What's interesting in Gushi County, Henan Province?

Gushi has beautiful scenery, a long history and numerous human landscapes. There are many landmark buildings in history, such as Huangyuting, Dongmen Building, Binyang Building, Kuixing Building and Wangyue Building, and "Eight Scenes of Gushi" have been selected in all previous dynasties. Famous scenic spots include West Jiuhua Mountain, Miaogao Temple, Ansan Mountain, Huayang Lake, Yunxiao Temple, General Chen Temple, Former Residence, Wang Guanling and Wu Qizhuo's Former Residence.

1. West Jiuhuashan Scenic Area

Located in Chenlinzi Town, West Jiuhua Mountain Scenic Area is a national 4A-level tourist scenic spot with an area of 80 square kilometers. A number of scenic spots and nearly 100 scenic spots have been developed, making it the largest eco-tourism resort integrating tea, bamboo and Zen in the Central Plains. The forest coverage rate of West Jiuhua Mountain Scenic Area is over 95%, and there are many virgin forests. The whole scenic spot is dominated by 10,000 mu of tea gardens, bamboo seas, forests, lakes, canyons and waterfalls, with Buddhist culture as the connotation and folk customs in southern Henan as the keynote, forming a landscape feature of the trinity of tea, bamboo and Zen, and the unity of mountains, water and love between man and nature. The scenic spots that have been opened to visitors in West Jiuhua include Zen Culture Scenic Area, Tea Culture Scenic Area, Bamboo Culture Scenic Area, Folk Experience Area, Landscape Scenic Area and Tourism Service Area, among which "Yangtze River Drifting Project" is the first in Central China.

2. General Chen Temple

General Chen Temple, located in Jeffery Ji Township, was built during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty and is the ancestral temple of Chen Yuanguang, the "Holy King of Zhang Kai". The temple, facing south, covers an area of 800 square meters and has 26 houses. Three rows of bluestones paved the road, and the courtyard moved higher. Normal corridor, with stone steps, columns and rafts. Stone lions, statues and drums are beautifully carved. There are inscribed couplets inside and outside the ancestral hall, such as "Kaifu has been a paradise for decades, and the ancestral hall has been built to pay homage to generals for thousands of years" and "The great earthquake struck Fujian and Guangdong, and the dust settled in the southeast". Outside the temple gate is a pool of water named "Crescent Pond", with an existing water surface of 10 mu. The southeast corner of Yueyatang is the ancestral grave of Chen's "Seven Stars Arch the Moon". Overseas and Zhangzhou continue to organize people to come here to worship their ancestors.

3. Miaogao Temple

Miaogao Temple is located in West jiusan, Chenlinzi Town. Founded in the early Tang Dynasty, it flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Covers an area of 22,000 mu (including cultivated land). The original 99-and-a-half-room buildings include the mountain gate, the east wing, the west wing, the hall, the hall of the king of the earth, the ancestral hall and other buildings. Its large scale and spectacular momentum have attracted countless monks, scholars, ten elders and good believers to study Buddhism. Due to historical reasons, Miaogao Temple has only 18 rooms, covering an area of 360 square meters. The front hall is built of stone foundation and blue bricks and gray tiles. The hall contains a corridor, and four wooden pillars in front of the corridor are inlaid with exquisite large wood carvings. Along the way when Shuanglong entered the cave, there were carved images of historical figures such as dragons and phoenixes, flowers and birds, King Wen visiting immortals and Taigong fishing. On both sides of the red painted gate, there are a pair of beautifully carved stone drums. Located in the southeast of the temple 1000 meters, there is a pagoda of monk's tomb, and there is also a pagoda of monk's tomb on the east side of the temple. The style of its tomb tower is different from that of Songshan Shaolin Temple. From the shape of the tower and the relief pattern of the tower body, it is found that it was built at least in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which is similar to the Tibetan stupa, providing an important basis for textual research on the history of the temple. It is famous for its long Buddhist culture in the border region of Henan, Anhui and Hubei, and it will go down in history forever because it witnessed the tragic battle of Fujinshan in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (the battle of Fujinshan was located in this temple, 1938, and the original large Buddhist temple of Miaogao Temple was almost razed by Japanese bombing).

4. Xiushui Park (City Park)

Xiushui Park is located in the west of the city, with elegant environment and convenient transportation. The east gate is resplendent and magnificent, the gossip pavilion is graceful and flying, the rainbow and rosy clouds are lying on the waves, and the peony pavilion is facing the sky. Program-controlled fountains, Nanbei Lake, Rose Garden, Hundred Orchards, S-shaped flower stands, Children's Paradise, National Defense Education Park, Pioneer Park, Botanical Garden, Playground, Jiuqu Banqiao, Xiushui Mountain Villa, Bieshan Flying Curtain and Water Sports Center are scattered all over the place.

5. Anshan Forest Park

Anshan Forest Park is located 20 kilometers northeast of the city, belonging to Anyang Mountain at the junction of Henan and Anhui, with an altitude of 4 19 meters and an area of 45 square kilometers in Fiona Fang. It is a national 3A level scenic spot. The park is rich in forest resources, animal and plant resources, natural resources and human resources, and it is an ideal resort for people to have a leisure vacation, sightseeing and enjoy nature. Natural landscapes include Bailong Pool, Jinyin Fish Pond, Kowloon Inverted Waterfall, Fairy Cave, Old Cat Cave, Snake God Terrace and so on. There is also the only former military fortress in Gushi-the bomb shelter.

Anshan Forest Park has a shepherd's stone when Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was grazing and resting when he was a child, and a Dashan Grandma Temple (also known as Yunxiao Temple) was built in memory of Mrs. Wei Jingfu, the grandmother of "Zhang Kaiwang" Chen Yuanguang. As a result, Anshan has become a holy place of Lingshan for immigrants to express their patriotism and love for their hometown, and has become a bridge and window for Gushi to closely contact compatriots in Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan and Hong Kong and overseas Chinese.

6. Huayang Lake Scenic Area

Huayang Lake Scenic Area is located at the foot of Huayang Giant Foshan (located in Wumiaoji Township, the elevation of the main peak of Caojiazhai is 1025.6 meters, which is the first of all the mountains in Gushi), and it is a national 3A-level scenic spot. Because it inherits the stream in the lower bend of Huayang Giant Buddha Mountain.

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Naming. Huayang Lake is clear and sweet, rich in fish and water, surrounded by mountains.

Around Huayang Giant Foshan, Wofo Mountain and Walnut Peak, the lakes and mountains are beautiful. It is an ideal place for people to get close to nature and let go of their mood. It is a scenic spot with leisure, vacation and conference as its main functions, and it is also the best experience for people to live in harmony with nature. There are water recreation, ecological tea garden, wildlife park, youth education base and other projects under development in the scenic spot. The scenic gate, road, water pier, conference center, villa and amusement center have been completed and will be put into use one after another.