Mountain Zituan

Mountain Zituan lies 60km to the south-east of the town area of the Huguan County and gets its name Zituan which literally means purple clouds coiling into masses on the mountain top.

Mountain Zituan covers an area of scores of acres where numerous peaks rise sharply. For its unusual beauty, it has earned the fame competing with Mountain Wuyi in south China. Hundreds of verses and poems eulogizing its beauty have been passed on till today to describe its eight major scenic spots: the Xianweng Cliff, the Yungai Temple, the Zhaobi Hill, the Yixiu Peak, the Nancan Garden, the Tangya Stele, the Jiangjun Peak, the Cuiwei Cave and the Bailong Pond. The Yungai Temple standing on the mountain top is also named the Baiyun Temple which literally means the White Cloud Temple. It is a Buddhist temple facing south made of two courts, with dougong structures (a system of brackets in Chinese building made of wooden square blocks inserted between the top of a column and a crossbeam) in the hall, wooden carves and four famous groups of brick embossment on dramas which makes the temple even more distinguished. The Ziwei Cave, also called Zituan Cave, is where Taoist Ziwei used to face the wall and meditate. The labyrinth-like cave is always unpredictable in size. Somewhere the ceiling could be as high as more than 50 meters and the width could be as large as more than 30 meters while the narrowest path allows only a single person to pass. 1,500 square meters of the cave has been developed into tourist area covering 151 scenic spots including the Heaven Gods, the Arhats, the “Eight Immortals Touring on the Sea”, the “Jade Dragon of Longevity” etc.

Publishes at : 07-12-09 17:57

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