Wushan

Wushan

Fuzhou has been called "three mountains" since ancient times. Wushan is one of the three mountains. It is a Taoist resort. On the top of the mountain is Lu Dongbin's Taoist temple.

After transformation, Wushan scenic spot has been connected with Sanfangqixiang scenic spot, and has become the most important reception scenic spot in Gulou District of Fuzhou City.

Wushan mountain, also known as Wushi mountain, shewu mountain and daoshan mountain, is located in the center of Fuzhou City. It stands on equal footing with Yushan Mountain and Pingshan mountain and is called "three mountains". It is said that the nine immortals of he family in the Han Dynasty ascended mount Wu on the Double Ninth Festival and launched a bow at Mount Wu, so they are also called "shewu mountain". In 749, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty named it "Min mountain". During the Xining period of the Song Dynasty, Cheng SHIMENG, the sheriff, changed the name of this mountain to "daoshan" when compared with Penglai, abbot and Yingzhou.

In addition, Fujian Meteorological Observatory has a national benchmark meteorological station in Wushan, with an altitude of 84 meters.

geographical position

Fuzhou has been called "three mountains" since ancient times. Wushan is one of the three mountains. Wushan, also known as Wushi mountain and shewu mountain, is located in the center of the city. It stands on a par with Yushan and Pingshan. It is said that the nine immortals of he family in the Han Dynasty ascended mount Wu on the Double Ninth Festival and launched a bow at Mount Wu, so they are also called "shewu mountain". In 749, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty named it "Min mountain". During the Xining period of the Song Dynasty, Cheng SHIMENG, the sheriff, changed the name of this mountain to "daoshan" when compared with Penglai, abbot and Yingzhou. The story of daoshan Pavilion. At that time, Luoyang was famous for its expensive paper. Wushan is in the west, Yushan in the East and Pingshan in the north. Therefore, "three mountains" became another name of Fuzhou.

Altitude and surrounding environment

Wushan is 86 meters above sea level, with a tourist area of 25 hectares. In the eighth year of Tianbao in Tang Dynasty (749), it was named min mountain. Cheng SHIMENG, the prefect of the early Song Dynasty, was a mountain Ranger. He thought that this mountain could be compared with Penglai, abbot and Yingzhou of Taoism, so he called it daoshan. The east foot of the mountain is called the first mountain at the tianhuangling mountain, and the southwest foot outside the city is called Baotou mountain, also known as Baoping mountain. Wushishan grotesque rocks, quiet forest, natural shape Xiao. There are five scenic spots in Shandong, Shanxi, Shanyin, Shanyang and ridge. The 36 scenic spots are the most extraordinary, and are known as "Penglai fairyland".

From the southeast foot of the mountain Wushan road climbing, dozens of steps, to tianxiangtai. Turning to the west, chongtiantai is one of the 36 wonders. In the back wall engraved regular script "ancient crane Pavilion" 4 words. On the side of the platform, there are three characters of "Chong Tian Tai" carved by Cheng Shi Meng of Song Dynasty. "Chongtiantai" has two sides of big rock, rock top across a natural rock, this is "Tiantai bridge". This bridge is very dangerous. It is said that only those who are willing to sacrifice their lives can climb it.

A few more steps down the steps is the daoshan Pavilion. This pavilion was also built by Cheng SHIMENG, and the inscription of daoshan pavilion was set up. At that time, he invited Zeng Gong, former prefect of Fuzhou and leader of Fujian railway corps, one of the eight great masters of Tang and Song Dynasties, to write the story of daoshan Pavilion. Due to the publicity of Zeng Gong's articles, daoshan Pavilion is even more famous.

From daoshan Pavilion along Shigang West down to tianzhangtai. This is where Sadula, a poet of the Yuan Dynasty, chanted the poem "go to Wushan in the late cool, and buy wine in tianzhangtai". The three character stone carving of seal script tianzhangtai still leaps on the stone. After tianzhangtai, I climb a small peak with "Thunderbolt rock". The stone is more than 10 meters long, split into two, leaving a gap.

Natural wonders

Wushan can enter from the front or from daoshan road. Wushan mountain is known as 36 wonders. It climbs from the southern foot of Shandong Province to tianxiangtai and turns westward to chongtiantai. It is said that Cui Gan, the governor of the Tang Dynasty, toured the mountain with the Qingtian white crane. Later generations built the "crane releasing Pavilion". On the cliff behind the pavilion is engraved with the four characters "ancient crane releasing Pavilion", and on the side of the platform is Cheng Shi Meng's seal script "Chong Tian Tai", which is powerful. There are two huge cliffs on the Bank of chongtiantai. The top of the cliff flies over a natural rock, which is called Tiantai bridge. This bridge is extremely dangerous. It is said that only those who are willing to sacrifice their lives can climb it.

places of historic figures and cultural heritage

Then walk along the steps to daoshan Pavilion, and walk down the pavilion to tianzhangtai. Sadula, an outstanding poet of the Yuan Dynasty, once chanted the famous sentence of "going to Wushan mountain in the late cool, and setting up a wine heaven seal platform", which was carved on cangya. In the past, zhangtai struggled to climb up a small mountain peak. At the top of the peak, there is thunderbolt, which is 9 meters long and divided into two parts. According to historical records, during the reign of emperor Sisheng of Tang Dynasty, an eminent monk recited Huayan Sutra in his hand. Suddenly, "thunderbolt was a big shock overnight, and thunderbolt was a room, so the eminent monk sat in it for a banquet.". Hence the name of thunderrock.

Cliff inscriptions

There is a rectangular Pavilion standing on the stone hill on the left side of the thunderbolt. About 200 steps away from the pavilion, a cliff stone is engraved with six regular script characters "wushizai and ligongzai". This cliff is called "ligongyan". Li Gong is Li Pengju. In the 37th year of Jiajing (1558) of the Ming Dynasty, the invaders invaded Fujian, the five tigers fortress at the mouth of Minjiang River fell, and Fuzhou City was in great danger. At that time, Li Gong, who was in charge of Jin affairs, led the soldiers to fight with the enemy on the line from Mawei to Min'an Town, killing Japanese pirates everywhere, and the city wall of Fuzhou was in danger and restored. The people of Fuzhou carved stones to commemorate this national hero. On the right side of peileiyan, there was a qinglengtai built by Yan chibuhua, the highest official of Fujian Province in 1364. "Qingleng" is the meaning of silence, intended to encourage themselves to work for the country. However, he was flashy and often held banquets here. After a few months in office, his reputation was ruined and his pavilion was abandoned.

Wushan stone seal

There are more than 200 sections of cliff carvings in Wushi mountain. The most famous one is Li Yangbing's "Prajna Tai Ming" seal script stone carving beside Huayan rock. This is the earliest cliff carving in central Fujian. Stone 5 meters high, 2 meters wide, Xiaozhuan, a total of 24 characters, 43 cm in diameter. Li Yangbing's seal characters are as famous as Li Si in Qin Dynasty and are called "big and small Li". This stone inscription is known as the four worlds of Zhejiang, Jinyun, Town God's Temple and Lishui.

There are many stone carvings in Song Dynasty on Wushi mountain. Many famous officials and scholars, such as Cheng SHIMENG, Chen Xiang, Zhan Yu, Zhao Ruyu, Zhu Xi and Liang Kejia, left poems and inscriptions on the mountain. Next to tianxiuyan, there is also a cursive poem by Ye Xianggao, the Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty: "there are hundreds of pheasants in the forest outside the threshold, and double rainbow in the river in the horizon. Where are the people of Xue in FengChuan today? The wine is not empty when the bottle goes into the plain. "The pen is as fast as dragons and snakes. In the west of qinglengtai, there are stone carvings with two characters "Yinlan", which are also seal script. The diameter of the characters is 50 cm. It is the title of the tripod of Yu in Guangling, a painter of the Qing Dynasty. From the north of Xianshu Pavilion, you can enjoy the stone wall Avalokitesvara. It is said that there was a natural rock here, which was attacked by thunder and fire more than 1000 years ago. Later generations will be processed into relief Guanyin. The incomplete part is made up with clay, and becomes a group of art works combining stone carving with clay sculpture. This group of relief Buddha statues, with the style of late Tang Dynasty, is an early ancient carving art in Fuzhou.

There is also a stone Avalokitesvara in Wushi mountain. It was also built by thunder and fire in the early Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. Later generations built Dashi Pavilion here. The existing buildings were rebuilt in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. Dashi Pavilion is divided into main hall, guest hall and other hall. There is a famous Mengquan on the outer wall of the palace. Qinglie spring seeps into the nearby rock gap, and a teahouse is set up here.

Crow bath is located in the southwest of Shibi Guanyin. It is also a small stone pool made of thunder and fire. The pool is about 2 meters wide. There is a spring in the pool. It will not dry up in severe drought. In ancient times, at dusk, "the setting sun is bleak, and crows bathe here in disorder", so it is called crow bath. The spring water of yayuchi is very clear, which is an excellent mineral spring for tea making. Famous people of all ages once tasted the spring here. Meng Chaoran praised it in Qing Dynasty: "it's the first spring in the world without the record of Lu Yu's tea classics. "

Tianxiuyan is in front of the crow bath, with its back leaning against Xue laofeng. It is composed of a group of tall and big rocks. The name of tianxiuyan originated in the 18th year of the Yuan Dynasty (1358). Yan chibuhua engraved the four characters "loyalty, filial piety, civil and military" given by the crown prince of Yuanshun on the rock here, in order to get tianduxiu to boast. More than 100 years later, the descendants of Xue Feng (a marquis in Xiantong of Tang Dynasty, with political achievements) rebuilt Xue Laozhuang here. During the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, most poets in Fuzhou took advantage of Zhuang Zhong to form associations to recite poems. Ye Xianggao, the prime minister, was also invited by the descendants of Xue family to sing in harmony here, and left a cursive poem. Walk along Shiban road to Xiangyang peak, and you can see the scenery of Taijiang River and Cangshan Mountain. From xiangyangfeng to the north, you can reach shuangfengmeng. On the top of shuangfengmeng mountain, there are two huge stones lying on the ground. Looking from afar, they are like two people sleeping in a dream. After the two stones, there is Lingxiao terrace, the highest point of Wushi mountain. The terrace is broad and can accommodate hundreds of people. In the old days of the Double Ninth Festival, people would climb high and fly kites here. Cai Xiang, a calligrapher of the Song Dynasty, once wrote the poem of climbing the mountain platform, in which there is a saying: "on the blue clouds, on the seashore In the middle of the night, you can see the sun first, then the spring comes after the cliff, the three mountains are broken in the air, and all fall from the dust It also shows that 800 years ago, the South platform of Fuzhou was still a wilderness, so you can see the sunrise and the sails of the Minjiang River when you climb Wushan. In the east of Lingxiao Taidong, there are three large natural rocks that support each other to form a large cave. There are dozens of people sitting in the cave. There are two big characters "Shitian" carved on the rock, which means "Shitian". There are many celebrity inscriptions around Shitian, most of which were made four or five hundred years ago. There are many memorial temples built in the past dynasties on Wushi mountain. For example, the Zhuzi ancestral hall commemorating the Song Dynasty dalist Zhu Xi, the Jiuxian ancestral hall commemorating the nine famous scholars of Fujian Province, Yang Shi, you Yao, Hu Anguo, Luo Congzhou, Li Dong, Kui Wencai, Cai Shen, Huang Gan and Zhen Dexiu, the Qiyu ERGONG ancestral hall commemorating the Ming Dynasty Anti Japanese generals Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, and the Xianshu ancestral hall commemorating Chen Zhenlong. Mituo temple in Wushishan or Fuzhou people against the British Empire

Anecdotes of famous Pavilion

From qinglengtai to Xianshu Pavilion. The pavilion commemorates Chen Zhenlong, an overseas Chinese, who introduced and promoted sweet potatoes during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and the governor

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