Xiangshan Mountain Scenic Spot
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Customs and festivals
As a main tourist attraction in Xiangshan Mountain, Xiangshanyan Temple is an ancient temple with a thousand-year history which was firstly built in the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1127). Possessing hundreds of monks and nuns during a period of great prosperity, Xiangshanyan Temple mainly worships Master Qingshui and ranks as the largest temple in Xiang’an as well as the pilgrimage site for believers from Xiamen, Kinmen and surrounding areas. Taiwanese Opera, Puppet Show, Chegu Opera, Chest Pat Dance and other distinctive folk art performances in Xiangshan Temple Fair attract hundreds of thousands of tourists for sightseeing and pilgrimage.
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Xiangshan Mountain possesses numerous natural wonderful landscapes and famous historical sites including Immortal Fountain inexhaustible for a thousand year, Free Life Pond for perpetual turtles, Forest of Steles for generations and Training Ground of ancient Song Jiang tactics. Xiangshan Mountain also possesses gorgeous landscapes just like a poetic painting with 24 mountains such as Lion Mountain, Ghost Mountain, Elephant Mountain and Lishan Mountain overlapping each other and stretching for ten miles, ancient and famous trees such as royal poinciana, Erythrina variegate, Bombax ceiba, banyan and Pinus massoniana in flourishing and verdant distribution, various charming flowers such as jasmine, Michelia figo, Bougainvillea speetabilis, sweet osmanthus competing with each other for beauty and fascination, pavilions, terraces and towers casting beautiful and interesting reflections, winding and secluded ancient paths in the mountain with two 5-kilometer long wooden trestles looking like black dragons coiling around the mountain. Walking along the path and climbing onto the mountain to view the integrated splendid landscapes at the foot, tourists will certainly be indulged in such an amazing scenic spot.
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Xiangshan Mountain possesses numerous natural wonderful landscapes and famous historical sites including Immortal Fountain inexhaustible for a thousand year, Free Life Pond for perpetual turtles, Forest of Steles for generations and Training Ground of ancient Song Jiang tactics. Xiangshan Mountain also possesses gorgeous landscapes just like a poetic painting with 24 mountains such as Lion Mountain, Ghost Mountain, Elephant Mountain and Lishan Mountain overlapping each other and stretching for ten miles, ancient and famous trees such as royal poinciana, Erythrina variegate, Bombax ceiba, banyan and Pinus massoniana in flourishing and verdant distribution, various charming flowers such as jasmine, Michelia figo, Bougainvillea speetabilis, sweet osmanthus competing with each other for beauty and fascination, pavilions, terraces and towers casting beautiful and interesting reflections, winding and secluded ancient paths in the mountain with two 5-kilometer long wooden trestles looking like black dragons coiling around the mountain. Walking along the path and climbing onto the mountain to view the integrated splendid landscapes at the foot, tourists will certainly be indulged in such an amazing scenic spot.
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Features Aspect
As a place endowed with natural blessings and sages with abundant cultural accumulation, Xiangshan Mountain is a famous mountain integrating religious culture of “Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism”. Xiangshan Mountain enshrines and worships Master Qingshui, Zhu Wengong, Buddha Shakyamuni, City God, Mother Buddha and Guan Gong which is extremely excellent to be rated as an religious ashram. On the left side of Xiangshanyan Temple stands the “Huiguowengong Ancestral Temple” (also known as “Xiangshan Academy”) which is built to eulogize Zhu Xi’s talents and knowledge.
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