Southern Gate of Heaven

Southern Gate of Heaven has an eighteen Chinese miles distance from Southern Mountain Town, from the back of Southern Mountain Temple, walking up in the zigzag way along the mountain circling road, passing the Banshan Pavilion (halfway mountainside pavilion), not too far after passing Yehou College, you will arrived at Southern Gate of Heaven with the murky cloud and fog hanging over it.
 
Under the Southern Gate of Heaven, there is the Wolong Stone (dragon crouching stone) with the shape of ship, namely the flied-over ship with the background of flowing cloud, it seems that the ship is driving the wind and marching on in the billow of the cloud sea. And the stone torii of Southern Gate of Heaven is just a highly erected backstay. The torii has the division of the middle gate, and left gate and the right gate, on the horizontal plaque of the middle gate, engraves three big red scribing Chinese characters “Nan Tianmen (Southern Gate of Heaven)”, on the left and right horizontal plaque engraves “Xingyun (flowing cloud)”, “Shiyu (falling rain)”, the trance of handwriting is straight and eye-catching.

Publishes at : 08-01-04 22:22

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