Mountain Baoyang lies 4 kilometers southwest of Mancheng County, 25 kilometers west of Baoding City, and against Mountain Taihang on the west. The mountain faces the south, in a form like embracing the sun, and that's why it is called Mountain Baoyang (“bao” means “embrace”, and “yang” means “sun”). In 1989, it was nominated as a provincial scenic spot by Hebei Provincial Government.
There are many places of interest on the mountain. Temples are scattered everywhere in the scenic area, thus forming Mountain Baoyang culture featuring Buddhism. It is also called Mountain Huayang, and is “the No.1 place of interest in Mancheng”. There are mainly eight sights: “One-mu Stone” (a very huge stone), “Hundred-Step Corridor” (a long stone corridor), “ Climbing-the-Sky Ladder” (scores of natural stone steps), “ Holding-the-sky Tree” (a cliff projecting out as if making efforts to hold up the sky), “Dropping-water Hall” (a karst cave facing the south, more than six meters wide and deep), “ Heaven-and-Earth Cypress” (two cypresses having the same root), “Horn Cave” (a horn-like karst cave, scores of meters deep, with springs in it) and “Pearl Pit” (a semi-circle pit). According to folklore, Pearl Pit was a place where a one-thousand-year-old spider made pills of immortality and cultivated vital energy. Because he went against God's will in order to rescue the local people, he was struck by a thunderbolt, and as a result, a smooth and hollow pit was left there. For the sake of gracefulness, the later generations changed the Chinese character “蛛” (meaning “spider”) into “珠” (meaning “pearl”).
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