If someone asked me, "What is the most beautiful place in Dongguan?"
I would answer affirmatively, "The parks in Dongguan are the most beautiful."
If someone asked me again, "Which mountain in Dongguan is the most beautiful?"
I would answer without hesitation, "Of course it is the Shuilian Mountain Forest Park in Dongguan."
It should be the end of 2005, that is, we just bought a car that five or six years, as long as it is Sunday or holidays, we will certainly go to Shuilian Mountain Forest Park climbing. Speaking of Shuilianshan Forest Park, it is one of my favorite natural ecological parks in Dongguan. In those years, I especially like to climb the mountain, the park has left my footprints on every mountain road, each attraction for tourists to rest on the stone benches, pavilion chairs I have sat. The attractions in the park have their own characteristics, flowers, plants and trees compete with each other, so that people love, let people linger.
Ancient Temple Square
From the gate plaque along the wide road upward, about one or two hundred meters on the right hand side of a path. Whenever the trillium is in full bloom, this path is the best choice for hiking. Many trilliums were planted on both sides of the step path, and later, the vines grew bigger and bigger, intertwined and entwined with each other, gradually turning into a natural flower cave built by trillium vines. I really admire the designer's whimsical idea of designing such a beautiful and chic landscape route. Walking on the steps, not only can enjoy the beauty of the blossoms, but also to avoid the sun's exposure, seven folds and turns, to the mid-level pavilion, sit down to rest, very cool. Then follow the road forward a short distance, there and the mid-level pavilion about the same height of a larger platform, with pavilions and promenade, there are more people play here.
If you don't take the steps and continue on the main road, you can enjoy watching the Bauhinia trees on both sides of the main road, and also enjoy the shade from those tall Bauhinia trees. Bauhinia blossom season, is the most beautiful scenery on both sides of the road, green leaves set off the purple-red flowers extraordinarily bright, the breeze blew, Bauhinia petals have floated down, purple-red petals one layer after another layer of the road, as if laying a layer of flowery carpet, a closer look at the air falling petals, like a small purple butterflies in the dance. Walk about twenty minutes or so, came to the ancient temple square.
Ancient Temple Square is one of the most lively landscapes in Shuilian Mountain Forest Park. There is an ancient temple on the east side of the square, a place where people burn incense to worship Buddha and return their wishes. The incense here is very strong, and you have to buy a ticket to enter to burn incense, and you can ask for incense at the store next to it.
In front of the ancient temple, there is a deeper side of the surrounding cement, above the granite fence more than a meter high surrounded by a small pond, the middle of the pond there is a stone turtle, turtle coiled on the back of a large snake. There are ten or so six or seven inches big turtles in the pond, three or two stay in the pond, often motionless, always seems to be sleeping. Tourists have thrown paper money coins to the turtle, it is said that anyone who can throw in the turtle and does not fall down, this year will be good luck. Because of this, the pool often gathered around a lot of people, look at the sculpture and turtles in the pool, look at other people to throw money, if someone throws in, it is hilarious to clap and applaud. Therefore, the pool of small-denomination coins, banknotes is really quite a lot of coins sunk into the water, banknotes floating on the water surface.
The ancient temple square is also the scenic area of the terminal of the battery car. Elderly children and other people who do not go up the mountain, up and down the mountain passing people, but also more than here to rest, drink and eat or go to the restroom, there are small stores, set up small stalls to sell toys such as kites, blowing bubbles, etc., lively. There are even many teams gathered here, wearing uniform clothes, with flags, a few people carrying or lifting things, and there are leaders with microphones, gathering their teams and loudly preaching about hiking. In the square, there are speakers of the vernacular, there are speakers of Mandarin, there are speakers of dialects from all over the world, and of course, there is no shortage of yelling to sell things.
The center and east side of the square is relatively empty, there are a lot of small-leaved yew trees, these yew trees as if they are the master of the ancient temple square, as long as there are tourists to come, they will wave and dance and line up to welcome. These small-leaved yew is planted in more than half a meter high tree altar, the tree body can be embraced, plus the flower bed below, yew tree appears even taller, one by one yew tree, are like a huge bonsai, beautiful and unique posture. The tree altar is surrounded by gray and white granite stone masonry, elegant and clean, there are many visitors sitting on it to rest.
I personally think that the most beautiful time for the ancient temple square is from June to August, this time, the square those tall and graceful small-leaved purple violet is in bloom, a cluster of purple fist-sized flower clusters, in the sunshine alone exudes a gentle breath. The breeze blew, the pink petals danced with the wind, fell down still bright and beautiful, embellishing the ground of the square. Looking from afar, a piece of `pink petals, in the blue sky under the backdrop of more and more delicate, brightly colored, the large square, because of the decorations of the yew flowers, as if wearing a holiday dress, the entire square also has a particularly festive atmosphere. The small-leaved yew tree here, different from elsewhere, the yew here just blossomed, there are not many leaves on the tree, flower clusters, the feeling is that the flower lined with leaves, while elsewhere in the small-leaved yew is the leaf lined with flowers, so the ancient Temple Square yew is more like an artificial, the yew blossom is more beautiful, more colorful. I always feel that the yew flower here is perfect and flawless, giving people the feeling of being unreal, perhaps, the yew here is a fairy in the flower, transcendent. Yew tree is also called itching tree, hundred days red. From the name of Hundred Days Red, Ziwei flower must have bloomed for a long time, no wonder Lu You had written in his poem, "Who said that the flower does not have a hundred days of red, Ziwei often puts on half a year of flowers." From summer to fall, the rosy and endless, can bloom for a hundred days. Ziwei also has another characteristic, if you gently touch its trunk, the whole tree from the root to the top of the whole body shaking, like someone is afraid of itching, so commonly known as ticklish flowers, ticklish tree, tickle tree, as the so-called "caressing the branches and trunks of the whole tree move". At this moment, or sitting under the yew tree rest, or walk in the square, will smell a burst of fragrance, refreshing, doubly spiritual.
In winter, the leaves of the small-leaved yew all fell, leaving only the bare branches, more flexing and smooth, the bark is a bit blocky off, the twigs seem to be four-pronged. This season to the square, these huge yew bonsai has a special flavor, the whole square gives a solemn feeling. Winter yew tree also seems to know that the day is cold, fall all the leaves, so that people living in Dongguan all year round also experience the feeling of seasonal change, because in Dongguan, winter defoliation is not a lot of tree species, the vast majority of trees are evergreen, and yew tree, egg flower tree, small-leaved olive tree, kapok tree, and other deciduous trees and a few other trees, which allows people to feel the seasons of the turn of the turn of the more clearly. The leaves of the yew and kapok trees in the square have fallen, which also allows more sunshine to pour onto the square, making the square more bright and translucent in winter, so that visitors can enjoy the warmth of the winter sunshine to their heart's content. Therefore, I would like to change Liu Yuxi's poem to read: "The southern foot is a strange tree, and the square has become a wonderful place." This season, the square has a fairy tale world of serenity, there is a transcendent quiet and elegant.
Ancient Temple Square east along the walk three or five steps, there is a door, go in, the clouds steamed next to the pavilion, there is an ancient wishing tree, the tree is hung with red lanterns, draped in red cloth, between the branches hung with a small wishing bag. It is said that if visitors write their wishes on paper and wrap them in red cloth, and throw them on the tree without dropping them, their wishes will surely come true. The tree is also equipped with a large bell, visitors can climb the stone bench, rang the bell, the sound of the bell is crisp and pleasant.
There is a promenade on the east side of the square, where visitors can rest and chat on the benches below the promenade.
ShuiLianDongTian
There is a road in the southwest corner of the ancient temple square, along this road upward, divided into two roads, the right hand side of the road is the main road, the left hand side of the steps of the road, along the steps, you come to ShuiLianDongTian.
ShuiLian DongTian, is also one of the eight scenic spots in Dongguan Ming Dynasty. ShuiLian DongTian used to be called PengDong Water Curtain, which is rumored to be because PengGong lived here in seclusion. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, many celebrities and elegant people have visited this place and left their poems such as "Pengdong Water Curtain". When the gentle road is finished and there are steps to climb the mountain, there is a slightly curved cliff about seven or eight meters high, with the words "Shuilian Dongtian" written on the dark red stone wall, and Chen Lian's poem engraved next to it, with the first two lines, "A small Penglai outside the city, with natural pictures opening up", making it a great place to visit. The first two lines of the poem, "A small Penglai outside the city, a natural picture opens up", make people have magical and beautiful reveries about Shuilian Mountain. These cliff carvings are a kind of stone carving art in ancient China, showing the rich historical connotation and numerous humanistic landscapes of Mount Shuilian. Above the rocks, a flying waterfall cascades down from a high place, singing all the way to the bottom of the pool, shaped like a water curtain. The water in the pool is so clear that you can see the bottom. Below the cliff is the tiny waterfall and pool that are flying down, and this is the view of Shuilian Dongtian. Standing here looking up at the sky, the sky feels steeply become smaller, as if the cave to see the sky, which should be "ShuiLianDongTian" the reason for the name!
On the right side of the pool, there is a stone gate with the words "Dream Stream Scouting for Victory" engraved on the lintel, and across the gate there is a Huagang stone statue of Mr. Chen Lian, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites in the Ming Dynasty. Dressed in the official uniform and cap of a Ming Dynasty official, he holds a scroll and gazes with his head cocked in thought, calm and relaxed, just like the master of Mount Shuilian, welcoming visitors. Chen Lian, a native of Qiaotou, Houjie, Dongguan, is one of Dongguan's celebrities, who once served as governor of Chuzhou, just like Ouyang Xiu. During his term of office, he reduced labor, built schools and encouraged the people to cultivate their fields and grow mulberry trees. In his spare time, he recited poems with his friends at the Drunken Master Pavilion, and was called "Little Ouyang" by the local people. There is a statue of him here, which shows his special feelings towards Mount Shuilian.
On the left and right sides of the waterfall, there is a pavilion where pedestrians can rest. Sitting on a chair in the pavilion, you can clearly see the goldfish in the water, you can hear the sound of the water flowing down the impact of the rocks, flowers, birds, really a scenic spot on earth. There are also some visitors, take off their shoes to play in the water. Walking across the curved bridge, past the pavilion, climbed the stone steps, found that the stream is flowing out from the side. Pick up the steps along the stream, both sides of the lush, vine cross-twisting, forming a natural channel.
The Heavenly Pond
The most magical attraction of Mount Shuilian is of course the Heavenly Pond. The Tianchi is about two-thirds of the way from the summit. I have also been to Mount Lushan and have seen the Tianchi of Mount Lushan, which seems to be not as big as a badminton court, and there is almost no water left, which is really a big disappointment to see. If compared, I prefer the Tianchi of Mount Shuilian.
From the southwest corner of the ancient temple square upward, there are three hiking routes, the middle and the right-hand side of the two routes are steps. If you take the middle steps, all the way to the stream, the hiking route is shorter, climbing against the water, after a pavilion to reach the Tianchi. If you take the right-hand step first, the journey is a little farther, but there is a wooden ladder in the middle. The wooden ladder is made of pine boards soaked in tung oil, and the outside of the pine is brushed with a layer of green lacquer, giving it a dark brown color, which reflects the surrounding trees. When you step on the wooden ladder, you can hear the creaking sound of the wood, and there is a soft and comfortable feeling under your feet that is unique to wood, and this is my favorite hiking route. There is also a hiking route on the left, which is the main road, with a much shorter straight-line distance, and is also chosen by some people. If you take the main road, about half an hour or so, you will see the right hand side of a small road, follow the road to the left, there is a small stone arch bridge, is the drainage channel of the Tianchi, arch bridge on both sides of the path, that is, the dike of the Tianchi. If you follow the path forward one or two dozen meters, there is a round door, the lintel engraved with the word "Tianchi", after entering the door, you can see the Tianchi.
Tianchi is about half a soccer field as big as, when there is a lot of rain, the water will be full. There is a circular road around the pool, and there are all kinds of tall trees on both sides of the road, which surround the pool and make it even more beautiful.
When we went there for a while, there were two black swans, four green ducks, and three or four gray ducks, and for a while there was even a pair of mandarin ducks, and the whole Tianchi was very lively. Often is not yet walked to the pool, you can hear the swan "quack -" high-pitched powerful call, and the ducks echoed. Looking at the elegant black swans on the surface of the water, I feel that this is a paradise on earth. The two black swans were inseparable, and one of them had a white feather on its wing. The swans may have lived in the pond for a long time and thought they were the masters of the pond. When there are many visitors, the swans are especially active, they will go to the crowded place to join in the fun. Black swans in the Tianchi also has a characteristic, is especially like to take pictures, as long as someone takes pictures, they will squeeze to the front of the people, posing in a variety of elegant posture, very cooperative, y loved by the tourists. So much so that later when we wanted to go to Shuilian Mountain on the weekend, we would say, "Go, look at the swans to go!"
The few ducks, too, are not shy, like to join in the fun, when there are many people, they also crowded into people, squeaking and quacking, wagging their heads and tails in the water, smug, just to beg for some food. If people do not feed it, the ducks will even run to the shore, holding people's pants leg loudly demanding, especially bold. At the edge of the Tianchi, you can play with the ducks, and there are also children playing in the water to catch shrimp and fish. Sitting on the rocks on the shore of the Tianchi, pebbles clean as new, clear water, watching a group of children playing, looking at the pool of fish and shrimp, is a happy thing. Even more wonderful is that the large trees at the edge of the Tianchi will block the strong sunlight, and at the water's edge, surprisingly, no mosquitoes to harass, it is very quiet and leisurely. You can not see anything, do not want to, quietly sitting at the edge of the pool, is also a rare enjoyment of life, a rare leisure. I thought that the Tianchi shore is a place most suitable for sitting and chatting, but also a place particularly suitable for "traveling thousands of miles, thinking about a thousand years".
Next to the shore of Tianchi is the Xishan Temple and the White Temple, the temple door is closed, the temple can rest. Along the white temple up a short distance, there is a gently rocky slope, cold winter days, sitting in the sun on that slope, is very comfortable. Ambiguous sunlight, with a little melon high, into a warm and beautiful world, a week since the work of fatigue, worry, pressure are swept away, all feel relaxed.
Top of the mountain Waterlian Pavilion
Waterlian Pavilion is the peak of the Waterlian Mountain, where people have to look around and feel the "mountain high I am the peak of the heroes of the heroic and heroic atmosphere.
A hundred meters from the Waterlian Pavilion, you can hear the sound of people clamoring on the Waterlian Pavilion, and there are also people shouting and singing on the Waterlian Pavilion, which is very crowded and lively. From the north side, we climbed to the top of the hill, which is the first floor of Shuilian Pavilion, where tea eggs, ham, boiled corn, mineral water and drinks are sold, and the price is naturally a little bit more expensive than that of the lower part of the hill, which is just as it should be. With such a high mountain, the cost of transporting goods to the top is a bit higher. Climbed to the top of the mountain, everyone is sweating, but everyone's face shows happy and relaxed, many young people with cell phones playing popular songs, there are also middle-aged and elderly people carrying a small player in the bag, playing the eighties and nineties of popular songs, and listening to opera, commentaries, to name a few. Children and young people, the face is always red, through the youthful style and light; middle-aged people and the elderly also do not show weakness, they are generally calm, calm and relaxed, watching them climb to the top of the mountain does not seem to be very tired, it seems that there is no excessive excitement and pride. Sweat sprinkled on the hiking road seems to take away the fatigue and pressure of people's work for many days, as well as the worries and depression in daily life.
ShuiLian Pavilion is the summit of ShuiLian Mountain, if hiking to the top of the mountain, ShuiLian Pavilion is a must, built at the top of the mountain ShuiLian Pavilion, *** five floors, marble floors, glazed tile roofs, eaves and flying corners, brilliant, appearing to be the atmosphere of solemnity. In the second floor of the Waterlian Pavilion, is the most tourists, the most crowded place, some people stand and look down, some people leaning on the porch columns to rest, but also some people sit on the ground, in addition to taking pictures, playing cards, chatting, eating snacks, drinking water, singing ...... a variety of all, we go out to play, to be as you please and The first is to be able to get to know the people who are in charge of it. From the second floor up to the fifth floor, each layer is shoulder to shoulder, to turn around are more difficult, often have to stop to let each other first through. Sometimes someone above shouts, someone below the mountain in response; there are also people singing, loud roar a song, seems to show their own singing voice, or vent the pressure of work. Here, there is less of the usual constraints, less of the usual guardedness between strangers. At the top of the mountain, you can look down on the panoramic view of Mount Shuilian and realize the feeling of "a view of the mountains". Especially when you see many people under the mountain are trying to climb up, sweating like rain, you can't help but feel a sense of pride, just climbed the mountain when the sweat of the labor, but also gradually with the wind away.
On a clear day, standing in the Waterlian Pavilion, you can see the whole of Dongguan City in the northeast, the east can look to the Songshan Lake, the southeast is the Dalingshan Forest Park, the west can see Houjie panoramic view, especially Houjie's Lakeview area, Henggang Reservoir, Guangdong Modern International Exhibition Center, Houjie Hotel, Kerry Hotel, and so on, all in full view.
Pangong Terrace
From ShuiLian Honsan, we usually choose one of the downhill routes on the east side, which is a shorter straight-line distance of stone steps, and a quicker way down the mountain. On both sides of this road, the trees are tall, with a variety of forest trees, such as beautiful cottonwoods covered with small thorns, and eucalyptus trees that seem to have no bark to reveal their greenish-white wood, and so on. It takes less than five or six minutes to go downhill to another important attraction of Mount Shuilian: Pangong Terrace.
Penggong Terrace is the best choice for resting on Mount Shuilian, where the mountain is high, the air is fresh, there are many kinds of trees around, the trees are tall, the flowers smell like birds, and the breeze is blowing, so visitors can enjoy the famous mountain scenery chosen by Penggong, put aside the world's troubles and disputes for a while, and have a dialogue with Peng Zu with the mind, and experience the feeling that Peng Zu cultivated and became an immortal in this place.
The platform here is relatively large, built with pavilion promenade, which is said to have been named after Peng Zu who used to live in seclusion and cultivate here. Standing in front of the statue of Peng Gong, I saw him full of heaven, beautiful beard, feather fan, elegant and elegant, clearly is the image of the old man in people's minds. Perhaps Peng Gong has been here for many years and got the aura and spirit of this mountain and this water to live so long. In Penggong Terrace, there are some people resting here, there are some people practicing yoga, practicing tai chi, taekwondo, that a move are like, see the national fitness movement in Dongguan carried out in a colorful way.
Penggong Terrace is one of my favorite resting places, where there are wooden benches on both sides of the promenade, where you can sit more than one place, and stone tables and benches under the pavilion, where you can sit leisurely and comfortably, and there are not a lot of people. There are too many people there at the top of ShuiLianGe and the place is so small that there is no place to sit. Therefore, instead of resting at the top of the hill, one usually walks a little way down from the top of the hill to Pangong Terrace to take a rest. Sit down and take your time to drink water, eat fruits and snacks. The platform is very windy, no mosquitoes, cool and comfortable, especially suitable for summer rest. Moreover, climbing the mountain is also tired and thirsty, this time to drink water and eat fruit and snacks are a good enjoyment. Sometimes about three or five friends, we rest and chat on the bench in the promenade, the sky south and north, talk about the past and present, unrestrained, is also a pleasure of life.
Garden in the Garden
Garden in the Garden, as the name implies, is the garden within the garden, which is actually the museum of Shuilian Mountain Forest Park. The garden within a garden is one of the most wonderfully interesting of the attractions of Mount Shuilian, and a concentrated expression of the designer's wisdom in integrating the humanistic landscape with the natural ecology, comparable to the world-famous Suzhou Garden.
The Garden in the Garden of Mount ShuiLian is located on the right side of the main road in the middle of the gate of Mount ShuiLian to the Ancient Temple Square. On the way down, if you don't want to take a rest in the Ancient Temple Square, you can visit the Garden of Gardens to take a rest. Enter the gate, there are couplets on both sides, the first couplet is: water out of the green mountain jade belt such as rock nourishes the blessed land; the second couplet is: Lian hanging Yuling Milky Way as through the fall of Huangxi. Along the promenade into, on both sides of the wall are pictures that tell the humanities and history of the village of Nancun oyster post. Into the second door, there is another couplet: Lianquan Pavilion side of a thousand green, Pengdong mountain ten thousand trees spring. There are some exhibits inside, which can be visited for free. Walking out of the exhibition room into the garden, a small stream meanders in the courtyard, with a variety of trees planted on both sides of the stream. There are also pavilions, pavilions and pavilions, as well as the Fish Pond, Summer Lotus Pond, Waterfall Viewing Promenade, Nine Curved Bridges and other attractions in the courtyard. There is an octagonal pavilion on one side of the Fish Viewing Pond, a nine-curve bridge on the Fish Viewing Pond, through which visitors can pass to the Fish Viewing Platform, a corridor after the platform, leading to the Summer Lotus Pond, and a two-storey building next to the Summer Lotus Pond, which is a base for the Dongguan Composers' Association's creation of poems and paintings set up in the Garden, and a series of cultural exhibitions are often held here. The most special attraction in the garden is the end of the corridor, is a chic flying eaves warped high triangular pavilion, which is also the only triangular pavilion I have seen. Walking through the Lotus Pond, to the south of the Lotus Pond, surrounded by water on three sides of the Observatory Pavilion, is a place for many visitors to take a rest from viewing the scenery, in the Observatory Pavilion can be seen from a distance Lianquan Pavilion on the west side of the garden in the garden. Along the Viewing Pavilion, along the path to the south, to the waterfall viewing gallery, waterfall pool in the sequoia, the rock wall is engraved with the words "Pangdong Shuilian", the waterfall pool on the construction of a stone boat. When you come out from the waterfall pool, there is a rockery on the left side and a pavilion on the hill. Climbing up to the pavilion, one can overlook the panoramic view of the garden within the garden. The design of the whole garden is a typical Lingnan style of architecture, thousands of forms, fresh and natural elegance, the arrangement of garden flowers and trees, giving the environment with the interest of nature, the tourists wandering around, enjoying the quiet and comfortable environment, there is a special mood and charm, you can feel the poetic and picturesque in the ordinary life.
There are certainly many more attractions in Shuilianshan, and there are many places to visit, such as strolling along the edge of Shuilian Lake, enjoying the blossoming of yellow locusts along the roadside, and feeling the atmosphere of the cultural park created by the southern city district; children can go to the Minsheng Amusement Park to play with the crazy swivel chairs, bumper cars, haunted houses, go-carts, etc., and can also go to the edge of the lake in Shuilian Lake to rent a duck rabbit in different shapes of the motorized yachts to play with; and there are also butterfly valleys of the Butterfly Specimen, Little Penglai Pavilion, Mid-level Pavilion, Mid-level Park, etc. Everywhere is beautiful. No matter which part of Mount Shuilian, everywhere is beautiful, everywhere is people come and go, holidays is more crowded, people from all over the country, people speaking dialects from all over the world, are concentrated in Dongguan this piece of reform and opening up earlier place, in this struggle, in this struggle, in this to realize their dreams. Dongguan is also a sea of receptive attitude, acceptance of people from all over the country have the will to forge ahead with the will to struggle. In recent years, more and more foreign tour groups to travel to Shuilianshan, in the gate has a small-scale commercial street, selling a variety of food and tourism products, holidays, this is simply like a commercial street as bustling and lively.
Later, we feel older, not suitable for frequent climbing, but also found more and more natural parks, such as Shuilian Lake Park, Tongsha Reservoir Park, Huying Country Park, etc., and now go to Shuilian Mountain is also less, but the beautiful scenery of Shuilian Mountain, is forever in the heart.