Yuelu Mountain and Juzizhou
The last peak of the seventy-two peaks of Nanyue falls in Changsha, which is Yuelu Mountain. Among the five mountains, Hengshan is like lying down. Most of the peaks are plain and ordinary, as is Yuelu Mountain.
Cable car up the mountain. The top of the mountain is gentle, without dangerous peaks or infinite scenery. Walking down the mountain, there are many cemeteries along the way. Huang Xing, Cai E and other activists of the Revolution of 1911 were buried here after experiencing a vigorous life, enjoying the verdant and tranquility of Yuelu Mountain forever. Come back, the heroic spirit of Xinhai rests in peace.
The Changsha Battle Monument stands quietly beside the road. The flames of war dispersed, and the tragic deeds of the soldiers and soldiers of the Ninth Theater Area were not forgotten by the change of political power. The inscription is silent, and the national soldiers who fight against foreign aggression are immortal.
After passing the Taoist Yunlu Palace, I saw flying stones from road signs. I looked up and looked around, but I didn't see any strange stones. Follow the road signs and walk down the stone steps. There are three red characters engraved on a flat rock protruding from the cliff and several meters in length and width. There is also a five-character poem written by Zhao Yan, a native of the Song Dynasty. No matter how you look at it, the spirit does not look like a flying stone. It is said that there used to be a stone pavilion, but no trace could be found.
Down to Chuanshipo Lake, you will find the only water feature in Yuelu Mountain, and there is a Sun Yat-sen Memorial Forest next to the lake. While Mr. Sun Yat-sen was committed to overthrowing the feudal monarchy, he still did not forget to plant trees. His eyes were deep and impressive. The sound of pine waves seems to echo Mr. Sun Yat-sen's legacy: The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard. When is success? Probably never ending.
The climax of the Yuelu Mountain tour is not at the top of the mountain, but at the foot of the mountain. The maple leaves of Yuelu Mountain are all concentrated in the Aiwan Pavilion at the foot of the mountain, attracting a swarm of tourists and crowds. After the Qing Dynasty Yihuguang Governor changed the name of the Hongye Pavilion to the Aiwan Pavilion based on the famous sentence in Du Mu's "Journey on the Mountain","Parking and sitting in the Maple Forest at night, the frost leaves are redder than February flowers", the pavilion became a name, and the red leaves became even more outstanding. The pavilion's head personally inscribed by the founding leaders in the 1950s added new meaning to the ancient pavilion.
Next to Aiwan Pavilion is a thousand-year-old courtyard: Yuelu Academy. She should be called the oldest institution of higher learning in China and even the world. In the solemn lecture hall, two gilded wooden plaques of the Qing Emperor, Kang and Qian Dynasties,"Learning to Achieve Nature" and "Daonan Zhengmai" symbolize the official status of the Yuelu Academy. Under the plaques, the two imperial chairs were left behind by Zhu Zhang's lecture? On the front wall of the lecture hall, Zhu Xi personally wrote the four characters "Loyalty, Filial, and Honest Festival". The solemn and honest style of writing implied the style of this great scholar of the Song Dynasty. I saw a group of elderly people holding professional SLR cameras pointing at female models wearing ancient costumes under the command of a photographer who seemed to be a photography director and completing cultural photography. However, the Chinese cultural code hidden behind the lens screen was also something that several people can understand. Tourists are interested in swimming. It is not easy to truly understand this thousand-year-old institution. The way to enter Yuelu Academy from Aiwan Pavilion is the back door. After reading it, you exit the front door. Looking back, there is the authentic "Yuelu Academy" by Song Zhenzong on the forehead of the door. The couplet on both sides: Only Chu has talents here. There is soaring heroism between the lines.
Juzizhou and Yuelu Mountain are not far away, and mountains and rivers are interdependent. I remember the first time I came here was in the late 1980s. After a few calculations, it has been 32 years. Time flies, in the blink of an eye. Except for the white marble poetry stele still standing in its original place, the rest has long changed its appearance. The most eye-catching thing is Mao Zedong's youth art sculpture, which is in its prime, high-spirited and glorious as a great man. 83 meters long, 41 meters wide and 32 meters high, the numbers are very symbolic. When the Chairman was young, he stood at the head of Juzi Island many times, looking north of the Xiangjiang River and seeing the red mountains everywhere. He asked,"Who cares about the ups and downs on the vast land?" How many people in the world can match the question of a great man, the lofty spirit of "pointing out the country and inspiring words"? Standing in front of the poetry stele, looking at the dancing dragons and dancers, and reading it softly to experience the heroic life of eagles hitting the sky, fish flying on the shallow bottom, and reaching the middle stream of water.
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