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The Evening Bells of Nanping is perhaps the earliest of the Ten Scenes of West Lake. Zhang Zeduan, a famous painter at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, once painted "The Evening Bells of Nanping". Although this picture is not as famous as his "Qingming Shanghe Tu", it was recorded in the Ming's "Tianshui Bingshan Lu". Nanping Mountain, stretches across the south shore of West Lake, the mountain is only 100 meters high, but the mountain extends up to more than a thousand meters. The mountain is full of strange rocks and green trees. Sunny day, full of mountains, Lan Cui in the blue sky and white clouds under the backdrop of colorful, in case of rain and fog days, the clouds and smoke cover, the mountains seem to dance, ethereal and ethereal, as if it were not. After the Zhou Dynasty appeared to be the first year (954), the Lord of Wu Yue Qian Hongshu built a Buddhist temple Hui Ri Yongming Yuan at the foot of Nanping Mountain, which later became one of the two major Buddhist temples in the North and South of the West Lake with Lingyin Temple, Jingci Temple.
Another famous Buddhist temple at the foot of Nanping Mountain, Xingjiao Temple, was built in the Northern Song Dynasty in the fifth year of Kaibao (972), which was once the base camp of the Shanjia School of Buddhism of Tiantai Sect. Jingci Temple, Xingjiao Temple plus the nearby small and medium-sized temples, formed following the Lingyin, Tianzhu after the lake and a cluster of Buddhist temples, morning bells and drums, burning shells and Buddha's name, smoke and candles, Nanping Mountain since then added the 'Buddha's country mountain' nickname Nanping Evening Bells of the mood, leisurely molding. Nanping Mountain around the mountain range is composed of limestone, mountain porous caves, plus the peaks of the rock wall stand as a barrier, whenever the Buddhist temple evening bell ringing, bell oscillation frequency to the mountain, rocks, caves, etc. for its compulsion, accelerated the vibration of the sound waves, amplitude increased dramatically after the formation of the **** vibration. Rocks, caves will then produce the speaker effect, enhanced *** sound. At the same time, the sound of the bell is also at the same frequency to the West Lake over the West Lake, straight to the other side of the West Lake, touching the other side of the Ge Ling composed of igneous rocks, the echoes rise.