About 100 meters past Ting Yun Cave, there is a single arch stone bridge across Shuishen Cave, and the words "Fan Canal Bridge" are written on the top of the arch. According to legend, Shanjia Zen Master returned to Yifeng from Ji 'an, and when he crossed the mountain stream here, he suddenly saw his own shadow reflected in the water, and suddenly realized the true meaning of "When it is not a canal, the canal is not you", so he wrote a song named "Every Canal". This bridge is15m long, 4.7m wide and 4.2m clear span, all made of granite. There is a stone warrior on each side of the arch shoulder, who is the god of protecting the bridge, wearing armor and holding a mountain axe and sword. The arch stone at the bottom of the bridge has the following records: "Born with five tones 1098 years old, Tongan Zhang Zhongshu's wife Leisi Sanniang, male decree" contributed to the construction; In the seventeenth year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1538), Zhang Zhongshu rebuilt it in the twentieth sun. This ancient bridge has a history of 923 years, and it is one of the three ancient bridges in Song Dynasty discovered in Jiangxi Province.
Above the source of the waterfall, there is a spring pool, and the stone cliff next to it is engraved with the words "Kao Gong Quan". According to legend, ancient officials stood by the pool to take pictures, as clear as the figure in the water, and were honest officials who made contributions to the people; If the shadow is turbid, it is a corrupt official who harms the people. Because it can examine the merits and demerits of officials, it is named Kao Gongquan.
After passing the Kao Gong Spring, two huge stones, large and small, stand abruptly, and only one person can pass through them, just like the gate of the pass. This is the "Night Stone" and "Night Spirit Trace", one of the ancient "Eight Scenes of Xinchang". There is a poem "You Dongshan" inscribed by Su Zhe in the seventh year of Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty (1084) on the big stone. Legend has it that this stone can be opened during the day and closed at night. There is a round "salt well" under the stone. No matter how many monks in Dongshan Temple eat salt, they don't have to buy it. They bring it back from here every morning, just for one day. Later, a cunning monk in the temple, in order to covet profits, rushed to the foot of the night stone before dawn to pretend that chickens crowed, tricked the stone door open and stole salt to make takeout. Since then, Shimen has failed, and salt wells no longer produce salt. There is also a sword-testing stone near the night stone, which splits in the middle like a sword. It is said that the fairy tried the sword.
On the Yehe Mountain on the left side of Yehe Stone, there is a tomb tower forest with an area of about 150 square meters, and there are ten stone pagodas, all of which were built in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. In addition, there are Niuxingshan, Redmi's Nest, Jingkeng, Shanglan Ankou Tallinn, etc. Around Dongshan, there are more than 50 tomb towers such as the second-generation abbot, the Zen master and the ancestor of Zhongxing. The tomb tower of Zen master Liang Jia, the ancestral mountain, is on the hill behind Puli Temple. People call it "Jia Zu Tower", also known as "Jia Shi Tower" and "Hui Jue Tower". The tower is 3.2 meters high, pavilion-shaped and square in plane, and is divided into four parts: base, tower body, cover and top brake.
In the evening, I joined the mountain area, walked across the Seven Immortals Bridge and bypassed a hill. Suddenly, I saw a temple with red walls and green tiles hidden among mountains and green trees. This is the ancestral temple of Cao Dongzong, one of the "Five Leaves and One Flower" of Zen Buddhism in China-Dongshan Puli Temple.
In Donglanpuli Temple, there is a three-story wooden hall behind Daxiong Hall, which was built during the reign of Renzi in Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1672). There is a sign hanging on the gate that says "Buddha is in nature", which was inscribed by Haishou, the 38th abbot of Dongshan in the 23rd year of Jiaqing (18 18). There is a stone spring pool named "Lingquan" between Daxiong Hall and Houfa Hall. It is said that drinking this water can increase wisdom and consciousness.
In front of the mountain gate of the temple, it is said that there is another Podocarpus, with a height of10m and a crown diameter of13m, and its trunk is knotted. According to legend, the tree was planted at a good price when the temple was built in the Tang Dynasty, hence the name "Millennium Luohansong". Unfortunately, this thousand-year-old tree was uprooted and destroyed in a tornado in 2005. After several unsuccessful rescues, the tree is still hidden in the temple.