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Located in Jiyuan City, Wangwushan is a famous mountain in ancient China and the hometown of Yugong, where the story of "Yugong Moves Mountains" takes place. Wangwu Mountain is divided into seven scenic spots, including Balcony Palace, Tiantan Mountain, Tiantan Lake, and Wudou Peak. The main peak, Tiantan Mountain, is about 1,700 meters above sea level. It is the place where the Chinese ancestor Xuanyuan Huangdi set up an altar to worship the heavens. Optimus Prime".
For thousands of years, Wangwu Mountain has been a place for Taoist figures to gather medicine and refine alchemy, cultivate their morality and cultivate their character in order to achieve Taoism and immortality. Its beautiful natural landscape has attracted many emperors, generals, and literati to come here to seek out the seclusion. Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, etc. all visited here, leaving behind many cliff carvings and well-known masterpieces. Li Bai, a poet, said, "I would like to follow my master on the Temple of Heaven, and sweep away flowers with immortals." The great poet Bai Juyi also praised "Jiyuan's beautiful mountains and rivers".
Balcony Palace is located on the west side of Yugong Village at the foot of Wangwu Mountain, and is the starting point of the Wangwu Mountain tourist route. The existing main buildings of the Balcony Palace are the Sanqing Hall and the Yuhuang Pavilion, which were rebuilt during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty. What is more eye-catching is the Yuhuang Pavilion, a three-layer eaves pavilion-style building. The elegant momentum of flying in the air is breathtaking. Dozens of pairs of stone-carved pillars on its main building make this religious holy place a palace of stone carving art, engraved with rolling cloud dragons, a hundred birds facing the wind, magpies making plum blossoms, Su Wu shepherding sheep, the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, war Chiyou's Yellow Emperor and others. On the balcony, the pines and cypresses in the palace are lush and lush. One of the seven-leaf bodhi trees has a circumference of nearly 3 meters and a height of about 14 meters. It is said that it was left in the Tang Dynasty.
If you come to Wangwu Mountain in autumn, you can go to Shengou to enjoy the red leaves. At that time, the red leaves will be competing with each other, the mountains will be soaked in red leaves, and the roads will be paved with red leaves. Clusters, slices, are as delicate as fire and colorful. The poet Bai Juyi once lamented this scene and said, "It seems to burn without fire, like flowers that do not wait for spring. Line up crimson tents, and cut red scarves in disorder.".
The ancient ginkgo tree in Wangwu Mountain is located about 200 meters above the parking lot in the scenic area, on the left side of Shangshan Road, and has a history of more than 2,000 years. Not far from the ginkgo tree, there is also a "fountain of youth", which lasts for thousands of years. The two have been together through the ages, and have been endowed with a symbol of eternal love since ancient times.
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