Dinghu Peak is the core of the main scenic area of Xiandu Scenic Area – Xiandu Scenic Spot. Centered around Dinghu Peak, it contains the main place for worshiping and paying homage to Xuanyuan Huangdi, the人文始祖 of the Chinese nation in southern China – Huangdi Ancestral Temple (a large-scale ceremony for worshipping Huangdi is grandly held here every year). There are also Buxu Mountain, Lianjin Creek, Yangfeng Isle, Tongzi Peak, Yangzhi Pavilion, and Ye Qingchen’s cliff inscription of ‘Inscription on Dufeng Mountain’ and other landscapes.
In the area, by using light and shadow effects, a ‘Dreamy Xiandu’ integrating night, scenery, water, and sky is presented to people, expanding the tourism activity space at night in the scenic spot and becoming a major feature of the scenic spot.
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 number one peak in the world’ and ‘the number one 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 cliffs are 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. After that, only one person went up in 80 years. According to legend, Xuanyuan Huangdi once placed a furnace on the peak to make pills. When the pills were completed, groups of cranes danced. Huangdi ascended to heaven on a red dragon. His ministers wanted to follow. They scrambled to pull the dragon’s whiskers. The whiskers were pulled off and fell to the ground, turning into ‘dragon’s whisker rods’. Dragon’s whisker rods grow on Dinghu Peak in Xiandu. Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty included dragon’s whisker rods in ‘Compendium of Materia Medica’, which can cure all diseases.
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