Speaking of "Guilin's landscapes are the best in the world", it can be said that it is a household name. However, the origin of this immortal saying is rarely known.

In the Song Dynasty 801 years ago, Guangxi Tidian was the Wang Zhenggong, who was in prison and in charge of government affairs, composed a poem in public at a farewell banquet for Guilin candidates who were going to the capital to take the exam, and was the first to put forward the saying that "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world". In 1983, Guilin city cultural relics workers were inspecting the stone carvings of Duxiu Peak When cleaning up, I accidentally found the words "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world" engraved here.

Due to the development of tourism in the Song Dynasty, many people left praises similar to Wang Zhenggong's. For example, Zhang Xun's " "Guilin's landscape is the best in Hengxiang", Deng Gong's "Guilin's caves are the best in the world", Zeng Ji's "the mountains and rivers are as clear as the Central Plains", Zhang Xiaoxiang's "Guilin's landscape is the most beautiful in the southeast", etc. Among them, Li Zengbo in the late Southern Song Dynasty wrote in "Reconstruction" "Guilin's mountains and rivers are the best in the world", which is very similar to Wang Zhenggong's formulation. In addition, according to current research, it is found that the earliest article praising Guilin's mountains and rivers in history was written by great scholars in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Yan Yanzhi. In the early years of Yuanjia (AD 424), Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty, he came to Guilin to visit Duxiu Peak. When he was appreciating the landscape, he wrote the poem "A person who is not as good as Duxiu is in the mountains of E'e."

Guilin is located in the northeastern part of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The unique karst landforms, the beautiful Li River and the beautiful and charming pastoral scenery around it are integrated into one, forming a unique and well-known "green mountains, beautiful water, caves and caves". The "Guilin landscape" has "strange and beautiful rocks", and has the reputation of "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world". Guilin is named after "the jade osmanthus forms a forest", and its long history can be traced back to Qin Shihuang in 214 BC. The "Guilin County" was established after the unification of Lingnan.

People are often attracted by Guilin's reputation as "the most beautiful landscape in the world" before arriving in Guilin. They always want to carefully prepare a holiday and a mood to experience it carefully. The landscape, people, customs and leisurely and comfortable life here. Take a boat ride on the picturesque Li River; go to Xiangshan to appreciate the moon reflected in the water when the moon rises on the branches; wander in the Longji terraces to feel the diligence and wisdom of the working people; Lazily stay in Yangshuo, leisurely indulge your thoughts, and integrate into the intersection of Chinese and Western cultures; or eat a steaming bowl of Guilin rice noodles in the small streets of Guilin...

"Guilin's landscape is the best in the world. "The exact origin of this famous saying has not been found for a long time. In the research of the past dynasties, some people think that it comes from Fan Chengda's saying in the Song Dynasty that "the beauty of Guilin should be the best in the world"; others think that it comes from the economic history of Guizhou in the late Southern Song Dynasty. Li Zengbo's article "Rebuilding Xiangnan Towers" contains the sentence "Guilin's mountains and rivers are the best in the world"; in the 11th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, Jin Wuxiang, the governor of Guangxi, wrote a sentence in his poem "The Grass on the Lijiang River" - "Guilin's mountains and rivers are the best in the world". So far, People agree that the phrase "Guilin's landscapes are the best in the world" came from Jin Wuxiang's mouth. In 1983, a stele rubbing master named Yang Yinsheng in Guilin once rubbed an inscription on Duxiu Peak, one of Guilin's famous mountains. A poem tablet was found under the stalactite. One of the poems in it is "Guilin's mountains and rivers are the best in the world, and the green jade and green flowers can be seen." According to the preface of this poem tablet, this poem was written by the Southern Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty. Just at the end of the day, I mentioned something made by King Zhenggong of Siming, a prison official, who held a banquet for the eleven people who passed the exam. This discovery was 685 years earlier than the original statement.

Wu Mai, a modern patriot, once quoted this sentence in his poem:

Guilin’s landscape is the best in the world,

Yangshuo is the best in Guilin.

The reflection of the peaks Mountains and rivers float,

There are no mountains or rivers without which one would be enchanted.