Erke Mountain

Erke Mountain is located in the northeast of Kedong County, only 2 kilometers from the county seat.

Whenever the summer evening, people go together in twos and threes for trekking, hiking, fitness and playing. When you walk along the highway towards it. Feel the most is the road on both sides of the neat and staggered poplar trees, willow trees to bring people that kind of quiet feeling.

The two peaks in the distance in the shadow of the tree half-contained half-revealed, but also in the branches and leaves of the tree at first hidden. The clouds in the sky, like light smoke, slowly gather and slowly fade away.

And the sunset sometimes also shyly show half of the face, the color red lovely. People sometimes walk and walk unconsciously look back down. And I don't know when it is completely hide to the ground down na. But also do not feel disappointed. So there is always an illusion, the road to the mountain, is the process of the beginning of the night.

Indeed, as you get closer to the mountain, there are more and more people. As if people are coming to the night feast. The square at the foot of the mountain is particularly lively, more than a hundred people square dance opened the curtain of the night. The rhythmic dance music and passionate dancers attracted many spectators. A group of young girls in school uniforms, but do not care to watch, calmly ate the roadside stalls on the skewers. While eating, they chatted about the anecdotes of the class. The young couples are also not willing to show weakness, holding snow-white marshmallows to tease each other. Grandmothers with small children chased after their grandchildren, who were still unsteady on their feet, while grandfathers pushed their strollers and chatted with acquaintances they came across. People of all colors were taking selfies, lapping, working out, playing with bumper cars, and everyone was having a good time.

Further on, you'll be far away from the crowds.

Sitting on the bench behind the stone monument of the Golden Age of Bone hunting, hikers from time to time passed in front of your eyes. Hidden in the pines of the branches of the tangle, look up, trees pale turn-turn-turn, stone steps leveling and up, wildflowers point stretches, birds and insects chirping crisp, grass and trees fragrance biting. I can't help but marvel at the beauty of life. Every year when the May time, is sure to climb two grams of the mountain. Row in the early rain washed the stone steps on both sides of the lilac bloomed a tree flower fragrance, listening to the back of the mountain came tinkling Sanskrit bells, look at the mountain pavilion spire. Unconsciously took out his cell phone to take pictures of the scenery. The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the pictures on your cell phone and see if you can find them.

Looking back, the two Keshan Park, the red south gate has become only the size of a block, the road is also like a thin band floating in the sea of trees. All of a sudden will float out of a kind of, nine heavenly fairies stepped on the clouds in mid-air and stop the feeling.

After conquering 538 stone steps, you will reach the octagonal pavilion at the top of the mountain. The inner wall of the pavilion roof depicts several pictures of beauties in red buildings. The pavilion is surrounded by chains. When there is freezing fog in winter, the chains lock the mountain full of freezing fog and white snow in a picturesque manner. Even though it is freezing to the bone, it is also stirring. Many times can't help but rush in the direction of the county seat, shouting to express their feelings. Kedong County from the top of the hill, looks like the shape of a pistol. Gun barrel to the east where the sun rises. Thinking about it, watching the sunrise at the top of the mountain is how shocking.

Looking south, it is far away from the top of another mountain. Slightly shorter, always filled with heavy gas, hazy but ethereal into the sense of fairyland. The two peaks are far away from each other, far away from each other.

The east side of the back of the TV tower has a path that leads to the back of the mountain. The path is relatively steep, and occasionally there will be a small squirrel, out of it. When the wind is strong ear-shattering mountain wind, as if the water splashing stone sound, so people can not help but suspect that the mountain has a waterfall. And behind the mountain there is only a tower, a temple, a building and a cave.

The tower, the temple, and the residence building are all properties of the Lanyan Temple. Every year on the first day of the first month, many people will drive to come on the first high incense of the New Year. Pray for a year of peace and prosperity. Buddha is enshrined in the Daxiongbao Hall, and the incense burner in front of the door is filled with smoke all year round. Next to it is an iron cast seven-story pagoda merit box, in which a large number of coins are piled up. Tourists hope that the coins they throw will fall through the top floor of the pavilion into the merit box. They say that their wishes will come true, and they always throw coins again and again. Devoted monks and followers meditate and chant inside the temple every morning and evening. Morning bells and evening drums of life away from the world, in another world of quiet and remote cultivation.

And full of legend is this hole, Changxian Cave. In fact, it is rumored that there were two caves at that time. Fox Fairy Cave and Changxian Cave, now can see only Changxian Cave. And the mysterious fox fairy hole has been hidden in the depths of these two mountains, unknown. Perhaps it is waiting for the fated person to visit it after a thousand years.

The long immortal on the long worm, long worm is a snake. Translated from the common point, is the snake fairy cave. The cave seems to be very large, there are earlier years carved into the long immortal cave three words, simple and natural. Nowadays, there are more traces of man-made restoration, and the concrete table enshrines the rows of Changxian Immortals. The inside area is also smaller. When I was small, I could still see the original appearance of the cave, the jagged unevenness of the raised stone walls, air circulation seems to be windy. Always slightly moist feeling, inward narrow and deep. Adults can not enter, can only accommodate children about ten years old through, rumor has it that can lead directly to a place in Wudalianchi. In the mountain, there is a piece of more than one person high stone, written on the "other cave days" four big words to attract people's imagination. Perhaps this is just a gateway to the home of the eldest immortal, the real cave is another elsewhere. Maybe the White Queen in the Leifeng Pagoda, is from this hole to the West Lake to meet the Xu official.

Not far from the cave, there are several nine holes through the dragon relief monument. Neatly arranged in a ladder style, there are always half-grown children climbed to the top from the hole in the view. Tired of watching and running to the pontoon tower to play tricks.

Located on the north side of the mountain urn Fudu Tower is estimated to be the most representative of the age of the whole mountain things, the dilapidated can not be repaired. More than two meters high tower body was hollowed out a big hole, broken bricks, weathered tip of the tower. Typical Ming-style three-story building, there is always unburned incense inside, and the outside is always full of old and new yellow cloth. According to county records is the Taoist priest Zou Ming and the sitting coffin. In ancient times, only the great cultivation of people can repair sitting coffin. General coffins under the spring, said the dragonfly is a treasure point.

Ancient people were y influenced by Taoism, someone said that Chinese culture is like a big tree, and the roots of this tree in Taoism. Initially there was a Taoist temple on the north side of the mountain. There was a shrine, a bell tower, and a white-bearded old Taoist priest with floating dust.

My family and this old Taoist priest, there is some connection. My grandmother's aunt was seriously ill when she was young and was saved by the old Taoist priest Zou, who left a red cloth with a prophecy when he left. Later, my grandmother's aunt died at the age of thirty-three, the family found the red cloth measured really three feet three. The first thing I've noticed is that I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to get my hands on a new one, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to get my hands on a new one.

The disappeared shrine, the bell tower also do not know that era construction, also do not know when to collapse. What kind of story, and what kind of ordeal. In short, everything is buried in the sands of history can not be verified, everything is dissipated and disappeared, leaving the mountain pines empty melancholy.

Now the back of the mountain is very good to maintain the original appearance of the mountain forest, the mountain temple pagoda will be the kind of integration of people and the environment, play to the best harmony. Tour into the back door of the mountain temple night has been twilight, tourists need to return to the bird. Back on the road, stone tiger stone horse can only hastily skimmed over, always let a person is not yet finished. Not only to sigh there are many places did not carefully appreciate.