Roaming through Xishe Mountain
Xishe Mountain Scenic Area in Songjiang is the forest park with the best environment and the most distinctive features among the nine peaks of She Mountain. The scenic spots in the park include: the Catholic pilgrimage site, the fourteen Stations of the Cross on the 'Folded Road', the Xiudaozhe Tower, the Congdao Person and Tiger Tree Pavilion, etc. The famous She Mountain Observatory and Seismological Station are also located on Xishe Mountain.
Xishe Mountain National Forest Park attracts Chinese and foreign tourists with its beautiful natural scenery, brilliant religious culture, dense bamboo forests, handsome peaks, and majestic mountaintop buildings. Spring, summer, and autumn are the beautiful seasons when Xishe Mountain displays its charming scenery, with the mountain dripping green, the landscape picturesque, making it seem like a dreamy fairyland, giving the feeling of being in a heavenly realm. Entering the north gate, following the mountain road and climbing the steps, the road is quiet, with ancient trees, trimmed bamboo, and green shade covering the sun on both sides, and the Xiudaozhe Tower is located on the hillside here. In the mountains with the tower, all peaks come alive; the tower has seven levels and eight sides, a brick and wood structure, slender and steep, standing tall and elegant, beautifully shaped. For thousands of years, the Xiudaozhe Tower has stood above the shade, adding luster to the She Mountain landscape. Below the tower is the site of Chaoyin, and beside it is the Tiger Tree Pavilion. Halfway up the mountain, there is the Zhongshan Church, with three pavilions standing side by side next to the square. Further up, there is a wide stone road, called the Way of the Cross. At the top of the mountain, there is a reddish building, which is the famous Catholic Church, majestic and spectacular, with an extraordinary momentum. Next to it is a dome-shaped building, which is the She Mountain Observation Station of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory...
The predecessor of the Shanghai Astronomy Museum was the She Mountain Observatory established by French Catholic missionaries in 1900. It was the first modern observatory in China with an astronomical dome and a large astronomical telescope, and one of the important birthplaces of modern astronomy in China. In 2004, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory established the Shanghai Astronomy Museum on the basis of this excellent building, which is now a national science education base and a national key cultural relics protection unit.
The Shanghai Astronomy Museum, built in 2004, is located in the Xishe Mountain National Forest Park Scenic Area in Songjiang. Its predecessor was the She Mountain Observatory established by the French Catholic Church in 1900. It was the first modern observatory in China with a large astronomical telescope and one of the important birthplaces of modern astronomy in China. It is now a national key cultural relics protection unit and a national science popularization base. The Shanghai Astronomy Museum has both historical exhibition and scientific education functions, with rich cultural relics and historical materials displaying the development of modern astronomy in China, as well as various science popularization exhibition halls such as the 'Century Treasure Mirror' exhibition hall and the 'Meridian Instrument Room'.
Xiqiao Mountain Garden is located in the west peak of Lushan Mountain, at an altitude of 100.87 meters. There are two main landscapes: the Notre Dame Basilica and the Observatory. The Notre Dame Basilica is located in the north of the mountaintop and was built by French missionaries. It is called the "First Cathedral of the Far East". The whole building has a unique shape, no steel, no beams, no nails and no wood. The arches and ramparts are Roman, the olive bell tower is Israeli, the spire is Gothic, the columns are Greek, the water is clear, the horn-shaped floor tiles, the glazed tiles are Chinese. Every May, the religious Mother's Day, the Quakers from all over the world come to the Busan to worship, the number of people is quite spectacular. Busan Observatory, now a national astronomical science education base and cultural relics protection unit, has many precious historical relics. Every time you visit Busan, there will always be different harvests, brilliant historical civilization and beautiful natural landscape, deeply attracted Chinese and foreign tourists.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy is famous for its obliqueness (about 3.99°), but many people may not know that there is actually an ancient tower that is more tilted than it in Shanghai, that is, the Tianma Mountain Jewelry Tower of Lushan National Forest Park (about 7.10°), The ancient tower built in the Northern Song Dynasty has a history of nearly 1,000 years, and its slope is far beyond the Leaning Tower of Pisa, so it is known as the "Shanghai Pisa Leaning Tower", which has become a major wonder in Shanghai. It is said that Gao Zong of the Southern Song Dynasty once gave Sheli to hide in this tower, so sometimes there will be treasure light, so it is called the jewelry light tower. There are many legends about the tower in the local area. To the east of the tower is an ancient ginkgo tree, the branch of the ancient ginkgo tree is in the shape of a dragon's claw, facing the tower in a position of swooping on the tower. The jewelry tower is protected, and the first tower is slanted. It is slanted more than the tower of Pisa in Italy. The ancient ginkgo tree on the east side of the legendary tower was planted by Zhou Wenda, the hand of the mountain gods, supporting and guarding the Pearl Tower, so that it will not fall for thousands of years. In fact, it is still a mystery why the Pearl Tower is tilted and not fell. Address: No. 460, Liujiashan Village, Songjiang District
Shanghai Lushan National Forest Park was established in June 1993 by the Ministry of Forestry approved by the State. It is located in the Songjiang area of the ancient city of Shanghai's western suburbs, covering an area of 401 hectares and 30 kilometers from the city center. The twelve peaks in the park tend to the northeast from the southwest, and stretch for 13 kilometers, making the Shanghai Plain of Yima Pingchuan show a beautiful mountain and forest landscape. Shanghai Lushan National Forest Park is a subtropical monsoon climate, forest vegetation type is evergreen broad-leaved forest, evergreen deciduous broad-leaved mixed forest. As of March 2013, the scenic spots that have been built and opened to the outside world are: Dongguan Mountain Garden, Xiqiao Mountain Garden, Tianma Mountain Garden, Xiaokunshan Garden, etc. Shanghai Lushan National Forest Park is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, "National Civilized Forest Park", "Most Influential Forest Park".
Very good, worth going
Shanghai Lushan Forest Park is one of the most lively places in Shanghai. Every day, tourists are constantly in the network of Shanghai red punching places.
There are no highlights, there are still a lot of mountain climbing, just exercise. The only thing worth seeing is the leaning tower. The jewelry tower at 6 o'clock is really a monument. It is not easy to climb the northern Song Dynasty to the present. Just rush to this attraction, you have to see it too.