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Anyone who comes to the Sleeping Buddha Temple Cherry Gully, no matter how tired he may have been, pays a visit to the Golden Pigeon Platform. Thirty feet high and twenty feet wide, the Golden Pigeon Platform is a hard rock with three cracks. To get to its top for the wonderful view, one has to climb the slope, but the side facing the valley is a precipitous cliff where one can stumble to one's doom. In earlier times, on this rock once perched a pair of yellow pigeons, which glistened golden in the sunshine. Standing on the flat rock, the two pigeons now spread their wings and now held their heads high. Their each movement formed a wonderful picture. That was how people came to call them the golden pigeons and the rock the Golden Pigeon Platform. As an old saying goes, "Birds worship phoenixes", and the home of these two golden pigeons attracted larks, orioles, parrots and turtledoves. These birds sang and danced beautifully, living a happy life. Just east of the platform lived a few poor families who had fled here to escape the heavy official taxes despite the impoverished hill soil. Strangely enough, since the href="http://www.forbiddencitychina.cn/">Golden Pigeon had been here, the poor soil seemed to have been coated by a layer of oil. As long as you sowed in spring, whether on the hillsides or in the rocky cracks, you harvested in autumn. Clever villagers knew well that it was the divine help of the birds, whose droppings had actually changed the nature of the soil. Hence stories spread far and wide that the pigeons' feathers were extremely precious and that their meat could make people long-lived. These stories aroused the greed of a lazy young man in the village, who made a catapult in secret. On an extremely fine day when the birds were sporting, the young man aimed and struck the leg of a pigeon off its guard. Delighted, he threw away the catapult and scurried down the valley to catch the pigeon, but to his surprise the wounded pigeon's mate not only didn't flee but crawled beneath the wounded pigeon and lifted it with difficulty. Quickly forming a barrier in the sky, the birds nearby helped the wounded pigeon fly into the sky and disappear far over the Western Hills. When the pigeons had left, the rock looked rather lonely. The villagers were sorry, and often took their children and grandchildren to visit it. This continued from generation to generation, and the Golden Pigeon Platform finally became one of the scenic spots of the western outskirts of Beijing.