Wenyu Pavilion

Wenyu Pavilion is built on a huge rock shaped like a lotus petal, surrounded by water. The rock is shaped like a lotus, called Qinglian Stone. The ancient pavilion on Qinglian Stone has a double-eaved octagonal spire, carved beams and painted buildings, and a double fish decoration on the top. It is 5 meters long, 7 meters high, and a great place to rest and fish by the stream. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a man named Lu Xian, who was known as "Lu Xian of the Stream," visited Fan Xianke, the imperial censor who lived in seclusion in Niweng Cave, and got lost. He asked a fisherman for directions, and the fisherman led him to meet. Lu Xian recorded this in a poem: "The water cave is deep and the clouds are thick, and the old man sits and talks about chess. Suddenly lost on the way, the fisherman leads him into the flowers." Later generations built a pavilion to commemorate this, hence the name Wenyu Pavilion. Next to Wenyu Pavilion, there are inscriptions such as "Wenyu Pavilion" and "Junzi Stone." "Wenyu Pavilion" was written by Lou Cun, a famous calligrapher and seal engraver from Jinyun during the Republic of China, and an early member of the Xiling Seal Engraving Society. Junzi Stone was originally a stone screen that extended into the stream along with Chuyang Mountain. According to the "Record of Visiting Xiandu Peak" by Yuan Mei, a famous literary writer of the early Qing Dynasty, there were inscriptions on the stone screen from the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a poem about "Visiting Xiandu" by Wang Shiheng, the champion of the Ming Dynasty, and a poem about "Lu Xian Visiting Dou Mountain" from the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. In 1958, when the highway was built, the stone screen was blasted and the inscriptions on the stone wall, including those by Wang Shiheng, the champion of the Ming Dynasty, were shattered, which is a pity. In March 1991, the highway was widened. The inscriptions on the cliffs, including "Lu Xian Visiting Dou Mountain," collapsed directly, and several of them were chiseled and stored in Duofeng Academy.