The pinnacle

The pinnacle

It is the main peak of Gushan, a famous tourist scenic spot in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. It is also known as Xiaofeng and Daxing. According to the toponymy of Fuzhou City, the altitude of the top of Gushan Mountain is 919 meters. In 2008, the altitude of the top of Gushan Mountain was 870.3 meters, which was published by the State Bureau of Surveying and mapping and approved by the State Council. The summit peak is like a cauldron, covered by haze all the year round. There is a folk saying in Fuzhou that "Gushan wears a hat, three days of mud road", that is to say, if the peak is covered with clouds, it will rain in the day. According to the records of the three mountains of Chunxi in the Southern Song Dynasty, "at first, there was hazelnut, but there was no human trace. In the middle of Xianping in the Song Dynasty, Ding said that he and other officials began to climb the mountain by cutting.".

structure

GUSHAN peak was once the best place for Fuzhou people to watch the sea and the sunrise. It is said that the peak is the only place in the main urban area of Fuzhou that can see the sea from afar. It is a marvelous sight to watch the sunrise at dawn. Overlooking the land of Fuzhou from the top of the summit, Gushan Zhi describes it as follows: "to the south, the Shuangjiang river is surrounded like a belt, and the mountains across the river are like running tiger; to the west, the county city is like books, and the villages are like gathering rice and playing chess; to the north, the mountains are as steep as if they are standing behind; to the East, the sea is in a state of confusion, and a few points are hidden in the smoke." According to Lin Jinfu of Ming Dynasty's "climbing to the top of the great mountain", he described it as "a ladder of the immortal family; three small mountains facing the sea in the East and five low mountains in the Central Plains in the north"; Lin Zexu, a young man, climbed to the top of Gushan Mountain and expressed his heroism of "when the sea reaches the boundless sky, I will be the peak when the mountain reaches the top"; many poems of officials and scholars of past dynasties mentioned that the name of the great peak came from it. On the top of the peak, there used to be Wangzhou Pavilion, Tianfeng Haitao Pavilion and Haitian view Pavilion, but they were all abandoned.

Scenery

There are many stone carvings in song, yuan, Ming, Qing and Republic of China; Among them, the most famous ones are the earliest existing cliff stone inscriptions, the "Gushan inscription" written by song shenlie in 1072 (the fourth year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty), the "Tian Feng Hai Tao" by Zhu Xi (the master of Neo Confucianism) in 1187 (Chunxi in the Southern Song Dynasty), the "please rain note" by Xu Luqing (the office of Fujian pacification Department) in 1232 (Renchen in shaoding); the "Qing Tian Bai Ri" by Wang Wensheng, the prefect of Fuzhou in the Ming Dynasty, and the "Qing Tian Bai Ri" by Chen Dao, the prefect of Fujian In the Qing Dynasty, li ba, the prefect of Fuzhou, expressed his desire to follow the end, Xu Yuan, the prefect of Fuzhou, expressed his "Guding", Wei Jie, a poet and salt merchant in the Qing Dynasty, expressed his "Wu Yu Shan Qi", Shen Baozhen, the Minister of shipping in the Qing Dynasty, expressed his "happy and tireless" attitude towards equality ", and Lin Shouguo, the commander of the second independent brigade of the Marine Corps in the Republic of China.

history

The peak of Gushan Mountain was also the place where officials prayed for rain in ancient Fuzhou. Qianlong's Gushan annals includes Xu Luqing's "the story of asking for rain", song Zhende Xiu's "praying for rain" and Qing kaljixi's "sending officials to pray for rain". The magnificent scenery at the top of the mountain has left many poems and verses of the officials and scholars of the past dynasties. Yuan Timur's "climbing the peak of the mountain" vividly describes the momentum of the top of the mountain in Fuzhou. Lin Shibi, a gifted scholar of Fuzhou in Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, visited Gushan Mountain in Fuzhou. The couplet in the poem: "the sea is small in the eyes; there are many white clouds on his clothes". It vividly describes the wonderful portrayal of the scene that visitors are at the top of the mountain where white clouds are floating and the wind is not blowing. "Looking at the sea in the East, the five tigers are facing each other; looking down on the Minjiang River in the south, fishing sails are dotted; looking at Rongcheng in the west, like painting; looking at the mountains in the north, the green peaks are floating." There are a lot of poems and Fu at the top of the mountain in the history of literature and art of Gushan compiled after liberation.

Uphill route

Common path

1、 From Yongquan Temple up the mountain along the GUHUAN highway, near the fork to Baiyun cave, a section of military Panshan road arrives.

2、 In the back hill of Yongquan temple, you can go up the ancient road of Dading Jue peak through Xiaoding Baiyun peak.

Special path

1 is from the east side of Yongquan Temple by the tomb of master Puyu

2. From the back mountain of Prajna temple to the mountain along Longji road;

The last two are crawled out by donkey friends. Ordinary people may not be able to go up.

Address: the main peak of Gushan Town, Jin'an District, Fuzhou

Longitude: 119.402263

Latitude: 26.054959

Tel: 0591-83921184

Ticket information: free.