Fenghua Xikou Town Tour Guide

Fenghua Xikou Town Tour Guide

Introduction: The language of the tour guide should have the characteristics of being reasonable, material, sentimental, and spiritual. Through language arts and techniques, three-dimensional pictures are sketched for tourists to form vivid visual images, leading tourists into a specific artistic conception, thereby achieving the purpose of cultivating sentiments.

Xikou Town is a beautiful historical and cultural town in the south of the Yangtze River in Fenghua City, Zhejiang Province. It borders Xuedou Mountain to the north, Wuling Mountain to the east, Siming Mountain to the west, and Yan River to the south. Surrounded by mountains and rivers, with green trees everywhere, fresh air and beautiful weather, it is a legendary "paradise". It has a long history and rich cultural heritage. And because Chiang Zhongzheng and Chiang Ching-kuo and his son were both born here, it is even more famous at home and abroad, attracting the attention of the world.

Xikou Town. It is on the west side of Fenghua City in the west-south direction of Ningbo, 22 kilometers away from Ningbo urban area.

At 8:00 in the morning, we set off from Ningbo City to Xikou Town. Take the expressway, go through the tunnel, and arrive at the new area of ??Xikou Town at about 9:00. The road is flat and empty, with green mountains and fields. There are no tall, contiguous rows of buildings in the new area of ??Xikou Town. The neighborhood is clean and open, with good greening, fresh air, and blue sky, which is very pleasant.

Xikou is named after the water of Yan River. "Shan River" flows through the entire town from west to east. To the east, there is an opening between Wulingtou and Xinan Mountain, where Xikou Township is located, hence the name "Xikou". Wuling stretches across the east side of the town, and the place is named after the mountain, so it is also called "Wuling". The mountains and rivers here are beautiful, and the literati and poets have searched for the secrets and beauty. The "Ten Scenes of Xikou" have been formed in ancient times, namely Kuige Lingxiao, Wuzulang Nuan, Pingsha Fangcao, Bitan Fish Watching, and Pine Forest Xiaoying , River boats at night, Jinxi Autumn Moon, Xuefeng evening photos, Pingshan snow Ji, Nanyuan early plum blossoms, etc. Especially Xuedou Mountain in the northwest has many places of interest and is a famous tourist attraction in eastern Zhejiang. In the Han Dynasty, some people praised her as "Penglai on the sea and rooftop on land".

From 9:00 to 12:00 in the morning, visit Xuedou Mountain Scenic Area - Xuedou Mountain, Xuedou Temple; Zhang Xueliang's Retreat; Miaogao Terrace (Chiang Zhongzheng's Villa); Qianzhang Rock (Qianzhangyan) Rock Waterfall) and Chiang Kai-shek Cemetery, etc.

Xuedou Mountain.

According to reports, Xuedou Mountain has a warm and humid climate, four distinct seasons, green peaks and cold waterfalls, and a variety of weather conditions. Emperor Renzong of the Southern Song Dynasty once visited this mountain in his sleep. When he woke up, he didn't know its name, so he became famous among painters all over the world for his paintings of famous mountains. Xuedou Mountain's "double flow of magic, beautiful pearls and beautiful trees" and "tacit understanding of the Sacred Heart" immediately identified it as the sacred mountain he visited in his dream. Emperor Lizong of the Southern Song Dynasty adhered to the late emperor's will and gave it to him in the book "Yingmeng Mingshan", which made Xuedou Mountain famous. Literati and scholars came in an endless stream to explore the scenic spots and chant endlessly, leaving behind a large number of popular hymns. When Chiang Kai-shek was young, he "began to go up Xuedou Mountain and fell in love with the Miaogao Peak when he saw it." In the 16th year of the Republic of China, he "built a villa on the site" and inscribed the name "Miaigaotai" on his doorstep. The national hero General Zhang Xueliang was once under house arrest in the old China Travel Agency in Xuedou Mountain. He was so impressed by the scenery of Xuedou Mountain that he never wanted to return. The Xuedou Temple in Xuedou Mountain has a long history. As early as the Jin Dynasty, there were monks and nuns who settled on the top of the mountain to worship Buddhism. It was named "Guanyin Waterfall Temple". It was gradually expanded and reached its peak in the Tang and Song Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, it was called "The World". "One of the Ten Temples of Zen Buddhism" is the dojo of Maitreya Buddha, the "future Buddha" recognized by the Buddhist community, and is also one of the "Five Famous Buddhist Mountains in China".

Xuedou Mountain Scenic Area is about 20 miles away from Xikou Town. Looking at the general scenery of Xuedou Mountain, the mountains are rolling and gentle, and the trees are many broad-leaved species and pines and cypresses. Although they are not tall and dense, they cover all the mountains and valleys. The not-so-wide asphalt road winds up, sometimes gently and sometimes with sharp bends. The car drove all the way to Xuedou Temple, and everyone got off the car and started touring.

Xuedou Temple.

Xuedou Temple is surrounded by mountains on three sides and is the center of Xuedou Mountain Scenic Area. It has a long history and is famous at home and abroad. According to the "Four Famous Mountains" entry in the "Buddhist Dictionary" published in the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934): "Recently, there are advocates who add the Huaxue Dou Maitreya Dojo as the Five Famous Mountains in addition to the Four Famous Mountains." And Maitreya Buddha The prototype of Budai Monk Qi was born in Fenghua and became a monk at Houlin Temple in Fenghua. After his death, he was buried in the Zhongta Zen Temple in Fengshan (now Jinping Mountain) in the north of the city. In April 1986, the magnificent Main Hall was rebuilt in 1988. On October 21, Zhao Puchu, president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, came to inspect the temple and suggested that Xuedou Temple be built into a unique Maitreya dojo. On June 13, 1990, the Maitreya Hall was built on the site of the original Tianwang Hall, and it will be rebuilt. The most famous couplet of Xuedou Temple is "A smile is always open to laugh at the ridiculous people in the world; a big belly can tolerate things that are difficult to tolerate in the world."

< p> There is a Hanzhu Forest in front of Xuedou Temple. It is said that the Hanzhu Forest is the cemetery of Huang Chao, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Tang Dynasty. To kill my uncle is to kill a generation who looks similar to the nest. If I escape from the nest, I will become a monk. Later, he lived in Xuedou Mountain in Siming, that is, Zen Master Xuedou." This is what the later generations' poem "Ode to the Tomb of Huangchao" said: "Thirty years ago, the grass was flying, and the iron robes were all worn by the monks."

< p> The main gate of Xuedou Temple is double-story and surrounded by yellow walls. The temple is undergoing large-scale expansion and renovation, but the huge open-air Maitreya Buddha has been installed on the high slope of the courtyard.

Looking from a distance, it looks magnificent and peaceful. It adds to the solemnity and sanctity of Xuedou Temple.

To the west of Xuedou Temple is the (old) China Travel Service, the confinement place of General Zhang Xueliang.

China Travel Service Hotel has a construction area of ??438 square meters. It was completed and opened in June 1934 and is under the jurisdiction of Shanghai China Travel Service Hotel. It is an independent large tile-roofed house divided into living room, bedroom, study and other rooms. There are courtyard walls around it. After the "Xi'an Incident", Chiang Kai-shek returned to Xikou to recover from his injuries, and General Zhang Xueliang was imprisoned in the China Travel Service. In January 1937, the house was rented by the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government and was called "Mr. Zhang Xueliang's Guest House". Various rooms - living room, bedroom, study, etc. display Zhang Xueliang's supplies, achievements and photos at that time. Entering the gate is the black bronze statue of General Zhang Xueliang in military uniform. The courtyard is paved with stone paths, surrounded by flowers, plants and trees; there is also a white statue of Miss Zhao Si (Zhao Yidi). When Zhang Xueliang was depressed, he practiced target shooting, fired cannons, planted flowers, and planted trees. He planted purple magnolia and French plane trees on Shuijian Rock in Xuedou Mountain, and planted four nanmu trees in Xuedou Temple. After they grew, the only two remaining ones were Local people gave him the nickname "Jiangjun Nan".

Miaogao Terrace (Chiang Kai-shek’s villa).

Going up a mountain road from China Travel Service, where General Zhang Xueliang was imprisoned, at the place where the huge stone monument was erected in the "National Key Scenic Area, , there is a weather like that of thousands of mountains. It is known as "Miaigaotai", also known as "Miaofeng Peak", or "Tianzhu Peak". There are towering ancient trees on the top, bottom and surrounding mountains. Three sides of the top of the mountain face an abyss and steep cliffs; one side faces a gentle slope. Chiang Kai-shek's villa was built on the top of Guding.

According to the sixth volume of the "Wuling Chiang Family Genealogy" revised in 1948, Chiang Zhongzheng "began to go to Xuedou Mountain when he was 8 years old and fell in love with it when he saw the wonderful peaks." Jiang Gong built a villa on this site" and inscribed his door with "Miaigaotai". The main door is a two-story eaves hall style. The villa is a Chinese-style building. In the middle is the three-bay, two-story main house with a patio in front. There is a bungalow on each side of the gate, with a balcony on top and a cement corridor connected to the main room. There are three more bungalows behind the main building. It is surrounded by walls to form a courtyard with a construction area of ??436 square meters. Above the main door on the second floor of the main building is a door inscribed with "Miaigaotai" in Chiang Kai-shek's handwriting, which is still hanging in front of the building. The main building on the second floor is where Chiang Zhongzheng lived and worked - bedrooms, reception rooms, confidential rooms, etc. Each room displays the supplies used by Chiang Kai-shek when he lived here, as well as some documents. There is a stone pagoda in the middle of the patio, which is the pagoda of Monk Shi Qi, the abbot of Xuedou Temple in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Because Chiang Kai-shek respected him very much, he would worship him every time he came here.

Outside the gate of the villa is a terrace, about 350 square meters. There are steep stone walls on three sides of the platform, and the deep valley is unpredictable, making you feel like you are flying in the sky. There is a protruding rock on the edge of the cliff on the platform. It is square and smooth and can accommodate one person sitting down. It is called "suspended sitting stone".

In front of the platform, you can see a vast water surface surrounded by mountains. A lake within a mountain, a mountain within a lake. The lake is calm and shining, and the mountains are covered with green trees, which is very beautiful. Looking down from the center of this platform, you can see only the platform but no peak. Looking up from the bottom of the mountain, you can only see the peak but not the platform. It is a unique scenic spot in Xuedou Mountain. There are two small pavilions high on the edge of the platform. There are couplets on each wooden pillar of the small pavilion. One picture is: The cliff is a thousand miles away and it is time to rein in the horse, and the nine pillars on the strange peak are waiting for the bird to rest. One picture is: a horse with clear light on a hundred ridges is waiting for the Buddha, and a tiger in the deep rock is listening to the scriptures. It is 396 meters above sea level, has a cool climate, is surrounded by pines, camphors and green bamboos to block the sun, and the rocks at the foot are jagged and jagged, making it an ideal summer resort. When Jiang Zhongzheng lived here, he often walked and rested on this terrace.

Qianzhang Rock. Qianzhangyan Waterfall.

After visiting Miaogaotai, take another stone path down to see Qianzhang Rock and waterfall. Ganzhangyan is about 500 meters away from Miaogaotai. Passing through Ruquan Pavilion, Guiyun Pavilion and Feixue Pavilion, we came to Qianzhangyan Waterfall Entrance. I saw two peaks sandwiched by stone walls, going straight up and down. The left side was connected to form a concave cliff mouth, and the right side opened into a broad valley. Although the so-called "Qianzhang" is an exaggeration, there is still a drop of 186 meters. It's scary to look up at the cliff. After the water from the two streams gathers, it passes through the Guanshan Bridge to the concave cliff mouth, and then pours down into the sky to form Qianzhangyan Waterfall. The waterfall has a height of 128 meters. The waterfall is famous in the south of the Yangtze River for its majestic beauty. Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty once gave it the name "Dongzhe Waterfall". Halfway up the waterfall, it collides with a protruding boulder, which sprinkles like flying snow, dividing the waterfall into upper and lower parts. The upper layer is like five dragons flying in the sky, and the lower layer is like a bead curtain hanging to the ground. When the sun shines, a seven-color rainbow appears. There are many natural waterfalls in various places. It is unique and will surprise the viewers. There are two angles to view Qianzhangyan Waterfall: one is opposite the cliff mouth, where the ancients built the "Flying Snow Pavilion" for people to sit and watch; the second is at the bottom of the waterfall valley, where the ancients built the "Yangzhi Bridge" and "Wulei Pavilion" for people to look up at. . On one side of the "Feixue Pavilion" where you watch the waterfall, there is a stone statue of Wang Anshi. The stone wall on one side of the statue is engraved with Wang Anshi's poem about watching rocks and waterfalls.

Not far from Qianzhangyan (waterfall), you will reach the entrance gate of Qianzhangyan Scenic Area. The gate is a hall-style tiled house with cornices. "The First Waterfall in Eastern Zhejiang" is written across the door beam inside the gate; "Qian Zhangyan" is written across the door beam outside the gate. Rows of stone tables were erected in front of the door. Behind the stone table is a small lake. We walked around the small lake from the gate and returned to Xuedou Temple. Return to Xikou Town from Xuedou Temple. Take a short break at the Bai Village Committee in the town of Xikou, and then visit the "Chiang Mother Cemetery" next to the village committee.

Chiang’s Mother Cemetery.

Chiang’s mother’s cemetery is built in the middle ridge of Yulinao in Baiyan Mountain. It includes landscapes such as the passage to Chiang's mother's tomb, the sedan pavilion, the filial piety pavilion, Ci'an and Chiang's mother's tomb.

The passage to Chiang’s mother’s tomb mainly includes the stone archway, the sedan chair pavilion, the filial piety pavilion, the tomb hut (Ci’an), etc., all the way to the tomb. The stone archway has three gates, the middle gate and the left and right gates. Because the middle door of the stone archway is engraved with the four characters "Chiang Mother's Tomb Path", the passage from the entrance stone archway to the tomb is collectively called "Chiang Mother's Tomb Path". From the stone archway to the tomb, the entire tomb passage is built according to the mountain. It is a pebble road about 8 meters wide, sandwiched in a tall and dense pine forest.

About 300 meters after entering the stone archway, there is a pavilion that spans the road, shaped like an ancient scholar's square scarf hat. It is said that every time Chiang Kai-shek returned to his hometown to worship his mother or sweep his tomb, he would get off the sedan chair and walk up here. It is called the "lower sedan pavilion". The lower sedan chair is the entrance and exit of the cemetery. The horizontal plaque is written by Shu Tong with the four characters "Mother of Chiang Kai-shek". The wooden pillars on both sides are couplets inscribed by Li Zongren: Shude Houfu Ke is of high age, Wei Zitong Guan Yongshi ritual style.

Go up past the Sedan Pavilion and pass the Xiaozi Pavilion, about 200 meters away. On the way, there is a tomb with 12 bungalows - Ci'an. .

Tomb Cottage (Ci'an) was built in 1923 and rebuilt in 1930, becoming the current 11 consecutive row houses. There are four stone tablets in the main room (main hall) of the tomb. Facing the main entrance is Sun Yat-sen's "Essays on Commemorating Mrs. Chiang", written by Tan Yanyan (Tan was the commander of the Second Army of the National Revolutionary Army during the Northern Expedition). On the back is "Mrs. Chiang" written by Mr. Yu Youren and dictated by Chiang Zhongzheng. "Personnel Affairs Brief"; on the left and right sides are the steles of "Crying for the Mother" by Chiang Kai-shek and the "Comments to Commander-in-Chief" by the Central Executive Committee of the National Government; there is also a stone tablet of "Portrait of Old Aunt Chiang", which is written by Wang Jingwei (Wang Zhaoming) The word of the title. On the right side of the main hall is the hut where Chiang Kai-shek lived when he was sweeping his tomb. A two-room suite on the left is where Chiang Kai-shek visited his hometown to visit his grave or rest in the fields. After the Xi'an Incident in December 1936, he recuperated here for more than 110 days. (See "Crying Mother Essay" in another article).

From Tomb Cottage (Ci’an), we go up 168 meters of stone steps to reach the tomb of Chiang’s mother. Chiang's mother's tomb is located halfway up the mountain, surrounded by towering ancient trees and thick shade blocking out the sun. It is said to be the "Maitreya Buddha's belly button" and "golden section" geomantic treasures that have been repeatedly measured by Feng Shui masters and modern experts.

Chiang’s mother died on June 14, 1921. This tomb is surrounded by stones and is not very tall and spectacular. On the top of the fan-shaped earth-blocking stone wall in front of the tomb is engraved with the four characters "Hu Fan Zu Shi", which means a role model for girls. (Here the word "kettle" is not "kettle", but the character "kettle" drawn horizontally under the treasure cover, pronounced Kun. The word "kettle" could not be found when typing, so the word "kettle" was used instead). Below is a tombstone embedded in the earth-blocking stone wall. The tombstones are in horizontal rows. It is engraved with the four characters "Mother Chiang's Tomb" personally inscribed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. On both sides are the couplets written by Chiang Kai-shek: "If disaster harms the virtuous and kind, it is too late to regret being stubborn; if you are a treacherous son, you will be filled with hatred and regret for the rest of your life." There is a picture of wind bamboo engraved on the worship platform in front of the tomb, indicating that the woman's tomb was born in Gezhu Village. The tomb faces north, facing the tomb of Chiang Kai-shek's father (Taokeng Mountain). Chiang Kai-shek's parents were not buried together. The reason is that Jiang's mother was the second wife of his father's third wife, and when the monument was erected after his father's death, Wang's name could no longer be engraved on it. But there is a hole left in the tombs of Jiang's father and Jiang's mother. According to reports, the tomb of Jiang Zhongzheng’s father is located on Taokeng Mountain north of Houma Road in Xikou. There are couplets on the "bietou columns" on both sides. The first line is "Embrace of Wuling Mountain" and the second line is "Shan River flows forever". Next to Chiang's mother's tomb, there are two pools, one square and one round, called the "Fangyuan Pool". It means that when doing things, you should be round on the outside and square on the inside, or the circle and the square should complement each other (wisdom of the circle and practice of the square is the highest state of a gentleman's behavior).

12:00, have lunch at Shengxinglong Hotel. At 1:00 pm, we started to visit the scenery of Xikou Ancient Town - Wuling Gate (Wenchang Pavilion, small bungalows), ancient streets, scenery of Yanxi River, the former residence of Chiang Kai-shek (Fenghao Fang, Yutai Salt Shop), etc.

On the road to the ancient town, there is a "Wushan Temple". There is a stone tablet on one side of the gate, which reads "Former Residence of Chiang Kai-shek" and is mounted on the wall.

Not far ahead is Wuling (Wuling Gate). Wushan is Wuling.

Wuling.

Wuling is a mountain range that stretches across the east end of the ancient town. It is a barrier of the ancient town.

Wulingmen is the only way in and out of Xikou Ancient Town and the gateway to Xikou Ancient Town. It is said that before 1929, it was a small nunnery with a tea pavilion nearby for people to rest. In 1929, Chiang Kai-shek renovated this place into a three-room, two-story stone gate-style building. There are two words "Wuling" above the forehead of the inner and outer doors. The outside is written by Mr. Yu Youren, a veteran of the National Government; the inside is written by Chiang Kai-shek himself. The reason why this place was named "Wuling" was that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to show his respect for his predecessors. After passing through the majestic Wuling Gate, the main street of Xikou Ancient Town suddenly opens up. We first visited Wenchang Pavilion and small bungalows.

Wenchang Pavilion.

When entering Wuling Gate, there is Wenchang Pavilion on the left and Wuling Middle School on the right. Wenchang Pavilion is one of the "Ten Scenic Spots of Xikou" in ancient times. Because it is located high at the southern end of Wuling Mountains, it is also known as "Kui Pavilion", so this scene is called "Kui Pavilion Lingxiao". The original Wenchang Pavilion was built in the ninth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1731 AD). In 1924, when Chiang Kai-shek returned to his hometown from Guangdong to visit his tomb, he saw that his couplet building was tilted, so he asked his brother Chiang Kai-ching to call in migrant workers to rebuild it. By the next year, it was a two-story building with cornices and corners, with a construction area of ??500 square meters. On the day of completion, Chiang Kai-shek renamed it "Le Ting" and wrote "Le Ting Ji" to describe its success. (See another article for "Le Ting Ji").

But people in Xikou still call it "Wenchang Pavilion".

After reconstruction, Wenchang Pavilion became Chiang Kai-shek’s private villa and library. After the marriage between Chiang Kai-shek and Song Dynasty in 1927, he often brought Soong Meiling here to stay. After the Xi'an Incident in 1936, Zhang Xueliang sent Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing, where he was "strictly controlled" by the Military Commission and sent to Xikou for confinement. The first place to stay is Wenchang Pavilion. On December 12, 1939, six Japanese invaders bombed Xikou, razing Wenchang Pavilion to the ground and turning it into ruins. In 1987, the government allocated funds to rebuild it according to its original appearance, with carved beams and painted buildings, making it more elegant than the old one.

Wenchang Pavilion is a two-story hall-style building. The first floor is the exhibition room (originally the reception room). There are several paintings by Soong Meiling hanging on the wall. The second floor is Jiang Song's bedroom. Their daily necessities from that year are displayed. Wenchang Pavilion is located on the back of the mountain and faces the Yan River to the south. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the environment is very elegant. Standing on the pavilion, looking far and near, you can see the mountains and fields are green, the streams are flowing slowly, and the world is wide, which makes you feel relaxed.

At the foot of Wenchang Pavilion, there is a stone tablet of "Spring Dawn in Leting".

Small bungalow.

Coming down the left side of Wenchang Pavilion, there is a small two-story bungalow with three rooms. This is the small bungalow where Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo lived. The small bungalow and Wenchang Pavilion are connected by an empty bridge, and the two places are basically integrated into one. The small bungalow was built in 1930. Because the materials used at that time, lime and cement, were called "cement", and because the house model was built according to Western (modern) housing design, it was called "small bungalow". The house is backed by Wushan Mountain and faces the Yan River. It has beautiful scenery and a quiet environment. In 1937, Chiang Ching-kuo returned from studying in the Soviet Union and his family of three lived here. The supplies in each room are displayed as before. There is a stone tablet in the house with the four words "wash blood with blood" engraved in Chiang Ching-kuo's handwriting. This was established by Chiang Ching-kuo for his mother Mao Fumei, who was killed by a Japanese plane.

Go down to the Wenchang Pavilion and the small bungalow to the foot of the mountain. At the "Kui Pavilion Lingxiao" stone monument, two people playing Chiang Kai-shek are here to greet tourists and take pictures with them. There is a fee of 5 yuan each time. One is wearing a Chinese-style robe and has a bald head, either sitting on a wicker chair or standing, holding a paper fan; the other is wearing a military uniform and a secretary in military uniform, standing. Very fun. Some tourists actually had to take photos with them.

From here, walk 100 meters along Yanxi Street to the ancient town street and "Chiang's Former Residence".

The style of Xikou ancient town. The main street of the ancient town is built along the Yan River, and the Sanli Long Street (i.e. Wuling Road Pedestrian Street) is paved with bluestone. The surrounding mountains are undulating and the trees are green. Shan River flows from west to east. Both sides of the bank are stone-lined, and the stream is clear, gentle and shining. The street is wide and neat, and there are many local miscellaneous shops in the architectural style of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The streets are clean, the trees are lush, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the sky and the earth are open, and the air is fresh and refreshing. It really has the flavor of "Peach Blossom Land". Chiang's birthplace, former residence and villa, ancestral tombs, ancestral halls, family nunneries and other relics are scattered in the streets of this ancient town on the banks of the Shan River. Among them, the "Small Bungalow", "Yutai Salt Shop" and "Fenghao House" are national key cultural relics protection units.

Shan River. According to reports, the Jiuqu Yan River at the mouth of the river is clear and clear, and flows eastward. Not far to the west, Tingxia Lake (artificial lake) is like a mirror embedded in the mountains. The towering dam stands between Baqu Gao'ao and Tingxia Village. The natural scenery in the lake is beautiful, with strange peaks, deep valleys, mountains and water colors forming many lake and mountain landscapes with their own leisure and interest. Tingxia Lake has fresh air, excellent water quality, and is rich in fishery products, fruits, and mountain and forest resources. Visitors can go boating on the lake, fish, have picnics, and sleep outdoors. There are many waterfalls at the source of the lake, including the spectacular "Xufuyan Waterfall", "Qianzhangyan Waterfall", and the loving "Yuanyang Waterfall" of Sanyintan. A section of the Yan River in front of the main street of the ancient town has smooth and crystal clear water; the trees on both sides are lush and green. Because of the Yan River, although the main street of the ancient town is surrounded by mountains, it looks particularly open and high. We only saw the scenery of the Yanxi River on Guzhen Street, and did not take into account other scenery.

Fenghao room.

This is the most important attraction in Xikou - Fenghao Fang, the former residence of Chiang Kai-shek. In November 1996, the State Council announced that Chiang Kai-shek's former residence was a national key cultural relic protection unit.

Fenghaofang, the former residence of Chiang Kai-shek, is located in Xia Street, Xikou Ancient Town. Fenghao Fang originally had six ancestral houses of Chiang Kai-shek. In 1928, Chiang Kai-shek expanded his former residence and developed it into its current size covering an area of ??4,800 square meters and a building area of ??1,850 square meters. The entrance leads to a patio. The entire main building has a traditional front hall, nave, two wings and four corridors layout. The buildings and pavilions are dependent on each other, the verandas are looped around, and the ink pillars and ocher walls are magnificent. The word "Suju" is written across the forehead of the front hall. There are three gardens on the front hall and on the left and right, connected by the moon cave door. In the patio, there are one gold and one silver osmanthus tree, which were planted by Song Meiling herself. On both sides are the east and west wing rooms, with Soong Meiling living in the east and Mao Fumei (Chiang Zhongzheng's first wife) living in the west. The halls and verandas are covered with carvings and paintings. The middle hall is called "Baoben Hall", and the plaque is written by Wu Jingheng. This is the place where the Jiang family worships their ancestors and worships heaven and earth. There are memorial tablets for four generations of the Jiang family. There is a plaque on the corridor outside the hall door, which reads "reasonable and handsome". It was written by Chiang Kai-shek for his son Chiang Ching-kuo's 40th birthday to encourage him to inherit his father's legacy, convince the people with reason, and command all things. The couplets on both sides of the hall door were written by Chiang Kai-shek himself: "Repaying one's relatives is the most important virtue. A prosperous future requires filial sons and obedience to their grandchildren." "Baobentang" is the center of the entire building of Fenghaofang. There are two historical paintings on the walls at both ends of the corridor, which not only reflect the owner's interest in these historical themes and the wish for prosperity and good fortune, but also reflect the superb attainments of our country's folk art.

To the west of Baoben Hall is the west bungalow of Chiang Kai-shek's former residence and the former residence of Chiang Kai-shek's mother, Wang Caiyu. The old residence was a two-story building with a Chinese-style brick and wood structure. In the middle of the second floor is Wang Caiyu's bedroom. The staircase in this house is special, only as wide as one person. There are multiple stairs in this building, which is said to be connected with Feng Shui. According to reports, Fenghao House was the property of Chiang Zhongzheng. On April 27, 1910, Chiang Ching-kuo was born in Fenghaofang. Fenghao Fang was also the place where Mao Fumei, the first wife of Chiang Kai-shek and the mother of Chiang Ching-kuo, died.

Yutai Salt Shop.

Yutai Salt Shop is the birthplace of Chiang Kai-shek and is located at the entrance of Jinchang Lane, Middle Street, Xikou. The gate has a stone frame and the word "Qinglu" is written on the forehead. The lower part of the left frame in front of the door is inlaid with a stone tablet inscribed by Chiang Kai-shek "Original Site of Yutai Salt Shop". Jiang Zhongzheng's grandfather Si Qian and father Zhao Cong once dealt in grain, salt, wine and miscellaneous goods here. The entire salt shop in front of the shops and the houses behind are all arranged as they were. According to the Jiang family genealogy record, Jiang Zhongzheng was born on the second floor of the rear house on September 15, the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. The furnishings in the current room are still as they were at that time. According to reports, Yutai Salt Shop was a family property assigned to Chiang Kai-shek, the brother of Chiang Kai-shek.

After visiting the Yutai Salt Shop, the trip to Xikou Ancient Town comes to an end.

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