It was originally called Jade Emperor temple and the plaque is still there. Before 1587, it was already the highest architecture in Sanyuan Palace architectural group. It was built leaning against the mountain as the front hall, the audience hall, th...

Passing by the fairy bridge, climbing the mountain along bamboo joint hill, you will find there are 18 groups of terraces, 349 levels, called 18 twists....

The Tang Sanzang cliff, also called “the Buddha cliff”, is a cliff formed by the weathering of gneissic rock, with a height of more than 10 meters. Looking east from the parking lot of Sanyuan Palace, you can see the images of Tang Sanzang and Sun...

There are countless caves in the mountain, generally called “72 caves”, forming by orogeny a certain tens of millions of years ago. Besides Haitian(the sea and the sky) cave, there are also Erxian(two fairies) cave, Wanfo cave, Chaoyang cave, Xiao...

In the early documents of Haizhou, you can find the records about money. But you can’t find anything about monkey in local documents since Ming and Qing dynasties. Maybe it’s the prototype of monkey family removed from the Obituary in Journey to t...

According to A Supplement of Yuntai Mountain, the “Wangri(looking at the sun) tower”, built in Tang dynasty, collapsed later. In Ming dynasty, the “Haishu tower” was built on the original place. In 1833, Tao Shu donated some money and rebuilt...

Screen-like bamboo Buddhist yard got the name because of the shape of the bamboo, which is also the quietest place in Sanyuan Palace architecture group. It was built by Xie Chunshe from Shanyang, where the monks cultivated themselves. In 1938, it was ...

The abode of immortals is the palace of Queen Mother of the West in fairy tale, where Sun Wukong disturbed the flat peach banquet, playing his skills to the full and acting out the story in The Journey to the West. Alongside the abode of immortals, yo...

Multiple Budda pagoda was built in Ming dynasty according to history books. But it collapsed not long after its completion. Until 1980s, the original pagoda base reappeared. After digging the stone room at the heart of the pagoda, people found many gi...

The exit of Bajie stone is Erduo(ear)crack, another scenic spot of Huaguo Mountain, also called Yixiantian. It was formed by two huge rocks crossing their heads and separate at their bodies, which can stand dozens of people on it. Standing on ...