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Fubo (wave-subduing) Hill

Fubo (wave-subduing) Hill is actually an integrative garden park in the center of Guilin city, and it has the Xinxi Marquis Temple built during the Tang Dynasty (618-907).Fubo Hill is well known as the "Wonderland on Wave" with its exquisite peak rising high and its foot half in water and half on land.

The title of Xinxi Marquis was given to Fubo General Ma Yuan, so the name of the mountain. Half of the graceful lone peak of the hill is in the river and the other half is on land. During flood season turbulent currents explode against the hill rocks. On top of the hill one sees an exquisite scenery like a traditional Chinese painting.

Inside the "Return the Pearl" Cave, also known as Fubo Cave in the mountain side, there are the "Try the Sword" Rock, the 1,000-Buddha Crag (Buddha images carved on stone), and many carvings on the cave walls. Among the best carvings is a self-portrait of Mi Fu, a famous painter, and a poem by Fan Dacheng, a famous poet, both from the Song Dynasty (960-1279).

The eastern exit of the cave is a large opening over the river and there is a rock pillar hanging down from the cave with a larger upper body and a small lower tip. The tip almost reaches the ground with a gap only less than three centimeters (1.18 inches). Therefore, being looked afar, it seems like a sword plugging into the ground. It has a legend that a general named Fubo once tested his sword here and another interesting one goes that if the pillar touches the ground, there would be a Zhuang Yuan (the Number One Scholar, the very best in the imperial exam) who had got his success.

At the entrance gate of the park, there is a huge iron bell at the weight of over 2,500 kilograms and a big boiler, which is said to cook meals for over 1,000 people. These are two relics from a Qing Dynasty temple and the inscriptions on them are still discernible.