Daquan cave

Daquan cave, formerly known as "the first cave in the south of the Yangtze River", is located at the south foot of Baiyan mountain in the middle reaches of Qingshan Bailiping Lake in Chongyang County, Hubei Province. The cave is named for the fact that a large stream of clear springs in the cave do not flow all the year round. The natural limestone cave, which has been bred for hundreds of millions of years, is mysterious in depth. The cave scenery is various, interesting and fascinating. The developed cave has a capacity of more than 1000 meters and more than 160 scenic spots.

The main landscapes are "rolling curtain to welcome guests", "meeting of three scholars", "Huaiyin tree", "Golden Dragon curtain", "carp leaping dragon's gate", "immortal climbing pole", "Changshou spring", "Congming spring", "Wolong Beach" and "suolongjia". The scenery in the cave is equipped with lighting and music, and the sky is vast and resplendent.

Castle Peak cave

synonym

Daquan cave generally refers to Qingshan cave

Castle Peak cave

It is located at the foot of Qingshan mountain, about 100 meters away from dongfuba, outside Qingshan Reservoir area. Dongkou is an excellent man. Looking down at it, the water is sparkling and the smoke is floating; looking up at it, the strange rocks are everywhere. There is a hole in the cave, which is deep and gentle. The outline of the cave has its capacity, curls and bends, and looks like a past. There are many curious people who have visited in history, because the more they enter, the darker the light is, the more desolate the spirit is, and the more profound it is. It is also said that as far back as the reign of Emperor Guangxu, there was a local golden monk who was also happy to go there. As a result, one by one, the candles had already illuminated three loads, but they did not reach the end.

Castle Peak cave,

Also known as "Daquan cave", it is located 100 meters to the left of Qingshan Lake. The cave was first discovered in the sixth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1856 AD). The depth of the cave is more than 300 meters. There is an ancient weir in the cave, which is more than 20 meters long, 4 meters high and 5 meters wide. It is all built with green bricks and stone mixed with lime slurry. The scale is huge and the project is arduous.

Historical origin

There is an ancient weir diversion channel on the wall of Qingshan cave. The diversion pipes are all connected by specially fired ceramic tile tubes. On the cliff, stone holes are chiseled to cover the stone strips as horizontal piers. The channel extends to more than 1000 meters outside the cave. According to the inscriptions on the stone tablets in the cave, Gan Kui Mao, a man from Qingshanpu, once joined the Taiping Army in the Tongzhi period of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty. He fought in several counties in the south of the Yangtze River, killed the enemy bravely and made many miraculous achievements. After the failure of the Taiping army, the Qing army captured Gan Gong everywhere. He absconded in Qingshan cave for three years. One year, it was a severe drought. He called on his neighbors to build a canal and build a weir in the cave for irrigation.

Layout structure

Qingshan cave is naturally divided into three parts: the first hall, the middle hall and the third hall. All kinds of scenery formed by stalactites in the cave are of various forms and superb craftsmanship, which make the whole cave like a natural art treasure house, no less than Daquan cave, and no less than Yantou cave. It is indeed a holy land for people to visit.

Toutang: from the entrance to the end, it is about 70 meters long, 9 meters high and 8 meters wide, like a tall open profile. The top is curved. The grotesque rocks are misplaced, the acupoints are deep, and the mounds are suddenly angry. Standing or sitting, or leaning or falling, or lying or kneeling, the personification is vivid, and the feather is like living. It's amazing.

Nave: after walking to Toudang, walk slowly along a small path on the left side of the cave, and you will arrive at the nave. Its total length is 90 meters, and its height and width are about the same as that of Toutang. Although the light in the cave is weaker than that in the head hall, it is bright and dark, but its scenery is unique, and you can also have a panoramic view. When people come to the nave, they are like entering the fairyland and the heavenly palace. The whole nave looks like a palace carved with dragons and painted with phoenixes. On both sides of the cave wall, there are a pair of round palace columns, which are arranged symmetrically and evenly, holding the terrain and fighting with each other. On the top of a group of rock not falling, different sizes, different image name. Some like palace lanterns, some like jade candles, such as stars, such as bright moon. Some of the stones protruding out of the half waist of the cave wall are like stone bells, some are like stone drums, moving in stillness, and there are poems in the paintings, as if they were acting or playing music, with harmonious tones and clear rhymes. On the ground, there are square or square rocks, like stone benches and chairs, which surround the big rocks like a garden table. In the center of the big rock grow many oval pimples, delicious dishes, dishes. A bowl of bowls, host and guest phase banquet, wine Linfeng, the joy!

Three halls: about 100 meters in diameter, about 9 meters in height and width. It was dark inside the cave, and I couldn't see my fingers. Press to light a flashlight or torch, and the scenery is still in your mind. That crisscross strange shape, thousands of thousands, almost uncountable. Some spread their wings like a Kunpeng, some dance like a dragon. The people who are inlaid with each other are like horses and oxen drinking in the stream, and the people who are heavy in the horns are like bears climbing in the mountains.

At the bottom of the cave, there is the Yinhe river. When you listen to it, you can hear the sound of the stone. There are many large and small stone caves in the three halls, which are deep and far away from the bottom. Some of them are dry and waterless. They are thrown with stones, either like the sound of broken jade or the sound of the bell of the flood. The lingering rhyme of them has been lingering for a long time. Some of them are clear and clear. Groups of fish swim in the air. They have nothing to depend on. They come and go back and forth and are free. They seem to enjoy themselves with the tourists.

The entrance at the end of the three halls is very narrow, in the shape of a dustpan, with the whole stone as the bottom and the rolling stone on both sides as the bottom. When you look at it with your head, you can see that the stone stands thousands of feet on its side, like a fierce beast and a strange ghost, and you want to fight people. When you listen to it, you can't know its source. Pedestrians generally stop and dare not go back. Back to dozens of steps, there is a hole on the left corner. The entrance of the cave is half open and half closed, like a clamshell. You have to climb three stone steps to get in.

The depth of the cave is eight or nine meters. The top of the cave is inlaid with a white jade like flat dragon belt, which looks like a long fairy snake creeping slowly. There are a lot of harbor stones at the entrance. They have different shapes, some like stone knives, some like stone axes, some like stone swords, some like stone cones. Who brought these port stones from outside the cave? Why do you move it here? I'm surprised! There is a man weir in the middle of Santang, which is large-scale and arduous.

It has a total length of more than 20 meters, a height of four meters and a width of five meters, all made of green bricks.

In addition, from the middle hall to the head hall, it goes out of the entrance and turns right to Qingshanpu. A channel with a length of more than 1000 meters is also built. This channel is all made of green bricks and stones. In the steep section, a piece of stone is chiseled into the wall to form a horizontal pier. The horizontal pier and the pedestal pier are connected by pottery tubes. Who discovered the water source in the cave? Who organized the construction of this project and when? This is even more surprising!

Tourist attractions

In order to commemorate his merits, later generations set up a stone tablet for him in the cave in the second year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1876 A.D.), which reads: "Mr. Kuimao, the Duke of Gan, will live forever.". Up to now, there is still a local folk song: "in Qingshan cave, the little Yangtze River is covered with green, and the fields are covered with new clothes. Sorghum and sweet potato are turned into rice. I will never forget MaoGong.". This place has become a tourist attraction.

Cultural relics protection

In 1991, the cave was listed as a provincial cultural relic protection unit.

Qingshan cave is located at the foot of Qingshan mountain, about 100 meters away from dongfuba. Dongkou is an excellent man.

Looking down at it, the water is sparkling and the smoke is floating; looking up at it, the strange rocks are everywhere. There is a hole in the cave, which is deep and gentle. The outline of the cave has its capacity, curls and bends, and looks like a past. There are many curious people who have visited in history, because the more they enter, the darker the light is, the more desolate the spirit is, and the more profound it is.

It is also said that as far back as the reign of Emperor Guangxu, there was a local golden monk who was also happy to go there. As a result, one by one, the candles had already illuminated three loads, but they did not reach the end.

Great significance

To study these origins, we must recall their history. People didn't know there was a Castle Peak cave

What's more, I don't know that there is water in Qingshan cave. As far back as Xianfeng and Tongzhi years of the Qing Dynasty, Kui Mao, a farmer near Qingshanpu, once joined the Taiping Army and fought bravely in several counties in the south of the Yangtze River. Later, the Taiping Revolution failed, and the Qing army was the first to find Qingshan cave.

He had been hiding in the cave for three years, and his younger brother Gan kuihuai sent food and vegetables every day. The GangShi in the Hengdong cave was used by Kui Mao, the Duke of Gan, to fight back against the enemy. After three years of living in caves, the wind of hunting and killing Western soldiers by the Qing government subsided, and then he came out of the cave.

When he came back home, he decided to lead the local people to build the Castle Peak weir and the Castle Peak channel. Just after the completion of the project, the Qing rulers arrested him and killed him in Chongyang County in 1858 (i.e. July of Wu Wu) of the eighth year of Xianfeng (Gregorian calendar) due to the local evil gentry's information.

Later, people expressed their nostalgia for him. In February (1864) of the Gregorian calendar, a stone tablet was specially built for him at the entrance of qingshandong cave, which read: "Mr. Kuimao, the Duke of Gansu, will live forever!" Until now, the local people still have a song of praise for him: "in Qingshan cave, the little Yangtze River is covered with green and new clothes; sorghum and sweet potato are rice, and I will never forget MaoGong.".

More than that, its great contribution is to open up a tourist attraction for future generations.

Address: South foot of Baiyan mountain, middle reaches of Qingshan Bailiping lake, Chongyang County, Hubei Province

Longitude: 114.026631

Latitude: 29.436211

Ticket information: 35 yuan

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