3. 14, Bus No.29 can be reached.
Xishan Park is located in the west of Guilin, covering an area of about 2 square kilometers, including Hidden Mountain and Xishan Mountain. Xishan was once a Buddhist holy land in the Tang Dynasty, with Xiqinglin Temple, which was one of the five Zen forests in the south at that time. Today, there are more than 90 niches and more than 200 Buddha statues on the mountain wall.
Before the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a 700-acre West Lake in the southern foot of Luxi. In the moonlight of the lotus pond, the smoke waves are rippling, and a hill in the lake is looming. It is a hidden mountain. After no dredging, it silted up. Today, only 74 acres of lakes and 25 acres of lotus ponds have been opened. At present, the main scenic spots in the park are six caves in Yinshan Mountain, Xifeng Mountain, Guanyin Peak, Longtou Peak, Qianshan Mountain, Babushkin Tomb, Guilin Museum, Guilin Kumamoto Friendship Hall, Hidden Mountain Fazang Temple, West Lake, Jiuqu Bridge and pavilions. Now it has become the second largest comprehensive park in Guilin.
Guilin Museum is located in Xishan Park in the city. Covering an area of 1 000 square meters, with a building area of 8500 square meters. The layout of the building is in the shape of a moon, the facade is a suspended building, and the exterior wall is pasted with imitation granite bricks and green glass bricks, which is simple and elegant and full of local and national characteristics. There are 8 natural lighting showrooms, 1 academic lecture hall, 2 cultural relics warehouses and arts and crafts service halls, with a total area of 5,400 square meters. The museum is the main institution to explore, collect, collect and study Guilin's historical cultural relics, revolutionary cultural relics and Guangxi minority folk cultural relics, with a collection of 2 1500 pieces. There are basically five exhibitions: Guilin Historical and Cultural Relics Exhibition, Guangxi Minority Folk Customs Exhibition, International Friends Gift Exhibition, Ming and Qing Porcelain Exhibition, Guilin Cultural City Cultural Relics Exhibition and Historical Materials Exhibition, and various special exhibitions are held from time to time.
Guilin Kumamoto Friendship Pavilion is located in Xishan Park in the urban area. 1990 10. The building area is 947.2 square meters, and the memorial garden 1200 square meters. Japanese residential architectural style. It consists of a permanent exhibition hall, a special exhibition hall and a memorial garden. The permanent exhibition hall is equipped with Japanese Badian Room and Tea Ceremony Room, and also shows photos and traditional handicrafts introducing Kumamoto. The special exhibition hall holds various exchange and exhibition activities between the two cities. Japanese gardens reflect the living customs and interests of Kumamoto residents. Kumamoto Museum is the crystallization and symbol of friendly cooperation between the people of the two cities.
The Cliff Statue of Xishan Mountain is the earliest grotto in Guilin. Key cultural relics protection units in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In Xishan Park in the city. Along Lishi Road in Guilin, it is distributed at the junction of Guanyin Peak, Shiyu Peak, Xifeng Peak and Qianshan Mountain. This place has an elegant environment and is the Buddhist center of Guilin in the early Tang Dynasty. It is mainly engraved with Rushena and Guanyin. Xishan is a scenic spot developed earlier in Guilin. As early as the Tang Dynasty, this was a Buddhist resort.
One of the five southern Zen forests in Xiqinglin Temple. There are 98 Buddhist niches and 242 Buddha statues, 2 relief stone pagodas, 29 lamp niches and 7 statues and lamp niches. The main engravings are Ashan, Lushena and Guanyin. Most of them are one or three statues in a niche, and there are also five, seven and eleven statues. The largest is1.65m, and the smallest is several centimeters. The earliest statue was Ashan Buddha in Shi Li in 679, the first year of the Tang Dynasty. It is characterized by a wide forehead, a high nose, a plump face, an earlobe and shoulders, a broad chest and a thin waist, an open cassock, elegant breasts and gentle manners, which are similar to the giant Buddha statues left by the Bodhgaya Pagoda in India and the Java Pagoda. Luo Xianglin, a scholar during the Anti-Japanese War, visited here. He thought it was a sculpture of the southern line of China, a descendant of Indian Buddhism. It is a work in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which is extremely precious. Some Buddha statues lack heads, broken arms and feet. According to Guilin Local Records, this was caused by the destruction of the Buddha statue in Tang Wuzong during Huichang period. After the death of Wuzong, Xuanzong implemented the policy of restraining Taoism and promoting Buddhism, and Buddhism developed. However, Xishan, as a Buddhist resort, never recovered. After five dynasties and ten countries' division and war, it had declined in the Song Dynasty. Xishan is no longer monopolized by monks and Buddhists.