Travel Notes Entering Wansheng Stone Forest
In May of the Year of the Tiger, I came to the Stone Forest by bus with my renewed exploration and yearning for Wansheng Stone Forest. Standing in the parking lot and looking up, the huge general stone caught my eye. Ah, it was magnificent. Entering the Stone Forest Scenic Area, climbing the stone steps, I heard someone shouting "The sky is bright", "The water on the ground is bright" and "Bend your head and walk slowly". When I turned around, I saw that it was the voice of the sedan chair bearer, which was called the sedan chair song, which was a must in Wansheng Stone Forest. Listening to this catchy and interesting sedan chair song, I was deeply impressed by the wisdom of the sedan chair bearer, which not only brought tourists. I am proud of them, proud of them, and it also reflects the humanistic tourism trend of Wansheng Stone Forest.
I'm still savoring the song of the sedan chair, and there is a hill in front of me, that is, incense burner hill. I climb up the narrow stone stairs and come to the peak about 1 meters high. Standing in the pavilion at the top of the peak, I can see the whole landscape of Shilin scenic spot. If it's sunny after rain, I can see the sunshine mentioned in the poem "Looking at Lushan Waterfall" by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. The censer mountain here gives people profound enlightenment. She prayed to tourists that she was fundamentally different from Xianglu Mountain in Jiujiang, Jiangxi. It is a mountain with personality. From a religious point of view, Shilin Xianglu Mountain is a mountain with a strong Taoist color. According to the folk name, there are stones similar to various instruments used by Taoist priests, such as token stones, knives stones, stone people, incense stones for offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, fat pig stones, like the yin and yang crowns of Mr. Feng Shui's hat, and paths winding from the southeast and northwest slopes to the top of the mountain-Jide Tongtian Road and Wudoumi Road. The "Five Dou Mi Dao" here is another name of Taoism. According to relevant data, the "Five Dou Mi Dao" is Taoism, which was founded by Zhang Daoling in the Eastern Han Dynasty. When it was founded, you had to pay five dou meters to enter the Tao, hence the name. In addition, Taoists respectfully call Zhang Daoling Tianshi, and the southeast slope path is also called "Tianshi Road". According to legend, as long as you climb the peak of Xianglu Mountain along Tianshi Road, sit with your feet on the floor, put your palms up in front of your abdomen, and relax your limbs for a few hours, the Taoist leader, Taishang Laojun (that is, one of the main representatives of Taoism in the pre-Qin period), will immediately come to the sky above people's heads. In an instant, the thoughts of "quietism" will gently lift your hair and skirts in the long wind.
Down the censer mountain, walk left along the Luhua Lake, and come to the foot of the pregnant woman mountain, which is very big and looks like a pregnant woman lying on her back. Is Shilin the offspring of the pregnant woman after labor pains? How magical and majestic her descendants are, standing here for hundreds of millions of years, motionless, can be described as how firm their beliefs are, and vowed to benefit Wansheng people. Moving on, the stone tombs are as close as a foot. There are three stone tombs in Wansheng Stone Forest, one is under the parking lot, and there are two that you can see, which are adjacent to the Luhua Lake. When you look at them carefully, they are ancient tombs. They were built in the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty about 13 years ago, and they were all well-preserved. The front of the tombs are all carved with very beautiful flowers, birds, dragons and lions. If you want to explore the stone tombs here in depth, you might as well come in person.
After exploring the stone tomb, we continue to walk to the left. A couple who have been together for hundreds of millions of years still embody their curvaceous beauty. The three-dimensional curve of the woman's body is vividly displayed, showing the charm of the ancient oriental beauty, while the man shows the fortitude and loyalty of Pangu Fuxi. They have embraced each other for years, telling people the noble and perfect touching love legend since Pangu opened the world. Above the woman's body, you can look up and see the words "Fu" and "Shou" in one integrated mass. This may be that Fuxi is blessing people, blessing everything in the world, cherishing himself and cherishing nature.
Go through the crevice of the ancient lovers' stone, and enjoy a period of concentric gardens laid by hand. Chongqing TV once recorded TV programs here. Tongxin Garden contains three hearts: a man's heart, a woman's heart and a child's heart. Each heart has different shapes, but they all want to be together, unite as one, create nature and enlighten life. So, how can our life not be full of happiness and joy? Why can't our society be built well?
Climbing up the stairs, another scenic spot of the Stone Forest stands beside me, that is the stone fan. The stone fan is nearly 7 meters high, its diameter is about 6.5 meters, its thickest part is less than 2 meters, and its weight is nearly 2 tons. The height of the fan handle is about 1.6 and the widest side is about 1 meter. The sector seems to be artificially placed on the handle. If you stand at a low place and look up at the stone fan and appreciate its magnificent momentum, you will instinctively and involuntarily feel a sense of precariousness, worrying about how the "fan handle" as thin as a lamp core can withstand the weight of the giant "fan surface" and whether it will collapse unconsciously by tourists. In fact, this is not an alarmist. You know, many domestic and foreign tourists who came here to enjoy the scenery once acted as Hercules to conquer nature. When they saw that the stone fan was "overturned", they all rubbed their hands and took advantage of the "opportunity" to overturn it. As a result, they spent a lot of effort and none of them realized their long-cherished wish. After hundreds of millions of years of wind, rain and earth fission, the stone fan still stands upright on the earth, admiring the tourists who are flowing like water.
Some travel enthusiasts from abroad who travel around the world say that they have never seen such a huge "fan". Authorities in the tourism industry said that this fan is the highest in the world in terms of its volume and weight, so the stone fan has the reputation of "the first fan in the world". What is even more strange is that on a hot summer day, people will feel cool and refreshing as soon as they approach the stone fan. Why on earth is this?
Farewell to the stone fan, and the scenery along the way is still beautiful. At this time, what attracts me most is the seam and sky called the Stone Forest. There are three ground fissures and stone gorges in Shilin, all of which are arranged in parallel, and they are called "Lotus Gorge, Birding Gorge and Tingquan Gorge" respectively. The most fascinating thing in the Three Gorges is the Tingquan Gorge, where we are about to go. Tingquan Gorge is a gorge rock formed by karst collapse and fracture. It is nearly 3 meters long, 1 ~ 2 meters wide and 8 meters deep, and there is a narrow passage. Standing in it, looking up, I saw a blue sky, just like a strand of blue ribbon floating over my head. If the cliffs on both sides are cut, they will stand tall and magnificent. Both sides of the cliff are composed of huge stones with similar size and shape and weighing tens of tons. The gap between stones is as regular as an artificial ancient city wall. At any time, there are water drops dripping from the rock wall. At this time, no matter how high the temperature outside, it is cool here.
After going out of Tingquan Gorge, take a short rest and go to Wan Ma Benteng. The landscape here is lifelike, like a war horse going to the battlefield, brave and good at fighting.
Near Wan Ma Benteng, I enjoyed the paleontological fossils, another scenic spot of Wansheng Stone Forest. Wansheng Stone Forest is rich in paleontological fossils, and there are more than 1, arguable fossils-Sinosinian hornstones in the whole stone forest of more than 1 square kilometers. There are 54 fossils on a stone less than 6 square meters in Wan Ma Benteng. Fossils in Wansheng Stone Forest are not only densely distributed, but also huge in size. Up to now, the three largest Chinese Sinian hornstones found in Stone Forest have reached 6 mm in individual length and 12 mm in cross-sectional width, and are praised by experts as "the king of Chinese Sinian hornstones". These fossils also have a prominent feature, with extremely rich colors, such as grayish white, light yellow and reddish brown, so although these fossils have gone through hundreds of millions of years, they still have strong ornamental value. Under the sunshine, these fossils will still shine brilliantly.
"There are countless stars in the sky, underground stars and stone turtles in Shilin". There are countless stone turtles in Wansheng Stone Forest. Stones in Shilin were formed on the seabed. Due to the accumulation of sedimentary rocks and the movement of seawater, the stone surface of Shilin today has lines similar to tortoise shells. Some stones stick out the turtle's "head" and "feet", so there are countless stone turtles. The largest stone turtle in Wansheng Stone Forest is Guishan. Kameyama is about 5 meters long. Looking at Xianglu Mountain, its head looks south, its tail looks north and its back bulges. It can be said to be the tortoise king of Wansheng Stone Forest.
When I entered the Tianmen Cave, I was dazzled by the dense landscape inside. It is a magical and charming underground art palace. The whole cave consists of more than 5 groups of strange and incredible natural landscapes, such as welcoming guests with banners, snow fields in Tianshan Mountains, lotus flowers hanging upside down, and lotus lanterns ... The magical scenery of this scene really makes people shout: nature's creative ability can be so rich! There are also various biochemical deposits in Tianmen Cave, which are dazzling, colorful, pure in texture and perfect in shape, and are very representative among the caves found in China at present.
Just after swimming in the Tianmen Cave, I was just leaving the cave, and the melodious singing came with the wind. Ah, it's the Miao Folk Customs Garden in Shilin Scenic Area that is holding a special song and dance performance. What a lively scene. The Miao handsome men and beautiful women on the stage are singing passionately, and the applause from the audience is thunderous. People are here to eliminate the fatigue and fatigue of the journey in this way. Let visitors feel deeply about humanistic tourism and humanistic tourism, and fully show the rich national tourism characteristics of Shilin.
I remember the broken forest of steles for peace and the unique water stone forest. Look at the stone drum, which is made in heaven and is lifelike. As for the stone drum, there is a folk song circulating among the local people that can't be cracked so far: "Stone man versus stone drum, gold is 55 thousand." Who can guess and buy Chongqing House? " The stone drum is 4 meters high and 1.4 meters in diameter, and consists of two parts. The upper section is slightly short, and the middle elephant was cut in the middle, and the joint between the upper and lower sections is only about a quarter of the contact area. At first glance, it is also dangerous. After so many years, it still stands motionless in the wind and rain, unwavering.
get out of the stone drum and go right. Continue to shuttle through the ups and downs of Wansheng Stone Forest. From time to time, you will find that there are parallel lines like yellow lines on the steep and magnificent petrochemical landscape. When you touch them with your hands, the mud line is as hard as steel. This mud line is very obvious in the Gecko Gorge and Qiantalin of Wansheng Stone Forest. What left such a uniform line of equality? If you let your thoughts gallop in the universe, you may even wonder if it is a mysterious relic left by "aliens". Actually, that's the water level of the ancient ocean. Because the area where Wansheng Stone Forest is located turned out to be a vast ocean, the ocean is gradually fading, and every time it drops to a water level, it will leave a water level line. From the petrochemical landscape exposed to the surface, there are more than 2 water levels. According to experts, these seemingly unusual "mud lines" are separated by a long time and space of one million to several million years. The layers of equal mud line, like a neatly stacked history of geological changes, record the great changes of Cang Sang in the ancient ocean after hundreds of millions of yuan.
Before I knew it, I went back to Luhua Lake, and the chess array and Thousand Tower City jumped into my eyes. Climbing the Thousand Pagodas, I was filled with emotion, so beautiful and spectacular. This is a stone town with an area of over one square kilometer. A closer look shows that these stones are all like a tower, with different levels. The highest one has eight levels, more than 2 meters high, and at least two levels, which are similar to people's height. Their shapes are very similar to those of artificially piled towers, with bases, edges and tops. Nearly a hundred such towers are crowded together, and people walk through them, confusing and difficult to find their way home. Because of its large number, it is praised as "Thousand Pagodas City" by tourists.
After leaving Qianta City and returning from the original road under the censer mountain, I walked out of the door of "Wansheng Stone Forest" written by Ouyang Zhongshi, a famous national calligrapher, step by step.
Goodbye, beautiful Wansheng Stone Forest, and we will meet again soon.