINCHANG in Qing Dynasty left a lot of poems and titles inside and outside the cave. There are more than 630 stone carvings in Qixingyan, and 333 inside and outside shishiyan alone. There are all kinds of characters in the stone carvings, including seal, official script, regular script, line and grass, including works of various dynasties since the Tang Dynasty, all over the country and even the Japanese. Moreover, these stone carvings are located in a relatively concentrated place with a relatively complete appearance. Among them, Li Yong's Duanzhou stone chamber, Feng MINCHANG's five poems on Qixingyan and Li Jian's Nanfu meteorite are known as the three unique poems on Qixingyan. The cliff inscriptions inside and outside the Shishi cave are not only a landscape poem with rich literature, but also a historical mark of thousands of years of vicissitudes. Therefore, Chen Yi, marshal of the people's Republic of China, wrote poems and called it the "Millennium poetry Gallery". Qixingyan cliff stone carving is a national key cultural relics protection unit. The dome of Shishi cave is high. There are black rock water cave in the East, Bixia cave in the West and xuanjitai lotus cave in the north. For thousands of years, the colorful scenery has opened up a dreamlike world of myth for people.

Forest in the water

Forest in the water. Looking from the north foot of apoyan to the west, the magnificent larch forest is bathed in the sun, and flowing water along the small bridge runs through the forest, which is really a kind of beautiful enjoyment. To the south of the "water forest" is an oasis. There are sparse forests and grasslands on the island. Peach blossoms are widely planted. There are far mountains and near water. The vision is wide. Visitors can rest here, enjoy the rock, water, forest and bird watching. Every Spring Festival

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