Erlang Mountain in Shenmu, commonly known as Xishan Mountain, is located at the intersection of Kuye River and Qinhe River at the west of Shenmu County 1 km, and is famous for Erlang Temple. Scholars regard it as a hump, so it is also called "Hump Mountain". In the 13th year of Zheng De in Ming Dynasty (15 18), Emperor Wuzong made a patrol and named it Bijiashan.
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Erlang Mountain is magnificent and beautiful, and it is also quite dangerous. The stone walls on the east and west sides are steep, the pine and cypress stand upright, the front and rear peaks are convex, and the middle is slightly concave. There was a wooden bridge at the break of the two peaks, and tourists climbed over it, named "Broken Bridge". There are more than 100 buildings (caves) distributed on the ridge with the front-back distance exceeding 1km according to the mountainous terrain. Temples, temples, pavilions, pavilions, and caves are scattered at random, and the scale is quite grand.
The main buildings are Baxian Cave, Dizang Cave, Haoran Pavilion, Erlang Temple, Guandi Temple, Temple, Ancestral Temple, Huangyuting and Niangniang Temple. Most of their buildings are hard mountain caves with single eaves or brick caves with verandahs, and there are 18 temple murals in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Most of them are meticulous and colorful, and there are occasional Chinese paintings. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China, there were more than 60 stone tablets, and 7 cliff stone carvings in the Ming Dynasty and the first year of Jiaqing (1796).
Especially in the Ming Dynasty, the front stone carving "Tiger Roaring" and the back stone carving "Kowloon Playing in the Water" are lifelike; Shipai architecture in Ming dynasty, with simple shape; The caisson in the Cave of the King in Dizang is exquisitely made and has high artistic and historical value. There are also some inscriptions left by patriotic generals during the Anti-Japanese War in the "Haoran Pavilion" on the mountain, which injected new vitality into the ancient temples.