Yizhou Ancient City Cave

Cotton Village, 3 kilometers north of Yizhou City

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&bsp& nbsp; Built in 1255, located 3 kilometers north of the city of Yizhou in the village of Mumian. Surrounded by mountains and steep cliffs, this place is like iron on all sides. It can hold thousands of stoves inside and choke the throat on the outside. It is unbreakable and dangerous, so it is called "Iron City" and later called "Ancient City Cave". The ancient city is divided into an inner city and an outer city. There are two cliffs facing each other on the east and west ends of the inner city wall, each with a monument. On the eastern cliff is the "Iron City Record", which is 300 centimeters high and 195 centimeters wide. It was carved in the year of the construction of the city and mainly records the process of building the iron city; The western cliff is the "Ode to the Iron City", with a height of 359 centimeters and a width of 230 centimeters. It was carved in March of the following year after the completion of the Iron City, and was created by local people to praise the achievements of Yungong in building the city. There is a cave on the eastern mountainside, with the four characters "Zixia Cave Mansion" carved on the entrance, as well as Jinyin Rock, Liangfeng Cave, and "Feiquan Stone Well". To the east of the outer ancient city lies Ma'an Village. On the eastern foothills of Ma'an Mountain, there is a "Song Immortal Temple", and behind the temple on the mountainside is a stone tablet inscribed with a poem praising the scenery by Ming Dynasty general Wei Zhen