Human geography of Weishan Scenic Area
Weishan Mountain, also known as Daweishan Mountain, is the birthplace of the Wei River. It spans the northwest of Ningxiang, borders Taojiang River in the north, and Anhua in the west. It goes back 140 miles and has the highest snow peak at an altitude of 927 meters. rice. Hidden among the mountains at an altitude of about 800 meters, there is a basin several miles long and 460-500 meters above sea level. It is a paradise with fields, roads and flowing water. According to legend, in the paddy fields of the basin, there was originally a huge rock called Weishan, which later evolved into Weishan. When you go there, there is water on all sides. It is also said that it was named after Emperor Shun's son named Wei developed it here. The surrounding clouds and gases converge here, stirring and rotating, and rising all over the mountain. Therefore, there is a saying of climbing up Weishan Mountain from all sides. The vegetation is deep and luxuriant, the mist and clouds are flying, and the atmosphere is majestic. It is called Dagui Lingyun and one of the ten scenic spots in Ningxiang in the old days.
Exquisite Shang and Zhou bronzes have been unearthed frequently in the Weishan area. In 1938, while digging the earth, brothers Jiang Jingshu, a farmer in Yueshanpu, unearthed a four-goat square statue made of bronze from the Shang Dynasty. It is 58.3 cm high and 52.4 cm in diameter. It is decorated with relief dragons on its four shoulders and four sheep on its belly. It has a vivid shape and is one of the earliest bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties in my country. This unique treasure is now in the Museum of Chinese History. Copper with animal face patterns was also unearthed (with 224 Shang Dynasty copper axes inside), a Shang Dynasty human-faced square tripod, an animal-faced split tripod, an animal-faced lifting beam, a copper chime and a large copper cymbal weighing 221.5 kilograms, all of which are from the Shang Dynasty. Excellent Shang and Zhou bronzes. People can't help but ask: Why are so many high-grade Shang and Zhou bronzes concentrated in the Daweishan area? Is it really Shun and his son Wei who developed it? Or is it a place of worship for a certain prince from a certain tribe in the Shang and Zhou dynasties? Or is it some kind of cultural center? perhaps……. This mystery needs to be further revealed by archaeologists.
Weishan has high mountains and dense forests, and the terrain is dangerous. Peasant uprisings have broken out many times. In 1535 (the fourteenth year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty), Mei Sibao, a farmer with good martial arts skills and courage, gathered in Weishan to resist the government. Thousands of people responded. They defeated the government and army encirclement and suppression many times, and then attacked Xiangxiang and Hengyang. In 1914, Zhang Sanyuan, a tenant farmer of Miyin Temple, organized the Tongxinhui to resist the evil monks’ demands for rent. In 1918, he led more than a thousand troops to attack Miyin Temple, organized the uprising team into 5 battalions and 10 teams, and used Weishan as a stronghold to counterattack the regimental defense forces in Ningxiang, Yiyang, and Anhua. During the Great Revolution and the War of Liberation, the revolutionary armed forces of workers and peasants launched many uprisings in Yunshan to attack the enemy.
After liberation, the government built a large reservoir, Huangcai Reservoir, in Weishan, built a forestry farm, and set up factories. The mysterious Weishan will be further developed as a cultural tourism place and a production base for economic crops and forestry. Location: Located 80 kilometers west of Ningxiang County, Hunan Province
Weishan is a land of wonderful people and rich cultural relics. Under Pilu Peak on the northwest side of the basin, there is the Miyin Temple, a thousand-year-old temple. It is the ancestral hall of the Weiyang Sect, one of the five sects of Chinese Zen Buddhism. It was built by Pei Xiu, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, for Master Ling. The temple covers an area of 9000 square meters. There are 10 scenic spots inside and outside, including the Reed Flower Waterfall, Ginkgo Sandalwood, Beauty Tree, Laimu Well, Huixin Bridge, Thousand People Pot, Ten Thousand People Bed, Oil Salt Stone, Mirror Stone, and Soul Bone Pagoda. Among them, the ginkgo contains sandalwood in the northeast corner behind the temple. Among the ancient ginkgo trees is a parasitic sandalwood tree. Unfortunately, the sandalwood tree has died in recent years. The beauty tree, a wooden tree hundreds of meters long, introduces the clear spring from the mountain behind the temple into the temple. Pei Xiu believed in Buddhism and lived in Peigong nunnery in Weishan in his later years, so he was buried in Yangyang on Duanshan Mountain opposite Miyin Temple. The tomb faces northwest and southeast, facing Huangcai Town. It is surrounded by mountains on both sides like chairs, and the feng shui is extraordinary. Not far below it is Dongqing Temple, the body temple of Zen Master Ling. Slightly to the south is Qi Ji'an, the ruins of the late Tang Dynasty poet Qi Ji's Tibetan cultivation. Further south, to Guanshan, there are the tombs of Zhang Jun, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty who resisted the Jin Dynasty, and his eldest son, Zhang, one of the Three Sages of the Southeast. To the southwest, to the entrance of the alley, is the former residence of Yi Zui, the number one scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty and minister of the Ministry of Rites, who was the founder of Ningxiang. There is Yi Zhuangyuan's tomb nearby. In 1917, Mao Zedong and Xiao Zisheng came to Weishan for inspection and had a conversation with Fang Wen of Miyin Temple.