Penglai Penglai Pavilion Taoist Scenic Area. At the top of Ya Dan Mountain, one kilometer north of Penglai City, Yantai City, Shandong Province. It was built in the sixth year of Song Jiayou (106 1) and the seventeenth year of Ming Wanli (1589). Governor Dai Li built a number of buildings next to it, and in the twenty-fourth year of Qing Jiaqing (18 19), the magistrate Yang Fengchang and the commander Liu Qinghe presided over it. Pavilion height15m, double-layer wood structure, octagonal eaves. It is surrounded by Zhu Chiming Gallery, which makes people look far away. There are many celebrity plaques on the pavilion, which are famous for the "Penglai Pavilion" written by Tie Bao, a great calligrapher in Qing Dynasty. You face the sea, tall buildings stand tall, and the sea fog floats all the year round, so it is called "fairyland".
Both Qin Shihuang and Han Wudi came here to seek the elixir of life. It is said that Xu Fu, an alchemist of the Qin Dynasty, was sent by Qin Shihuang to the East China Sea by boat to find the elixir of life. The famous fairy tale "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" is also here. Since ancient times, it has been a place where scholars gather, and it has always been a place where Taoists and Confucians practice the true scriptures. Near the pavilion, there are more than 200 inscriptions on the sea written by scholars of past dynasties. Boarding the pavilion gallery, from a distance, the Changshan Islands are hidden from time to time, and the northeast sea is blue. In spring and summer, there will always be a mirage at Dengzhou Sea, which makes people feel relaxed and happy. There are Taoist temples in the south of the pavilion, such as Sanqing Hall, Lvzu Hall, Tianhou Palace and Dragon Palace, all built in accordance with Ya Dan. They are staggered and integrated with the exhibition hall, with a total construction area of 1.89 million square meters. In the east of the pavilion, Guanlan Pavilion is built in the southeast, which is the place to watch the sunrise in the East China Sea and the sea pavilion in the west. It is famous for its mirage, and because there are no windows on three sides, there are low walls in the north of the pavilion, and the sea breeze whistling outside the pavilion, but the candles in the pavilion are not extinguished, so it is also called the shelter pavilion. The walls of the exhibition hall are embedded with nine stone carvings of Yuan Keli's poem Guan Hai City. The whole building is steep and steep, with magnificent momentum, Zhu Ying and magnificent scenery. It is a famous tourist attraction in Shandong.
Penglai Pavilion has been an elegant gathering place for celebrities and bachelors since ancient times. Among the pavilions, halls, corridors and walls, couplets, inscriptions, stone tables and broken cymbals can be seen everywhere, and calligraphy is flowing, which adds a lot of color to Xiange. There is often a "mirage" spectacle in front of Penglai Pavilion, and Su Dongpo's "the clouds and seas in the East are empty, and many immortals are too late to come out." Yuan Keli's "people who are shaped like birds with hidden pearls, or like covers, flags, towers and dolls, have thousands of spring trees, which are jagged and distant, bridges and continents are intermittent, hidden and present, and there are really endless painters" is a mirage.