Brief Introduction
National AAAA-level tourist attraction Gouloudong located 5 kilometers east of Beiliu City, next to Yuwu Highway, National Highway 324. Covering an area of 204 hectares, is a typical karst landform landscape.
Lot's of writers and poets, officers and soldiers were attracted by this beautiful place. Also left a lot of poetry for this beautiful scenic spot. There are more than 120 calligraphic inscriptions on the Gouloudong until now.
Among them, the famous thinker Wang Fu of the Eastern Han Dynasty once visited the Gouloudong and play the zither in the cave to unburden his heart.
At that time Beiliu City magistrate Ge Hong, a famous medical scientist, chemist and Taoist scholar in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, once practiced Chinese alchemy in the cave and wrote books. Tang Dynasty General Li Jing, visited and write down the Book of the 《Presented to Xiyue》.
Xu Xiake, a famous geographer, traveler and writer of the Ming Dynasty, wrote 6,000 words of travel notes during his exploration in the cave.
Li Shaofang, a famous scholar from Beiliu in the Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, called himself the man of the Goulou Mountain.
Guo Moruo, a contemporary literary giant, vice chairman of the National People's Congress. He and his wife named the cave and left a poem of praise...
Gouloudong is "The twenty-second Cave" in the thirty-six Cave of Nationwide Taoism,it consists of four caves, Baogui, Yuque, Baisha and Taoyuan, with a total length of more than 1,000 meters.
The limestone in the cave has been dissolved and changed for hundreds of millions of years, forming the characteristics of hook shape, bending, penetration and leakage.
The natural pictures formed by stalactites are varied and dazzling, or like birds and beasts, lifelike, or like aquarium sea treasures, vivid.
The flowing light and shadow in the cave are gorgeous and fantastic, and the scenery in the cave is as red as agate, green as jade, yellow as amber, sometimes passing through a narrow corridor with only one person, sometimes entering a spacious and bright hall, and sometimes crossing the fish swimming. The river is very beautiful, as if to a fairyland.