The Huanglong Yuanbaoshi is known as the ‘rare stone in the East China Sea’ and can be compared with the ‘wind-moved stone’ on Goulou Mountain in Dongshan County, Fujian Province. Legend has it that when Nüwa mended the sky, two Yuanbaoshi stones were accidentally dropped into the East China Sea. One is here, and the other is on Zhiaoshan at the end of Huanglong Island, which are said to be ‘two dragon eggs hatched by dragons’. Yuanbaoshi stands on the steep cliff of Huanglong Island. There are two peculiarly shaped huge stones that seem to be large and small ‘ingots’ lying across the steep cliff. The large Yuanbaoshi is wide on top and narrow at the bottom, about 6 meters high and weighing about 100 tons. Looking from the east, it is like a huge opened folding fan. The small Yuanbaoshi leans against its west. It is 4 meters long and weighs about 5 tons. Both ends are翘起, and the middle is concave. The bottom is arc-shaped. It is round, smooth and seems like a divine stone. It is placed on the cliff top that slopes downward and seems to fall at any touch. According to folklore, if two people pull a thread, a thin filament can be pulled through from the bottom of the rock. When gently shaken, it sways left and right. Standing on it and kicking it, it bumps up and down and makes a ‘clattering’ sound. It seems to fall from the cliff top, making people’s hearts pound. However, even a typhoon of force 12 can do nothing to it. On the west wall of the large Yuanbaoshi, the four characters ‘East China Sea Cloud Dragon’ are engraved. They are square and steep, inscribed by Zhang Chuanlong of Siming when he patrolled the sea in 1908.
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Yangshan Deepwater Port Sightseeing Area – Yuanbaoshi
The Huanglong Yuanbaoshi is known as the ‘rare stone in the East China Sea’ and can be compared with the […]
