Jiuzhen Mountain, formerly known as Wuzang Mountain, is said to have had nine fairies here to make an alchemy and build houses. In 867, Wuzang Mountain was renamed Xianqian Mountain. Later, due to Jiu Feng's opposition, it was renamed Jiuzhen Mountain. In the Song Dynasty, there was a temple at the top of the mountain, which was called "Nine True Views". There are too many places of interest in Jiuzhen, which is called "Penghu Wonderland".
In the late Republic of China, after the Mid-Autumn Festival in the eighth lunar month, tens of thousands of good men and women in Hanchuan, Hanyang, Mianyang, Tianmen, Qianjiang and other counties fasted and bathed, burning incense and traveled to the foot of Jiuzhen Mountain. Then kneel in three steps and knock in nine steps, climb to the top of the mountain, burn incense on the mountain, or pray for disaster relief, or pray for a good year, or hope for your son. For thousands of years, for a long time. The couplet once wrote that "the magnificent mountains and rivers surround Jiu Feng, and the five virtues of the Han Dynasty are the potential", which shows the excellent scenery of Jiuzhen Mountain. For a long time, wonderful legends about Jiuzhen Mountain are endless.
According to legend, once upon a time, there were nine fairies, each depending on a peak, and an alchemist was here, all of which became "truth", hence the name "nine truths". There are an alchemy platform and flying stones on the mountain, and there are an alchemy well (also known as an alchemy pool) and a calamus cave below. The nine springs in the blast well splash, clear and sweet, and do not dry up in autumn and winter. As the saying goes, "Jiuzhen Longquan smells ten miles". Thanks to the nourishment of Longquan, rice under the mountain is a must in the world. Folklore: "If there is a dragon coiled on the well, there will be wind and rain. The calamus cave at the foot of the mountain is nourished by Longquan for many years, and its calamus is also very strange, with nine knots in one inch. Eating it can prolong life. Clematis fortunei is a famous medicinal material in China.
Second, at the southern foot of Jiuzhen Mountain, there was Renxian Temple in the old days, and the incense was collected by the Heavenly King and Bodhisattva. Wang Bodhisattva lives in Dongting Lake area and specializes in robbing the rich and helping the poor and doing good for the poor. People respectfully call him "the king". He was later killed by officers and men. After death, he always stays with others and often appears around Dongting Lake to continue to save people. Jiuzhen Mountain is the precipice of the ancient cloud dream and the place where the Bodhisattva lives. During the Warring States Period, a plague occurred in the palace of King Zhao and Chu, where an altar was set up. In the tenth year of Liang Datong, Wang Li Temple in Changsha offered sacrifices. In the Yuan Dynasty, it was named "Fu Jiren apologizes to the king". There was a poisonous sore of Wang Zisheng in the imperial palace of the Ming Dynasty, but the doctor tried his best to cure it, and his life was in danger. That night, the prince dreamed that a king and a bodhisattva were standing on a tortoise and snake, wearing armor majestically, and presented them to the immortal party. The prince woke up and took the medicine according to the prescription of the fairy in the dream. In a few days, he really recovered. To commemorate the great king and bodhisattva, the prince made a statue of bodhisattva according to the icon he saw in his dream. He had magnificent feet and armor.
During the light years of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Renzhuo, a worshiper of Baiquan in Hanyang, took the lead in raising funds and built a temple on the mountain to worship Liu. Liu Botong, a real person in the Han Dynasty, once proved this, and his icon is like a Taoist in Huang Guan. When repairing the temple, the mountain is high and the road is steep, so it is difficult to transport building materials up the mountain. Zhang Renzhuo sent people everywhere to threaten the appearance of kings and bodhisattvas. On that day, the spectacle of flying bricks and tiles magically appeared at the foot of Jiuzhen Mountain, and the audience was crowded. Zhang Renzhuo asked everyone to help pass the temple building materials up the mountain. Because the people were eager to pray for God and full of energy, they flew like bricks and tiles, and were quickly transported to the mountains. They not only built the Queen's Hall, the King's Hall and the Ancestral Hall, but also built many Bodhisattvas.
Jiuzhen Mountain, with many legends, is full of great wisdom and great mind, which always makes people look up.
Nowadays, Jiuzhen Mountain has been gradually developed into a tourist attraction, approved by the Ministry of Agriculture as a national forest park, and a TV series shooting base and Jiuzhen Mountain Villa integrating hotels, tourism, catering and leisure have been built. A western back garden known as an international metropolis is playing an increasingly important role.