As the chief peak in the Shennong Altar, the Zijin Peak stands high above other mountains upright to the sky with 1,028 meters above the sea level. It looks like a huge pillar between the Heaven and the Earth. Recognized as one of the top mountains in North China, it enjoys a good fame along with Mountain Wudang in South China.
On the top of it, there is a terrace of 100 square meters, the surroundings of which are high cliffs with evergreen old pines growing. Being so high, it is a good place for mountain-climbing challengers. It is also said to be the place where Laojun distilled pills of immortality. That is perhaps why the mountain top is often covered by purple smoke and glorious shining lights. Standing on the southeast of the top, you can fully appreciate the grandeur of Mountain Taihang: chains of peaks join continuously; rivers and lakes intersect with each other; attractive spectacles are everywhere to be seen in the valleys——such a marvelous painting scroll unfolding before eyes.
Connected with Mountain Zijin only by a narrow stone path, the Sheshentai Peak stands upright near it. The flat top is only 5 square meters. A legend has it that Fuxi (an ancient tribal leader over 6,500 years ago in Chinese legend), has ever drawn the Eight Trigrams by listening to the sound of wind from eight different directions while he was sitting on the top. With tall cliffs of several hundred meters in height in the three directions, it is so frightening to stand on it that only people courageous enough dare to climb to the top. However, fences have been built now so that people can climb to the top for a wonderful sightseeing. Also, there is a huge rock on it, 2 meters long, 0.8 meters wide and about one ton in weight. It seems to have been carried here, which is, however, formed naturally. Sitting on the rock, you may even feel it shaking when the wind blows. |
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