Main attractions of Xiangyan Temple in Xichuan

The whole Xiangyan Temple in Xichuan is hidden in the dense forest, surrounded by bamboos, ancient trees and springs. The scenery is beautiful, birds and flowers are fragrant and the scenery is charming. Two white marble pagodas, with a height of15m, 6 angles and 7 grades, are erected in the bamboo forest of the Ivory Temple in Xichuan. They are finely carved pavilion buildings, which are in contrast with green bamboo and look like natural pictures. There are also many scenic spots and wonders inside and outside Xiangyan Temple in Xichuan, such as Pearl Spring, Double Stone Cave, Longquan, water curtain cave, Waterfall (also known as "White Cloth Chaoyang"), Huaguoshan, Baidong Eight Elms, Baidong One Stone Temple, Three Wells in One Step, Three Gates in One Step, etc. 1986, Xiangyan Temple was listed as a key cultural relics protection unit in Henan Province.

Shuangshi Cave, 0/000 meters away from Temple/Kloc-,has two caves with similar shapes, with exquisite statues inside. Shuangshi Cave was created by a monk of Ivory Temple in the first year of Xuanhe (119). During the reign of Xuanhe, Ruby and the Confucian scholars practiced in this cave. Shuilian Cave, a mountain spring in the middle of Yangdong Mountain under the double stone cave, flows down from a stone cliff several times, making the stone cliff form exquisite stalactites, which is called Shuilian Cave. Sun Bin sees Taoyuan, and from water curtain cave to Qinglong Mountain, there is a cave on the mountainside called Sun Bin Cave. There is a peach blossom garden of several hundred square meters outside the cave. Legend has it that Sun Bin saw the "Flat Peach Garden" that year. Every spring, hundreds of peach trees compete to open. People call this scene "Sun Bin sees Taoyuan".

There are 268 ancient trees in Xiangyan Temple, including cypress, Gleditsia sinensis, pine, crape myrtle, red sandalwood, osmanthus fragrans, ginkgo and birch 102 varieties. There are 36 strains, 48 strains, 44 strains, 78 strains and 62 strains belonging to Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing respectively. There are some interesting tree names:

Beauty holds ordinary trees: in the bamboo forest in the northeast corner of Xiangyan Temple, two trees are integrated. The main birch oak is tall and straight, and the trunk is towering like a general. Another tree has the reputation of "Little Beauty of the South" in the tropics. This tree is tightly wrapped around the big tree, and there are layers of small hair roots like human hair outside the bark, which are stuck in the bark to absorb the nutrition of the main tree "General", hug tightly and grow together. Therefore, people call these two trees "beauty hugs generals". Thousand-year-old couple tree: There are two ginkgo trees in Xiangyan Temple, which have a history of 1300 years. One is outside the mountain gate, and the other is in front of Wei Tuo Temple. The two trees are 40 meters apart. The roots of two trees are connected underground, and the branches and leaves are connected in the air, just like a pair of master trees that have been in love for thousands of years. Pruritus: This tree is a 300-year-old crape myrtle. Its branches are as sensitive as mimosa, and they shake when touched.