Human history of Jiuxian Mountain

Jiuxian Mountain is also called Shuizhai Mountain. As the name implies, this mountain is related to the water village. In the early Ming Dynasty, Jiangxia and other Zhou De built Tongshan Institute and set up Tongshan Water Town. The so-called water village is the current naval base. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Zhangzhou government was transferred to guard. Because they are local soldiers, many people leave the barracks and go home without authorization. Later, it was transferred to Xinghua Prefecture (now Putian and Xianyou) for garrison. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, Shuicun was moved to Jiuxian Mountain and built. The officers and men worshipped the "Fairy Duke of Jiuli Lake" in the cave at the top of the mountain, hence the name "Jiuxian Mountain". Jiuxian Mountain faces Tongshan Ancient City and Tai 'ao Bay in Tongling Town. The terrain is dangerous, and it has been an important military place for generations. Qi Jiguang and Zheng Chenggong once stationed troops here and built a navy.

Jiuxian Mountain is tall and straight, with a winding path leading to a secluded place, surrounded by ancient banyan trees, intertwined with tree roots and hedges and beautiful scenery. This is a good place to enjoy the cool in midsummer. Please follow me to the south stone steps. Look, there are four big characters "Bowen, Guanhai" on the stone wall on the left. This is under the title of Fujian sea patrol to Cai Chao in the fifth year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1526). In the 15th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1536), the governor of the Eastern Wei Dynasty (word "Qi Chao") was sent to guard against Japanese invasion, and the officers and men of Tongshan Shuizhai set up a "Huide Monument" among the huge stones to commemorate it. In the 43rd year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1564) and the 10th year of Wanli (1582), Qi Jiguang led his troops to Tongshan twice, built warships, and practiced navy in Tai O waters to fight against the Japanese pirates. The podium is located here. A stone tablet under the boulder is a poem "You Jiu Xian Yan" inscribed by Lin Xuan (Shi Wenmu), a university student of Dongge in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty: "The smoke at the Dongmen Gate is locked, and the mountains with clear water are the first; In the middle of the night, Ryutsuki is cold, and Songhua is clear in the morning. " Later generations came here to recite many poems about Range Rover, all of which were written in his rhyme. Huang Daozhou, a great scholar of Wuyingtang in the late Ming Dynasty, wrote in the article Tongshan Stone Room: "When I was a child, I climbed to the top of the mountain, the moon looked eastward, the blue waves rippled over the two seas, and the tower peak in the sea was just framed, and the column sea was like a wall, which made me feel relaxed and happy." The beautiful scenery of Jiuxian Mountain can be seen from the poems written by literati in past dynasties.

Along the opposite side of the stone ladder, there is a big and dangerous boulder standing on the top of the mountain, engraved with the four characters "Yaotai Xianao". This is the water operation platform for Zheng Chenggong to train naval divisions at that time. In front is the broad Dongshan Bay, commanding and full of dangers, with a panoramic view of the ships coming and going in the bay. This is the site where Qi Jiguang commanded War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and it is also the platform where Zheng Chenggong drilled the navy to recover Taiwan Province Province.

Get off the escalator, get off the water platform, and you will reach the carp stone. There is a running script stone carving behind the carp stone, engraved with the poem "Song of Crossing the Sea", which is a magnificent poem written by Shi Dezheng, the navy prefect, when he crossed the sea to Penghu to conquer the enemy, returned from playing Kai, celebrated here, hosted a banquet and drank wine in the 30th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1602).

Bypassing the carp stone, you arrive at the "Nine Immortals Stone Room", which is covered with big stones and has a flat entrance. It can seat more than ten people. It is a natural cave and one of the eight scenic spots in Dongshan Island/Kloc-0. There is a hole in the hole that leads to the end. The cave is quiet and bright, with fresh ventilation, warm in winter and cool in summer. There is a stone tablet named "Xianji Jiaoyan" in the east, which is 175 cm high and 70 cm wide. Engraved in Li Yong in the sixth year of Ming Dynasty (65,438+0652), it is all in regular script, recording that Zheng Chenggong's 43 departments in Tongshan donated 320 yuan to build Kannonji (destroyed). In the thirty-sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1608), Cheng Chaojing, the navy division prefect, and Kai Lee, who joined the army, visited this mountain three times, and the "Tongshan Stone Room" in the room was written by him, and the poem "Three Teachers in Tongshan" was inscribed on the wall. In the spring of the forty-eighth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1620), Zhou Guangfu, a subordinate of Bai Jie in Zhenning, sent troops to the Northern Expedition and carved two verses on the stone wall.

Jiuxian Mountain is a gathering place of calligraphy art, leaving more than 20 cliff stone carvings, all of which are precious. Poetry records are of great value to the study of Dongshan history.