Gold hill age-old pineis
Gold hill age-old pine and gold hill Cliffside inscription and stone carved stand erect on city north shore of Han River, about 40 meters high, shape like cover kettle, together with Chaozhou ancient city back pillow, Westside cucurbit mountain, eastside Penholder Hill form Chao¡¯s three barrier.
Gold hill age-old pineis one of The Eight Great Sights, original name is Qiu Songcui, in 1278, Ma Fa, lead Chaozhou people rise against Yuan, late Yuan leader buy over south gate inspector Huang Huzi as inner responder, capture Chaozhou city, Ma Fa ¡° Accept remnant soldier more than hundred into Baozi city (that is Gold hill). Consider it can¡¯t be done, make wife hang herself to die¡±, whole family martyrdom, whole city people are died during Yuan soldier slaughter. Later generation in order to commemorate Ma Fa and Chaozhou people rise against Yuan, build Ma Fa tomb on Gold hill, gravestone written ¡°Song Cuifeng village Ma tomb¡±. And plant grey pine and jade green cypress to explain high style and good moral. Original pine and cypress already old, modern instead two age-old banyans reaching the sky, also some people call it ¡°Gold hill age-old banyan¡±. Qing dynasty patriotic poet Qiu Fengjia ever visit Gold hill, inscribed a couplet in a small booth: ¡°Look over Han scholar word lean on fence, such territory, only let former worthy leave name? Fill with wine condolence on General Ma¡¯s tomb. How the mother earth, unexpectedly take situation after war to pay hero.¡± In 1537, Chao people esteem Ma Fa as ¡°Gold hill saint king¡±, and establish ¡°Loyalty torii¡±, torii repaired several times still exist until now, is the only ancient torii of city.
Gold hill Cliffside carved stone until 1984 culture census stored only 30, although, it¡¯s rich content, high history value can not be underestimate. There are many record ¡°The first Hill¡± inscription of Song dynasty great calligrapher,¡¶Gold city hill record by Wang Han, ¡°Zhen Shen build city record¡± in Zhi He, Wang Yongping suppress arms chaos¡¶Yang arms chaos¡· besides also has Zhu Xi¡¯s handwriting ¡°clumsy nest¡± and ¡°Share interest of Qing and Hui¡± in Yuan dynasty, ¡°Phoenix stage wall stand¡± in Ming dynasty, etc, these scenery epigraph, imperial examination superscription and inscribe poem carved stone, Gold hill inscription and carved stone not only precious data on Chaozhou history, but also calligraphy grand sight of Gold hill scenery spot.
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