Guniu Mountain, called Guniu Mountain in ancient times, is located in the east of Dongchuan District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province. Guniu Mountain is 40 17 meters above sea level, which is the highest peak of Wumeng Mountain. Guniu Mountain, with steep mountains and towering peaks, is often shrouded in clouds. Whenever the weather is sunny, the green is about to drip, and you can see it four or five hundred miles away. In addition to the magnificent and steep natural scenery, Guniu Mountain is also fascinated by simple villagers, beautiful and magical legends and charming folk customs.
Li, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, wrote in the poem "Joy in the Mountains": "It is only five feet away from the sky, and there is a pretty village in the snail corner. At the end of the year, the clouds bury the top and the snow presses the door. Yin and yang are faint and cut, and the sun and the moon swallow. I don't know the dangerous place, but I still cherish my descendants. " Judging from this poem, there are cottages inhabited by ethnic minorities on the top of the mountain only "five feet" from the sky. Clouds bury the top of the mountain all year round, and heavy snow presses the door in winter, which is extremely cold.
The towering blessings in the mountains are like a natural barrier that dominates the world, clearly separating sunny days and rainy days in front of and behind the mountains, devouring the days and months that come and go constantly. If you are a stranger who has never been to the top of the mountain, you must not know that there are still descendants of ethnic minorities living in that towering desperate situation.
Characteristics of Guniu Mountain
The unique slate building is located at Wangjiaqing at the foot of Guniu Mountain, with an altitude of 2,400 meters. Due to the inconvenience of high mountains and roads, smart and hardworking villagers use local materials, build walls with stones, cover roofs with slates, pave roads with stones, make pots with concave stones, make stoves with square stones, and make stone benches, stone mills, stone mortars, stone beds, stone pillows, etc. And every household has a fire pit for cooking.
Slate houses are not only ventilated, but also warm in winter and cool in summer, waterproof and moisture-proof. The shape of the house is determined by Mr. Feng Shui, and the building is calculated by the five elements of fire, water and soil in Jin Mu and the animal sign of every household. This is another vivid example of the heyday of Guniu Mountain Taoism.
Wang Jiaqing's slate house has strong folk historical and cultural architectural characteristics, which constitutes a unique slate house cultural characteristic with the local production and lifestyle. Moreover, it has a large scale and a long history of more than 200 years. It has been listed in the Cultural Protection List of Folk Ancient Buildings in Kunming.
The whole village of Wang Jiaqing gathered in a block on the south slope of Guniu Mountain. Blue slate houses are bathed in the sunshine of the plateau, and the houses in the mountains, the houses beside the mountains, and the houses are integrated with the mountains. The mountains, stone houses and people's lives in the mountains have formed an elegant paradise, an ancient ink painting scroll.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Guniu Mountain