Mountain of head of dragon Liaoning Shenyang of China

Head of dragon mountain lie Tieling 1 kilometers east of the city. Because it ran quickly from southeast, reached and held high suddenly by the firewood bank, the head like the huge dragon, thus come the name of the mountain of head of dragon, it is the famous scenic spot of Tieling. Every May, the hillock, full of the rose beautiful in colour the mountain valleying, the fascinating fragrance of flowers drifts with the wind.

The spring scenery here are beautiful, the autumnal scenery is more graceful. The nice and cool autumn wind has blown the maple leaf red all over the hills and plains, in the dense grove of each, visitors are constant. The head of dragon is sought autumn It is one of the firewood river eight scenes.

The old kind clear temple is located in the peak in the north peak of mountain of head of dragon, originally known as the beautiful peak temples, water tide temples, also called three clear views. The temple is a simple and unsophisticated inning courtyard type building, there are main hall, side hall in a palace or temple of the things, depositary of Buddhist texts, the drunk old man s floor.

There are half a wall, two stone-tablet pavilions of constellation cloud in front of the courtyard. Rich 3 the main hall, stock dark two, there are corridors under the eaves, the horizontal square-column has bright-colored colored drawing or pattern. Offer three statues of Buddha such as Sakyamuni in the hall, exist side by side and have clay sculptures of eight major Buddha s warrior attendant.

The drunk old man s floor is the mountain door originally, change into hard mountain type small building of two storeys of timber structure while rebuilding in 1921, the first floor is in order to pass in and out the passway of the temple, the place that sips tea and composes verses for the men of literature and writing originally on the second floor, change into honored guest s lobby now, hide many pieces of celebrity s inscription calligraphy and painting on mountain of head of dragon.

The beautiful peak temple tower lies in kind one hectometre of places of the south of clear temple, it is eight corners and solid dense eaves type brick tower of nine grades, build, at enlarge, cure tomorrow, rebuild in 1591. The body of the tower has statues of Buddha of tile carving, niche for a statue of Buddha.

There is Taoranting in the north of the beautiful peak temple tower, in the south is the verdant pavilion, there are floor of stars in the Big Dipper in the south of verdant pavilion. There is a Xiao Shi s pavilion in the east of the beautiful peak temple tower, are recording the rebuilding process of the ancient tower on the stone tablet in the pavilion.

The kind clear temple was classified as the historic reservation unit of Liaoning Province in 1988.