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Elephant Trunk Hill
The Elephant Trunk Hill is a popular scenic spot located right on the Li Jiang (Li River) in Guilin. The hill is shaped like a gigantic elephant drinking water out of the Li River, and that's how it got its name. There is a beautiful legend about the Elephant Trunk Hill. According to legend, a heavenly elephant once came to earth to help the workers. This angered the emperor of heaven who stabbed the elephant where it stood drinking, thus turning it into stone. The cylinder shaped Puxian Pagoda on the top of the hill resembles a handle of a sword which used by the emperor of heaven. The Elephant Trunk Hill is one of Guilin's most recognizable landmarks. Exploring in the Elephant Trunk Hill Park, you will enjoy several features of it: like the Water Moon Cave (Shuiyue dong), Elephant's Eye Stone, and Pagoda for Puxian and Yunfeng Temple and so on.
Here below, we would like to introduce some of the most important sites in the park:
Water Moon Cave is at the riverside with water of Li River flowing through. It looks like a full moon floating on the surface of the water with the moonlight reflected on the waves. There are also many engravings of various inscriptions from the Tang and Song dynasties were found on the walls in and around this cave, praising the beauty of hills and waters nearby.
On top of the hill stands a pagoda named Puxian Pagoda. Built in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), it looks like the handle of a sword. There are many carvings and inscriptions inside and outside the cave. The most well-known one is a poem by Lu You (1125-1210), one of the four great poets of the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279).
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