Luoyin Rock

Luoyin Rock

Luoyin Rock is located at the western foot of Baihu Mountain, 0.25 kilometers west of Zhou’an Street in Gupeng Town. The rock is 6 meters high, 10 meters deep, and 6 meters wide.

Legend has it that a wandering immortal named Luo Yin once lived here, reading poetry and books by day and resting on a stone bed by night, earning him the name “Reclining Immortal.” Hence, the rock is also known as Reclining Immortal Rock. Xu Hongzu (styled Xiake), a renowned geographer and traveler of the Ming Dynasty, visited this rock for exploration on the 14th day of the second lunar month in the 11th year of the Chongzhen era (1638).

He wrote in his Travel Diaries of Xu Xiake: “The rock splits horizontally like a bed. In the past, a scholar passing by, with no place to stay, took shelter here and inscribed a poem on the cliff. Later generations thus referred to it as Luo Yin’s rock.” More than ten stone inscriptions by literati from the Ming and Qing dynasties are carved on both sides of the rock wall, including records by Zhang Hu, the deputy commander who suppressed the Bajia peasant uprising during the “Pacification of the Southwestern Barbarians” campaign. In 1984, the rock was designated as a county-level key cultural relics protection unit.