Meiling

Meiling scenic spot

Meiling scenic spot is located in Xinjian District, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province (formerly Wanli District, which has been abolished). It faces Poyang Lake in the East and Lushan Mountain in the north, with an area of about 150 square kilometers. It is a summer resort, the birthplace of Chinese classical music and Jingming sect of Taoism.

The highest point of Meiling scenic spot is 841 meters above sea level (Xiyao Lake). The main landscapes are: Xiyao Lake summer resort, Tianning ancient temple, one of the largest nunneries in the south of the Yangtze River, Linglun cultivation site, one of the ten ancient Nanchang sceneries, Hongya Danjing, the largest royal tomb in Jiangxi Province, Huanggu tomb, shizifeng, jiaoyutan waterfall, zhaiyan temple, ziyangguan, dengxiandong and Zhenjun tomb The tomb of martyr Fang Zhimin, etc.

On July 17, 2017, Meiling National Forest Park won the title of "the first batch of provincial forest health preservation bases in Jiangxi Province", which is the first batch of forest parks in Jiangxi Province and the only one in the city to win this award.

Development history

Meiling, formerly known as Feihong mountain, got its name from Meifu's practice here in the Western Han Dynasty. As early as the early Han Dynasty, there was a post road.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wei Meifu of Nanchang County retired from Feihong mountain in order to resist Wang Mang's dictatorship. Later generations commemorated his noble spirit by building Meixian altar on the ridge and Meixian temple under the ridge, and changing Feihong mountain into Meiling. Since the Tang Dynasty, five prime ministers, including Zhang Jiuling, Zhang Shangying, Zhou Bida, Wang Anshi and Zhang Wei, literary scholars, such as Ouyang Xiu, Zeng Gong, Huang Tingjian, Chen Shidao, Tang Xianzu, and military generals, such as Yue Fei, have come to visit and write poems, inscribe inscriptions, pay attention to historic sites, or live in seclusion. They have left many famous poems and cultural landscapes, which have become the places for ancient and modern tourists to visit.

Since ancient times, "Hongya Danjing", "Xishan qiucui" and "Tongyuan three groups" (waterfall group, terrace group and shuidui group) have been famous landscapes that scholars and poets have been chanting. Meiling is a beautiful mountain with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate. Meiling is known as "xiaolushan" because of its beautiful peaks, winding streams, deep valleys, abrupt rocks, winding clouds, and beautiful scenery.

geographical environment

In the valley of Meiling, gray black granite horsts can be seen everywhere, forming many caves of different sizes. There are yunyin cave in the shape of Lushan immortal cave, Panxian cave more than 100 meters long, zigzag Zaoqian cave, Qinren cave with waterfalls, and sharp knife stones of various shapes. Dragon claw stone, reef day stone, sword wearing stone, Buddha name stone, well with fairy tales spread among the people. "Su Lian floats to win the white gauze, lightly flies the jade chip to order the cassock.". This is the poem that the ancients described Meiling waterfall. Meiling has foot fish pool, drop ditch, dishuiya, Shuikou waterfall formed by broken rock, four seasons of tengxie, and many clear streams and mountain springs.

Meiling is green with trees and cool climate. Xiyao Lake in front of luohanling, the main peak, is 842 meters above sea level, the highest point in the city. The average temperature in summer is only 22.6 ℃. It is 8-10 ℃ lower than the urban area, which is a rare "cool island" for Nanchang, one of the "four Furnaces" in China. Xiyao Lake Villa, built in 1985, is a new summer resort.

Main attractions

There are more than 120 natural and cultural scenic spots in Meiling, including Xiyao Lake summer resort, one of the 13th largest summer resorts in China, Tianning ancient temple, one of the largest nunneries in the south of the Yangtze River, Linglun cultivation site, Hongya Danjing, one of the ten scenic spots in ancient Nanchang, Huanggu tomb, one of the largest surface royal tombs in Jiangxi, magic and unique celebrity villas, and towering scenic spots Ginkgo biloba, Lion Peak, jiaoyutan waterfall, flowers, friendship forest, and martyr Fang Zhimin's grave.

Among the scenic spots in Meiling, Hongya Danjing is the oldest. In 589, Yuzhang county was changed to Hongzhou because of the location of Hongya. Not far from Danjing is Huanggu tomb, the largest surface tomb in Jiangxi Province. In front of the tomb are Shi Weng, Shi Ma, Shi Shi Shi, Shi Yang, etc. Yinguang monk cloud tower, the tomb of Yinguang, the famous Zen master of Pure Land Sect in the late Qing Dynasty, is also here. Meilingtou is full of green bamboos, shizifeng is steep and difficult to climb, Ziyang mountain is beautiful, and luohanling is good for viewing. There are many ancient and famous trees in Meiling, such as the majestic and handsome Yingke pine, the ancient pine forest on the mausoleum with thousands of postures, and the giant bamboo on the Bank of the secluded stream. It is known as the "three wonders of Meiling" especially for its "bonsai Camphor", "Orchid in stone" and "tree born bamboo".

Ziyang Palace

Ziyang palace commemorates the Taoist temple built by Deng Yu. All of them are made of granite, with towering stone houses and gorgeous buildings. In the middle of the crossbeam in front of the door is engraved the word "Ziyang Palace", in which the stone statue of Deng Yu is worshipped. A couplet is engraved on the stone pillars on both sides: "one orifice leads to the north pole, and the west mountain is a fairyland for thousands of years.". Under the stone room are Deng Xiandong, Deng Zhenjun's tomb and living stone room.

Dengxian cave is a small cave with three characters "Deng Zhenjun" carved on the wall. Deng Zhenjun's tomb is not big. There is a stone tower more than one meter high behind it. Located at the bottom is the living room with a stone statue of Deng Yu and a stone trough similar to a washbasin. It is said that it is Deng Yu's living room, so it is called Deng Zhenjun's stone room.

It is said that in AD 25, Deng Yu helped Liu Xiu (Emperor Han and Emperor Guangwu) to unify the world and ascend the throne, and was granted the title of Gaomi marquis. After seeing through the world of mortals, he resigned from office and retired to the mountains. He practiced the art of immortality and raised money. After traveling all over the world to the west mountain of Hongzhou, people fled from other places to make a living. Only then did I know that there is a centipede in the cave behind the mountain. It has a red head and a black body. Its body is eight feet long, and it haunts among the rocks in the forest. Every time the weather is muggy, they go out of the cave and release poison. The rainstorm pours and the poison flows everywhere. The local people can't survive and flow everywhere. When Deng Yu saw this, he decided to eradicate the demon and persuade the demon to leave. Wu demon didn't follow. He fought with Deng Yu in the mountain for 49 days. Finally, he captured the demon and locked it into the bottom of the rock with a thick iron chain.

Local people built this Taoist temple in memory of Deng Yu. During the day, gusts of breeze come slowly, especially cool, like fairyland.

Xiyao Lake

Xiyao lake is located in Luohan mountain, the main peak of Meiling, covering an area of more than ten mu. It is said that Li Shizhen, a great medical scientist of Ming Dynasty, once led his disciples to come here to collect and wash medicine, so it is called Xiyao lake. There is a local legend that Tieguai Li, one of the eight immortals, washed her feet here, so the local people also call her "Xijiao Wu".

Xiyao Lake area is green all the year round and has a pleasant climate. In summer, when the temperature of "stove" Nanchang reaches 40 ℃, the temperature here is only 30-32 ℃, which is also the mystery of Meiling. Many comrades may know that the temperature drops by 0.5-0.6 ℃ for every 100 meters above sea level. However, the temperature of Xiyao lake is 7-8 ℃ lower than that of Wanli city and 8-10 ℃ lower than that of Nanchang city.

Meiling has become one of the 13th largest summer resorts in China. Xiyao lake is the treasure of the resorts. There are seven guest houses and more than 1000 beds here. At the highest peak, Luohan peak, 841.4 meters above sea level, you can enjoy the sunrise in the East, the lights of Hongcheng in the evening, the red azalea in the spring, the cool wind of Xiantai in the summer, the delicious fruit in the autumn, and the jade trees and silver flowers in the winter.

Tianning ancient temple

Tianning Temple is located in Gangxia village, 18 kilometers north of Nanchang City, which is the largest Buddhist temple in Wanli District.

The ancient temple of Tianning has a very prosperous time. With the vicissitudes of life, it has been destroyed many times, and the ancient temple has disappeared. In September 1985, there was only a precarious Guanyin room less than two meters high and less than 18 square meters in area. There was only one image on the shrine for tourists to pay homage to. At that time, comrade Wan Renying, 61 years old, sincerely came here to shave her hair as a nun, to teach the Dharma and call Shi Shunyin, and to sponsor the temple with her long-term savings of 6000 yuan. Under the example of the abbot of the ancient temple, it took seven years to build a grand comprehensive temple. With a construction area of 5000 square meters, it stands at the south end of Wanli District, receiving pilgrims and tourists from all over the world.

The newly completed temple gate is majestic and spectacular. The temple of siheyuan is solemn and elegant. It has a brick and concrete two-story structure. The rafters of the temple are connected with each other. The faces of the four heavenly kings are slightly drooping. The Jingshui Guanyin holds the Jingping bottle. The eighteen golden Arhats on both sides are exquisitely carved, lifelike and lifelike. Houdian Island, 148 Bodhisattvas, weituodian subdues the dragon and subdues the tiger. The East and West halls are Buddhist nuns' bedrooms, living rooms and guest rooms. When the Golden Rooster heralds the dawn or the sunset sets, the ancient temple of Daning is brightly lit. More than 40 nuns and Buddhist monks clean up and stand in front of the Buddha. Tianning Temple has won a good reputation, and the grand occasion of Buddhism in the ancient temple should be the epitome and portrayal of today's Cathay and Minfeng.

Shenlongtan waterfall District

Shenlongtan (jiaoyutan) waterfall area is the largest and most beautiful waterfall group in Meiling, and it is also the trump of Meiling scenic area. It's near the 112 bus terminal. It has natural scenic spots such as Shenlong waterfall, huxiaoquan waterfall, yulongtan waterfall, tanshangtan waterfall, longyingu, lanzhuxi, Foziling and sanbaoshu. It also has recreational facilities such as cliff climbing, swing and bamboo raft. It also provides camping and other services.

Many tourists are attracted by the deep bamboo path and lawn, the sweet spring and the fresh air with high negative ions. The sound of flowing water and the song of birds and cicadas make people forget to return.

Miaoji Bridge

Miaoji bridge is located in Meiling scenic area. It is a gray single hole stone arch bridge. There are 12 stone columns on the bridge fence. A lion is carved on the top of each stone column. The shape is different and lifelike. The bridge was once a wooden bridge, which was rebuilt into a stone bridge in the year of Dingchou in Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty. The inscriptions on the steles of the bridge are "Jiaqing Dingchou" and "auspicious Autumn Moon".

There are no people on both sides of Miaoji bridge. This bridge is not for the purpose of passing. It's just a Fengshui bridge. It's said that in ancient times,

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