Talking about Hangzhou, everyone only knows about Hangzhou’s West Lake, but they don’t know about Wushan, which has a scenery comparable to that of West Lake. However, West Lake belongs to outsiders, and Wushan is indeed the favorite of local residents in Hangzhou. The editor would like to recommend Wushan Mountain this time. Those who see this tweet may know that there is actually another Wushan Mountain in Hangzhou that is a very good attraction.
If there were no West Lake, Wushan would be the first choice for tourists visiting Hangzhou. Because of the West Lake, people who first arrived in Hangzhou went straight there, so Wushan was left behind for the citizens of Hangzhou.
This is a bit like when outsiders come to Shanghai, they will definitely go to Nanjing Road for shopping first, instead of going to Huaihai Road like Shanghai locals.
A city is like a person. No matter how open it is to the outside world, it will always be different inside and outside. It will leave something for itself, whether it is mood or space.
It was not intentional by the city or people, just like this Wushan, nor was it deliberately left by the Hangzhou people for themselves. How much people in Hangzhou hope that more people will come to Wushan. Not to mention the beautiful scenery and splendid humanities of Wushan, from the perspective of market economy, people also hope that the more people will go to Wushan, the better.
But since God has given Hangzhou the West Lake, no matter how good Wushan is, it will only be ranked behind the West Lake. In this way, Wushan has become the paradise of Hangzhou people.
Hangzhou has a lot of water and a lot of mountains. The northwest, southwest and southeast sides of West Lake form a horseshoe-shaped mountainous area, with one circle inside and one outside. It is also bounded by Tianzhu Mountain and is divided into Nanshan Mountain and Beishan Mountain. Chunks.
According to this old rule, Wushan naturally belongs to the inner circle and is divided into the Nanshan area. There are so many mountains, but why is Wushan Mountain different? It is a very popular mountain, and it is also a mountain with a very secular and red-dust atmosphere. When people from Hangzhou go to Wushan, they feel like they are attending a temple fair.
From the perspective of urban construction, a city often needs such a gathering place. In general cities, squares are often used as distribution centers in citizens' daily lives. Chinese people regard places where they can attend temple fairs as the center of their social life.
There are two temple fairs in Hangzhou that are closest to where you live. One is Zhaoqing Temple outside Qiantang Gate, and the other is Wushan.
Wushan is close to the former imperial palace, and the Royal Street is at the foot of it. Therefore, it has the right time, location and people. It has become the hill closest to Hangzhou people and a real landscape masterpiece in Hangzhou. .
Hangzhou people have an old saying: Watch the fire on Chenghuang Mountain. This Chenghuang Mountain is Wushan.
Wu Mountain has many aliases. In addition to Chenghuang Mountain, it is also called Wugong Mountain, Xu Mountain, Miaoxiang Mountain, Qibao Mountain, Shaiwang Mountain, etc. If we explain them one by one, they are all stories, and we can only Pick the important ones.
Wu Shan is naturally the most authentic name, and the origin is recorded in history books.
"West Lake Tour Chronicles" said: "Wu Mountain was the southern boundary of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period. It was different from Yue, so it was called Wu Mountain."
After traveling to Wu Mountain, I saw the mountains crossed, and the white clouds were still there. Several hurdles. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Wu and Yue fought for hegemony, but Yue was defeated. The land of Hang all belonged to Wu, and this mountain was the boundary.
There is also a legend that after Wu Zixu was killed by Fu Chai, King of Wu, he sank into the Qiantang River. The people of Wu took pity on him and built a shrine for him on this mountain, so this mountain was also called Wu Gong Mountain. Xushan.
There is another characteristic of Wushan. When you first arrive on the mountain, you will not be able to tell the difference between this mountain and that mountain. I used to go back and forth at the foot of Wushan Mountain for several years, often going up the mountain, sometimes to Yunju Mountain, sometimes to Ziyang Mountain, and sometimes to Baoyue Mountain. Only later did I realize that all these mountains are considered Wushan.
It turns out that Wushan is an arc-shaped hillock running from southwest to northeast. It is composed of more than a dozen large and small hills, collectively called Wushan.
The first time I went to Wushan was when I was in college. Because of the successful rehearsal of a play, the poor students decided to go on a trip to celebrate. We had already played all around the West Lake. A classmate who lived at the foot of Wushan Mountain said that Wushan Mountain was very interesting and had twelve zodiac stones, so we swarmed up.
The mountain is not high, only more than 100 meters. Most of my companions are middle school Chinese students, so they think of Wu Jingzi's "The Scholars" that I just taught in the classical literature class.
The tenth chapter specifically describes the scene of Mr. Ma Er going to Wushan. According to what Mr. Ma Er saw, there were temples, shops, wine, tea and snack stalls along the way. There are also fortune tellers, which are extremely lively on the slopes and down the steps.
But that was not the case on the day we went up the mountain. Maybe because of the rain, there were not many people. Before we reached the top of the mountain, we saw large camphor trees all over the mountain. I had only seen such large camphor trees in the parking lot in front of a hotel in Hangzhou. I heard that the camphor tree in front of Jimu Pavilion is over 800 years old. , can be called the ancestor of Wushan Qun Zhang.
But at that time, my heart was tender and I was not as interested in the long history as I am today. My heart only focused on the twelve zodiac stones and went straight to the destination. The twelve zodiac stones are on Ziyang Mountain. There are many rocks on this mountain, and the texture of the limestone glows purple in the rain.
The twelve zodiac stones are also popular among the people, and scholars call them the twelve peaks of Wushan, standing abruptly on the ground. We each looked for our own zodiac signs, and when we found one, we screamed, After shouting enough, we walked forward until we reached the Jianghu Huiguan Pavilion on the top of Ziyang Mountain.
Standing on the pavilion, you can have a panoramic view of the Qiantang River, West Lake, Hangzhou City, and the mountains.
There is a couplet in the pavilion, which looks like a generous work at first glance. It was only after many years that I found out that it was written by Xu Wei and Xu Wenchang of Shanyin:
Eight hundred miles of lakes and mountains, I know what year it was painted;
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The lights of hundreds of thousands of houses all return to the balcony here.
A few years after we poor students climbed Mount Wu, Hangzhou City rated the top ten new sights of West Lake, among which Mount Wu was named "Wushan Tianfeng". The word "Tianfeng" has its origins. The farthest one is from the Yuan Dynasty poet Sadura: "The sky wind blows me up the hump, and the mountains and hills are exquisite."
This hump is Wushan. For those who are close to being published, I would recommend Qiu Jin. Qiu Jin was extraordinary in both his actions and his poetry. When compared with her, Sadura's realm and spirit were far behind. Poetry day:
The old trees are sparse and the sunset is red, and the stone platform is high and close to the sky;
The vast and majestic rivers and seas are connected, and half of the green mountains are in the middle of the country.
I often went to Wushan later, and once I took the film crew to Wushan to look for Sanmao Temple, which was where Yu Qian studied when he was 16 years old. I have also been to Baocheng Temple in Wushan, where there is a unique Tantric statue of the year in the country.
There is a flower rock near Baocheng Temple. The three big red characters tell people a romantic story. I never thought that Cui Hu’s story of peach blossoms with human faces would happen here. This is a story. Legends are mostly based on attachment, but people would rather believe that they exist than believe that they don't exist. So many poems appeared on this Ganhua Rock.
First there is "Human Face and Peach Blossoms Reflecting the Redness" by Cui Hu of the Tang Dynasty,
Then there is "Cui Hu Ruo Comes Again Last Year" by Su Dongpo of the Song Dynasty,
Then Then there are the "Suihan pines and cypresses" by Wu Dongsheng in the Ming Dynasty and the "Ganhua Rock" by Zhu Shu_.
These beautiful stories strung together with poems give people many tender reveries. There are three big characters "First Mountain" under Ganhua Rock, which were written by Minangong, a great calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty. Jiang Zhao, the magistrate of Qiantang County in the Ming Dynasty, ordered people to engrave them on it. People often come here to watch and figure out these characters.
I remember that near Sanmao Temple, I also saw the words "The First Peak of Wushan". They were also very powerful and were the work of a master.
Speaking of the first peak of Wushan Mountain, there is another joke. It is about Liu Yong, a romantic and talented scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty who was accustomed to writing long tunes. He filled in the word "Looking at the Sea Tide" and said that Hangzhou "has three autumn osmanthus seeds and ten miles of lotus flowers." As a result, Wan Yanliang of the Jin Dynasty saw the poem and thought that Hangzhou was the original It was so good, but I still hadn't seen it before, so I asked the painter Shi Yisheng to sneak into Hangzhou, draw a picture of the West Lake, and take it back to make a screen.
The more Wanyan Liang saw it, the better he got, so he drew himself on it, rode his horse and stood on the top of Wushan Mountain, and then wrote a poem saying: "With millions of troops on the West Lake, I will mount my horse on Wushan Mountain." "The First Peak."
It is said that there are many famous people and monuments on the top of Wushan Mountain. It is said that the great poet Yang Weizhen of the Yuan Dynasty studied here. Because this place is called Tieye Ridge, Yang Weizhen called himself "" Iron Cliff".
Speaking of Yang Weizhen, today's young people may not know much about it. Just remember that he was the initiator of West Lake Zhuzhi Ci. It is said that the mustard seed garden of Li Yu, a great dramatist of the Qing Dynasty, is also here, and his "Xian Qing Ou Ji" was also written here. The Mustard Seed Garden cannot be found now, but Li Yu was indeed buried under the Lotus Peak next to the West Lake after his death.
I later learned that there are many temples in Wushan, including Yaowang Temple, Shuishin Temple, Huode Temple, Lei Temple, Wenchang Temple, Cangsheng Temple, Jiuxian Temple, Taisui Temple and so on. Visit these temples every day.
Anyway, there are special events all year round, not to mention Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and so on. People who go to Wushan on the day of Beginning of Summer are particularly particular.
It turns out that among the people of Hangzhou, there is a kind of Wu Lang Ba Bao, namely the Milang, the Shaver, the Ma Lang, the Pi Lang, the Pawn Boy and the bartender, the noodle waiter, the tea waiter, the rice waiter, and the land waiter. , Xiangxiangbao (yin and yang), Mabao, Naibao (middle person). On the day of the Beginning of Summer, these Wulang Baobao must go to Wushan.
I once looked for Wu Gong Temple but could not find it. According to the data, Wu Gong Temple and Chenghuang Temple are the largest temples on Wushan Mountain.
Wugong Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty. It is the earliest temple in West Lake with a real person as its god. The sacrifice to Wu Zixu is held on the 20th day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. The sacrifice is a whole pig.
The Chenghuang Temple was not originally located in Wushan. It was located in Fenghuang Mountain before the Song Dynasty. It was not moved to Wushan until the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty. Now it is gone, only the big camphor tree in front of the temple remains.
The Yaowang Temple is still there, but there are many wax figures inside, and it has become the Pantheon, a base for patriotic education. Among those wax figures, many are famous people in Hangzhou. One of them is Zhou Xin, who is the City God of Chenghuang Mountain.
He was a local official in Hangzhou in the Ming Dynasty and served as an inspector. It is said that he solved cases like a god, could redress the grievances of the people, and was not afraid of the emperor's relatives, just like "Bao Qingtian". But in the end, there was no Shang Fang sword, and his end was far less good than that of Bao Zheng. In the end, he was killed by Zhu Di, the founder of Ming Dynasty.
Later Zhu Di knew that he had killed an upright official by mistake, and he regretted it very much. He said: "There are such outstanding people outside the ridge. I killed him by mistake." Soon Zhu Di said again: Recently, it seems that he has seen people standing under the sun. He looked at a man in red clothes and said to him: I am your minister Zhou Xin. Now I have become a god, and I am curing evil for your majesty.
This was probably Zhu Di's self-comfort, and Zhou Xin became the city god of Hangzhou.
There used to be a Tai Sui Temple on the mountain, and an event for Tai Sui God to go up the mountain was organized every year. Because it is about good weather and abundant harvests throughout the year, the activities started on the day before the beginning of spring, and it was extremely lively.
There is also a Haihui Temple in Wushan, which is like the natal family of Guanyin. The activities are usually irregular. At that time, the Guanyin Empress of Tianzhu Temple will be invited down the mountain, walked more than 20 miles, and carried to her "parental home" Haihui Temple to stay for a while. On that day, the citizens of Hangzhou often turned out to watch the excitement.
Since there were not so many temples in Wushan, it gradually became deserted. Some retired old people often came up early in the morning and squatted at the entrance of the former temple to drink tea and chat. There are also people walking birds, doing morning exercises, singing and dancing on the mountain.
Later I heard that the Taimiao ruins of the Southern Song Dynasty were discovered at the foot of Wushan Mountain.
Then the Taimiao ruins park was built.
Then Wushan Square was also built. ,
The Chenghuang Pavilion on the top of Wushan Mountain has also been built,
The Qinghefang intersection at the foot of Wushan Mountain has also been preserved,
The Drum Tower near Wushan Mountain has also been preserved. It needs to be restored
Hangzhou needs to take Wushan as the center to restore the historical features of the ancient culture in the old city. This is of course a good thing, but a ticket to the Chenghuang Pavilion costs tens of dollars. How many old Hangzhou people will still go up there?
I don’t know. In the past, Wushan was a mountain in my mind that I could walk into without spending money.