Tianqiao mountain

Tianqiao mountain

Tianqiao mountain, located more than 20 kilometers east of Chengde City, is one of the top ten scenic spots in Chengde. From the top of the summer resort, there is a big natural stone arch on the East and west of Bangchui mountain, which runs across the sky and leads to the deep white clouds. That is Tianqiao mountain. Tianqiao mountain is 730 meters above sea level, covering an area of about 2.7 square kilometers. It is located on the mountain range of balixu opposite the west entrance of Chaoyang cave. Tianqiao mountain is named because there is a huge stone flying across the peak, which looks like a long bridge. The overpass is in the shape of an arch hole, with a total length of 180 meters and two arches. The North arch is 25.5m long, 4.7m high and 6m wide; the South arch is 5.8m long and 3M high.

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According to Chengde Fu Zhi, Tianqiao mountain "has a long dome, like a flying beam across the sky, half of the sky, opposite to the four cloud mountain pavilions in the villa". Jiaqing has a poem praising: "straight up to the top of the peak, long eyes, overpass high across mountains and autumn. The grand view has no experience, but it has not been collected by the clouds and the clouds. " At the bottom of the north end of the North arch, there are two huge stones stacked up and down. The bottom one is huge, and the top one is smaller. The shape of the upper block is flat, about 1m thick, about 3M long, 1m wide in the South and 3M wide in the north. It is a red glutenite collapsed from the upper arch. After long-term weathering, the hard pebble acts as a fulcrum, and the center of gravity of the stone just falls on this fulcrum. When people stand at the south end and push up and down, the stone shakes up and down. People call it wind driven stone, also known as "stone ox".

Geography and geomorphology

When you climb on the four sides of Yunshan Pavilion of the summer resort, you can see the high place of Tianqiao peak and cliff, which seems to be connected with the sky. When you climb Chaoyang cave, Tianqiao mountain is close in front of you. The flying beam and the transparent bridge hole are like a dangerous bridge, which is carefully cut through the deep clouds. People in Qing Dynasty once sighed at Tianqiao mountain with the poem "thousands of stitches across the clear sky on the cloud, it's really a rainbow on the flying beam". The Tianqiao mountain is flat and smooth, slightly warped at the north and south ends, and the bridge space is semicircular. Under the arch of tianqiaoshan bridge, there are two huge overlapping rocks, one in front of the other behind, which are shaped like cattle, so they are called "cattle stone". If you gently push the upper piece from the south end, you can not only shake it, but also make a "orbital" sound.

"Shiniu" is a flat red glutenite that collapses from the top during the formation of the arch tunnel of the overpass. It is 1 meter thick and 3 meters long. It is 1 meter wide in the South and 3 meters wide in the north, weighing about 15 tons. After weathering, the pebble bulge forms a fulcrum and coincides with the center of gravity. When people press it up and down at the south end, it will swing, and with the acceleration of the swing frequency, it will make a "bang" sound.

According to geomorphology, there is water flow under the arch bridge in the rock layer, which is called Tianshengqiao; there is no water flow, which is called tianshenggong; the arch above the rock is called tianshengchuang. Therefore, Tianqiao mountain should belong to tianshengchuang, but people are used to calling it Tianqiao. Kangxi called it "window" as early as in "Tianqiao folk song".

Related Legends

It is said that in ancient times, Chengde was a sea, where a river flowed into the sea. On the South Bank of the river on the coast of the sea, there was a young man, poor, kind and handsome, who fell in love with a beautiful and virtuous girl on the North Bank of the river. When the girl's parents knew about it, they stopped them from coming and going, so they had to make an appointment to meet on the River Bridge on the night of the moon. The girl's parents are greedy for wealth, so they are in a hurry to marry their daughter to the village rich man as a concubine. The girl adores the boy, but she can't follow him. The young man sent a matchmaker to propose marriage. Seeing that the bride price was low, the girl's parents scolded the matchmaker back and made it difficult to say, "for a period of one month, you can get married with 1000 liang of silver, 100 pieces of silk, 10 key cows and 1 horse.". The matchmaker brought back the words. The young man knew that it would be difficult to earn so many betrothal gifts even in his life. Nevertheless, he decided to go out to make money in case of betrothal gifts. Under the scorching sun, the boy came to a big tree beside the river bridge. He saw an old man who was hungry and thirsty, so he gave him the little money and food he had left. After eating, the old man looked a little better and asked the boy why he was out. The boy told the whole story one by one. The old man said that he should let nature take its course, persuade him to go home and show filial respect to his elderly parents. The boy wanted to go out to earn money. It was easy to go back and forth. Even if it was too late to earn enough betrothal gifts, he could not honor his parents, so he decided to go back. When he left, the old man presented him with a fan. He said that he would fan what he thought in his heart, and then he would succeed, but only once. When he got home, he thought of preparing enough betrothal gifts to get married. With a fan, a box full of silver was just 1000 Liang, 100 silks and satins, 10 cows and a horse were neighing and mooing in the fence. The young man was very happy. He immediately gave the bride price and got married with the girl. After that, they lived in seclusion in the mountains and grew old together. The bride price soon turned into stone, insect and ant with the girl's parents, which made the greedy parents stomp their hands and feet. After many years, the sea water in this area receded and became land, and the bridge became the existing overpass. It turned out that the old man was a Jinniu fairy. Because of this, it has a moving legend of Taurus stepping on the lower boundary of the bridge.

Address: Wushui north bank, Luxi County, Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Western Hunan

Longitude: 110.0934530625

Latitude: 28.2666610037

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