Dinghu Peak

Dinghu Peak is the core of the main scenic area of Xiandu Scenic Area – Xiandu scenic spot. Centered around […]

Dinghu Peak is the core of the main scenic area of Xiandu Scenic Area – Xiandu scenic spot. Centered around Dinghu Peak, here are the main places for sacrifice and worship of Xuanyuan Huangdi, the人文始祖 of the Chinese nation in southern China – Huangdi Ancestral Temple (a large-scale sacrificial ceremony for Huangdi is held grandly here every year), as well as Buxu Mountain, Lianjin Creek, Yangfeng Island, Tongzi Peak, Yangzhi Pavilion, and Ye Qingchen’s cliff inscription of ‘Inscription on Dufeng Mountain’. In the area, by using light and shadow effects, a ‘dreamy Xiandu’ integrating night, scenery, water, and sky is presented to people, expanding the night tourism activity space of scenic spots and becoming a major feature of scenic spots. Dinghu Peak is the symbol of Xiandu. The bottom area is 2468 square meters, the top area is 710 square meters, and it is 170.8 meters high. Shaped like a spring bamboo shoot, it rises straight from the ground and pierces the clouds. Also known as ‘Tianzhu Peak’, it can be called ‘the first peak in the world’ and ‘the first bamboo shoot in the world’. In ‘Records of Famous Mountains’ by Xie Lingyun of the Jin Dynasty, it is recorded that ‘beside Jinyun Mountain, there is a solitary rock standing firmly. It is two hundred zhang high. There is a lake on the top, and lotuses grow in it’. The cliff is inaccessible. According to legend, in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, an old herb collector risked his life to climb to the top of the mountain. In the following 80 years, only one person went up. According to legend, Xuanyuan Huangdi once set up a furnace on the peak to make pills. When the pills were made, groups of cranes danced. Huangdi ascended to heaven on a red dragon. His ministers wanted to follow. They scrambled to climb the dragon’s beard. The dragon’s beard was pulled off and fell to the ground, turning into ‘dragon’s beard rods’. The dragon’s beard rods grow on Dinghu Peak in Xiandu. Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty included the dragon’s beard rods in ‘Compendium of Materia Medica’, which can cure all diseases. Opening hours: Open all year round from 08:00 to 17:00; Open all year round from 07:30 to 17:30.