To the south of Gongyi stands the towering Song Mountain, to the north is the mighty Yellow River, and in the embrace of the beautiful Yiluo River is singing. This is where Gongyi City is located. This is an ancient land. Archaeological data confirms that human ancestors lived and worked here 150,000 years ago. Since ancient times, Gongyi City has been the hub of east-west transportation in China and a place where military strategists often fight. As a result, many legends that originated here or were based on this place have become the essence of Chinese national culture. The places where Houyi shot the sun and Chang'e flew to the moon were located in the Zidian area in the southwest of the city; the place where the Yanhuang Alliance built an altar and sunk into the wall was located on the Shendu Mountain where the Yiluo River flows into the Yellow River; The place where the book was published; the Fuxi Terrace in Guluokou, Shayugou Township is where Fuxi drew the Eight Diagrams; the holy place where King Tang even burned himself to pray for rain is in Luzhuang, the ancient mulberry forest; the place where Cao Zhi herded horses in Zhitian and met Mi Fei, the God of Luo, is here By the Zhitianluo River. If legends are like misty colorful clouds, the ancient ruins scattered throughout the city are shocking historical evidence. There are more than 100 cultural relics and historic sites scattered in urban areas and towns, all of which contain the wisdom and hard work of the ancient working people, and all of which will impress future generations of the Chinese people. The cultural landscape of Gongyi City includes two national-level cultural relics protection units, eight cultural relics protection units in Henan Province, and 12 cultural relics protection units in Zhengzhou City. There are more than 100 cultural relics protection units announced and yet to be announced in Gongyi City. The Imperial Tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty, a national cultural relic protection unit, are located in Xiaoyi Town, Zhitian Town, Xicun Town, and Huiguo Town in Gongyi City, covering an area of ??30 square kilometers. In the past, this was a majestic and majestic imperial mausoleum. Among the nine emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty, except for the two emperors Qin and Huizong who were captured by the Jin people and died in the Northern Kingdom, the others were Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, Taizong Zhao Guangyi, Zhenzong Zhao Heng, Renzong Zhao Zhen, Yingzong Zhao Shu, Shenzong Zhao Xiang, and Zhezong Zhao Xudu. Buried here. Together with the tomb of Zhao Kuangyin's father, Zhao Hongyin, it is known as the "Seven Emperors and Eight Tombs" in the world. Historical records: In order to move the capital to Luoyang, Zhao Kuangyin was also moved by the feng shui of Gongyi City, so he decided to designate the imperial mausoleum here. The construction of the Imperial Tomb of the Northern Song Dynasty began in the third year after Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne, and the construction lasted for more than 160 years. Within the huge imperial mausoleum Zhaocheng, there are 21 tombs of queens, 144 tombs of princes, princesses, princes, grandsons and wives of kings, eight tombs of famous generals and ministers, and two tombs of the emperor's descendants. More than a hundred seats. Among them, Bao Zheng's tomb and Kou Zhun's tomb attract future generations to pay their respects. The imperial tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty each occupy an area of ??more than 800 acres, including Zhaoyu, which covers an area of ??about 2,000 acres. It consists of three parts, Shangguan, Shencheng and Xiaguan. There are two Magpie Towers in the south of Shangguan, and two Rutai in the middle. There are towers and temples built on the Magpie Rutai, and there are Shinto and Divine City connected to the north. The sacred city is centered on a tall mausoleum, surrounded by city walls, four city towers, and four corner towers. It is also recorded that there is a dedication hall in front of the mausoleum. Shangguan built an official wall, and there were five large official halls inside the official wall for the mausoleum guards and sacrifices. The same is true for the Houling Mausoleum, but its shape is smaller. Stone ceremonial guards of varying sizes and quantities have been erected on both sides of the imperial mausoleums, empress mausoleums, and the shrines of famous generals, ministers, princes, and princes. The Youhuang Mausoleum is the most spectacular, with pillars, stone lions, stone elephants, stone sheep, stone tigers, auspicious birds, Jiaoduan, civil servants, military generals, foreign envoys from Arabia, India, and Central Asia, elephant slaves, and horse controllers, all in each mausoleum. The fifty-eight pieces are all meticulously carved and lifelike, seeming to tell visitors the ups and downs of history. There are thirty-four stone carvings in each of the Hou Tombs, which are smaller in size than the Imperial Tombs. There are nearly a thousand stone carvings in the Imperial Tomb Area of ??the Northern Song Dynasty. It is the place with the largest number of fine stone carvings left over from the Northern Song Dynasty. It provides rare objects for the study of ancient Chinese art. The brick and wood buildings, city, towers, halls and temples of Song Tomb have all been destroyed together with the historical disaster. However, the existing huge rammed earth ruins and tall bucket-shaped mausoleums will still give people a sense of historical dignity and beauty with an ancient and desolate atmosphere, and they will tell tourists many ancient stories. The emergency repair and protection project of Yongding Tomb and Yongzhao Tomb is underway, and it will welcome domestic and foreign tourists with a more vivid appearance. Dalishan Grotto Temple, a national cultural relic protection unit, is one of the top ten large grottoes in China, ranking sixth. This cave temple is one of the first Buddhist holy sites built after the Tuoba clan established the Northern Wei Dynasty and made Luoyang their capital. It is located on the banks of the scenic Yiluo River. It is built on a stone cliff that juts out of the Mang Mountain Mountains. The scenery is amazing. In the Northern Wei and Tang Dynasties, this temple has always been valued by the emperor and continued to be repaired. Monks lived here. The maximum number of people there was 3,000, which shows how big this temple is. There are 7,743 large, medium and small Buddha statues and five caves on the grounds of the Grotto Temple. Although it is not as majestic and huge as the Yungang and Longmen Grottoes, it is small, exquisite and meticulously carved, making it a treasure in Chinese grotto art.
The graceful flying Apsara, the kind-faced Buddha with a high nose, and the skills of playing various ethnic instruments tell people about the costumes and dances of the ancient nation, the appearance of the Xianbei people at the beginning of the ethnic integration, and the rich musical instrument forms and playing methods of the Chinese nation. In particular, the only remaining picture of emperors and empresses worshiping Buddha in China, the grand scene of people shouting in front of and behind them, cannot help but remind people of the strict hierarchy of feudal society and the piety of the whole society towards Buddhism at that time. Built in the late Ming and Qing dynasties across a river from the urban area, Kang's Manor is a majestic and majestic complex with ancient fortresses and residential buildings. Its green halls and tiled houses are well-proportioned, and it looks like a large folk painting from a distance. . Experts on ancient architecture say that this is one of the rare northern ancient residential museums that exists in my country. This manor has a total construction area of ??64,300 square meters, 33 courtyards, 53 buildings, and 313 rooms. There are also 97 bungalows and 73 cave dwellings. The ancestors of the Kang family were engaged in land management, transportation, and trading, and they seemed to have become rich. So there was a double thousand hectares sign, so these houses were built; so there are also allusions that Empress Dowager Cixi hid from the Eight-Power Allied Forces and returned to Beijing from Xi'an, the Kang family donated millions of taels of silver to the emperor, and Empress Dowager Cixi named his family Kang Million Dollars; So he participated in the disaster relief in Linyi, Shandong Province, and the living god of wealth revered by the people in Shandong Province took on the image of Kang Wanwan. Kang's Manor was originally a provincial cultural relic protection unit, and is now applying to be upgraded to a national level. Going up from Yiluo River and Shuohuangye, there are more than ten miles of ancient ceramic sites, among which are the world-famous Dahuangye and Tang Sancai sites, which are the earliest, largest and most unearthed in China, as well as Chinese white porcelain The earliest place of origin is Baihe White Porcelain Site. On the right side of the confluence of the Yiluo River and the Yellow River is the Mang Mountain cut off by the river valley. There are still incomplete parts of the winding city wall on the mountain ridge. This was the largest Xingluocang in the Sui Dynasty that was conquered by the Wagang Army led by Zhai Rang and Li Mi. It was the place where they created a historical record of distributing grain to the people. In the vast fields of Shaochai Village, Zhitian Township, on the south side of the Yiluo River, polished stone tools and other artifacts and relics of various shapes often appear on the edges and in the fields. This is the ruins of Zhenxun, the capital of the Xia Dynasty. There is also the iron smelting site of the Han Dynasty that has long been included in history textbooks, located in Tieshenggou Village, Jiajinkou Township. The quality of the ductile iron blocks still existing on the ground is beyond the reach of our modern people. The remains on the ground will not be described again. In the past, people often used the term "Zhong Ling Yu Xiu" to describe Gongyi City. Gongyi City was formerly called Gongxian County, which was the name given since the Qin Dynasty. Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe it was what Zhong Lingyuxiu meant. Du Yiyi, the great-grandfather of Du Fu, the magistrate of Gongxian County in the Tang Dynasty, settled in Gongxian County, and his family educated the famous poet Du Shenyan, and also cultivated a generation of poetry saint Du Fu. In 1962, Du Fu was designated as a world cultural celebrity at the World Peace Council. Bai Juyi, the magistrate of Gong County in the Tang Dynasty, was the grandfather of Bai Kun, and his family produced the great poet Bai Juyi. The poet-sage Du Fu was born in Nanyaowan Village, Gongyi City, and the cave where he was born is known as the Sage Cave. When he was a child, the courtyard where "pears and jujubes were ripe in July and trees could be planted a thousand times in one day" is now the Du Fu Hometown Memorial Hall. Du Fu lived a wandering life and wrote a large number of poems praising the motherland and sympathizing with the suffering of the people. Finally, he died on a small boat in Dongting Lake, Pingjiang County, Hunan Province, and stayed temporarily in Pingjiang. Forty-three years later, his grandson Du Siye followed his grandfather's last wish and transferred him to the Pingjiang River. The bones were transplanted and buried on the Mang Mountain Ridge across the Yiluo River from his hometown. A few years ago, Gongyi City's far-sighted people raised funds and renovated Du Fu's Mausoleum, located on Mang Mountain in Kangdian Township. It was decorated with green pines and cypresses and pavilions and corridors, making it a tourist hotspot. Ji Han of the Jin Dynasty was the world's first botanist. His book "The Shape of Southern Plants" was famous both at home and abroad. His hometown was Luzhuang Village in Luzhuang Township. After his death, he was also buried in Luzhuang, and his cemetery has become a place of mourning for future generations. The cultural landscape of Gongyi City is often blended into the beautiful natural landscape. In Laomiao Mountain, a Taoist holy land, not only is the Yuxian Notre Dame Temple famous in nearby provinces, but the natural landscape here is particularly memorable. It is now a provincial-level natural scenic spot - Fuxi Mountain Snowflake Cave Scenic Area. The mountain in this scenic spot was called Shicheng Mountain in ancient times. When you climb high and look into the distance, the majestic and jagged ring-shaped mountain forms a majestic city wall. If it is a cloudy and foggy day, you can climb up and watch, and the mountains will look like geese, ducks and water birds floating on the water. It is very vivid. It is also called Fuxi Mountain by old people. It was a natural scenic spot in ancient times and left many poems by literati and poets. Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, When he visited this mountain, he sealed the tea mountain and was called Zhao Fengshan. In this scenic spot, in addition to the historic site of the Yuxian Notre Dame Temple, there are more than 20 ancient villages that can dominate the north. The stone city walls on the ancient village are undulating among the peaks and valleys, the stone city gates and towers, the stone houses, stone mills and stone mills in the village are all like ancient songs, narrating ancient events to people. The story that happened in this mountain. Some archaeologists believe that these cottages originated in the Tang Dynasty as early as the Qing Dynasty.
There are cottages where peasant rebels gathered in the Ming Dynasty, and there are also cottages where Niu Xuan, the military champion of the Qing Dynasty, escaped from the war. Archaeological experts are surprised that there are such a group of ancient fortresses in the Central Plains. There is also a silver cave in the mountain where ancient people collected silver in the Ming and Yuan dynasties. There are inscriptions in the silver cave to prove it, and there are tools and utensils left by the ancient people in the silver cave to prove it. Among the scenic spots, the most magical ones are the caves. The sound of water in Nashui Cave is gurgling all day long; in Laojun Cave, there are "nine layers of sky and nine layers of earth". Suddenly there is a hall and then shrinks. If you follow the small cave, you can also see the hall, and then it becomes smaller. This scene repeats for nine floors. There are more than ten thousand people. Among the many caves, the most famous is Snowflake Cave. Snowflake Cave is different from other limestone caves. It is a gradual transformation of calcite through water dissolution and water erosion. Geologists believe that it is over 100 million years old. The cave can travel more than 500 meters and the hall can accommodate thousands of people. The small cave can be used by several people. The stone waterfalls, stone curtains and stalactites in the cave have different shapes, all of which tell beautiful stories, and their colors are like crystal jade and emerald. When the light shines on them, they shine in all directions. In particular, the cave walls are covered with snowflake-shaped stones, which sparkle under the light, making people feel like they are in a fairy tale world. This kind of alabaster has not been found in other caves, so it is called "the best snowflake cave in the world" by geologists. Because of this cave, the scenic spot is also called "Fuxi Mountain Snowflake Cave Scenic Spot". The water in the scenic spot is also very unique. Xiaolongchi at the foot of Zhaofeng Mountain is always full of clear water during droughts and floods, neither increasing nor decreasing. After testing and identification by the relevant departments in Shanghai, this is mineral water comparable to the Laoshan mineral spring. The meandering Yuxian River runs through the north and south of the scenic spot. It was blocked by dams and turned into ponds. Looking down from the top of the mountain, it is like a silver line connecting a square mirror. Waterfalls such as Zhuwatan Waterfall are like a hanging silver curtain, refreshing the mind and clearing the eyes. Nothing can create a magnificent atmosphere in a scenic spot than the large expanses of southern trees. This scenic spot is surrounded by mountains, and there is a curved canyon in the north that connects to the outside world. Even in the severe winter, the temperature in the area is still more than eight degrees higher than outside. In addition, the water vapor is moisturizing. The bamboo forest is green all year round, with white sandalwood and rosewood branches connected, ivy climbing higher than the mountain, and pines and cypresses. The sea blocks out the sun, and the entire scenic area has a green tree coverage rate of 98%. The mountains are high and the forests are dense. The scenic area has formed small scenic areas such as Shuoyu and Taohuayu, which are refreshing and pleasant, with winding valleys. The mountains here are also amazing. There are many Guilin-style mountain scenery, such as Jiming Stone, Bajie Stone, Mengbishenghua Peak, Arrow Passing Mountain, etc., which will give people a beautiful enjoyment. The Luorui Scenic Area, which is under construction, is located on both sides of the confluence of the Yiluo River and the Yellow River. On one side, with Du Fu's hometown in Zhanjie Town as the center, Du Fu Temple, Fangtang Street, Xiaowudang Mountain and Xingluocang were renovated. On the other side, with Shendu Mountain at the top of Mang Mountain in Nanhedu Township as the center, a great deal of greening has been carried out, the Yanhuang Emperors Alliance Altar and the Zhanhuang Pavilion have been rebuilt, the Xiuwa Cave has been renovated, the Hewang Temple has been renovated at the foot of the mountain, and the story of Hetu Luoshu has been sculpted. , built ancient villages at Honggou ancient human sites 500,000 years ago, repaired the world-famous Dali Mountain Grotto Temple and the former residences of brothers Liu Xueya and Liu Maoen, chairman of the governors of Shaanxi, Anhui and Henan provinces during the Republic of China. In addition, green willows will be planted on both sides of the river, and various rafting entertainment projects will be developed in the river, so that visitors can trace the roots of Chinese national culture here while appreciating nature. There are also the ancient city walls of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty built by King Ping of Zhou Dynasty in Kangdian, the Xingfo Temple of the Ming Dynasty built on the mountains on the bank of the Yellow River, the ruins of the ancient city of Huaguo in Luzhuang Township, the tomb of Su Qin, etc., all of which are quite attractive. charm. Gongyi City’s scenic tourism is still adding new content. Dingyan Village in Xiaoguan Town is surrounded by mountains on three sides. It used to be a poor mountain village. It has become rich in recent years. The antique garden-style buildings in the village are adjacent, fresh and pleasant. The sound of factory machines and the playing of military bands exude an exciting and modern atmosphere. The eighteen-mile winding mountain road winds around the mountain ridges, and the mountain tops are covered with green pines and cypresses. On the Lincun Mountain, the stone battlements of the Great Wall are undulating, and hunting grounds have been opened up on the mountain. The mountain and the mountain look like a mountain manor and forest scenery. Here you can get a glimpse of a well-off village. There are many cultural and natural landscapes developed and utilized in Gongyi City. The country has designated Gongyi City as a key county and city in the Central Plains Tourist Area, along with Kaifeng, Luoyang, Zhengzhou and Dengfeng City. Gongyi City's tourism resources have been praised by many experts at home and abroad, calling it the pearl of the Central Plains. With the further development of Gongyi City's economy and the increase in investment in tourism by the state, collectives and the masses, the future scenery of Gongyi City will be more charming, attracting visitors from all walks of life.