1. The free time starts from New Year's Eve 2022 (65438+1October 3 1), and the Elephant Trunk Mountain Scenic Area will be officially and fully open for free.
Xiangbishan Scenic Area is located at the intersection of taohuajiang and Lijiang River in Guilin, Guangxi. It is the city emblem of Guilin and a must-see for tourists. 20 17 CCTV Spring Festival Evening in the Year of the Rooster once set up a sub-venue in the scenic spot.
After free opening, Elephant Trunk Mountain Scenic Area will strengthen its construction, enhance its service capacity, fully promote its upgrading and development, and strive to make Elephant Trunk Mountain Scenic Area the preferred tourist destination in China, thus helping Guilin to build a world-class tourist city.
2. Introduction of scenic spots: Elephant Trunk Mountain, formerly known as Lishan Mountain, is located at the intersection of taohuajiang and Lijiang River in Guilin, Guangxi. The mountain is named after a giant elephant standing by the river, stretching its nose and drinking the sweet spring of the Lijiang River. It is called the symbol of Guilin's landscape.
Xiangshan is famous for its magic. Its magic lies in the similarity of form and spirit, and the creation of a bright moon near the water between the nose and legs, which constitutes the wonder of "Xiangshan Shuiyue". Therefore, Elephant Trunk Mountain is the symbol mountain of Guilin and the symbol mountain of Guilin tourism. It is located at the intersection of Lijiang River and taohuajiang in the center of Guilin. It looks like a giant elephant, with its nose sticking into the Lijiang River to drink water. There is a round hole with an area of about 150 square meters between its trunk and legs. The river flows through the hole like a bright moon floating. Xiangshan Shuiyue, located on the west bank, is opposite to the moon-piercing rock on the east bank of Lijiang River. One hangs in the sky and the other floats in the water, forming a strange landscape of "two moons on the Lijiang River".
3. The main scenic spot Shuiyue Cave
Between the trunk and legs of Elephant Trunk Mountain. About 6.5438+0.2 million years ago, the crust rose and the Lijiang River shrank, which accelerated the development of Shuiyue Cave and formed a transparent circular cave. Length 17m, width 9.5m, height 12m, covering an area of about 150m 2.
Chaoyang pavilion
In the Shuiyue Cave of Elephant Trunk Hill, the pavilion was built in the Song Dynasty and has long been abandoned. But as far back as 800 years ago, a back-to-back pen and ink lawsuit between two former local governors in Guangxi has always been an eternal topic for tourists here.
Xiangyanyan
Located on the north and south sides of the mountainside of Xiangbi Mountain, it is connected with each other, about 2 meters high, 5 ~ 10 meters wide and 52.8 meters long. It is rectangular and covers an area of about 274 square meters. Elephant Eye Rock was originally a short and ancient underground river, which was formed earlier than Shuiyue Cave, so it was named because it happened to be at the elephant eye. From the south pole entrance at the southern foot of Xiangshan Mountain, you can climb up the south eye along the stone steps. Out of Elephant Eye Rock, Panshan Road can reach the top of the mountain. There is a cliff in the north eye, and there is no access. Elephant Eye Rock is a pair of wonderful windows overlooking the scenery. From the left eye, the towering Lijiang Hotel is close at hand, the buildings and markets in the urban area are row upon row, and the mountain bars in half the city are vivid; Looking from the right eye, Jiang Bo sails, flickering between Zizhou, Tashan and Chuanshan. Yun Jas Pouch Lee
Garden architecture in song dynasty.
Pu Xian Tower
The Bodhisattva Tower, which stands on the top of the mountain, was built in the Ming Dynasty to worship the Bodhisattva. There are only two pagodas dedicated to bodhisattvas in China, one in Momei Mountain in Sichuan and the other in Elephant Trunk Mountain in Guilin. Pu Xian Tower follows the Lama-style solid brick tower of Tibetan culture, with a height of13.6m and a double-layer octagonal hollow block. The reason why the octagon is used is because the ancients thought that the sky was round and there were all directions. Bodhisattva had a long-cherished wish: I hope he can enlighten all beings and let Buddha shine in all directions.
Yunfeng Temple
Yunfeng Temple is not only the command post of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but also the monastery of Jian Zhen, the ancestor of Japanese Buddhism. After Jian Zhen, a monk in the Tang Dynasty, failed to cross Japan five times, he went from Fujian to Guangdong and then to Guilin, and lived in Yunfeng Temple at the foot of Elephant Trunk Mountain for more than a year. The Southern Elector of Lingnan Country 14, all state officials and election supervisors below the command system gathered in Guilin, which was taught by Master Jian Zhen at that time. A year later, monk Jian Zhen boarded a boat at Elephant Trunk Hill and went to Japan for the sixth time, which finally succeeded. The appearance of true monks in this yearbook in Guilin has become a major event in the history of Buddhism in Guilin.
pagoda
The stupa is located in the ruins of Kaiyuan Temple and was built in the Sui Dynasty. Xing Shan Temple in the Tang Dynasty and Ningshou Temple in the Song Dynasty. It is the oldest Buddhist temple in Guilin. Tower height 13.2 meters, built in Tang dynasty and rebuilt in Ming dynasty. Located in the southwest of Elephant Trunk Hill, near taohuajiang. Aquarius tower, with an umbrella-like top, five wheels and a gourd-shaped copper crown.