After a week of rainy weather, the weather was finally the best day of the week, with sunny days and white clouds. This week, the company welcomed several new colleagues, in order to welcome new colleagues, enhance collective cohesion and team spirit, and create a healthy and positive corporate culture atmosphere, and on December 12, the company held a heart-warming journey from history to nature in early winter.

Xishan Town is now called Jinting Town, and in 2007, it inexplicably became Jinting Town, but it was just because of “the declining Xishan”?

Compared with various well-known scenic spots, Xishan is extremely low-key and simple. Our group of more than 20 people laughed and laughed along the way, drove through the long Taihu Lake Three Bridges, and finally saw the beauty of the West Mountain hidden in the deep boudoir, just like the old days, the whole environment still retains the innocence of the girl “and shame to go, lean on the door and look back, but smell the green plum”.

Taihu Lake in December has not lost its color because of the advent of winter, and after the baptism of spring, summer and autumn, Taihu Lake ushered in a different taste of early winter. Visitors who come here will not lose the fun of playing because of the cold. We have planned activities for this season, climbing Shigong Mountain, picking oranges, and farm stays, looking for a heart-warming route that is most suitable for winter.

Shigong Mountain is the first of the eight views of the West Mountain, surrounded by water on three sides, one side is backed by the mountains, the mountain is full of green cypresses, such as the green snail and the water, like the jasper floating lake. The mountain village is reflected in the water, and the beautiful scenery is natural. After hundreds of millions of years of natural baptism, the limestone of the mountain has produced a variety of natural landscapes such as cloud ladders, a line of sky, sunset caves, and guiyun caves.

There are two strange stones in Shigong Mountain, the one who looks like an old man is Shi Gong, and the other is Shi Po. The two of them stood shoulder to shoulder, looking at each other, telling a distant love story, so it was named Shigong Mountain.

I saw a temple in the distance, which felt a bit like a Shaolin Temple. When I got closer, it turned out to be Shigong Temple

It turns out that Master Hai Lantern also practiced here and taught his apprentices

The sculpture on the side of the temple is a bit interesting

Seeing the plum blossom pile on the other side, I am happy, men’s nature loves to play, they all want to go up and try their skills, look, Dapeng spreads its wings, it is not easy to maintain balance, and it is not low, there is more than a meter high, the interval between the stakes is not close, on the stage of a point, off the stage of ten years of work.

The first line of heaven is on the southern slope of the middle of Shigong Mountain. The original name was “the wind pierced the clouds”. The two walls are green, the stone gap is a crack, narrow and only allows one person to go up and down, the three words of “a line of sky”, by the famous calligrapher and painter Mr. Xie Xiaosi in Suzhou, he is engraved by a gold stonemason.

There are fifty-three levels of stepping stones, which take the meaning of Buddhism “fifty-three ginseng, refer to the Buddha”. A line of Tiantong to the top of the mountain. Ming man Shen Boying < a line of heaven > poetry: “The wooden pestle is folded out of the plate, and it is like an obscure and lying on the sun.” Life is difficult to lead the way, and it is difficult to see the road through ruggedness.

Although Shigong Mountain is not big, it is full of scenery, in response to the sentence that the mountain is not high, there are immortals and spirits, the water is not deep, and there are dragons and spirits.

At the end of the climbing trip, we came to the foot of the mountain, and made an appointment in advance with an old woman at the bottom of the mountain in the orange forest, I heard that because her daughter got married, she was too busy to pick oranges, otherwise the oranges would be picked at this time.

Share the fruits of your labor

In addition to fruits, Xishan farmhouse dishes are fresh and delicious, and all kinds of lake freshness are appetizing. It is also the three whites of Taihu Lake, and many gourmets would rather drive hundreds of miles to choose Xishan. A plate of whitebait eggs was brought to the table, fluffy like a cloud, and after a bite, I immediately understood what the real Taihu Lake fresh was.

Most of the buildings on both sides of the Xishan building street are the buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the height is staggered, and the mottled is ancient. The Qing Dynasty poet Shen Deqian called it “the smoke of chickens and dogs in the flower forest”, and the Qing Dynasty poet Ling Ruhuan called it “the water hugs the green mountains and the mountains hug the building street flowers, and there are people in the depths of the flowers.” ”

The west mountain at dusk indicates that the day is coming to an end, but although the west mountain at this moment seems pale and melancholy, but this is the poet’s feelings, the poet has no scenery and no praise, no sadness and no sorrow, if there is a poet here, it must be attached: Luoxia and the lonely bird fly together, the autumn water is a color of the long sky, the time is in September, the preface belongs to the three autumns, the fishing boat sings the evening, sings the shore of the poor West Lake, the geese are frightened, and the sound is broken in the autumn water.

At this time, we also had to embark on the way home, everyone is still unsatisfied, looking forward to the next time to be able to come again, before leaving the proprietress said that their family has more than 100 loquat trees, next year you must come to eat, full of Xishan people’s simplicity, enthusiasm……