Section 383 Seremban Cave (2)
We take a closer look, here dense, a thousand forms, a wide variety, countless stalagmites, stone curtains and stalactites are all art treasures given to us by nature, dotted all over the place, different forms, can be called an art gallery, and the most amazing thing is the natural stone landscape painting. Some people say that this is a miniature Guilin landscape. Ancient Chinese landscape paintings are vivid and natural, and the ingenious works of nature we see are also vivid and layered, which is worthy of being the treasure of the town hall in the art gallery.
We walked down the trail for a while and came across the Rocket Stone. The appearance of the rocket stone is like Shenzhou 9, when you touch it, it is as smooth as jade, but when you look at it, it is no different from an ordinary stone. It has a pointed front and a large piece of pine on the outside, which looks soft. The stalagmites dotted with red lights are like a rocket about to take off, so it is named - rocket ready to launch. What makes people marvel is that the lifelike animal shapes at the foot of the rocket are actually the spectators of this grand occasion, they seem to be anxious, waiting for the moment of excitement when the rocket ignites and lifts off, and what is even more surprising is that the countdown device used is actually a headless rooster, it seems that it will wait for the rooster to crow and take off, I don't know how many years it will have to wait.
We continued to walk forward, there is a magical stalagmite, as fine as the top and bottom, as high as five meters, called the "Five Dragons Pillar". A small pool is covered with stalactites, and below it is a stalagmite about 0.5 meters long, glowing white in the light. The water dripping from the stalactites stirs up circles of ripples, which are reflected on the stone wall, making everyone fascinated and intoxicated by the magical nature. Then we saw the lifelike concubine bathing, Bai Juyi's "Song of Long Hatred" wrote: "The hot spring water is slippery and creamy, and the waiter is powerless", which describes Yang Guifei's charming state out of the bath to the extreme, it is said that a guard coveted the beauty of the concubine, risked death to peep at the concubine's bath, and was also punished by breaking his foot, and the Furong Cave will reproduce this picture truly, and the guard's footprints are clearly visible.
There are also well-known large and small wild goose pagodas in Xi'an, our country, which is a well-known ancient architectural miracle at home and abroad, but surprisingly, the stalagmites of two natural miniature wild goose pagodas have been formed in the Furong Cave, and there is a small stone lion squatting in the middle of them, the form is realistic, and it is not carved and chiseled, it is speculated that these two stalagmites have been formed before the big collapse, and they are hundreds of thousands of years old.
Then our group unconsciously walked to a natural, resplendent hall, here is the largest cave hall in Furong Cave, the hall area accounts for 1/3 of the entire Furong Cave area, there are more than 11,000 square meters, can accommodate tens of thousands of people. Because the various landscapes inside are dazzling and magnificent, just like the Jinluan Treasure Palace. Songbai Huixian is the second cave hall of Furong Cave. Because the giant stalagmite in the middle is like a lush, leafy green pine and cypress, like a fairyland, and the place dotted with red lights in the distance resembles a place that looks like stepping on auspicious clouds, leisurely, and floating to this side of the fairy, so it is named "pine and cypress fairy". On the sloping rock wall, there are many fine stone stalactites growing regularly and densely, and the surface of these stalactites is curved and curly. It got its name because it hung there like thousands of arrowheads. In the process of sedimentation of stone stalactites, due to the blockage of the central channel, the water flow flows along the outside and produces accumulation, and the carbon dioxide in the water liquid in the capillary movement state emerges, initially forming some small bumps on the surface of the stalactite, they slowly grow horizontally, and accumulate over time, they grow into natural landscapes such as curly stones, stone flowers and stone crystal frosts of different forms. The stalagmites here are like silver threads, golden branches and jade leaves, which are particularly eye-catching. Because the formation of stalactites requires special conditions, one is the solubility of the rock, the second is the permeability of the rock, the third is the dissolution force of water, and the fourth is the fluidity of water. The Furong Cave has these conditions at the same time, so some peerless treasures such as the "Giant Screen Waterfall", "Source of Life", "Coral Yao Pond", "King of Stone Flowers" and "Dogtooth Crystal Flower Pond" can be generated here. Since the stalactites here correspond to the growth, we call it the "thousand-year-old kiss". The rarest thing is the goose pipe. The continuous fall of water droplets forms a slender and hollow stone stalactite, which is the goose tube.
We also saw a mountain in the cave, which is a special mountain formed by the collapse of the sediment, and the relative height difference reaches 71.6 meters, which is the commanding height in the Furong cave. This human monument is as solemn and sacred as the special-shaped stalagmite is the treasure of the Furong Cave, and it is also one of the five unique "source of life" of the Furong Cave, it is 120 centimeters long and 124 centimeters in circumference, which can be called majestic. In fact, it is generated by the deposition of dislocation dripping water and splashing water together, because of its self-evident image, and people have to admire the magic of nature, let us look intently at the straight stalagmites standing on the stone curtain for a long time, the head and tail are almost the same thickness. It's like Sun Wukong's "golden hoop stick". That is, when Dayu controlled the water, it was used to determine the depth of the river and the sea. This rare stalagmite, as if it is the protector of the Furong Cave, has undergone thousands of years of changes, and it is still undamaged. The Optimus Pillar is the only support point of this cave hall, and it can be called the pillar of the Hibiscus Cave. It is as high as 60-70 meters, magnificent, solemn, this kind of stone pillar, in the caves at home and abroad are extremely rare, so that everyone who looks up to it, have to feel ordinary and small.
Then we saw the seemingly chaotic pile of rocks, and witnessed a major collapse hundreds of thousands of years ago, which shows that this was a place with a high frequency of earthquakes in the past. The huge sediment is like a huge shield, so it is called Shield Mountain. And the largest lying rock in the middle, like a sleeping Buddha peacefully, with his hands folded, his expression is serene, just like an old monk in meditation. Therefore, it is named - Sleeping Buddha of Dunshan.
There is also a breathtaking thing about the stone flag on the skirt. It is the thinnest stone flag in the Hibiscus Cave, and its thickness is only about 3 mm. Because its edge resembles a girl's skirt, it is called a skirt stone flag. Only when the water seeps out of the cave wall, the flowing water is distributed in a linear manner, due to the change of temperature, the reaction of carbon dioxide in the water is accelerated, and the saturated carbonate solution formed by carbon dioxide reacts to the solution containing saturated calcium ions, so that the calcium ions are deposited with the formation of calcium carbonate, and the landscape such as stone mantle and stone flag is formed over time.
Then we walked all the way and saw one of the five unique Coral Yao Pond with a total area of 32 square meters, the water depth is kept at about 0.8 meters all year round, the water quality is clear, and there is a flowstone dam by the pool to control the water surface. The coral-like accumulation in the pool is calcite crystals, and the vertical upward point is a layered structure; The bottom layer is cloud-shaped, about 10-25 cm thick, and the upper layer is coral reef-shaped, about 35-40 cm thick. The entire Yao Pond looks like floating coral, but it is unbelievable that it can bear the weight of a person. So far, it has only been found in the French Crums Cave**, which has a similar landscape of 3 square meters.
The breathtaking sight is the giant screen waterfall, which is one of the "five "Hibiscus Caves" ranked first among the 108 holes in the country. The flying stream goes straight down to 3,000 feet, and it is suspected that the Milky Way falls for nine days" is Li Bai's exaggerated description of the Lushan Waterfall, showing its momentum of pouring thousands of miles. If the poet can witness the waterfall of Furong Cave with his own eyes, the famous sentence that has been passed down through the ages may belong to this. The waterfall is more than 30 meters high, 21 meters wide, not only the scale is rare, the preservation is very complete, it is known as the "giant curtain waterfall" in the cave, it is a typical representative of the stone curtain landscape of Furong Cave, it is smooth as water, delicate and delicate lines, reminds people of the sculpture of ancient Greece, and this style of stone waterfall is a "signature dish" of Furong Cave. Hu Jiaojiao asked curiously: How is this giant screen waterfall formed? Xiao Fei hurriedly explained: First, the trend of the rock crevices of the waterfall coincides with the rock wall, and the water seepage capacity is strong, so that a uniform flow water distribution zone can be formed. The second is that it is the middle of the mountain, and the cave cavity is high, and the environmental conditions meet the requirements of large-scale accumulation; third, the specific generation site has a special topography, and there is a stone curtain formed beforehand, and the rock wall is relatively vertical and smooth, so when the flowing water flows through it, it is randomly divided into many small streams due to the surface tension of the water, thus forming a fan-shaped accumulation. This waterfall has been flowing here for 150,000 years. In the middle of the waterfall, a special-shaped stalagmite was also generated, like a seated Buddha, and it was determined that it was later than the waterfall, at least 100,000 years old. There are also those thin stone flags like a lotus flower hanging down, the thinnest place is only a few millimeters, see them have to marvel at the miraculous creation of nature and the stone here, quite like the ancient emperors used to travel with canopy, so people call it the imperial umbrella. This gate consists of two tall stone pillars, and the stalagmites and stalactites around it are particularly concentrated and quite well preserved. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, there was a collapse here, but it was largely undamaged.
We walked in the strange hibiscus cave with great interest, we were amazed by the magic of nature, "Coral Yao Pond", "Giant Screen Waterfall", "Source of Life", "King of Stone Flowers", "Dogtooth Crystal Flower" is even more breathtaking, so that you have to be amazed by the magical power of nature. Faced with such a variety of landscapes, we seem to have entered a dreamy and charming fairyland. It is said that dreams are unpredictable, but when you enter the world's first cave Furong Cave, the mysterious changing scenery is more amazing than dreams, the all-encompassing ancient bamboo shoots, stone pillars show its best, changing its shape, we seem to come to the immersive dream fairyland, into a brilliant underground art palace, let us involuntarily sigh the passage of time, the changes of the years.