Juyong Pass of the Great Wall-Fairy Pillow Stone,72 Scenic Spots, Time_honored Juyong Pass

Fairy Pillow Stone

2.5 kilometers to the north of the Juyong Pass, the valley suddenly turns to be wide. Covered with cobblestones, the terrain becomes plain. Each year during the summer and autumn, mountain streams run wildly if it heavily rains. During winter and spring, the stream is minimized to be a brook flowing eastward along the south side of the road. There are all granite stones on the mountains. In the center of the Valley, there is ahuge stone, whiche is 10 meters long, 8 meters wide and 4 meters high. It is called as the fairy Pillow Stone. As one of the famous tourist attractions, many scholars and poets wrote their poems to magnify the natural beauty of the Valley. there are 2 words of Xian Zhen ( Fairy Pillow ) inscribed on its south surface. but now, the stone is popularized as the female General Mu Guiying's platform to gather and review her troops. Altogether, there are 28 small pits on the stone, which are said to be the place that General Mu Guiying set up her tent. So the stone also has another nickname of Tent Stone.

72 Scenic Spots of The Pass Valley

72 is not the real number of the scenic spots. Actually, nobody can list what the 72 scenic spots really are. Many people even try to conspire some attractions to make up the 72 scenic spots, such as 2 Dragons Dallying with A Pearl and Fairy Pillow Stone. besides, folklores of heroes in many dynasties are also related to the natural scenic spots to enrich the contents of the 72 scenic spots.

Time-honored Juyong Pass

Prior to 2 thousands years ago, the Juyong Pass served as a strategic gateway opening the central plain to the comerce and culture with north China. In the year of 1971, a fresco depicting the prosperous vision of the Juyong Pass was discovered in an ancient Han tomb in Inner Mongolia. It shows that the Juyong Pass had been functioned as the gateway connecting north China with the central Plain for a long time.

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