The Legend of Baiyun Mountain in Guangzhou
The mountain is not high, and the fairy is famous.
Here, the peaks are green, the streams are vertical and horizontal, and the grotesque canyon is beautiful.
When the wind and rain change, overlooking the top of the mountain, surrounded by white clouds, green hills are shrouded in the vast sea of clouds, and Emei Yunshan is wrapped in silver, hence the name Baiyun Mountain.
The history of this famous mountain in southern Guangdong is related to the myth of An Qisheng.
In 2 14 BC, after Qin unified Lingnan, he was appointed as the chief of Nanhai.
Ren Xiao built a Panyu City (now Guangzhou) under Baiyun Mountain.
Legend has it that an alchemist named Zheng Anqi (also known as An Qisheng) came to South Guangdong from the coast of the East China Sea.
When he saw many soldiers and people living in Panyu, he fell ill because of acclimatization or poor living environment, so he settled in Baiyun Mountain and collected many herbs to treat the people.
According to legend, Jiulong Spring is the place where An 'an Jiu Boy (the embodiment of Jiulong) was born, and Baiyun Cave is its hometown.
On the 25th day of the seventh lunar month, he went to the brook of Baiyun Mountain to collect a precious herb-cattail.
He waded over the rocks and came to Yunyan.
After many searches, he finally found a nine-section calamus on the cliff.
He climbed up the vine and reached for nine calamus. Suddenly, the wild vine broke and he accidentally fell into the rock.
On the edge of falling into the bottomless abyss, a white cloud suddenly rose from the cliff and became a crane, and Ran Ran ascended to heaven.
In memory of An Qisheng, later generations built the Yunyan Temple on the mountain, which is known as "Angel Feixian Platform". A big stone suddenly rising in the air nearby is called "crane Shu Tai".
On the 25th day of the seventh lunar month, Guangzhou citizens came to Yunyan Temple to offer sacrifices to An Qisheng, who gave his life for all beings. There are many women and scholars on Yunshan Road.
Scholars and poets of past dynasties still left many cliff stone carvings here.
The temple was destroyed by the Japanese invaders in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, but the ruins and cliffs are there, right next to the stone archway, which is the first peak in the south today.