What's interesting in Ziyang, Sichuan?

Ziyang is rich in tourism resources, especially Anyue stone carvings, which began in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. They are known as "another treasure house of ancient sculptures in China" for their "antiquity, variety, refinement and beauty". There are more than 45 stone carvings/kloc-0 in Tang and Song Dynasties, more than 50 stone carvings over 3 meters, and more than 400,000 words of scripture. In addition, there are Ziyang Half Moon Mountain Giant Buddha, Hedong Giant Buddha, Jianyang Shijingshan "Toushi" and "Zhang Feiying", Lezhi Chen Yi's former residence, Guobao Temple and other places of interest. Sancha Lake in Jianyang is 50 kilometers away from Chengdu, with a coastline of 240 kilometers, and there are three islands 1 13. The lake is open and delicious. It was listed as a world-famous lake and reservoir by Hong Kong in 1993. Jianyang Longquan Lake is only 38 kilometers away from Chengdu, with 14 islands, which have peculiar shapes and pleasant scenery. In 2000, it was listed as a provincial natural ecological protection zone. Huaxi Valley, a scenic spot, originates from Zhongjiang County, flows through Jintang and Jianyang, and flows into Tuojiang River at Yanjiaba mouth of Baohe Town, Yanjiang District. The total length is 136.54 km, and the river course in Yanjiang District is 34.4 km long. At present, 25 natural landscapes and 3 human landscapes/kloc-0 have been discovered. From Lianghekou in Baohe Town to Shuanghe Bridge in Laojun Town, it is the lower reaches of Huaxi River. This section of the river is wide, the river is calm, the banks are shaded by trees and bamboo forests, and the clear streams are reflected on the banks, forming a strange landscape of "the mountain is in the water and the boat is on the mountain". From Yuqiao in Baohe Town to Sanhekou in Luojia Village, Zhonghe Town, this section of scenery is the essence of Huaxi, where the green mountains and green waters are used incisively and vividly. The mountains on both sides of the river are shelterbelts in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River that have passed the acceptance of the national forestry department. In Lin Qiu, red, yellow and green leaves complement each other and are colorful, which can be compared with Jiuzhai in autumn. After crossing the Sanhe estuary, the riverbed suddenly narrowed, but it was more than ten meters wide. This river is unfathomable. Stones 30 to 40 meters long and 10 meters wide can be seen everywhere, lying on both sides of the river, uneven, and the ship can't sail. The mountains on both sides of the strait are steep and densely forested, with a height of 200-300 meters, forming a strange landscape of West China that is more than 4,000 meters long. Sancha Lake Sancha Lake Scenic Area is located in the southwest of jianyang city, with Sancha Lake Reservoir as the center. It is the core scenic spot of five new boutique tourist routes "two lakes and one mountain" in Sichuan Province. 60 kilometers away from Chengdu, it is an artificial lake with the largest number of islands in Sichuan Province, with 1 13 islands. Now there are Flower Island, Bird Island, Moon Island and Swan Villa that have been developed. Sancha Lake has a water storage capacity of 223 million cubic meters, a circumference of 240 kilometers, a length of 18 kilometers from north to south and a width of 7 kilometers from east to west, and a total lake area of 1 10 square kilometers. The lake area is abundant in rainfall and pleasant in temperature. Sancha Lake has a beautiful shape and the water is clear and steep. Looking up, it looks like a huge jasper coral. Its branches in the southwest are winding, and the mountains in the northwest are mountainous. There are 19 long dikes like jade belts on the east bank, which make the lake beautiful and colorful. If it is winter and spring, thousands of waterfowl living near the island will rise and fall, three. The lake area is centered on artificial lakes, with criss-crossing tributaries and dense islands. Large and small islands 1 13, and many scenic spots with islands as the main attractions 10, such as Swan Villa, Flower Island, Moon Island, Bird Island, Zhanlong Island, Female Disaster Stone and White Tiger. There are beautiful and precipitous landscapes such as Single Crystal, Zhang Feiying, Ganfeng Temple, San Emei, Niujiaozhai, Shidonggou and ancient Moyan sculpture in the mountainous area around the lake. Sancha Lake Scenic Area is an ideal place for tourism, recuperation, vacation and water sports, with clear water, beautiful islands, pleasant climate, distinct seasons and complete service facilities. Longquan Lake Longquan Lake is located in Shipan Town, jianyang city, 37 kilometers away from Chengdu and 28 kilometers away from Jianyang. The scenic spot is 5 1. 1 km2, and the water area is 5.5 km2. There are 24 islands and 12 peninsulas in the lake area. The main attractions of Longquan Lake are Qiguling, Shaibupo, Wadeng Temple and Shilichang Gorge, among which the scenery of Shilichang Gorge, which is 5380 meters long, is very charming. It connects 65,438+00 entrances and bypasses 65,438+02 peaks. On both sides of the lake, there are strange peaks and rocks, and the grass is sad. The lake is blue, the breeze is slow, and the boats are sailing. Very beautiful. The annual Peach Blossom Party in Taohua Island in the Lake District is full of flowers and butterflies flying. Tourists stop on the island, wearing flowers, and enter a state of "stepping into the forest to find flowers", which makes people linger. Longquan Lake Scenic Area has convenient transportation, and Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway, chengdu-chongqing railway and five concrete standard roads run through the north and south. There are various amusement parks, cruise ships and restaurants in the lake area, which is a good place for people to play and spend their holidays. There are many giant buddhas in China in Half Moon Mountain, and there are 15 giant buddhas in Sichuan, with Ziyang accounting for one third. There are also many stories about giant buddhas in Sichuan. The five giant buddhas in Ziyang are all carved in the Tang Dynasty, among which the national cultural relics protection unit Anyue reclining Buddha is 23 meters long; The provincial cultural relics protection units, Banyueshan Giant Buddha is 23.4m high, Yangjiawan Giant Buddha is10.5m high, Qilong 'ao Giant Buddha is10.5m high, and Danshan Giant Buddha is10m high. Half Moon Mountain Buddha is named after it is located in the half moon mountain, which is shaped like the last quarter moon. Located in Beiji Town, Yanjiang District, Ziyang, it is the second largest sitting Buddha in Sichuan, and it is said that it ranks 22nd in the world. Half Moon Mountain Buddha is a cliff statue, that is, a Buddha statue carved on the cliff wall. In particular, the statue of Maitreya is a pure land statue. The giant Buddha sits in a rectangular stone niche, facing north, with a height of 22.24 meters and a chest width of 1 1.2 meters. The magnificent structure makes people awe at first sight. The Buddha's face is plump, his ears droop, his expression is serene and quiet, and his eyes look down peacefully, as if watching the worshippers with concern, which makes people feel amiable and respectable. There is a wall carving on the upper left of the niche. The nine characters "August 15th, Zhenyuan Nine Years" are more obvious, and the rest of the characters are hard to argue. The middle part is engraved with Preface to the Giant Buddha Monument. In addition, there is a stone carving on the cliff of Half Moon Mountain from the Northern Song Dynasty to the second year of Daoguang (AD 996). The old name of this mountain is Fusheng Mountain, and the words have been eroded, and the name of the book is gone. There is also a poem carved on Mo Yan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1165-1173), which says: "The famous temples in the Tang Dynasty are Zichuan Avenue, with low hanging rocks and miscellaneous stones, recalling ancient sites, leaning against a foreign land, and the west window is beautiful. The construction of the Half Moon Mountain Buddha took a long time. It was built in the 17th year of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan (according to legend, it was built in the 9th year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong, that is, in 793 AD). It took 150 years continuously and was handed down from generation to generation before it was carved into a giant Buddha shaped on a cliff. 1 13 1 year (the first year of Shaoxing, Song Gaozong), Mei Xiu, a layman in southern Sichuan, led Zhou Yi and others to carve eyebrows for the giant Buddha until it was completely completed. It took 484 years to build the Giant Buddha. In the seventh year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1456), Yan Zigong, Luo Shu and others got together with the monk Haiming, and built a temple next to the Giant Buddha and five temples. According to the ancient Buddha's regulations, the Heavenly King Hall, Maitreya Hall, Ursa Major Hall, Guandian Hall and Sanxing Hall were built under the cliff of the Giant Buddha, which lasted 16 years and became the Great Buddha Temple. The temple is magnificent in architecture and exquisitely carved with the complete biography of The Journey to the West. At this point, the incense of the Great Buddha Temple is getting stronger and stronger, and it is very lively. It took more than 800 years from the excavation of the giant Buddha to the completion of the temple. They are not only the product of religion, but also the crystallization of painstaking efforts, wisdom and sweat of dozens of generations. It has high cultural and artistic value. Half Moon Mountain Buddha has been weathered and eroded for more than a year. Especially during the Cultural Revolution, it was destroyed as a "four old buildings" and was seriously damaged. All the ancillary facilities of the Giant Buddha were demolished and destroyed. Later, a large number of stones were mined in the back mountain, which left the giant Buddha scarred. The Great Buddha Temple was once used as a school and township government, and was demolished in 197 1 and 1972 to build a school and township government. The last batch was destroyed in 1977. 198 1 Half Moon Mountain Giant Buddha is listed as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. /kloc-in the winter of 0/990, provincial and county grants and social donations amounted to more than 300,000 yuan, which initially restored the Giant Buddha. However, the ancillary facilities and temples of the Giant Buddha are gone, and the cultural relics in the temple are also gone, including the priceless sculpture of the Journey to the West and Quanchuan. At the foot of the giant Buddha, it is now a messy house. Those beautifully designed incense tables of temple pillars have long been used by farmers to tie livestock and hold sewage. Only the two Castanopsis kawakamii trees in front of the original temple, which have survived for hundreds of years, are still lush, echoing the giant Buddha hanging from the cliff at a distance, and * * * has become the witness of human vicissitudes. As a religious statue, because the temple was destroyed, there was no place for activities, and the incense of the Half Moon Mountain Buddha was also neglected. As a local cultural relic, due to its remote location and insufficient publicity, the world knows very little, and even many Ziyang people don't know where it is and what it is. The giant ancient Buddha lost in the wilderness ... Wufeng Mountain Forest Park is located next to the Eagle Reservoir in Wangshui Town, jianyang city, 35 kilometers away from Jianyang City. There are towering old trees, lush forests, fragrant turtle vines and beautiful scenery in the park. Rare plants such as rootless vines, mandarin ducks, bodhi trees and ancient ginkgo are dotted among them, without losing the ancient original ecological features. Wufeng Mountain covers an area of several square kilometers and is surrounded by Eagle Reservoir, a drinking water source in ziyang, with a water area of 3 square kilometers. Clear and transparent lakes and simple and lush forests constitute a cool realm like a paradise, which has the reputation of "Xanadu", so it is also called "forest park" by Jianyang people. Wufeng Mountain has a profound cultural heritage. The Heishui Ancient Temple, built in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, preserves ancient Buddha statues and various inscriptions, attracting tens of thousands of tourists every year. Mysterious stories and legends, such as Wufengqi, Heishui Bell, Bangxian Stone, Heishui Altar, and "a ditch with twenty-four golden locks", bring endless reverie to tourists. Huayan Cave Huayan Cave is located in Box Hat Mountain, Yun Chi District, Shiyang Town, 56 kilometers southeast of Anyue County. The cliff statues here were carved in the Northern Song Dynasty. There are 159 statues in "Huayan Cave" and "Daprajna Cave", and there are 24 inscriptions in the past dynasties, which are beautifully carved, large-scale and well preserved. 196 1 year, the people's government of Sichuan Province announced Huayan Cave as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit. Huayan Cave is square flat-topped, with a height of 6.2m, a width of10m and a depth of1/0.3m.. A huge "swastika" is engraved on the top of the cave, and three "Hua Yan San Sheng" with a total height of 5.2 meters are engraved in the middle of the back wall of the cave. Tathagata dressed in cassock, eyes slightly open, serious expression, hands full of wisdom, sitting cross-legged on the lotus platform. Manjusri Bodhisattva lives on the left side of the Tathagata, straddling the green lion, with its right leg bent and its left leg stepping on the lotus core. Bodhisattva Samantabhadra rides a white elephant, living on the right side of the Tathagata, with his left leg bent and a lotus on his right leg. Its sculptures have a strong sense of symmetry and clear priorities, which better highlights the status of Buddha as a Buddha. There are five circular statues carved on the left and right walls, each with a height of 4. 1 m, also known as the top ten disciples. On the left and right cave walls, there are also 53 auspicious boy pictures and pavilions and pagodas. The statue of the Great Prajna Cave on the right wall of Huayan Cave is 4.2m high, 4.2m wide and 4.8m deep. It is a cave that integrates Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. The main image of the main wall is a meditation Buddha statue, 2.3 meters high, with a bun on his head and robes, full figure and slightly open eyes. There are ten disciples of Laojun, Confucius, Wei Tuo, Manjusri and Buddhism engraved on its left and right. The two walls are divided into upper, middle and lower layers: the upper layer is carved with ten Buddhas, the middle layer is carved with twenty-four heavens, and the lower layer is carved with eighteen Buddhas and arhats. The top of the cave is engraved with two characters with a diameter of 2.2 meters side by side. There is a local legend, "whoever recognizes the word upside down is a living immortal." But today, no one can recognize the word. The forehead of the cave is engraved with the words "Da Prajna Cave", as well as the words "Gengzi Book in the 4th year of Jiaxi (A.D. 1240)" and the next paragraph signed "Zhao Yin Ownership Book". From the left wall of the cave, we can know that this cave is a sculpture relic left by the Southern Song Dynasty. The Huayan Cave stone carving of the Great Prajna Cave, which is a combination of three religions, is the essence of stone carving art, with its dynamic and static phases, different expressions, exquisite conception, reasonable layout, exquisite carving and exquisite workmanship. The Piludong Stone Sculpture is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit announced by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government 1956. Pilu Cave is located in Tazi Mountain, Youping Village, Yun Chi District, Shiyang Town, southeast of Anyue County, 45 kilometers away from the county seat. The road from Anyue to Dazu passes through the foot of Tazi Mountain. Here the mountains and rivers are beautiful and the rocks are steep, and Pilu Cave is carved in these beautiful rocks. Pilu Cave is actually the collective name of Pilu Cave, Youju Cave, Thousand Buddha Cave and Kannonji. There are 465 cliff stone statues and 32 inscriptions. No. 19 Guanyin Sutra Cave in Piludong According to the inscription in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, the stone carving in Piludong was built in Shu after the Five Dynasties, and it has been cultivated and carved by successive dynasties. It was once one of the main Dojo of Sichuan Buddhism Tantric Sect from the Five Dynasties to the Northern Song Dynasty. In particular, the Shuiyue Guanyin carved by Kannonji was called "Purple Bamboo Guanyin" by the masses, and Han Suying, a British Chinese writer, praised her as "Venus of the East", which is a rare artistic treasure in the stone carving art of the Northern Song Dynasty in China. This purple bamboo Guanyin is 3 meters high and hangs in the exposed cliff grottoes. She leans on the embossed purple bamboo willow net bottle and wears a rich and luxurious gold-plated corolla; Moths have vertical eyebrows, drooping phoenix eyes, slightly long straight nose and slightly closed lips; Wearing short sleeves and thin sleeves, bare chest and elbows, and wearing armbands looks like a golden waterfall falling with you, and the net falls on the chest and abdomen; The long skirt in the lower half is as thin as a cicada's wing, close to the waist and legs, and the dress is elegant and dynamic. She sat on a 3-meter-long curved lotus leaf with her upper body slightly to the left; The left hand caresses the leaf surface, the right hand is placed on the knee, and the five fingers naturally droop; A pair of beautiful barefoot, left foot hanging on the lotus platform, gently stepping on the stamen, right leg bending upward, pedaling on the lotus leaf, so people also commonly call her "Guanyin". Purple bamboo Guanyin seems to be a graceful, gentle and chic girl. She has both the charm of a girl and the appearance of a goddess, and has a strong secular atmosphere. People love to call her "romantic Guanyin". Seeing the Purple Bamboo Guanyin, people have to be impressed by the superb and ingenious skills of the carving masters in the Song Dynasty. In addition, the statues of Liu Benzun, the fifth ancestor of Tantric Sect, carved in Pilu Cave and Youju Cave are also unique. Especially in the Pilu Cave with a height of 6.6m, a width of14m and a depth of 4.5m, Liu Benzun's "Ten Practice Pictures" carved is a masterpiece with rigorous composition, vividness and understandability. It mainly preaches tantric teachings through ten harsh practices: finger training, snow training, ankle training, gouging out eyes, cutting ears, top training, arm lying, yin training and knee training. Both sides are also carved with king kong, the patron saint of axe and sword. When you come to the cave, there is a great sense of chill, which makes you awe or fear the holiness of Buddhism. Piludong's "Ten Liantu" is like a comic book of lectures, which is a valuable material for studying Sichuan tantric school and textual research on Liu Benzun's life. Piludong stone carving is the crystallization of Buddhist art in Song Dynasty, which has high historical research value and sightseeing value. In July, 20001year, the State Council was announced as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.