Tourism in Boluo County
Yuanyin Ancient Temple
It is located in Tiantang Mountain, Boluo County, Guangdong Province. It is also at the foot of Xiangtou Mountain, a national first-level forest park, and adjacent to the famous Luofu Mountain at home and abroad. The ancient temple was built during the Tang and Song Dynasties and has a long history; during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Buddhist Taoist temple flourished. This place was once known as "Ten Thousands of Fields", and the ancient temple is located in the majestic Feng Shui land of the mountains. Scenic spots include Guanyin Cave, Natural Bodhidharma Statue, Yangmei Pavilion, Zhuanshui Spring, Sanxianbu, etc.
Yingang Ancient Kiln Site
It is located in Yingang Village, Longxi Town, Boluo County. It dates from the Western Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, with a total area of 100,000 square meters. Four dragon kilns have been excavated, 10 meters long and 2 meters wide. The unearthed artifacts include: pottery, bronze, iron, stone, etc., mainly pottery. The main shapes of the utensils include: pots, cauldrons, boxes, cups, bowls, tripods, beans, gourds, etc. The decorations include: pattern, rice pattern, square Plaid, plain etc. It is an ancient cultural site with high historical, artistic and scientific value. In July 2002, it was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Guangdong Province.
Jiutian Temple
The original Ming Fu Temple, 2 kilometers away from Chongxu Temple in Zhuming Cave, was built in the Southern Han Dynasty and has a history of more than 700 years. The name of the temple was written by Su Dongpo in the Song Dynasty (has been lost). According to "Yi Tong Zhi" of the Ming Dynasty, there is Xihua Taoist Temple inside, which is where Zhang Yuan'an retreated. It can be seen that it existed in the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Kuang Lu studied reading and called himself the Master of Mingfu Cave. In the early Qing Dynasty, Guan Guan gradually declined, and Xihua Taoist Temple was also abandoned. It was rebuilt during the Qianlong period and was named Jiutian Temple. It was renovated during the Republic of China, with a construction area of about 1,000 square meters.
The main hall is the Jinque Palace, the lower hall is the Wangling Palace, the left hall is the Luzu Hall and the Dimu Hall, and the right is the guest hall. There is a life-release pond in front of the temple, and there are seven water dream pine trees beside the pond. Old records say: "Ji Qi is ancient, almost thousands of years old." There is the famous Jiutianguan mineral water on the side of the temple. It was reopened in 1985 and was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit by Boluo County.
Ancient city wall
On November 17, 2004, a section of the ancient city wall was excavated at the construction site of the western section of Rongxi River embankment in Boluo County. After research, it was confirmed to be an ancient city wall from the Ming Dynasty. The city wall is the only relatively complete ancient city wall from the Ming Dynasty that has been preserved in Boluo Middle School. It is a building of the same period.
After two days of inspection and measurement, archaeologists found that this section of the ancient city wall was about 80 meters long. Because it had been buried under the soil for many years, most of the walls were incomplete. The height of the city wall ranged from 30 centimeters to 300 meters. Centimeters vary. The entire ancient city wall is divided into two layers. The wall base is made of red sandstone, with different lengths, some are 50 cm long, and some are 80 cm long. The thickest section of the wall base is composed of 8 red sandstone strips. The material on the upper part of the city wall is blue bricks. Each green brick is similar in size, about 30 cm long and 15 cm wide. In order to prevent this section of the ancient city wall from being damaged, workers have built a river embankment outside the city wall and covered the city wall inside the river embankment.
According to the records of Boluo County, before the Ming Dynasty, due to the impact of war, Boluo County was surrounded by ruins and the city was very primitive. In the 23rd year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (about 1465), a capital censor official inspected the county seat. Seeing the dilapidation along the city wall, he issued a notice and asked Tao Lu, the censor, to build a city wall locally to protect the residents. After Tao Lu and Ouyang Kai, the then magistrate, accepted the order, they used red sandstone as the wall foundation and built an ancient city wall with a circumference of nearly 2,000 meters, a height of nearly 5 meters, and a thickness of more than 3 meters within the county. They also designed walls at important pass There are 5 city gates in the southeast, northwest and middle. Many years later, floods occurred in the area and many parts of the city walls were washed away. According to the "Boluo County Chronicle" compiled in the 28th year of Qianlong's reign (1763), during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the ancient city wall had been continuously restored and had reached a height of 8 meters, with a total of 10 towers and gates. Huang Guanli said that during the Anti-Japanese War in the last century, most of the ancient city wall was destroyed due to successive wars and natural disasters. Only a 34-meter-long section of the Ming Dynasty ancient city wall located in Boluo Middle School was relatively intact. Huang Guanli said: "Based on the location of the ancient city wall discovered, the size of the city bricks, etc., it can be determined that this section of the ancient city wall is the Great West Gate Juguang section of the Ming city wall, which echoes the existing ancient city wall."
Ning Ji Bridge
The third batch of county-level cultural relics protection units in Boluo County: Ningji Bridge in Jiangdong Village.
Ningji Bridge is also known as Xuehu Bridge and later Jiangdong Bridge. It was built in the Ming Dynasty and was built with donations from Zeng Shunyu, a local resident.
The bridge runs east-west and is a flat stone bridge with two arches and piers. It is 18.5 meters long, 4.2 meters wide and 7 meters high. They are all built with red stone strips. In the early years of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Zeng Shunyu, a local, studied at the "Qinglong Academy" in Huaiyuan, Jiangdong when he was young. To go to school, he had to go around the foot of Hululing Mountain and wade across the river, which was very inconvenient. What's more, once when I was going to school, I saw a young woman carrying a sickle in her hand while carrying a load across a river. She accidentally fell into the water, and she hurriedly stepped forward to rescue her. He once determined that if he became famous in the future, he would build a bridge across the river to facilitate the people. In 1598 (the twenty-sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty), Shun Yuzhong became a Jinshi and was awarded the title of Supervisory Envoy. In order to fulfill the long-cherished wish of the past, we donated money to build the "Xuehu Bridge" on the river.
Chongxu Temple
Chongxu Temple was first built in Jin Dynasty and was rebuilt in the 13th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1808). It is one of the key Taoist temples in the country. The total construction area is 4,400 square meters, with a quadrangle layout. The main building consists of a platform, mountain gate, patio, Sanqing Hall, Gexian Temple, two verandas and a dining hall. The mountain gate, the Sanqing Hall, and the two verandas all have mountain-style roofs, with a width of five rooms and a depth of three rooms, with a mixed beam frame of lifting beams and buckets. The roof ridges, interior and exterior styles, and walls are all decorated with a large number of gray sculptures, pottery sculptures, and murals. The themes include figures, flowers, landscapes, erudition, calligraphy, etc., which have high artistic value. In December 1979, it was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Guangdong Province.
Luofu Mountain Cliff Carvings
Luofu Mountain Cliff Carvings are located in Luofu Mountain, Boluo County. They are mainly distributed in Zhuming Cave, Baihe Temple, Jiutian Temple, Huanglong Temple, Huashoutai and Sumo Temple. There are 132 identified scenic spots in eight scenic spots, including Baoji Temple, Baoji Temple, and Chaoyuan Cave. They date from the Song Dynasty to the Republic of China, with various calligraphy styles including seal script, official script, regular script, running script, and cursive script, as well as poems, couplets, notes, and inscriptions. It is complete with various styles and styles, and has inscriptions by celebrities such as Zu Wuze, Zhan Ruoshui, Liang Qichao, and Qiu Fengjia.
In June 1989, it was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Guangdong Province.
Ancient Tombs in Hengling Mountain
The Guangdong Provincial Institute of Archeology excavated more than 300 ancient tombs within 8,000 square meters of Hengling Mountain in Langtou, Luoyang Town, Boluo County. During the Shang Dynasty, most of them belonged to the two-week period, and hard pottery fragments with checkered patterns, Kui patterns and other printed patterns were found in ancient tombs. At the same time, a large number of exquisite pottery, primitive porcelain, bronze, jade, iron, etc. were unearthed. Among them, for the first time, a bronze Yong bell was unearthed from a tomb from the Zhou Dynasty in Guangdong. This is the Bronze Age tomb group with the largest number, the most exquisite unearthed objects, and the richest variety among similar tombs discovered and excavated in Guangdong so far. This not only confirms that there was indeed a Bronze Age with a high level of civilization in Lingnan history, but also provides the possibility of the existence of the ancient Fulou Kingdom, thus allowing the archaeologically certified history of Lingnan civilization to be traced back to 3,000 years ago.
The medicine-washing pool
The medicine-washing pool is made of blue bricks and covers an area of about 15 square meters. It is the place where Ge Hong and his wife Bao Gu usually wash and collect Chinese herbal medicine. Beside the pool There is a vigorous boulder, oval in shape, 4 meters wide and 3 meters high. This is the ancient Diaoyutai. On the boulder near the pond is an inscription by Qiu Fengjia, a Taiwanese patriotic poet in the late Qing Dynasty: "The immortal washes the medicine pool, and smells the fragrance of the medicine. The hair of the immortal washes the medicine." "I will never come back, the ancient pool is soaked in the cold plum blossom moon", with the inscription "The autumn of Gengxu is the theme of Chongxu Guan." In addition, in the upper corner of this poem, Mao Hexiang engraved the four words "Qi Zi lives in seclusion". In 1988, the medicine pool was listed. It is the third batch of county-level cultural relics protection units.
Dongpo Pavilion
Dongpo Pavilion is located at the upper end of the medicine pool on the right side of Chongxu Temple. It was built during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. The pavilion has four corners, and two 2.2-meter-high stone pillars are engraved with couplets: "The alchemy pond of Danzao is a scenic spot; the sound of birds and the shadows of flowers are the source of immortality." A wooden plaque with a palindrome of "The fragrance of flowers is quiet in the cold sky and the moon" hangs on the beam inside the pavilion. Legend has it that Su Dongpo built a mountain house here and planned to learn from Ge Hong in practicing alchemy. Thousands of plum trees are planted nearby, and the plum blossoms are in full bloom, competing with the sun. Later generations built the "Dongpo Pavilion" on the spot to commemorate it. The pavilion is a key cultural relic protection unit in Boluo County.