What are the interesting tourist attractions in Shiyan?

The ancients said: A place with mountains, water and beautiful scenery is a "paradise". That place is Shiyan. Below are some interesting tourist attractions in Shiyan that I have compiled for you. I hope you like them.

Wudang Mountain

Wudang Mountain, also known as Taihe Mountain, is located in the south of Shiyan City, Hubei Province. The earliest temples in Wudang Mountain were built in the Tang Dynasty and Yongle in the Ming Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, after Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty completed the construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the original team led by Guo Jin, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, marched into Wudang Mountain in a mighty manner and built seven palaces, two temples, 36 nunneries and 72 cliff temples.

Wudang Mountain is famous for its magnificent architectural scale. The existing ancient buildings all adopt the royal architectural style and have a unified design and layout. The scale and spacing are just right, achieving the artistic effect of appearing and disappearing, bright and dark, rising and then suppressing, exhaling before and after, and mysterious and transcendent artistic effects. The State Council announced Wudang Mountain as a national key scenic spot in 1982, saying: Wudang Mountain's ancient architectural projects are vast and exquisite in craftsmanship, successfully embodying the artistic conception of "Fairy Mountain and Qiongge", and it is like an exhibition of my country's ancient architectural achievements. Mi Fu, a great calligrapher and painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, praised it as "the best mountain in the world".

Xuanyue Gate: Xuanyue Gate in Wudang Mountain is a three-bay, four-column, five-story imitation wood and stone structure building, 12 meters high and 12.4 meters wide. It represents the "Five Cities and Twelve Floors" believed by Taoism, that is, this place is a place to wait and meet gods. The Taoists regard the human throat as the "twelve-layered tower" acupoint, which means that this place is the junction of yin and yang. It is the first divine gate in Wudang Mountain and is known as the first gate in the immortal world. There is a saying in Wudang Mountain that "when you enter the Xuanyue Gate, your life is handed over to the gods." This means that after mortals enter this divine gate and the fairy world, they can't control whether they live or die, whether they are blessed or misfortuned.

Fuzhenguan: Also known as "Prince Slope", it is said to be the place where the Prince of Jingle King - later Emperor Xuanwu - first lived when he entered Wudang Mountain at the age of fifteen. Because of his weak will, On the way back home, Zi Qiyuanjun used an "iron pestle to grind a needle" to enlighten him, and he went up the mountain again, hence the name Fuzhenguan.

The Golden Palace, located on the main peak of Wudang Mountain, is the largest gilded copper palace in my country. It was built in the 14th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1416). The hall is 5.5 meters high, 5.8 meters wide and 4.2 meters deep. There are fine patterns on the pillars and caissons in the palace. There is a gold-plated pearl hanging on the caisson, which is known as the "windshielding fairy pearl". Legend has it that this orb can calm the mountain wind and prevent it from blowing into the temple door, thus ensuring that the magic lamp in the temple remains bright. In fact, the mountain wind cannot blow in because the castings of the palace walls and doors are very tight and precise.

There is a bronze statue of "Zhenwu" in the Golden Palace, weighing 10 tons. Outside the hall is a white jade railing platform, and below it is the Purple Gold City, which is about 1,500 meters long. The city wall is made of huge rectangular stones built against the mountain. This golden palace is built on Tianzhu Peak, the most majestic and steep among the peaks of Wudang Mountain, and has the effect of "Golden Tower of Yaotai in the Sky". Zixiao Palace was built in the 11th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1413). It is the main palace in Wudang Mountain and one of the best-preserved buildings. There are 860 palaces, pavilions and verandas in the palace, which are magnificent in scale and extraordinary in style.

Address: Near Wudang Road, Danjiangkou City, Shiyan City

Type: Mountain Monuments, Taoist Temples, World Cultural Heritage

Grade: AAAAA

Play Time : Recommended 1-2 days

Tel: 0719-5668567; 0719-5665396

Danjiangkou Dam Tourist Area

Danjiang The dam is located in the urban area of ??Danjiangkou City, 800 meters downstream of the confluence of the Han River and its tributary Danjiang River. The hydraulic structures of the project consist of a concrete dam, power plant building, ship lift lifting system and two water diversion channels 30 kilometers upstream. It is a large-scale water conservancy project designed, built and managed by our country after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is mainly for flood control and also has comprehensive utilization of power generation, irrigation, shipping, breeding and so on.

It is not only a key project to cure and develop the Han River. It is also the best water source project in the middle line of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. The total length of the water-retaining structure Danjiang Dam is 2.5 kilometers. The maximum dam height of the project is 97 meters, and the dam top elevation is 162 meters. It is equipped with 6 generating units with an installed capacity of 900,000 kilowatts and an average power generation of 3.83 billion kWh. Now, with the South-to-North Water Diversion Project approaching, the Danjiangkou Reservoir will become the source of the middle-line water diversion project. By then, the dam crest height has increased to 175 meters. After the completion of the hub project, the average annual water diversion will be 14.5 billion cubic meters in the near future, and the long-term water diversion can reach 23 billion cubic meters. Climbing to the top of the dam, you can have a bird's-eye view of the urban area of ??Danjiangkou, with row upon row of buildings, green mountains and clear water, and a panoramic view of the pink walls and black tiles. Looking up into the distance, Wudang Mountain faintly reappears; looking back, the towering dam locks the Han River. It forms a colorful picture and is a good place for travel and sightseeing.

Since the Danjiangkou Dam heightening project officially started on September 26, 2005, all participating units have carefully organized and worked overtime in accordance with the project construction plan adjusted and determined by the company, and have overcome the difficulties encountered by the reservoir for more than 20 years. Affected by unfavorable factors such as floods, excessive rainfall, and interference between engineering construction and operation management, the concrete pouring during the "dry drought" has exceeded the planned task, reaching 247,000 m3, and the peak intensity of concrete pouring exceeded the preliminary design and bidding documents. construction intensity.

Each dam section of the main project meets the requirements for flood relief elevation and separation from the foundation constraint area.

Due to the high temperature in summer, according to the overall construction arrangement, all slope concrete pouring of the main dam project has been suspended and will be resumed when the "Second Dry Period" enters (October 2006 to April 2007) Slope concrete pouring work. During the stoppage of pouring of the concrete dam, the construction focus will shift to the filling of the earth-rock dam on the left and right banks, and continue to carry out work such as roughening the joint surface of the new and old concrete, cutting keyways, removing concrete, burying anchor bars, and pouring concrete for the downstream retaining walls on the left and right banks. The Danjiangkou Water Conservancy Project will enter the flood season on June 21. All participating units have made detailed arrangements for flood control work. Dam construction during the flood season will be subject to flood control schedules.

Since the start of construction, a total of 196,700 m3 of earth excavation, 203,900 m3 of stone excavation, 176,700 m3 of earth filling, 247,100 m3 of concrete pouring, 16,200 m3 of concrete demolition, and concrete joint surface have been completed 40,000m2 of roughening was chiseled, 4262.9m of keyway concrete was cut, 4805 anchor bars were buried, and 6821m of cracks were treated.

Instructions for purchasing tickets: 65 yuan/person

Contact number: 0719-5372391

Transportation route: Take the bus from Shiyan South Passenger Transport Station to Danjiang, transfer to Take the bus and get off at Baqian Park.

Address: The intersection of Yanjiang Avenue and Dianzhan Road, Danjiangkou City, Shiyan City

Type: Water conservancy project

Guanyin Cave Tourist Area

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Fang County Guanyin Cave Scenic Area is located 3 kilometers south of Fang County. Fengling in the front and Longgang in the back, the mountains are undulating, the wind is spectacular, purple is everywhere, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant. The scenic area has one hall, two caves, three stars and four sceneries. The Patriarch's Hall, with cornices and raised corners, is simple and elegant; Guanyin and Guandi, two caves side by side, are accompanied by spring osmanthus; the stars of Fortune, Fortune and Longevity have kind faces; Crouching Tiger Mountain, Lover's Valley, Xuanwu Palace, and Viewing Pavilion are all four sceneries.

We were fortunate to visit Guanyin Cave with Sun Xiqing, the author of "Fangling History". When you get off the car, a majestic Tang-style palace stands in front of you. This is the newly built "Phoenix Villa". Legend has it that King Luling once designed a summer resort to escape the summer here. However, due to the financial difficulties of Fangling Prefecture at that time and Wu Zetian's unwillingness to allocate funds for help, it was never possible. Nearly a thousand years have passed. The summer resort that Emperor Tang had no funds to build was turned into reality by private entrepreneur Zhao Zexing. "Phoenix Mountain Villa" has become a tourist resort integrating food, accommodation and entertainment. Stay at "Phoenix Villa" for a while, with the cool breeze blowing under the shadow of bamboo trees. You can play chess, drink tea, and talk about the past and present. Go to Dahuanggou to see the bamboo forest on the slopes, listen to the birds chirping, or climb Phoenix Mountain. Go to the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara and worship Zhenwu.

Along the tree-lined path of Dahuanggou, there are green trees on both sides of the road, wild flowers everywhere, and orioles and butterflies flying. After passing the Jingxin Pavilion and walking another mile, you will reach a gate tower. The large characters "Dongtian Blessed Land" on the door plaque are particularly eye-catching.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, high walls surround Guanyin Cave and Guandi Cave. A thousand-year-old spring osmanthus tree in the middle makes this ancient building particularly beautiful. It has lush branches and tangled roots. It blooms every spring, and its floral fragrance can be smelled for dozens of miles around. Legend has it that Avalokitesvara, above the auspicious clouds, traveled all over the world. When he arrived at Fangling, he saw purple light shining high, auspiciousness rising to the sky, the trees were dark, and strange birds singing. He hurriedly pressed the clouds and asked the people in Fangling to build caves in their dreams. A courtyard was built to worship Guanyin. During the Three Kingdoms period, Guan Yu was defeated in Maicheng and retreated to Guanyin Cave to drink his horse and take a rest. Later generations built a statue of Guanyin and enshrined it in the cave. From then on, Guanyin and Guanyin, the two saints, appeared, the fragrance floated in the middle of the moon, and good men and women worshiped. , came one after another, kowtowed and drew lots, and all requests were answered. This is the famous Guanyin Cave in Fangxian County through the ages. But why is there a Buddhist Guanyin Bodhisattva in a Taoist resort? And Guandi is not the main god of Taoism. Looking at these Taoist priests wearing Taoist Buddha's clothes, people are puzzled. Maybe this is the polytheistic philosophy of Taoism! The spring water flowing out from the Guandi Cave is clear and sweet and never dries up all year round. As soon as you approach the entrance of the cave, a cool air blows on your face, making you feel refreshed and the fatigue of going up the mountain is swept away.

The Ancestral Hall was built in 688 AD by Li Xian, Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty. It was destroyed in the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty and restored in 1995. Turn back from Guanyin Cave and go up to the top of the mountain to reach the Ancestral Hall. The Ancestral Hall and Xuanwu Palace are actually one. The top and bottom are distributed along the central axis. As soon as you enter the Xuanwu Palace, you will see the image of a turtle and snake totem. According to "The Evolution of the Xuanwu God", "Xiu is a snake, while Gun is a turtle, and turtles and turtles are the same kind...the same image, it is exactly As a symbolic transformation of the Xuanming couple Xiu and Xi". The blessing, wealth and longevity stars enshrined here all have kind and lifelike faces. The high-altitude Patriarch Hall is filled with smoke, and amid the incense and smoke, the light and shadow are constantly changing, as if the face of Yizhenwu is looming. This is also called "Xuanguang". The Taoist nun inside refused to take pictures, saying that it was disrespectful to the gods. , which further shows their piety. The Patriarch's Hall is even more sacred and mysterious to us. Standing in front of the Patriarch's Hall, you can have a panoramic view of the countryside and countryside of Fangxian County in the auspicious clouds. It makes people think about the time when Li Xian looked north to Chang'an, with tears streaming down his face and a long sigh.