Mei Yaochen, a famous poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote the poem "Three Layers of Pond", which can well illustrate the beautiful scenery of Sanyin Pond. He wrote: "There are waterfalls on the top of the mountain, and the cold jade is heard; Then fall to the mountainside, and fall to the foot of the mountain; If you want to cook the spring mountain, the monk's room will set up bamboo. " Chiang Kai-shek believed in the folk saying that there was a dragon in Sanyintan. Every time he returned to his hometown Xikou and lived in Miaogaotai or Xuedou Temple, he went to Sanyintan and stood in front of the old dragon statue. On one occasion, he took his grandson Jiang Xiaowen to the Longwang Temple in Sanyintan, lit candles and burned incense, and knelt down to pray. Seeing that his grandfather was so pious, Jiang Xiaowen asked with a smile, "Grandpa, is there really a dragon? Have you seen it? " Chiang Kai-shek looked at his grandson and replied, "The dragon is a fairy in the sky, and what you can see is not a dragon."
The natural environment of this place is special, with cliffs, mountain winds whistling and chilly. Tourists stand by the pool, and the deep pool is green and daunting, which makes it mysterious. Timid tourists may think that there is really a dragon in the pool after watching it. In fact, the water in the hidden pool leaps out from three cliffs and folds into three waterfalls. There are pools under the waterfalls, which are bottomless, so they are called "upper hidden pool", "middle hidden pool" and "lower hidden pool".
The upper hidden pool goes down the cliff to the bottom of the pool, and the stone steps are 2 16, which is shaped like a ladder. On the two sides of the flowing water, huge stones stand, steep walls are deep, the rocks are mottled with moss, and the pines stand by the ditch. There is a stone bridge on the pool, and the waterfall pours along the cliff, with a height of more than 40 meters. The flowing water is in a line shape, and the water hits the two cliff walls, which is deafening and echoing. On the bridge at the valley bottom, the fog is diffuse and the water mist is transpiration, giving people a cool feeling.
Go down one mile from Shangyintan to Zhongyintan. Shade covered the stream. The stones in the gully are vertical and horizontal, and the ups and downs are weird. The flowing water runs around the stones and twists and turns. After many difficulties and dangers, it rushes out of the rock stratum. Then, at one go, the cliff mouth is ejected and refracted to the east, forming an elegant waterfall. The mountain wind blows water foam and splashes in all directions, and it is impossible to tell whether it is fog or rain, which is poetic and picturesque.
500 meters down from Zhongyin Lake is Xiayin Lake. There are piles of boulders here. Cross-overlapping, large and small stones piled up to more than ten square meters. Among them, there is a Book Case Peak, which is more than 20 meters high. Book Case Peak is on the pool, and the deep pool is at the bottom of the peak, revealing half and half, pool water; Two cliffs, which form two natural waterfalls, are called "Yuanyang Waterfall" by local people. This pair of mandarin ducks, a little affectionate, seem to be inseparable from each other in the swirling pool of water, and then quickly become waterfalls. When the rosy clouds cross the sky. Gorgeous and colorful, like a pair of mandarin ducks flying in the air, lingering and inseparable, beautiful and incomparable.
Address: Xikou Scenic Area beside Sansan Provincial Road in the northwest of Fenghua, Ningbo
Type: Waterfall Lake
Play time: suggested 1 hour
Opening hours:
8:20- 17:00
Ticket information:
No tickets are required. Included in the ticket of Xuedou Mountain Scenic Area.