Travel guide of Dehua Jiuxian Mountain

Jiuxian Mountain, known as "the first mountain in middle-earth Penglai", is a tourist attraction with beautiful scenery, religious shrines and cultural relics. Located in the northwest of Dehua County, it is 40 kilometers away from Quanzhou City/KLOC-0 and 22 kilometers away from the Chengguan of Dehua County. The scenic area is about 35 square kilometers, and the main peak is 1.658 meters above sea level. Now the Maitreya Cave has been developed. The humidity, wind speed and foggy days on the mountain rank second in China, so there are meteorological wonders such as Buddha's light, sea of clouds and rime. The annual average temperature in Jiuxian Mountain is 12℃, especially in hot summer. This mountain is cool and pleasant everywhere, which is an ideal place for summer vacation.

There are different opinions about the origin of the name of Jiuxian Mountain. It is said that this mountain is named after Jiu Feng. According to legend, this mountain was first developed in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it is the land of Taoism, named after Taoism has nine immortals. The Qing Qianlong edition of Dehua County Records records that "according to legend, there are nine hermits living here today, and all the immortals go", hence the name; Yang Jiu, Zhiming County, said in "Preface to Nine Immortals Mountain" that "Nine carp in Xianyou is better than all things, and if you are next to Dehua, the mountain name is nine immortals". The origin of this mountain name is related to He Jiuxian in Xianyou Jiuli Lake. There is another saying. It is said that a long time ago, a nearby farmer went up the mountain to cut wood and met the Eight Immortals who were playing chess on a boulder called Chessboard Stone at the top of the mountain. He stood by and watched, forgot to chop wood, and didn't go home until sunset, only to find that his family was full of children and grandchildren, only to know that he had met a fairy and hurried up the mountain, but the fairy was long gone, so he practiced on the mountain and later became a fairy. Therefore, this legend is widely circulated. Today, there is a folk proverb that "seven days on the mountain, a hundred years on earth"; There is also a saying that during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, the founder monk Zou cultivated immortals in the nature room, which coincided with the gathering of neighboring caves and became the Nine Immortals. "The mountain is not high, but there is a fairy, so it is named", and the name of Jiuxian Mountain is roughly based on this.