Ziyundong in Shanxi

Also known as Black Dragon Cave. Located in Huanghuashan, Huanghua Village, Shicheng Town, more than 70 kilometers northeast of Pingshun County. According to legend, this cave is the place where the Black Dragon lives and where people around it pray for rain to the Dragon King, so it is called the Black Dragon Cave. Because with the change of weather, purple air often flows in caves and holes, so it is also called Ziyun Cave.

This cave is located halfway up the north of Huanghua Mountain. Starting from Huanghua Village in Shicheng, you have to climb a 2.5-kilometer narrow path. The whole mountain and roadside are covered with yellow flowers, which are involved, such as in the garden. Climb to the top of the mountain and look north. The pine and cypress are dense and lush, with two holes in their eyelids. One in the east is called Baiyun Cave, and the other in the west is called Ziyun Cave. At the foot of the mountain is Shangping Township, Shexian County, Hebei Province. The hole is about 20 kilometers north of Shexian County. You can drive from the county seat to the foot of the mountain, but you need to take 1 km and climb 827 steps to get to the mouth of the cave.

To see the scenery in the cave, you must climb the mountain first. Mount Huangshan is full of flowers, the air is fresh, and when you look around, the mountains are majestic and the peaks are beautiful, which is refreshing. The cave is in the forest under the cliff, up and down the cave, among the pines and cypresses, as if swimming in the green sea. In addition to pine and cypress, there are many vicissitudes of cherry trees, wild grapes and exotic flowers and herbs around the cave, which are lush and colorful. Ziyun Cave and Baiyun Cave are located in the north and south, with a mountain ridge in the middle, 200 meters apart. Ziyun Cave is in the west. As soon as you enter the cave, it is an open space with a width of over 10 m and a height of about 4 m. Inclined upward and pushed inward, the height is 3-5m, and the lower part is less than 1 m, with a total area of about 3,000m2. There are stalactites with red, yellow and white patterns at the top of the cave. Stone bells, stone dragons, Shi Hu, stone monkeys, stone lions and stone pillars can be seen everywhere on the top and on the ground. There are various wonders such as Jinshan, Yinshan, trees, flowers and plants. Dripping water is everywhere in the cave, and pools of different sizes are everywhere on the ground. At the end of the cave, there are three dragon palaces, the main palace, the East Palace and the West Palace. There are Longtan, exquisite Phoenix Stone and Drum Stone, all of which are wonderful and fascinating.

200 meters to the east of Ziyun Cave is Baiyun Cave, and there is a clear water pool on the right side in front of the cave, 1 meter square, with clear springs gurgling and water more than 2 feet deep. On the cave in front of the cave, pines and cypresses, and the cliffs are neat. The mouth of the cave is more than 0/0 meter wide and 5 meters high. Go down the hole to a small step about 3 meters high at 1 m, then walk 2 meters, then go up the step at 1 m, and go on. There are naturally formed stalactites on the ground, which are winding and irregularly shaped into pools, dripping everywhere, standing on the stalactites, and the cat walks forward with his waist around, and the more he goes forward, the stone pillars, stone clocks and stones. Go to the place about 3 meters away from the mouth of the cave 1, there is a stone gate of 1, and 1 is 2 feet wide and can only be squatted by one person. There is also an open space of1,an east warehouse and a west warehouse, and many small holes. The total area of the whole cave is about 2500 square meters.

Legend has it that Lv Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals, was once refined into a sword of Yin and Yang in this cave. Later, the four princes and five princes of Ao Guang, the dragon king of the East China Sea, were unwilling to be lonely in the water. They went to the two caves to practice, make clouds and send rain, and spread all beings, which was admired by the world.

In the thirty-second year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong, Yang Ting, a magistrate of a county, wrote three characters "Ziyun Cave" here. In the second year of Tongzhi, Liu Ye, a magistrate of a county, donated money for restoration and erected a monument to commemorate it, which attracted tourists from past dynasties. There are four existing stone tablets, all of which are placed at the mouth of Ziyun cave.