the stone statue of Confucius in the southern mountain area of Ji'nan,
in the provincial capital Ji'nan, adjacent to the new campus South outer ring of Shandong University, a village called Xiaoling village. Along a meandering slate Road, over a hill can reach Xiaoling village. Xiaoling village is a small mountain village surrounded by mountains. The houses scattered in the village are told about the vicissitudes of time.
heard of it before, there is a stone man on the high mountain in the northeast direction of Xiaoling village. I don't know where the stone man is from, what month is it? It's longer than the history of Xiaoling village.
one day, I went out of the village. On the way to a man with a dry wood on his back, he asked the road on the mountain. (the road on the mountain is not obvious, easy to go astray.) the man said the stone man could be seen on the hillside near the stone tower.
up the mountain along the south slope of the mountain, the mountain is steep, the mountain road winding, this is a shepherd walk out of the path, the road side, full of clusters of thorns, climbing is very difficult. Breathless for a long journey, there was a slightly reduced platform on the steep slope of the steep road. You can breathe in here. The stone pagoda on the top of the hill can be seen very clearly here.
according to people's direction, looking back at the north, Yamase Yu is boundless. Ah ho! In the boundless cliff, indeed, there is a stone man with an arch to the West. Take a closer look. Yo, isn't that Confucius in Wu Daozi's picture of Confucius in Tang Dynasty?
this natural stone statue of Confucius stands on the sky, momentum Hao Ran. No matter from the freehand manner or to the depiction of details, it has come to the point of perfection. Look, Kong Lao Fu, wearing a towel crown, a brow of high brow, a bearded elegance, and a tattoo of clothes and wrinkles on his body. The statue is about ten meters high, showing a gray gray, simple and magnificent. The blue sky dome, Cangshan such as the sea, the statue of Confucius, and the surrounding environment has really reached the realm of "harmony between man and nature".
Confucius, "Germany, heaven and earth, Taoist crown, ancient and modern", is coming through the clouds of history, and has been reproduced in this deep mountain ridge.
look at the mountains and mountains of the stone peak Shiling, or stand or sit in the posture of the people, gaze into the direction of Confucius, really like the three thousand disciples of Confucius, peach and plum full of the world!
this exhilarating discovery is a coincidence. For many years, the local people only knew that there was a stone man, but no one could see that this is the famous Kong Lao Zi. It may be just to see the truth.
watching this natural Confucius statue is very important. Climbing the stone pagoda and looking at the stone statue is not as wonderful as on the hillside.
the mountains in southern Ji'nan are basically covered by limestone, and they are over 100 million years old. In the long period of crustal changes and the changes of strata and folds and sedimentation, together with various factors such as sunshine, rain and weathering, all kinds of cliff cliffs with different appearances have been formed. However, such a natural statue of Confucius is indeed rare in the world.