Jiaoshan, surrounded by green waves, full of green mountains, like a jade floating in the river,

Jiaoshan, surrounded by green waves, full of green mountains, like a jade floating in the river, and facing the Elephant Mountain on the opposite bank, is known as 'thousands of rivers flow eastward, one island stands in the middle', known as the 'Water Park of the South of the Yangtze River', and is known as the 'Floating Jade in the River'. The mountain is 71 meters high and has a circumference of more than 2000 meters. It is named after Jiaoguang, a hermit of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The general recommended route for Jiaoshan tour is right: Dinghui Temple-Mingshan Memorial Hall-Steles Forest-Yihe Ming-Bonsai Garden-Ancient Battery-Xijiang Building-Tinglin Mountain House-Biefeng Nunnery-Wanfo Tower-Baishou Pavilion-Sanzhao Cave-Cliff Carvings-Huayan Pavilion-Jiaogong Temple, the journey can be about 2-3 hours. Since it is a revisit to the old place to recall the past, I decided to go to the cliff carvings first by walking left from Dinghui Temple. The whole area along the river at the western foot of Jiaoshan is all steep cliffs, with floating jade, plank roads, Guanyin, and Yihe Ming rocks. Among them are the inscriptions of famous people from all dynasties since the Six Dynasties. There are various calligraphy styles such as regular, cursive, official, and seal scripts. The content is rich, like a natural exhibition of ancient calligraphy, full of beautiful things. When you arrive at the Floating Jade Rock, the most eye-catching are the two vigorous and beautiful characters 'Floating Jade' written by the Song calligrapher Zhao Mengkui; the imitation ancient tower with the style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the south of the Yangtze River--the Wanfo Tower is located at the top of Jiaoshan, the tower is 42 meters high, the altitude is 70.4 meters, you can climb the tower and look far away, the river and sky scenery is all in sight, the front and back doors are embedded with 'the sea does not raise waves', 'the middle stream is a pillar' Eight vigorous and powerful stone carvings (it happens to be under repair and not open to the public); at the foot of the mountain on the east side of Jiaoshan, facing the eight dark fort-style gun forts solidified with lime soil at the mouth of the Yangtze River, this is the famous Jiaoshan Anti-British Battery, an important relic of China's modern anti-British anti-imperialist struggle; the osmanthus flowers in the osmanthus garden have mostly withered, and the remaining sporadic flowers still emit strands of fragrance, and the mountain comes down and it is refreshing with the wind; compared with some famous mountains and rivers, Jiaoshan does not appear to be tall and prominent, but it has its uniqueness The place is the famous Jiaoshan Stele Forest in the south of the Yangtze River, the majestic cliff carvings and stele art, making Jiaoshan a mountain of calligraphy known at home and abroad. The stele forest treasures more than 400 steles from all dynasties, the most famous of which is the 'King of Steles', 'The Ancestor of Big Characters' called the rare stele-'Yihe Ming', it is said that the great calligrapher Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty wrote a inscription to commemorate the death of the pet crane, originally carved on the stone wall of the west mountain of Jiaoshan, and later fell into the river due to collapse, what we see now is the rubbings of later generations; 'Jiaoshan autumn is strong, the red and yellow leaves are different', it is deep autumn, the ginkgo trees in the stele forest are just fluttering with the wind, slowly falling between the black tiles and green bamboo, covering the ground with apricot yellow, adding a layer of quiet and elegant color to the green and lush Jiaoshan.