Xuedou Mountain in Xikou
The Xuedou Mountain historic site in Xikou becomes a popular tourist spot and national-level scenic resort and historic site with a good reputation at home and abroad, not only because it is the hometown of Jiang Jieshi and his sons, historical figures in modern times, but also because it has graceful sceneries and many historic sites.
Xikou Town
It is the hometown of Jiang Jieshi, an ancient town in the mountain area which has been established for more than one thousand years. It is surrounded by mountains on four sides. The three-mile long street runs across from the east to the west along the Dan River.
The Xuedou Mountain, which enjoys a reputation as “the first mountain in Siming”, is located in the east edge of the Siming Mountain and is more than 600 meters above the sea level. It has graceful mountain ridges, majestic and exotic rock gully, colorful waterfall, and deep and quiet forest spring.
The milky peak on the mountain has a shape of sinus and therefore is called snow sinus.
Among the natural and human landscapes, such as Rushan Pavilion, Imperial Book Pavilion, Hanzhu Forest, Jinjing Pond and Xiangliang Hillock, the Xuedou Temple, Miaogao Platform and Qiangzhang Rock Waterfall are especially remarkable.
Xuedou Temple
It was called Xuedou Buddhist Temple of Senior Saint in ancient times and is one of the ten temples of Zen in the world.
The temple was first built in the Jin Dynasty, experienced rises and falls for many times, and was rebuilt in the eighth year of Xiantong’s period in the Tang Dynasty（the year 867）. It was renamed Waterfall Kwan-yin Buddhist Temple.
The temple now preserves scriptures, “dragon collection of books obliged by the emperor”, and other rare and precious cultural relics, such as jade seal obliged by the emperor, dragon robe, and dragon earthen bowl as well jade Buddha, paintings of celebrities, calligraphy and inscriptions, etc. Two gingkoes of the Han Dynasty stand lofty in front of the temple gate.
The Xuedou Mountain rest houses of China Tourist Agency around the temple are the site where Jiang Jieshi placed Zhang Xueliang, a famous Patriotic general, under house arrest in those years.
These rest houses, which were built in 1988, now have been opened to the public as the exhibition hall of General Jiang’s story, which becomes a new human scenic spot in the national-level scenic area of the Xuedou Mountain.
Qianzhang Rock Waterfall
Ten thousands of green shield-like peaks rise above the ground and stand there and white waterfall as long as one thousand zhang hangs high up in the air and separates.
Watching together the beautiful and pure girl hanging silk on the machine, you will see the silk become five-colored passages reflected by the sun. (a poet written by Wang Anshi) Qianzhang Rock Waterfall is one lie (equal to half a kilometer) south of the Xuedou Mountain.
It is well-known in the east of Zhejiang for its grandeur, oddness, and spectacularity. Zhen Zong, an emperor of the North Song Dynasty, once gave the name of “waterfall of East Zhejiang”. On the west top of the cliff, there is a “Feixue (Flying Snow) Pavilion”, where tourists may sit there, viewing the flying waterfall.
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