The smallest spring stone horseshoe spring. Located on Qinglong Mountain, it is horseshoe-shaped. The spring water is clear and full, and it does not flow or overflow. Use your hands to scoop, which is inexhaustible. The wall of Yuchan Valley is a huge rock and there is nothing special about it. However, due to the endless rain for many years, this rock has become magical. This is a rock about 30 meters high, shaped like an eagle. The rock itself is a spring. Spring water gushed from the crevices of the stone, all the way. Outside the cliff, the lights are brilliant. Within the cliff, it was raining cats and dogs. It's really sunrise in the east and rain in the west. The Tao is "sunny" but "sunny"! Natural grottoes wear holes in nine days, and they carry holes all their lives.
From the bottom of meditation to the mountainside of Qinglong Mountain, there are three natural caves, all of which are dead caves. The right hole often oozes spring water, which can become a stream in summer. The hole in the middle is like a shaft, which goes straight to the top of the mountain. The locals say that only wild sheep will haunt here.
According to legend, Li Yan, the prince who won in the Tang Dynasty, was afraid that his younger brother Li Chen, King Guang, would usurp the throne and many murders failed. The Queen Mother sent eunuchs to secretly cut Li Chen's hair into a monk in Ivory Temple. After Li Yan proclaimed himself emperor, he sent troops to the Ivory Temple to kill Li Chen twice, and the wise Zen master of the Ivory Temple helped Li Chen climb over the wall twice, escaped into the meditation valley and escaped from the Tiantong Cave. After the death of Li Yan, Li Chen returned to the throne. This is Tang Xuanzong. Every time I think of this cave, he feels deeply: "This cave is also a cave leading to heaven." Remember that this cave saved his life and made him a great son of heaven.
You can often see wild snakes and squirrels as big as rabbits in caves in Tian Tong, and the roads are very dangerous. In order to explore this cave, people often need to climb to the top of the mountain with flashlights and chains. There are still several places in the cave that need to be turned around to pass, so tourists humorously call this place a transshipment platform and leave two poems: "A natural grotto will be transported to the cave in nine days. Zen Valley is adjacent to Xiangyan Temple, and its terrain is higher than Xiangyan Temple, but Xiangyan Temple can't even drill a well. Although Zen Valley is located in a high mountain, it is rich in spring water. There is a spring at the entrance of Meditation Valley, which is called Wang Longquan. The drier the weather, the greater the water inflow. According to experts' research, this spring is the largest in the Central Plains, containing more than 20 kinds of trace elements needed by human body, such as zinc and iron. It can be used for body building, relieving itching and whitening skin.
The scientific mystery needs further scientific research by experts. However, there is a magical story here that seems to explain the strange phenomenon of "inequality between the rich and the poor" of groundwater. According to legend, in ancient times, the Jade Emperor sent the Dragon King to distribute water on earth, and the Dragon King appointed the Turtle King to carry water to Xiangyan Temple for the Leopard King to escort. The two kings worked very hard to transport water. Seeing that the Xiangyan Temple was approaching, they dozed off in the meditation valley. Overturned all the carried water and fell to the ground, forming the Dragon King Spring. The landlord of Ivory Temple sued the Dragon King for not delivering water, and the Dragon King was furious. He demoted the tortoise king to a stone turtle and the leopard king to a stone leopard, and put pressure on the stone turtle to protect the Yongquan forever. The ancient mountain village in Qinglong Mountain is bound to pass through the Great Wall.
There is an ancient cottage on Qinglong Mountain, which looks like the Chu Great Wall in nanzhao county, Nanyang City. The difference is that this ancient cottage is basically a perfect mountain city. Therefore, tourists who travel to Zen Valley have basically become archaeologists. Everyone can tell you about the Chu-Han culture and Zen Valley culture in Xichuan in an orderly way, so that people who have never been to Zen Valley can spit it out.
The hut is divided into four mountain gates: east, west, north and south. Every gate is heavily guarded, and there is a stone barracks at the gate. The wall of the village is built along the cliff according to the direction of the ridge. The widest point is 5m, and the highest point is12m. The design of the village wall is scientific.
There are watchtowers, archery holes, stone stacks, wooden rolling platforms and camps. There are big barracks, ancient buildings in Dashuijing Ancient Buildings, barns and drums in the U-shaped valley basin of Qinglong Mountain, which can be attacked and retreated, and the whole defense system is perfect.
Many historical sites show that it was once a heavily guarded city. Zen Valley is located in Cangfang Town, Xichuan County, which is connected with Hubei Province. Xichuan County, located in the west of Dengzhou, was once the capital of Chu in ancient times. According to "Historical Records", "Ying City was built in the deep forest in the west of Dengzhou 120" is the city. According to legend, after Sun Bin was punished, he sneaked into the Sun Bin Cave in this mountain, practiced the art of war on the ancient thatched cottage, and completed the brilliant military masterpiece Sun Bin's Art of War. Looking back from the Julong Lake, a curved green hill stands above the clear water. A hundred meters away from the mountain, there is a bare cliff about 15 meters high between the mountains and the shade. This bare rock is compared to a flying dragon on a cliff. If it is autumn, this landscape is really like a freehand dragon totem. This curved green hill is a whole, about 60 meters long, and the overall shape looks like a dragon. Many painting and calligraphy lovers come here to sketch a tree called Huang Chai Lu, which has strong vitality. In autumn, between the red leaves of the mountains, a flying dragon flies in the air, which is another natural Chinese painting.
In fact, it is not groundless to say that this meditation valley is strange. On the opposite side of this cliff dragon landscape, there is a bare rock with a size of more than 10 square meter among the trees, which is covered with irregular "×" symbols, all like knife carvings. Some symbols are connected by a line, and some symbols are slightly different, but the overall shape is very similar. Some experts believe that this is a written totem left by people in ancient times, as well as legends and stories. These symbols were passed down as the footprints left by the dragonfly when it took a nap here. The gobbledygook wall got its name from this. The biggest highlight of the Zen Valley Scenic Area is the rust stone group. In the quiet primitive valley, the stone walls are steep and the scales are majestic. Rust is the product of geological process, and its formation should be attributed to its special regional environment. When water is rich in carbon dioxide, it will dissolve rocks, especially limestone, and over time it will always leave a "statue" in nature. Over time, it will form jagged stones, that is, natural scales. The first characteristic of the scale stone in Zen Valley is its peculiar shape. The scale stone is shaped like a mountain peak, but its surface is uneven, such as a gully, and its ridge line is uneven, like a mountain peak. Gazing carefully, we can see wisdom in clumsiness, beauty in ugliness, and the more we look at it, the more interesting it becomes. The second characteristic of Zen Valley Scale Stone is dense holes and overlapping rust lines. The holes vary in shape and size and are as dense as a hornet's nest. Rust is varied and winding, because rust is more and more obvious. Some patterns are like plum blossom snowflakes, some are like leaves and pine branches, some are like overlapping leaves, and some are like hovering flowers. It's God's wonderful hand that created such a strange and complicated scene. The third characteristic of the scale stone in Zen Valley is its rough texture, which, like a sponge, has amazing water absorption and water storage. When there is water, under the capillary action, the whole rust stone can be soaked and soaked quickly, which is suitable for moss growth. When moss is covered with rust stone, I can only see green velvet, which is full of vitality, quite like a beautiful mountain covered with green, pleasing to the eye and refreshing. There are many kinds of scale stones in Zen Valley Scenic Area, which can be called "the first scale stone group in the Central Plains".
The biggest attraction of Zen Valley Scenic Area is the waterfall rainbow spectacle. There are 5 natural trapezoidal waterfalls and more than 20 large and small waterfalls in Zen Valley, with different styles. On a sunny day, you can see several rainbow landscapes in Foguang Waterfall, which is amazing. At the same time, you can also see the rainbow landscape in the Thousand Buddha Cliff and the Face Cliff.
I won three times in the Valley of Meditation, and what I felt most was the water in the Valley of Meditation. The water here, or flying down, forms a waterfall; Or floating into the air, scattered into raindrops; Or gush from the mountain, ding-dong sing, and flow to the distance; Or gather mountains, high gorge out of Pinghu, blue waves and green hills! People who have been to Zen Valley are all intoxicated by the strange mountains and waters here. However, the most attractive part of Meditation Valley lies in the scientific mystery contained in natural wonders. When you come to this mountain, you can not only meditate and realize the Tao, but also explore natural wonders and scientific mysteries.
This statement is correct. Although the mountains and rocks in the Zen Valley are steep, the roads opened between the rocks are extremely rich, extending the platform as much as possible and reducing the steps, so people still walk on the ground when walking in the mountains. In this way, you can soon come to the third wonder of Zen Valley: Julong Lake. According to legend, the water in Julong Lake is as blue as the sky, so the feng shui is excellent. The Dragon King also took a fancy to this place, and once called all the dragons to gather here to hold the annual meeting of water distribution on the earth. The legend is false, but this Julong Lake is really amazing: the dam of Julong Lake is more than ten meters high, and the dam body is all compacted with glutinous rice soup and white mud, and then bonded together with dry ballast stones, which has been unbreakable for thousands of years. What a miracle of China's architectural civilization! Julong Lake is named after the gathering of "Dragon Kings". It is said that some lucky tourists stood on the dam and vaguely saw a "dragon" swimming in the lake.
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