Jiao Shan is one of the "Three Mountains in Jingkou", which is famous for its natural scenery, simplicity and elegance. It is located in the northeast of the city, standing in the center of the Yangtze River, facing Jiajiang and Xiangshan across the river. The mountain is 7 1 m high and more than 2000 meters in circumference. It was named after Jiao Guang's seclusion in the mountains in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Blue waves, lush trees, lush green grass, surrounded by green hills, jasper floating on the river, is the only tourist island surrounded by water in the Yangtze River. "Wan Chuan East Note, One Island Neutral", known as the "water park" in the south of the Yangtze River. Being there, it really feels like a mainstay, just like being in Putuo Xiandao, winning the admiration of Chinese and foreign tourists.

One of the reasons why Jiao Shan enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad is that Jiao Shan stands tall in the middle of the river and is still a "mainstay" and a magnificent "stone of Zhenjiang". In addition, the temples are faint, the trees are lush, the waters are vast and the environment is beautiful, just like the fairy island on earth in the water. Secondly, because there are many precious cultural relics and famous historical sites in Jiaoshan Mountain, Cliff Stone Carvings are world-famous, and there are as many stone tablets as Mo Bao, which is the largest forest of steles in the south of the Yangtze River, second only to the ancient capital Xi 'an. Among them, the stele "CuO He Ming", known as the "king of steles", is a rare treasure. The beauty of brushwork is the "crown of calligraphers", which is rich in precious historical materials and artistic value of calligraphy, so it is called "Calligraphy Mountain". The third is the pavilions of Jiaoshan Duochan Temple. There are more than a dozen temples such as Dinghui Temple, Bifeng Temple, Nature Temple, Yufeng Temple, Xianglin Temple and Haiyun Temple. There is a poem in Zheng Banqiao that says, "There are fifteen quiet rooms in Mount Jiao, and every family has a bamboo fence ..." Every temple is famous for its monks, who are good at poetry, music, chess, calligraphy and painting. In the Qing Dynasty, the Zen monk was a few valleys, and the static monk was a famous painter. Hezhou is an expert in rubbings and enjoys a good reputation for a while. Zheng Banqiao, Liu Yazi, Kang Youwei and others all studied in Jiao Shan. Jiao Shan also runs a Buddhist college, where many disciples come to be ordained. Therefore, Jiao Shan is called the "cultural mountain". Pavilions and pavilions include Huayan Pavilion, Guanlan Pavilion, Wenchang Pavilion, Jijiang Building, Dongsheng Building, Yubei Pavilion, Huai Ying Bookstore, Huangyelou, Qianlong Palace, Fuyuzhai, Loquat Orchard, Butterfly Hall, etc., which are dotted with mountains and rivers and add gorgeous colors to the natural landscape. Therefore, the ancients also called Jiao Shan Sixteen Scenes: Huayan Moonlight, Ding Hui Chao Sheng, Songying Mountain Gate, Huaiyin Temple, Haiyun Mo Bao, Stone Inscription House, West Coast Vision, Xinlin at the East Foot, Jiangting Ritual Buddha, Cave Seeking Immortality, Nature Asking, Seclusion, Dangerous Building Watching the Sun, Fragrant Trees, Fragrant Forest Garden and Biefeng Pear Garden. Therefore, Zhao Puchu, chairman of the Chinese Buddhist Association, wrote the word "endless hiding" here, which is intriguing. Japanese elder Morimoto said wistfully, "Cape Mountain is my second hometown".

Jiao Shan's temples, pavilions and other places of interest are quite distinctive, and most of them are hidden in the mountains, so there is a proverb of "Shanbao Temple". Jiao Shan is different from Jinshan, Jiao Shan is tall and majestic, and Jinshan is small and exquisite; Aoshan wins with green bamboo and wood, and Jinshan competes for its strength with brilliant tower temple architecture. Since ancient times, there have been popular folk sayings that "the mountain is wrapped in a temple" and "the temple is wrapped in a mountain" in Jinshan.

Jiao Shan also has the precious Four Classics. The ancient temple (Dinghui Temple) was built in the Ming Dynasty, and the main building was a blue tile column, which was very simple. Most of the ancient trees (cypress in the Six Dynasties, Sophora japonica in the Song Dynasty and Ginkgo biloba in the Ming Dynasty) have strange shapes. They are scattered in front of and behind the temple on the hillside near the water, adding a quiet and lush color to the mountain temple, which is very suitable for tourists to have a rest. In addition, there are ancient inscriptions and cliff carvings, all of which are world-famous.

Mount Jiao stands among the great rivers and has been a military stronghold since ancient times. The history of Runzhou in Tang Dynasty was confused with that of Zhenjiang. More than 30 ships and warships were built, and more than 5,000 naval officers and men were trained on the river. In February of the first year of Dezhe in the Southern Song Dynasty, after the Yuan Army captured Zhenjiang, Zhang Shijie, the general of Song Hangyuan, led a large number of warships to fight against the Yuan Navy in Jiao Shan in July of the same year, showing the heroic struggle of "chartering a port in Jiaopu, and the rise and fall of the Song Dynasty were stuck in the beach". Han Shizhong, an anti-Jin hero in the Southern Song Dynasty, led thousands of officers and men to station in Jiao Shan to fight against Jin Bing, which became a historical story and spread in Britain for several generations. In the fourth year of Zheng De in Ming Dynasty (15 19), on July 16th, due to the rebellion in Wang Ning, Jiangxi Province, Yu Conglan personally led sailors from Jianghuai area to conduct exercises on Bashan River. In July of the 22nd year of Qing Daoguang (1842), the Emperor launched the Yangtze River invasion campaign. When British warships invaded the Yangtze River, thousands of Qingzhou soldiers and flag soldiers guarding Jiao Shan, under the leadership of Hailing, deputy commander-in-chief, bravely resisted and dealt a heavy blow to the British army, writing a glorious page in the history of modern anti-imperialist struggle.

The towering peaks, deep natural moats, rugged rocks, beautiful flowers and fragrant colors left a deep impression on people. Every autumn, brilliant red maple and blooming chrysanthemums attract tourists from all over the world, winning the poet "Jiao Shan is full of autumn, but its leaves are different. Frost and maple bloom in spring, and the ancient temple shows a new look. 1953 Jiao Shan Park was newly built by the Bureau of Landscape Architecture at the foot of the mountain. There are rockeries, ponds, curved bridges, pavilions, greenhouses, orchards, nurseries, chrysanthemum altars, pine trails, bamboo forests and other beautification bases in the park, making Jiao Shan more beautiful, vibrant and lush. Sailing boats are added to the river, dragon boat races are held, Sai Ren is contending, soaring in the sky, famous fish jump into the water, handsome storks float in the air, and wild geese float on the river, which is beautiful.

The steep cliffs of Mount Ao, towering in the blue sea, are indeed the "pillars" of heroism. With its beautiful scenery, magnificent temples, pavilions, thousand-year-old trees, cliff stone carvings and forest of steles in Mo Bao, it has won tourists from all over the world for sightseeing and entertainment. Dinghui Temple (Jiaoshan Temple) was founded in Xingping period of Eastern Han Dynasty, with a history of 1800 years. Formerly known as Fossett, it was called Fusaiji in the Song Dynasty and Jiaoshan Temple in the Yuan Dynasty. It was renamed Dinghui Temple during Kangxi's southern tour of Jiao Shan in Qing Dynasty, and it has been in use ever since. The word "fixed wisdom" is taken from Buddhism's "life is determined by precepts", because of the combination of fixed wisdom and silent photography, it is deliberately equal wisdom. "Ding" means to get rid of all selfish and distracting thoughts and to be highly concentrated; "Wisdom" is to increase wisdom through three ways: smell, think and act. The word "Ding Hui" is the program of Buddhist practice, which shows that the word "Ding Hui" is quite meaningful. Dinghui Temple is very large. Ming Dynasty was its heyday, with 98 temples, 3,000 monks and tens of thousands of monks participating in meditation. In addition, there are 18 temples on both sides of Dinghui Temple, which are called "eighteen temples". Therefore, it occupies a prominent position in Zen temples of Buddhism and is a famous ancient temple in China. It was once known as the "Ten Jungles" and "Ancestral Families of Past Dynasties".

Jiao Shan tourist route

Bubo Pavilion ━ ━ Dinghui Temple ━ ━ Cold Winter Spring ━ ━ Yubei Pavilion ━ ━ Guanlan Pavilion ━ ━ Baomoxuan ━ ━ Jiaoshan Castle ━ ━ Huayan Pavilion ━ ━ ━ Cliff Stone Carvings ━ ━ ━ 9

Buboting

It is the abbreviation of "Haibu Bai Yang" Pavilion and the mountain gate of Dinghui Temple.

From the ferry at the foot of Xiangshan, which confronts Jiao Shan on the edge of the Yangtze River, you can set foot on the Green Island-Jiao Shan in less than five minutes. Facing Jiaoshanmen, a pair of stone lions guard the gate with red lacquer paintings. Hanging around the door is a couplet written by Liao Lun of Bazhou in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, which looks simple and elegant. Entering the gate, facing the wall are four characters of couplets, written by Hu Maozong, a calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty, which means that Jiao Shan stands in the middle of the river like a stone in Zhenhai, expelling the water demon, so the sea does not attract waves. In Buddhism, "the sea waves will not disperse" means to clean the world.

Dinghui Temple

From the pavilion of Haibu Bai Yang to the east, I saw a thousand-year-old temple, namely Dinghui Temple, which was located under an 800-year-old ginkgo tree. The wall is embedded with four characters of "Heng Hai Da Hang" and hung with a banner of "Dinghui Temple".

Dinghui Temple, formerly known as Fusaiji, was built in Xingping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, more than 1,700 years ago. Ji Laishan, a disciple of Master Xuanzang in the Tang Dynasty and a magic weapon, founded the Daxiong Hall, which was renamed Fusaiji in the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, it was renamed Jiaoshan Temple, which was later destroyed by fire. During the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, monks began to rebuild. In the Qing Dynasty, when Kangxi visited Jiao Shan in the south, the name of the temple was changed to Dinghui Temple, which still maintains the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty. The roof of the hall carved with dragons and painted with phoenixes is made of small pieces of fast wood without nails. The design is beautiful, with cornices and arches This kind of art is rare in China. Coupled with the three resplendent and magnificent giant buddhas in the hall, the hall is even more resplendent and magnificent. The word "Xianglinsao" written by Emperor Kangxi flickered in the candlelight mist. The statues of Sakyamuni, Ye Jia and Ananda in the middle are lifelike, with dozens of new plastic arhats on both sides, exquisite ever-burning lamps hanging high in the air, cigarettes lingering in the copper furnace, and the whole hall looks solemn and solemn, and the ancient temple is ethereal. There are two ginkgo trees in front of the temple for more than 400 years.

Cold winter spring

In the courtyard of the former Haiyuntang Hall on the west side of the Ursa Major Hall, there is a well called Lengdong Spring. According to legend, it is the place where Jiaoguang alchemy takes water, also known as an alchemy well. In fact, this place is not a spring, but a well dug by a monk in Jiao Shan, imitating the Zhongling Spring in Jinshan. Because Jiao Shan is in the east of Jinshan, it is called "Spring in Cold Winter". Monks in Jinshan and Jiaoer Mountain used to compete with each other and imitate each other. Jinshan Temple has the jade belt of Su Dongpo, and Jiaoshan Temple has the jade belt of Yang Yiqing. Jiao Shan has a river-sucking pavilion, and Jinshan also imitates the sea pavilion. The excavation of Lengdong Spring is the result of their struggle for victory.

Yubeiting

In front of the Tianwang Hall of Dinghui Temple is an ancient square pavilion with wooden structure covered with glazed tiles. There is a stone tablet in the pavilion. The inscription above is "Song of Youjiao Mountain" written by Emperor Qianlong during his first southern tour, and the back is "Song of Youjiao Mountain" written by Emperor Qianlong during his third visit to Jiaoshan. Because it was the emperor who carved the tablet and built the pavilion in calligraphy, it was called "Imperial Tablet Pavilion". In the poem, Gan Long compares the scenery of Jinshan and Jiao Shan, and thinks that Jiao Shan is better than Jinshan in terms of its natural landscape. Its words say:

Jinshan is like Xie an, and the spring breeze is drunk in the Han family;

Jiao Shan is like Xi, lying on the east bed with an empty stomach;

This is difficult for my brother, but it is difficult for my brother.

If we talk about the true colors of mountains and rivers, I mean it doesn't exist;

……

Guanlan pavilion

Walking through a row of maple trees, there is an exquisite and quaint courtyard in front of you. An ancient Pterocarya stenoptera more than 400 years ago is tall and beautiful. This is the palace where Qianlong lived during his southern tour. This palace is a two-story building. More than 50 years ago, the beach in front of the pavilion was not formed, and the waves outside the pavilion fluctuated, so it was named Guanlan Pavilion. There are large transparent windows on the upper, lower, east, south and west sides, and you can enjoy the river view in the upstairs promenade. Broad vision, close to the lush flowers and trees, far from the surging river tide, white clouds, beautiful mountains. This is really a wonderful picture.

Bao and the Monument of "Yi He Ming"

Baomoxuan, also known as Jiao Shan Forest of Steles, crosses a small bridge and a rockery from Guanlan Pavilion, which is Baomoxuan hidden under ginkgo trees. It used to be the former site of Nature Temple, Xianglin Temple, Yufeng Temple and Haiyun Temple. There are more than 400 inscriptions in the forest of steles, which is the largest forest of steles in the south of the Yangtze River, second only to the forest of steles in Xi 'an. These inscriptions are embedded in the cloister pavilion. There are calligraphy, fine arts, historical materials, epitaphs of past dynasties, stone carving art and so on. , the content is extremely rich. Among them, Wei Zhubei, which was built in the second year of Yifeng in Tang Dynasty (677), is known as "a wonderful work in the early Tang Dynasty", with complete inscriptions and neat fonts, and is a rare Tang monument in China.

Historical calligraphers have many inscriptions, the most famous of which is the Preface to Breaking Evil written by Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Tang Yan Zhenqing's 30 Five-character Poems on the Tower, with 44 attached * * *; Mi Fei, a famous painter in Song Dynasty, inscribed the banner of Urban Mountain Forest. Huang Tingjian's On Tibetan Raccoons; Su Dongpo's Postscript on Mo Zhu and Mo Zhu's Self-Topic; Two small stone carvings in Yuan Zhao Ziang; There are seven farewell words written by Prince Cheng, all of which are made by famous artists, with colorful and unique features.

In the forest of steles, Yihe Ming, known as the "king of steles", is one of the "two great steles" with high preservation value in China, that is, Yihe Ming in Zhenjiang in the south and Shimen Ming in Luoyang in the north. According to legend, Harmony with heming was written by Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He likes raising cranes all his life. There is a "goose pond" in front of his house. He often washes pens with pond water and enriches his calligraphy with the graceful dance of geese, so his words are called "floating like clouds and agile like dragons". One day, when he visited Jiao Shan, he brought two cranes, but they both died in Jiao Shan. Wang Xizhi is very sad. He wrapped the crane in yellow silk and buried it in the back hill of Jiao Shan, so he wrote the famous "Yi and Ming" on the rock to show his mourning. Because of its wonderful calligraphy, it was immediately engraved on the rocks in Shanxi. Later, because the rock cracked and fell into the river, it was hit by the river for a long time, eroded by wind and rain, and was constantly chiseled. It was not until the fifty-first year of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (17 12) that Chen Pengnian, the magistrate of Zhenjiang, sent someone to pick up the original stone from the river, leaving only 86 words, 9 of which were incomplete, but the font was still natural and vigorous, unique, and it was calligraphy. Huang Tingjian, a famous calligrapher in Song Dynasty, thinks that there is no such thing as "righteousness and brightness", and he is regarded as the "ancestor of Chinese characters", while Cao Shimian thinks that "Jiao Shan's" righteousness and brightness "is the crown of calligraphy". The tablet of Yihe Ming is highly praised by ancient calligraphers because it is one of the famous stone carvings in the evolution from official script to regular script, and it is also an important material for us to study the development history of calligraphy today.

The inscriptions collected in the forest of steles in Jiao Shan are very valuable in terms of historical data and artistic value of calligraphy, and they are also famous overseas. Jiao Shan is also called "the mountain of calligraphy".

Jiaoshan ancient fort

At the foot of the mountain on the east side of Jiao Shan, there are rugged stones and eight mortar castles, which are fan-shaped and face the Yangtze River estuary. This is the famous Jiao Shan Fort. The whole battery is a hidden battery, each battery is attached with a small ammunition depot, and another large ammunition depot is west of the south gate of the battery. The whole body is layered with concrete, which is strong and abnormal. During the Anti-Japanese War, the fort was destroyed by the Japanese army, and the existing site is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit.

This fortress was built during the Opium War. 1840. At that time, in order to strengthen the defense of the Yangtze River, the Qing government decided to build the Jiaoshan Fort, which became a corner with other forts such as * Mountain, Xiangshan Mountain and Jiangdu Doutian Temple. 1842, the British launched the battle of the Yangtze River, and British warships invaded the Yangtze River, which was once resisted and dealt a heavy blow by the defenders of * Mountain and Fort Jiao Shan. The garrison of Jiaoshan Fort, facing more than 70 enemy ships, did not show weakness and suddenly shelled, but in the end, because it was outnumbered, the fort fell, and all the soldiers and civilians guarding the island 1500 people died. When Shuai captured Zhenjiang, the soldiers and civilians fought to the death, heroic and tragic, which attracted the attention of Engels far across the Atlantic. In the title of British New Expedition to China, he warmly praised: "If these invaders encounter the same resistance everywhere, they will never reach Nanking." Jiao Shan's anti-British fort is an important site of China's modern anti-imperialist struggle, and it is also a witness of Zhenjiang people's heroic resistance to foreign invaders.

Huayan Pavilion

Huayan Pavilion, located in the southwest of Dinghui Temple, is a two-story building facing the river and leaning against a cliff. The word "Hua Yan" comes from Hua Yan Jing, which is a metaphor for the "all-inclusive" scenery here. The upstairs hall is a pair of couplets of "River of No Return, from Shanxi", which makes the finishing touch to the architectural landscape. Now it's changed to "a piece of floating jade, very river view" Downstairs is the "Fuyuzhai" vegetarian restaurant, which is quite distinctive.

Huayan Pavilion is a good place to enjoy the moon, and "Huayan Moonlight" is one of the sixteen most poetic scenes in Jiaoshan. Whenever the bright moon is in the sky, the silver waves on the river are all over the sky, sparkling and the sky is as blue as washing. If you are in the world of glass and crystal, it is like entering a fairyland. Zhao Puchu, Chairman of the Chinese Buddhist Association, wrote "Endless Tibetan" here, which is a pun and thought-provoking.

There is "Anyin Rock" in the east of Huayan Pavilion, which is a small cave. There are Su Dongpo's stone carvings and sixteen poems of Jiao Mountain embedded in the stone wall in the cave, which show the beautiful scenery of Jiao Mountain. The sixteen scenic spots in Jiao Shan are: pine shadow at the mountain gate, the sound of Dinghui tide, the spring of dead wood, the moonlight at Huayan, Xiang Lin Yuan, Haiyun Mo Bao, the natural question, watching the sun in a dangerous building, Biefeng Orchard, seeking immortals in caves, hiding inscriptions in stone houses and Huaiyin in in temples.

A stone/statue carved on a cliff

Along the river at the foot of Jiao Shan. All of them are steep cliffs, and there are rocks such as floating jade, plank road, Guanyin and a crane, among which there are inscriptions by famous poets of thousands of years. There are six dynasties, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing in time; There are all kinds of calligraphy on the font, such as orthography, cursive script, official script and seal script, which are rich in content, just like a natural exhibition of ancient calligraphy, dazzling and beautiful. As soon as I arrived at Fuyuyan, I saw two vigorous and beautiful characters "Fuyu" written by Zhao Mengkui, a calligrapher in the Song Dynasty. On its left is the inscription on the stone left by Lu You and tourists walking through the snow in search of "heming", which is the most striking. The full text is: "Lu Wuguan, He Deqi, and Han and Longxing, on the 29th of the leap month, went through the snow to watch Heheming, served wine and kept the bonfire. Looking at the wind, the warships were in the haze, and they were completely drunk. In the evening, I rowed back from Kanluoji. In the afternoon of February next year, the stone carved by the Zen master will be a book. " The words are magnificent and the calligraphy is vigorous and powerful. On the other stone is an inscription left by Mi Fei, a calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty, reading Yi heming: "Zhong Xuan, Yifa, Mi Fei, Xin Wei, Yuan You, and Guanshan, Xia Meng." (Zhong Xuan and Yifa were monks of Kanluo Temple and Jinshan Temple in the Northern Song Dynasty, respectively. )

There is a modern stone carving in Linjiang, northwest of China. In a resolute brushwork, he carved a five-character poem: "For the sake of inequality, I call for China, and I am here to take a break and travel around the world." This is the inscription left by the China Lawyers Association in 1920 when it was running around to abolish the unequal treaties of imperialist powers.

Sanshaodong

Sanzhao Cave, also known as Jiaogong Cave, is located at the western foot of Jiaoshan Mountain, on the way to the top of the mountain.

Jiaogong Temple was originally built in Jiao Shan, and there is a statue of Jiaogong in it. In the tenth year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1653), Monk Xing moved the statue of Jiaogong to Sanzhao Cave, and the Jiaogong Temple was changed to Garan Temple, which collapsed and was not repaired. Sanzhao Cave was renovated by Jiao Erchang, a descendant of Jiao Guang, at the Mid-Autumn Festival in the 24th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1898). There is a stone statue in the cave, dressed in deep clothes, with two boys standing on both sides (destroyed during the Cultural Revolution). Now the burning in the cave was formed in August of 1979. He was dressed as a hermit, with sandals on his feet and a scroll in his right hand, and he was generous. Vivid image.

According to legend, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the bachelor was too anxious to be an official to escape the turmoil and live in seclusion in Zhenjiang. He is knowledgeable and has excellent medical skills. He often goes to the mountains to collect medicines and treat the fishermen around him. Cutting firewood in the mountains every day, living by selling firewood, self-reliance, and living in poverty. Liu Xie, Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty, heard of his high surname. He asked Jiao Guang to be an official three times, but he refused. The world said he couldn't afford three letters, so he named it the three-letter hole. It is said that when the emperor came to the imperial edict for the first time, he cooked soup and medicine, and excused himself on the grounds that his wife was ill. The second time, I avoided it by inviting my friends out for a long trip; The third time, Jiao Guang was ill in bed and refused the imperial edict on the grounds of old age and illness. In memory of him, later generations changed Qiao Shan's name to Jiao Shan.

A spectacular pavilion

Walking through Sanzhao Cave and up the stone steps, there is a hexagonal pavilion halfway up the mountain, which was a spectacular pavilion built in Tianshun period of Ming Dynasty. The name of the pavilion is taken from Li Bai's "I Reach the Top". I survey the whole world ". Looking at the pavilion, there is an iron urn in the south, Guazhou in the north, Jinling in the west and Haimen in the east, and you can see Baishui Castle Peak. The scenery of mountains and rivers gathers here, which is natural and spectacular. There are three couplets engraved on the pavilion column: "Jiang Tian * * * is clear at a glance, relaxed and happy"; "mainstay town, here is so poor; Haimen swallowed jathyapple, and it was a harvest moon "; "Jinshan * * * this river, the queen mother came to find the five-color dragon"; The imposing manner of Jiaoshan scenery can be described incisively and vividly.

There is a thousand-year-old Cooper next to the pavilion, which is called Six Dynasties Cooper. It is tall and straight, like a ceratosaurus standing upright with its head held high. For more than a thousand years, it has been flourishing, lush and unique. Yi Song poet once wrote a poem about this:

A pine in the suburb of Yao in the Six Dynasties was buried in a seat and sealed with stones.

Don't fly away with eyes, the past life was in Tianlong.

Wanfota

The Wanfo Pagoda is located at the top of Jiaoshan Mountain, with a height of 42 meters, an altitude of 70.4 meters and a construction area of 583 square meters.

Wanfo Pagoda is an ancient pagoda in Jiangnan style in Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are seven floors and eight sides, with the heavenly palace above and the underground palace below. There are two sets of stairs in the tower, up and down, with railings outside. There are four corridors on each floor, with eight views, railing overlooking and panoramic view of the river and sky. At night, eight beams of light fell from the sky, leading passers-by astray.

The courtyard of Wanfo Pagoda has front and rear foyer, left and right stele corridors and wing rooms, which are patchwork and set each other off. The walls on both sides of the front and rear doors are embedded with eight powerful stone characters, such as "Don't make waves" and "mainstay", which further embodies the solemn and heroic spirit of Shengruiwan Pagoda.

Biefeng 'an (Banqiao Reading Room)

In Jiaoshan, there is a unique square quadrangle called Biefeng Temple. On Bieling Mountain, it is surrounded by bamboo. Other peaks refer to the main peaks (East Peak and West Peak) of this mountain that are different from the top of Jiaoshan Mountain. Zheng Banqiao, a great painter and poet in Qing Dynasty, studied here, hence the name Biefeng Temple.

Biefeng Temple was built in the Song Dynasty. Master Fo Yin, a monk in the Song Dynasty, wrote a poem: "There is nowhere to find, who is the guide?" . See you later, learning, originally in Biefeng Temple ". In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Zhao also wrote a poem: "There is no road to bamboo, and the clouds suddenly open to the door. "Turning to the courtyard, I saw a lonely peak." There are three small houses on the north side of the lonely temple and the lonely peak temple in the deep mountains. There are flower beds, two osmanthus trees and bamboo cultivation in the courtyard, and the environment is elegant. This is the place where Zheng Banqiao, a famous painter in Qing Dynasty and one of the Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou, studied during Yongzheng period. At present, the banner of "Zheng Banqiao Reading Room" is hung on the corridor door, and the couplets written by Zheng Banqiao in calligraphy are also hung. In the face of this situation, thinking of old friends in the bookstore can't help but make people feel a lot different.

Zheng Banqiao, a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu Province, was a scholar during the Qianlong period. He is good at painting Zhu Lan, and his calligraphy is a combination of official script, regular script and running script. His words, paintings and poems are known as the "three wonders" in the world and are the most famous among the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou". He loved practicing in Jiao Shan and left behind many paintings and poems by Zhu Mo. His poem "Painting Bamboo Natural Temple" says:

There are fifteen quiet rooms in Jiao Shan, each with bamboo fences. Draw paper and fly, trying to sweep the sunset sky. And the rubbings of his calligraphy are "inseparable" and "losing is a blessing", and people are scrambling to buy them. In addition, Zheng Banqiao also wrote a couplet for the old natural temple: "The mountain light blows the face because of the new rain, and the river turns back to the tide." At the same time, I also wrote a couplet in the past temple of the sea: "Chu tou, a green hill sits;" Huainan Jiangbei, half a pool of autumn water is making tea. " These wonderful stories are often praised by later generations.

Bai Shou Pavilion

Located in the northwest of Jiao Shan, under Biefeng Temple. The pavilion is a square pavilion made of bricks, surrounded by walls, with tiles between the walls and the eaves of the pavilion to form a row of ancient longevity characters. There are arches on the east, west and north walls, and two mountain roads run through them. There are four vertical stones embedded in the middle of the inner wall of the south wall, engraved with 100 different seal characters, which are ingenious. There are three Chinese characters "Bai Shouting" on the banner, and the words "Deep in the Water Cloud" are engraved on the north gate. Now there are stone benches in the pavilion for tourists to rest.

According to legend, the origin of this pavilion was in the late Qing Dynasty. Fan Mou, a good bachelor, saw that the mountain road of Biefeng Temple at the foot of Jiao Shan was very rugged and difficult to climb, so he donated money to pave a stone mountain road in Huagang and arrived at Biefeng Temple. The abbot built this Baishou Pavilion to show his gratitude.

Xijiangta

Xijiang Tower stands at the top of Jiaodong Mountain, formerly known as Xijiang Pavilion, also known as Xijiang Tower. Because there are woodcarving Buddha statues on all sides in the pavilion, people are also called the four-faced Buddha Pavilion. The building is octagonal, the overall structure is cement imitation wood, there are stairs hovering up, the cloister is four, and there are views on eight sides. The building has two floors, with the words "Xijiang Building" engraved on the upper banner and "Jiangshan Sheng" written on the lower banner. Tourists climb the building and overlook the beautiful scenery of the Yangtze River. The endless green fields in the north of the Yangtze River, criss-crossing buildings, endless stretches, green mountains and green waters in the south of the Yangtze River. The vision here is broad and the weather is colorful, which makes people relaxed and happy. If you go upstairs to watch the sunrise in the summer morning, it has a unique flavor and has always been praised by tourists. Qi Yanhuai, a famous scholar in Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem praising:

Looking at the eastern sea, Fusang poured a pill.

I've climbed the top of Daiyue Mountain, not as good as the view of this building.

The water vapor is even white, and the glow shines on the wall.

Far away, I heard the morning bell moving, the river was wide, and the eagle was on the plate.

During the Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty, Shen Bingcheng, the leader of Changzhen Waterway, converted the pavilion into a building and wrote the story of Xijiang Tower. He said in his notes that during my visit to Zhenjiang, I often wanted to visit Jiao Shan with wine. Due to the busy business, I can't do this. When I had a little leisure this spring, I invited several colleagues to come to Jiao Shan, covered with thorns, climbed up the rocks, circled up, took a walk and rested, and finally arrived at the Buddha Pavilion on all sides at the top of the mountain. Because there are trees all around, although the pavilion is on the top of the mountain, it can't overlook the surrounding scenery, and at the same time, the pavilion has been tilted to fall. So I will donate money to turn the pavilion upside down and transform it into a building. Climbing upstairs overlooking the river, I saw the boundless expanse, and my eyes suddenly widened. The building is still named "Suche River" because the old name is not forgotten.