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River Qingxi in Mists 青溪煙景

River Qingxi is located five li-miles west of Gate Chinese feet long and with handrails added later 天台縣城西門，曰通越門。由門西行五里為青溪，
Tongyue, or the west gate of the Tiantai county. to make crossing easier, the bridge Hexian was 縣北紫凝山，有飛瀑自洞天嶺界而下，會百丈龍
It originates from a waterfall that plunges down built during the Song reign of Qingyuan. To the 湫、桐溪、桃源諸水達於是溪。宋慶元間，建橋長
from Peak Dongtian in Mount Zhining to the north is the hillock Zouma. The river is mentioned 四十丈，名曰「鶴仙」。今架平杠二以濟涉。溪
north of the county and is reinforced by other in a poem by the Eastern Jin poet Xie Lingyun 北為走馬崗。謝靈運《登臨海嶠詩》「旦發青溪
falls and streams that include Baizhang, Longqiu, and another by the Tang emperor Yuanzong for 陰」，唐元宗賜司馬承禎詩「青溪阻逸人」，皆
Tongxi and Taoyuan. Measuring hundreds of bestowal on Sima Chengzhen, a Daoist patriarch.
即指此。