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Longdong Scenic Area

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Open year round, 24/7
Recommended sightseeing time:1 hour
Address:
In Kongwang Mountain Scenic Area, South Yanhe Road, Haizhou District, Lianyungang CityMap
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20230821 morning: 1. "Longdong" is located in the scenic spot "Kongwangshan". Kongwangshan is a famous humanistic mountain in Lianyungang city, at an altitude of 123.17 meters. It is named after Confucius' mountain climbing and looking at the sea. It is one of the "China 71 Fudi". There are many humanistic landscapes in the scenic area, with the world's largest Han Dynasty round carving stone, known as the "first of Kyushu Yafo" Han Dynasty cliff statues. The mountain has a variety of plants, and there are many famous trees and ancient trees. It is called the Lianyungang Botanical Garden. It is a mountaineering scenic spot integrating fitness and health, historical learning, parent-child motivation, and scenery photography. There are celebrities such as Confucius, Su Shi, Shi Yannian, Lin Zexu and other famous footprints in history. ① Address: No. 198 Yanhe South Road, Haizhou District, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province. ② Transportation: Direct bus, easy to stop by car. ③ Popular season: No. ④ Duration: 3 hours. ⑤ Ticket price: 40 yuan. 2. Longdong is a cave in the mountain stone. It was originally a sea-etching cave. It was carved by later people. The hole was square, the edge was0.9 meters long, and the depth of the cave was3.3 meters. The rock outside the cave was engraved with 24 square stones since the Song Dynasty. The largest word was 3 feet. Wang Tong and Lin Tingyu's two inscriptions are most famous. Next to Longdong: ① Ming Dynasty Lian Xu Wang Tong: Wang Tong was in Ming Jiajing 22 years, that is, in 1544, Haizhou Zhizhou, because of excellent political performance, he was promoted and transferred. He left Haizhou Qianhaizhou students spontaneously held a "poetry meeting" in Kongwangshan to see off. During the banquet, Wang Tong engraved this poem on this wall to express his reluctance. ② Lin Tingyu inscription: Lin Tingyu was delegated to Haizhou as a judge in Tang Qian's examination room fraud case for the 12 years of Ming Dynasty (1499), and the inscription "Speech XXXXXXX" was shoveled out of 7 words. The reasons have become a mystery, which may be related to the examination room fraud case. ③ Seahorse stone: The former god beast of the East Sea King Temple, symbolizing the hundredth of a thousand years old, the East Han Yongxing two years (154) Lianyungang area earthquake, the temple was destroyed, the seahorse stone was cracked. Another legend is that the son of the dragon king of the East China Sea, Xiao Huanglong, once practiced in the dragon cave, the small seahorse was its escort, and the dragon child flew away after becoming a fairy, turning the seahorse into a stone in front of the cave, protecting the peace of the side. ④ Tallinn: The small road on the west side of the square, the stone tower is almost obliterated by plants, and it is a cemetery after the monks are silent. ⑤ Shengxuan Monument: The warning monument during the Ming Yongle years, commonly known as "Quit the Corruption Monument", was set up by Yu Shi Liu X (lost handwriting) of Huai'an and other places, 2,5 meters high,0.97 meters wide,0.97 meters thick,0.22 meters, only 64 words are left to distinguish, telling the story of an official in charge of the grain warehouse in Haizhou at that time due to corruption of money and grain, As a negative textbook to wake up the future. Many elderly people play cards in the shade of the tree beside the monument.

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