Baishishan is located 35km south of Guiping and 8km north of Madongxu, with an altitude of 650m. It is the second1cave among 36 Taoist caves in China. In the Song Dynasty, temples were built on the mountains, which became tourist attractions after the Ming Dynasty. To the east of the mountain is a lonely peak, which is inserted into the sky; The Lotus Peak in the west, also known as Goose Head Peak, is the main peak of Baishi Mountain. The grotesque caves on the mountain are steep, steep and beautiful, looking forward to the light. At the foot of the mountain are Gong Xian Archway, Shousheng Temple, Sanguan Pass, and ancient castle around the mountain, cliff stone carving, Qingyu Gorge, ladder, Shuyuquan, Huixian Temple, blast furnace, face-wall monk, thin fairy rock and flying squirrel rock. Xu Xiake, a famous geographer, visited here and wrote Travel Notes of Baishi. The peculiar landscape of Baishishan attracts people to visit. The monk climbed the mountain and reached the foot of the mountain. You can see a stone under the cliff, about 20 feet high. It looks like a person standing facing the stone wall, wearing a monk's hat and a cassock. County annals call it "a monk with a wall". In the past, the face of the founder of Buddhism was a story every ten years, but the face of this "monk" was unknown for tens of millions of years! Shousheng Temple is located at the foot of Baishi Mountain, formerly known as Sanbaotang, also known as Shoushengyuan, commonly known as the Great Temple. Song Jiazhe started construction in the third year (AD 1058), which lasted for ten years. There is an archway carved from cinnabar in front of the temple. The arch is seven meters high and six meters wide. It is engraved with the words "Shousheng Temple" and the lifelike Eight Immortals given by Song Shenzong Zhao Xuxi Ning in the first year (1068). The front seat of the temple is the Sanbao Hall, and the back seat is towering, with a living room and a monk's house on the left and right. On the right side of the temple, there is a view of the meeting. "Baishi Cave" cliff stone carving, there is a steep cliff behind Shousheng Temple, and the word "Baishi Cave" is engraved on it, each word is about one abbot, which was written by Yang Dajie, a juren in this county at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that he worked hard for more than ten years to write these daewoo well. Afterwards, he specially wrote a poem "Ji Xing Shi": "Eighteen years after riding a cliff, the cliff was not built, and the mountain god had his own pen and asked me to write wildly." A closer look at the word "Baishidong" really smacks of "crazy book". There is a pearl pond under the cliff behind Shousheng Temple, also called Shuyuanquan. This is a mountain spring about two meters in Fiona Fang. In the past, every morning, the monks in the temple rang the bell and drum, and the spring water would surge like boiling water. However, according to a field trip by Xu Xiake, a geographer in the Ming Dynasty, this statement is purely heretical. On July 23rd, the 10th year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1637), Xu Xiake made a special trip to Baishishan for inspection. He talked about this in his travel notes: "There is a pearl pool under the cliff, and those who fall into the water halfway down the cliff will be collected under the round pool." According to records, there is a Yuquan in the north of the mountain, but both Xi Twelve and Baiyue Tuji say that its spring smells bells and drums boiling, but it is silent, which is different. I said that the boiling silence in spring has its own rules. It is the monk who rings the bell and drums while waiting for spring, not the breath of spring but silence. When I arrived at Baishi, I first inquired about Sanqing Temple, and then inquired about the name of Shuyu from Baishi Temple. I don't know what it means; When the monk heard the bell, it all boiled and he was at a loss. It's always good to say it. After long-term observation, later generations confirmed that Xu Xiake's account was scientific and accurate. The spring water is crystal clear, not dry at four o'clock, sweet and delicious. At this time, tourists are thirsty and drink it like nectar. The blast furnace is about a mile to the right from Shousheng Temple, and there is a hole with a width of 100 square meters called Sanqingyan. There is a temple in front of the cave, in which there are three immortals worshipped by Taoism: Jade Qing Yuan Shi Tian Zun, Qing Ling Bao Dao Jun and Tai Qing Tai Shang Lao Jun, so it is called Sanqing View. There is a cave on one side of the cave hall, about one square meter wide. According to legend, this cave is connected with the leak in Beiliu County, and Ge Hong, a famous Taoist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, often used this cave to make an alchemy between the two places. Up to now, there are statues of an alchemist relic and Ge Hong beside the cave.
When the ancient castle around the mountain climbs to the top of Baishi Mountain, you can see a white wall around the mountainside, and there are gates communicating with the outside world every one or two hundred meters. Set a higher floor on the city gate. Legend has it that this ancient city wall surrounded by mountains was built during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, that is, in the middle of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. At that time, Chen Kai and Li, leaders of Guangdong Heaven and Earth Society, led the rebel army, went up the Xijiang River, captured the capital, made its capital and established Dacheng. During this period, local officials in Zhou Xun Prefecture and Guiping County had to run to Baishishan to build a wall and fight back. Since then, this winding "Little Great Wall" with a jade belt has become one of the wonders of Baishi Mountain. Cangyuxia, also known as Qingyuxia, commonly known as Dongmen Lane, is the only way to climb the white stone into the cave. There are thousands of walls on both sides of the canyon. Between the cliffs, a stone lane with a width of only two meters and a height of about three or four hundred meters passes through the cliff, and the stone steps are among them. Tourists climb the steep stone steps and look up at the sky, leaving only a curved blue line, so it is also called "a scene in the sky". The ladder is above Zangyu Canyon, one of the wonders of Bai Yushan. It looks like a ladder hanging in the clouds, hence its name. Also known as "thirty-six steps", it means "stepping on a ladder to heaven". The stairs are 136 steps, carved on a long cliff. They are about one meter wide, steep and steep, with a slope of over 70 degrees. When tourists board it, a feeling similar to that in Li Bai's poem, "The mountain starts from people and the cloud comes from the horse's head" arises spontaneously. Timid people tend to flinch. A few hundred meters away from the ladder, there is a big cave with "immortal footprints" in the cave hall. "Baishi Cave" refers to this place. By the Ming Dynasty, five temples were built here, called Huixian Temple. There are dozens of statues in it, all of which are carefully carved and lifelike. One of them has thin cheeks, bright eyes and double ribs, and is called the "thin fairy". Unfortunately, after the "Cultural Revolution" turmoil, all idols disappeared. Outside Huixian Temple, there is Huixian Pavilion. According to legend, people who are predestined can meet immortals here. Flying squirrel rock There is flying squirrel rock several miles west of Baishishan Mountain. A rocky mountain and two big stones support each other to form a splayed hole, which is flying squirrel rock. The hills around the rocks are undulating, which is beneficial to the habitat activities of flying squirrels. The cave hall in the rock is more than 50 meters high, 30 meters wide and 20 meters deep, and there are hundreds of thousands of flying mice. Every evening, flying squirrels fly out of caves in droves to feed, and a large area of darkness forms black clouds in the air, making a huge sound like waves. The scene is spectacular.