"Everyone knows stories, and everyone has stories." Each of us has been inseparable from stories since childhood. When we were young, we listened to our mother telling stories, and when we grew up, we had stories. In fact, people are like this, and so are cities. No one may be able to tell clearly how many stories there are in a city like Guilin in Guangxi. Today, I was chatting about the story about Xiangshan among the many "Guilin Stories". There may be many people who don't necessarily understand these two versions of the story!

As we all know, stories are about "things", which generally refer to historical events that are ancient or legends that have been passed down for a long time. As a song sings: What happened in the story is what happened yesterday, how much is right and wrong in the story, how much is wrong in the story, what is wrong in the story is right or wrong, what is wrong in the story is right or wrong, and what is wrong in the story is right or wrong if it is wrong.

Guilin has been a famous historical and cultural city since ancient times, and there are many stories that cannot be told. It is said that a long time ago, there was a divine elephant carrying a treasure vase for the Emperor of Heaven. One year, the Emperor of Heaven came out to patrol hunting. He carried a majestic ceremonial ceremony, a hundred elephants, hundreds of heavenly horses, and dozens of divine chariots, and passed through Guilin with beautiful mountains and rivers. The parade was no less powerful than the present parade. It is said that the current Guilin Landscape Tourism Festival parade was popular since then. Our current landscape tourism festival parade has plans and routes, but at that time, the Tiandi's team had no routes, so the large team trampled on a large area of countryside, flowers, plants and crops were ravaged, pigs, horses, cattle and sheep were slaughtered, and the beautiful Guilin is a vast expanse of land. It is a tragic scene.

An elephant fell ill on the roadside due to fatigue. The Emperor of Heaven saw that it was dying, so he left it and left with other soldiers. Just when the elephant was dying, a pair of old people named Xianggong Xiangpo rescued it. Under the care of Xiang Gong and Xiang Po, the elephant quickly returned to health. In order to repay the old man for saving his life, the elephant specially rushed to the fields to cultivate the land and plant seeds for Xianggong and the farmers, and vowed never to return to heaven again. The farmers all came to thank the elephant for its help to them. Because an elephant was missing from the ceremonial ceremony and the formation was very unsightly, the Emperor of Heaven ordered the elephant slaves to return to Guilin to find the sick divine elephant.

The elephant slave came to Guilin and saw the elephant farming fields for farmers. He scolded it for losing its identity and face as a god. The elephant said,"Can't you, I and the Emperor of Heaven only eat the grain grown by farmers and not do something for them? I will never go back to being a slave for the Emperor of Heaven.

When the Emperor of Heaven heard that the divine elephant refused to return to heaven, he brought his celestial soldiers and generals to catch the elephant. The elephant raised its long trunk heroically in self-defense and fought fiercely with the celestial soldiers and generals for three days and three nights. It was covered in bruises and exhausted, but the elephant remained unyielding and did not stop fighting. The Emperor of Heaven saw that the elephant was so brave and that if he caught it hard, he would lose too many celestial soldiers and generals, so he thought of a plan. He said to the elephant: "You are a fierce general. I like you very much. I will let you go into life." After saying that, he pretended to withdraw to the sky with his celestial soldiers and generals. The elephant listened to the words of the Emperor of Heaven and completely lost its guard. So it walked to the Li River to drink water to quench its thirst. Just as it lowered its long trunk to absorb water, the Emperor of Heaven quietly walked behind it and stabbed the long sword in his hand into the elephant's body. Due to the excessive force, only a short sword hilt was left on the elephant's back.

Although the elephant died, it did not fall. Over time, the divine elephant transformed into a majestic Elephant Trunk Mountain. Looking from afar, the elephant's trunk, body and tail are clearly visible everywhere. The small bottle-shaped pagoda on the mountain is said to be the sword handle left by the Emperor of Heaven. This is a beautiful version of the story about Elephant Trunk Mountain.

"The elephant's trunk is clear to drink from the Jade River, and the west wind draws water to respond to the waves. The green mountains are naturally surrounded by wonderful scenery, and you never get tired of looking at them in the daytime." With its lifelike image, Xiangshan is regarded as a representative of Guilin's mountains and rivers and a symbol of the city, making the world breathless.

Guilin Elephant Trunk Mountain is 220 meters above sea level and 55 meters above the water surface. It is composed of pure limestone deposited on the seabed 360 million years ago. The mountain is lonely and steep, the rocks are ancient, the vines are climbing, and the forests are lush. It is stunning to the world with its lifelike elephant image. Elephant Trunk Mountain was originally named Li Mountain, also known as Yishan, Yishan, Shenshui Mountain, or Xiangshan for short. The reason why Xiangshan is so magical is first that it resembles its form and spirit, and secondly, it creates a bright moon near the water between its nose and legs, forming the wonderful sight of "Xiangshan Water Moon".

In the Song Dynasty, there was a tourist named Chushi in Jibei who wrote this quatrain with the title "Water Moon":"There is a bright moon on the water, and the bright moon floats on the water. The water flow does not go away, and the water flows away when the moon goes away." "Xiangshan Water Moon" is so exquisite that it naturally becomes a unique landscape in Guilin. The mystery and mystery of Shuiyue Cave has inspired literati and literati from ancient times to flourish. More than 50 stone carvings from past dynasties have been left on the stone walls inside and outside the cave, most of which were engraved in the Song Dynasty.

Xiangshan Park is located at the confluence of the Li River and Taohua River in the center of Guilin City, Guangxi. It covers an area of 11.88 hectares. The natural mountains and rivers in the park complement each other. Mountains, water, caves, islands, pavilions, platforms, plains, paths, cultural relics and historic sites complement each other into paintings, which are beautiful and fascinating. At the southern foot of Xiangshan Mountain, there is Yunfeng Temple built in the Tang Dynasty. At the east and west foothills of Xiangshan, there are also hundreds of winding stone steps. The top of the mountain is flat, the trees are shaded, and the paths are open to the secluded. The Puxian Tower, a building in the Ming Dynasty, stands here. The tower is more than 10 meters high. The Puxian Tower is shaped like a sword handle and a treasure vase. It is simple and solemn. The natural landscape and cultural landscape of Xiangshan Park complement each other, making the ancient and young Xiangshan unique.

Xiangshan Park also often holds various flower exhibitions, where tourists stroll through it and enjoy the strange steepness of the mountains, the lucid waters, the tranquility of the caves, and the charm of the flowers. It is like being in a fairyland on earth, making people forget to leave. There is a good slogan: The journey to Guilin begins in Xiangshan Park!

Guilin is a romantic city with mountains and rivers. There is also a romantic version of the story about Xiangshan. It says that Elephant Trunk Mountain was originally the mount of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, protecting the mortal world in heaven every day. One day, I suddenly saw a long-haired girl singing and dancing beside the Li River. The gods and elephants listened to the beautiful folk songs and watched the touching dances. Year after year, day after day, and unknowingly, the original girl grew into a beautiful girl. One day, the girl who came to the riverside no longer sang and danced, but washed her face with tears every day. The divine elephant was very sad after seeing it. Finally, one day the divine elephant transformed into a handsome and handsome son and came to the world and Guilin privately. The divine elephant saw the girl who was thinking about it day and night, but the girl who was lively in the past was seriously ill. The divine elephant could do nothing. It could only secretly make up its mind to accompany the girl for the rest of the time. From then on, they lived happily.

But bad luck still came. The girl left the world. The god elephant buried the girl in the place where the girl used to sing and dance, which is what we call the "Love Island" in Xiangshan Park today. The divine elephant settled the girl, but refused to leave for a long time. He vowed to stay at the girl's grave forever. The heaven sent people several times to persuade the divine elephant to go back, but the divine elephant refused to go back. He had to fulfill his oath. So, the celestial court sent celestial soldiers and generals down. After several fierce battles, the divine elephant was finally defeated because it was outnumbered. Before the divine elephant died, it made a final request to the immortals, begging the immortals to stay here forever. The immortals were moved by the sincerity of the divine elephant, so they fixed the divine elephant's body with a divine sword. As time went by, the elephant's body became today's Elephant Trunk Mountain.

Today's Xiangshan is not only a representative of Guilin's mountains and rivers and a symbol of Guilin's city emblem, but also the most beautiful scenery that makes up Guilin and has become an ideal place for people to relax and vacation. Under the protection of the divine elephant, the beautiful Guilin City is steadily moving towards openness, health, prosperity and harmony.