Sceneries
Dishui Cliff
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Located in Suxi Town, the Dishui Cliff is also called the Shui Zhu Dong Tian. According to the legend, when Zhu Yuanzhang and his soldiers walked by the Suxi creek, they found the water very sweet with flicking shadows of the bamboos on the mountain, so they called the place Shui Zhu Dong Tian (Fascinating Place with Water and Bamboo). As there is always water dropping from the cliff, it is also called Di Shui Dong Tian (Fascinating Place with Dropping Water). Following the stairs along the cliff, you will find the Hugong Hall with the Statues of Hu Ze and Zong Ze, the latter of which was a famous anti-Jin general in the Song Dynasty. Walking out of the Hugong Hall, you will find the Temple of the Laughing Buddha after a few steps. And if you climbed another 20 meters along the huge cliff in the south, you will see the Jiangxue Pavilion, which was built to commemorate the lectures given here by Shi Yizhui, a successful candidate of the highest imperial examination in the Yuan Dynasty. On the top of the Dishui Cliff, there’s a new 7-floor pagoda, where tourists could enjoy the stone lions and dragons on the pagoda as well as the Buddhist Statues on the inside wall. At each floor, they could also walk around the corridor outside the pagoda, and at the top of the pagoda they could enjoy a bird’s eye view of Suxi Town.
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