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Yangjiao
Cave Scenic Zone |
| Yangjiao Cave Scenic Zone is a branch
of Mt. Yandang. Before it belonged to Mt. Yandang, it was famous
for its own previous name--Fangshan Mountain and had its own
explorer. That explorer is a Taoist. So the serial of its cave
culture education and other construction are full of Taoism
and it becomes the place with the most Chinese traditional folk
religious culture in the eight Mt. Yandang scenic zones. Yangjiao
Cave and Double Dragon Valley form this zone with a area of
less than 3 square kilometers, which is the smallest scenic
zone of all scenic zone of Mt. Yandang. But there are peak,
cave, waterfall, pool and lake in it and it is very near to
the sea, which gives it more unique views. It's small but unique
and good. However, since the existing Mt. Yandang, it has to
be a exquisite shadow of Mt. Yandang. |
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[Yangjiao
Cave Scenic Zone] == Yangjiao |
| Yangjiao Cave is a Taoism place.
It has another name as Yidong Cave. About the name of it there
are three reasons: No. 1 The gate mouth is exactly like a
horn. No. 2 There is a Yangjiao Well on the right of the cave.
No.3 There is a Yangjiao Rock in the right front of the cave.
All the three are reasonable. It locates in a rock of 450
meters high. The cave is 9 meters high, 18 meters wide, 13
meters deep. There is a Yuchan Palace in the cave whose name
is from a rock like a fog in the right side of the cave. Its
construction is of four wood eaves. There are also Fangzhang
Building of two floors and a Cangjing Building. In the middle
of the cave there is a cave of two meters high, 6 meters wide
and 1 meter deep. From the left to the right there are seven
spirits. All of their figures sit in the cave and own different
figures. There is an iron bell that made in the second year
of Xuantong of Qing Dynasty in the right of the temple. There
are also six caves in the left and right sides of Yangjiao
Cave. Many people visit here. |
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| This cave is always for Taoism. It
is said that Zhou Yishan and Song Xiangxi of Han Dynasty enter
Heaven in this cave. This cave completes its construction until
Qing Dynasty. The Tablet Record of Yangjiao Cave said that Chen
Tiyang is the explorer. Chen Tiyang, with other names Jingyuan
and Shaogu, was born in Wenling. During Xianfeng Period of Qing
Dynasty, he converted Longmen Ye Yongshen, the Eighteenth Master
of Longmen and rebuilt the construction of Longmen studying
for ten year. During Tongzhi Period of Qing Dynasty, he built
Three Pure Ones Temple, Lv Master Temple, Three Spirits Temple,
Ziting Building, kitchens and the total quantity was more than
eighty. In the middle of Guangxu Period, all the constructions
were developed further and Yuchan Palace was built in this period.
In early years of Minguo, some buildings like Ziyang Building
and Xiagao Building were built. But during Culture Reform, almost
all the constructions and buildings were ruined. In recent years,
our government rebuilt the main hall, Fangzhang Building, Cangjing
Building and three supplementary halls of one floor. Yuchan
Palace was built and was named after the huge rock named Chanchu
Rock in the right of the cave. In the end of 80'three main hall
were built and Three Pure Ones, the Senior General Yang and
the first son of Yang. In winter of 1991, the figures in main
hall were changed into stone features. In the middle of the
rock wall of the main hall, a rock cave of 6 meters wide, 2
meters high and 1 meter deep was cut and seven features including
the explorer Chen Tiyang were there. |
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