Heishi Mountain

A Brief Introduction to Heishi Mountain

Heishi Mountain is located in the southern suburb of Baisha Ancient Town in Jiangjin County. It is not only famous in Bashu area for its grotesque stones and beautiful sceneries, but also attracts many visitors from other regions of China as well as from abroad.

Legend of Heishi Mountain

As to the origin of Heishi Mountain, there is a mysterious legend. According to the legend, there was once an evil flood dragon in the Donghaituo River in Baisha Town. Each summer, he would bring troubles to the local people by producing the floods, overturning the boats, destroying the houses and submerging the farmlands.

The flood victims then turned to Erlangshen (a deity of Taoism), the son of the flood controller-Li Bing for help. So Erlangshen Deity made a whip with chilopods to drive many huge stones into the Donghaituo River so as to conquer the evil flood dragon.

At that time, the Stone Buddha on the south bank of Yangtze River realized that filling the river with stones would lead to the river water's submerging the south bank area. So Stone Buddha became a rooster and crowed before the dawn. Since the chilopod was afraid of roosters, the whip made of chilopod lost its magic power and could not drive these stones ahead. So the stones stopped in this area, forming a mountain.

Attractions of Heishi Mountain

There are unique natural landscapes and human landscapes in Heishi Mountain. On the even filed rises abruptly a huge mountain with lush vegetations covered on it, just like a giant green ball. Roads wind from the foot of the mountain to the top of it. Along the road grow luxurious trees. Interestingly, all the stones on the mountain are in the color of black. This is why the mountain is named Heish (Heishi means black stones) Mountain.

There are more than 500 black stones on the mountain with different sizes and in various shapes. The large ones are over 10 meters high and can hold more than 100 people to sit on it.

Heishi Mountain is full of huge and lush ancient trees, the majority of which are camphor trees. These camphor trees are also the oldest among those trees on Heishi Mountain and can be encircled by three or four people. Pines, cypress and cedars are planed among the camphor trees. Heishi Mountain is always full of fresh flowers all the year around. Several thousands of white cranes and storks nest here in the woods and often fly among the trees, adding more natural breath and vitality to Heishi Mountain.