Jiuri Mountain traffic guide

Jiuri Mountain Traffic Guide: Transportation: There are special tourist lines No.6 and No.62 in Quanzhou City, which directly reach Jiuri Mountain Scenic Area.

Jiuri Mountain is the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road. It is located on the north bank of Jinjiang, 7 kilometers away from Quanzhou City, 15 kilometers away from Jinjiang Airport and 15 kilometers away from Houzhu Port, belonging to Fengzhou Town, Nan 'an. As far back as the 9th year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty (AD 288), the Central Plains immigrants who moved to Fujian would climb this mountain to look at the Central Plains on the Double Ninth Festival, so the mountain was named Jiuri Mountain.

Jiuri Mountain is well-known for its stone-free and lettered mountains. There are more than 7 cliff inscriptions since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the most famous of which is the stone carving of praying for the wind in the Song Dynasty. Jiuri Mountain Qifeng Stone Carving Group is the largest number of existing Qifeng stone carvings in China, which can be called the monument of the ancient Maritime Silk Road in China and is a national key cultural relics protection unit. Because Quanzhou's maritime traffic was very developed in ancient times, people often held a ceremony of praying for the wind in order to sail smoothly. These stone carvings are important historical sites of ancient Quanzhou's overseas traffic, and they are also historical witnesses of China's friendly exchanges with people from Asian and African countries. The mountain has three peaks, east, west and north, which are shaped like pliers. Xifeng is called Gaoshifeng, or Xitai, because Qin, a famous poet in Tang Dynasty, lived in seclusion here. There are five generations of stone Buddha statues at the peak, which are called Stone Buddha Mountain.

The stone Buddha was carved by Chen Hongjin in the Five Dynasties. It is 4.5 meters high and 1.5 meters wide. It is the earliest stone statue in Quanzhou, sitting on a lotus pedestal with a bare chest, and its clothes are smooth and symmetrical. A stone pavilion is built outside to protect the stone statue. It has a whole stone structure and a hard mountain roof, which is wide and deep, and has a square shape. Dongfeng was relegated to Liquan by Prime Minister Jiang Gongfu in the Tang Dynasty, and was buried here after his death. Therefore, it was named Jiang Xiangfeng, or Dongtai, and because of its shape like Kirin, it was commonly known as Qilin Mountain. The north peak connects the east and west peaks, called Beitai, and the three peaks are surrounded into a dock, Baiyun dock. In the dock, white clouds emerge from the cave, the blue beach is secluded, and the gorge is injected south, which is a scenic spot of Bodhisattva Spring. In February, 1991, UNESCO came to Quanzhou for a comprehensive inspection of the Maritime Silk Road. When it came to Jiuri Mountain, experts and scholars from all over the world were full of admiration for this scenic spot, and left behind stone carvings for the inspection, which added luster to the stone inscriptions in Jiuri Mountain.