Cucurbit hill scrap cliff and carved stone
Cucurbit Mountain naming due to from south to north, like a supine big cucurbit, is the famous scenic spot, also is the place scrap cliff and carved stone assemble. Lots of rock, or lifts from the earth or apices abrupt, or cliff or near water face wave, become the good place for learning people leave inscription and carve stone. Since Tang and Song dynasty, famous officer and great learner inscription leave much inscription, existent 138 carved stone, is one of the Guangdong ¡°The Three Famous scrap cliff and carved stone. Has praising lake and hill, express sensibility, record and narrate travel trace, also important adversaria. Style contains grass style, Zhuan, Xing. Hereinto more excellent is: ¡°Old-man Li kiosk¡± Carved in A.D.787, ¡°Free captive animals¡±, ¡°Inverse landscape¡±, ¡° carved in Song dynasty, ¡°Picture of lake and hill¡± carved in Daoguan year , Han Tuizhi¡¯s ¡¶White parrot ode¡·of Tang dynasty, ¡¶Yu Xianqing bury wife writing¡·by Chaozhou official Yu Xianqing;
There ¡¶Chaozhou Changli Han temple stele¡· inscribed by Shu Shi, ¡°Kind is happiness¡± by Yu Xueqian; ¡°Put in eye¡±by Chen Yuqiang, one west lake poem: ¡°Landscape not into the picture, really Xizi compare West lake. Famous city self-sufficiency pass thousands of years, manage Hu Yong wait Shu¡±etc. Become excellent art work for visitor conjecture and comment. Carved stone centralize in Shouan rock northcucurbit hill and south Blue cattle cave, is a sight ¡°cucurbit hill scrap cliff and carved stone¡± of famous historical site. At south cucurbit mountainside built Nanyan temple, temple amalgamates with carved stone, mountain forest is beautiful and bamboo is lush.
Top of the mountain remain preserved about 200 meters long, one zhang high, six chi wide lake mountainside town, is built by Chaozhou frontier office Liu Jinzhong.
Wang Yuan is Longyan Fujian people, word is Qizhe, name Weian, successful candidate of Ming dynasty. In 143, emperor accreditaetion 11 official as magistrate of boundary city, it is said one of the 11 is¡¶fifteen birthplace¡·Kuang Zhong, Wang Yuan is one of it. Wang Yuan charge in Chaozhou, at that time Xiangzi Bridge is names Jichuang Birdge, only eighteen pier and destroyed by the flood, across river depend on ferry, local rich man earn money by ferry. Wang Yuan want to repair Xiangzi Bridge, even at that time rumor there are two stone on the cucurbit hill, several Zhangs high, called two toad, shoot city inclined, geomantic man say this is ¡°white tiger overlook city, must have firs disaster¡±. Wang Yuan srttle on this ¡°odd stone¡±, send Li Tong and Lu Xiong preside ¡°hag stone and build bridge. This activity beat up rich men who earn money on the ferry, block him hasten: ¡°this odd stone can not be moved.¡± Wang Yuan answer: ¡°it is odd stone, only can bring disaster and lawsuit, why can be moved?¡± move odd stone and repair bridge, kill two birds with a stone, why does not do it.¡± Rich man not happy, so rumor in the crowd, say if move the odd stone will offend disaster, Chao people will suffer catastrophe.
After hearing this, Li Tong and Lu Xiong are not dare to move it, so respond Wang Yuan, this odd stone is very hard to move. But Wang Yuan decided to move it, he says: ¡°Han Wengong come to Chaozhou can wield away crocodile, I can not move the stone?¡± so choose a lucky day, bring hundred arms to cucurbit hill. He declares: ¡°first I will try, if safety, everybody follow me, together break this odd stone, big as bridge and small as pier. This action supported by the crowd, everybody make concerted effort, repair Xiangzi Bridge with several years, and add five piers and build different pavilion picture, very delicate. Wang Yuan also renamed it Guangji Bridge. Since then not odd stone on cucurbit hill any more, Chaozhou people are not dare of ¡°white tiger evil¡±. Whne Wang Yuan in Chaozhou he do lots of benefit things for the people, later generation build ¡°Wang Gong ancestral temple on the bridge. Later because head bridge often rising, not convenient for ancestor worship, so move it at the foot of Gold hill, every year lots of people go to sacreifice.
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