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Kaili City, Guizhou Province incense burner mountain

1, Guizhou incense burner mountain incense burner mountain is located in kaili city west 15 kilometers, four sides of the stone cliff wall, shaped like incense burner, so the name. Only a line of trails circling up, 1233.8 meters above sea level, 15 kilometers in circumference, the mountains around the columns, if the sword and halberd piercing the sky, the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Miao people many uprisings are based on this.

The mountain mixed flowers and trees, thick groves, cloudy. Fertile soil, deep wells and thin streams; there are ancient camps, temples and Nantianmen ruins; there reflect the story of the uprising and the remains of folklore. Every year on the 19th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the Miao people of the surrounding twenty to thirty miles gather here to hold the traditional "Mountain Climbing Festival" activities, the elderly mostly to the top of the mountain sightseeing and praying to the gods, young men and women in full dress, or accompanied by reed-sheng, dancing, or on the ground to each other, chanting legends and stories, singing friendship and love. So that the silence of the green hills suddenly become a bustle of the city, the sea of song and dance, along for a long time, the incense burner mountain has become the Miao people to remember the national heroes and longing for a happy life of the famous mountain.

The incense burner mountain because of its shape like incense burner and named, is located in the city of Kerry 15 kilometers northwest, is the lunar calendar in June between the Miao and Han ethnic groups held a "climbing festival" place. During the festival, incense burner mountain town side of the size of the hillside, often held a variety of jumping Lusheng, song, bullfighting and other activities.

Heung Furnace Mountain a Miao people's feng shui mountain, a layer of uncontaminated pure land, since ancient times, the Miao people will be her as the holy mountain of the Miao family, the creatures on the mountain is still its natural cycle, no one dares to go up to the mountain to cut wood and cut grass, the mountain has a heavenly gift of thousands of tons of huge sacred incense burner, the Seven Immortals Pond, the stone conch, and the nymphs violating the rules of the heavens to be punished by the platform, full of huge boulders, rocks, rocks in the full of the centuries-old forests of trees, strange is that centenarians do not know where to go, but also the old man of 100 years old. The strange thing is that the centenarian also do not know when to grow out of the tree, since there is a tree then, years and years so, do not see high, do not see big, do not see short, and the whole mountain shape is also like a full of incense incense burner, is indeed a strange.

Every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, Miao women, regardless of the old and young spontaneously to the seven immortal pool burning incense, just incense furnace mountain a Miao cottage longevity of more than 80 years of age 78 people, of which more than 90 years of age, 28 people, the Miao township is also circulating an ancient poem:

No incense, no fire smoke

Midi Hearth Hill, the ancient story of the pass

Sacred Miao a wonderful scene

People to this place will become immortal every year, and then the fire will become immortal every year. People to this place will become immortal every year on June 19 of the lunar calendar will have a climbing festival, when there will be a lot of local people to climb the mountain, climb to the top of the mountain can be a full range of the entire city of Kaili.