Volume II, Chapter 54

People who have been to Shennongjia will always say that Shennongjia is beautiful, Shennongjia is magical, every summer and autumn you can see the scenery of different seasons, the foot of the mountain in midsummer and spring, the foothills of the mountain in autumn and the top of the ice, red orange, yellow and green can't see enough, spring, summer, autumn and winter are the most difficult to distinguish. So is that really the case? Tourists and friends, now we have arrived at Shennongxiang Scenic Area; Please get off with me, let us feel the beauty and magic of Shennongjia together!

Our current location is Xiaolongtan, which is 2,300 meters above sea level, located at the foot of the Golden Monkey Ridge, quiet and cool, and the scenery is pleasant. There is also a wildlife rescue station. As we all know, the golden snub-nosed monkey is a unique and rare animal in China. According to their distribution area, they are called Sichuan golden snub-nosed monkey, Yunnan golden snub-nosed monkey, and Guizhou golden snub-nosed monkey. The golden snub-nosed monkey of Shennongjia belongs to the Sichuan golden snub-nosed monkey, which is the most widely distributed and thriving of the three species of golden snub-nosed monkey in China. It is sensitive and gentle. Compared with the gray-black golden snub-nosed monkey and the brown-black Yunnan golden snub-nosed monkey, the adult Sichuan snub-nosed monkey is dressed in soft and fine, shiny golden yellow hair, and is a veritable golden snub-nosed monkey, and the prototype of the legendary Monkey King Sun Wukong is the Sichuan golden snub-nosed monkey.

Tourists, we are now at the Golden Monkey Ridge, which is one of the main activity areas of the National Treasure Golden Snub-nosed Monkey. In fact, here we can find five characteristics of the primeval forest. Can you observe it? First, there should be lichens and mosses in the forest; the second is to have the phenomenon of vine strangulation; the third is to have naturally lodging rotten trees; Fourth, there should be epiphytic fungi on the trunk; Fifth, there should be associated orchids and ground cover plants. The average altitude of the Golden Monkey Ridge primeval forest tourist area is about 2,500 meters, and the highest point is one of the six pillar peaks of the "roof of Central China", with an altitude of 3,019 meters, and the main tree species in the scenic area is Bashan fir. Bashan fir is a representative tree species in the subalpine cold temperate bioclimatic zone of Shennongjia, which is not only an excellent wood but also an excellent landscape tree. It has strong resistance to negative, can regenerate under the canopy, and forms more multi-layered forests under good site conditions, and the stability of this stand is high, even if a small number of other tree species such as red birch, maple, Huashan pine, etc. are invaded, there will be no tree species succession. The Bashan fir forms a top community and a typical primeval forest in the subalpine zone of the region.

Going up the Golden Monkey Creek, you will come to the primeval forest, which is a colorful and layered world of plants. Look at the tall trees of the first level of tall fir trees, which turn green all year round. Fir - about 20 meters high, DBH - about meters, the thickest three people can hug together. On the main pole of the fir, there are no side branches and side leaves within ten meters, and many side branches are born more than ten meters above, and then stand up, and you will entangle me to the top, which is very intimate, so it has formed some "sister trees" and "two people's world" "family of three" and "four generations in the same house", of course, there are many single aristocrats. We look at the second level of trees in broad-leaved forests such as birch and oak. Most of these plants are entangled with vines, and some are tightly wrapped from roots to tips. During the blooming season, there are flowers on top of the trees and under the trees, and it is impossible to tell whether they are tree flowers or vine flowers. There is a third level, which is made up of a variety of shrubs. The lowest layer was the lichens, and they were laid out on the woodland like a green carpet, wet and shiny.

Walking in the forest, full of birds, or round, or bright, or loud, or low, like crystal dew drops sliding from the trees, and like smooth beads rolling in the jade plate, Wang Wei said, "The empty mountain does not see people, but hears the sound of people," but when it arrives, it becomes "the empty mountain does not see people, but hears the sound of birds, returns to the deep forest, and shines on the moss." Everyone knows that forests are a treasure trove of green. The value of a tree growing normally for 50 years is $196,000, and the amount of water protected by 50,000 acres of forest is equivalent to a reservoir with a reservoir of 1 million cubic meters of water. For thousands of years, this primeval forest has conserved water, maintained water and soil, and regulated air, which has played a significant role in maintaining the ecological balance of northwest Hubei and even the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Tourists and friends, please follow me to visit the scenic pass and slab rock! Please look at that peak is Shennongding, Shennongding is named after Shennong's taste of herbs here, and also because in 1942, Jia Wenzhi, the magistrate of Fang County, wrote a poem "Ascending Fangzhi is small in the mountains, this is the first peak in Central China" and got the reputation of the first peak in Central China. He is clouded almost all year round, making it difficult to see his true face. Now we will go to the scenic pass, the scenic pass is also known as Badongya, the highest altitude is 2950 meters, there is the reputation of the first top of Shennong. You can see the peaks and valleys in the scenic area, strange stones, winding peaks, you see some of the intertwined roots here, some of the slim and elegant, some of the cliffs cover the sky, or if the graceful girl, or if the old man of the dragon clock, the light is bizarre, indescribable. So do you know how this spectacle came to be? After the Yanshan movement, with the continuous uplift of the Shenyijia area, the weak part of the southern fault continues to undergo deep cutting, resulting in the southern slope of Ya to cut down into a large canyon with a depth of 1,000 meters, and the carbonate rocks of the subgroup under the Shenyijia group distributed on the southern slope have formed today's stone forest clusters, such as the wonder of bamboo shoots, around the stone forest, the bamboo sea is verdant, the rhododendron shakes red, and the clouds and fog are entangled, so it has the reputation of stone forest cloud and rain. The peculiar landscape is called the first view of Shennong, and people often say that the scenery is not good, and it is in vain to the hanger of God. Looks like we're in the right place.

Okay, now let's take a walk through the stone forests and trees of Banbi Rock, and if you're lucky, you might even see a wild man. The arrows and bamboos up and down the slate wall rock are all over the mountains, dense and impermeable, this area is the place where the wild people often haunt, the traces of the wild people have been found many times in the arrow bamboo forest, hair, footprints and the nest made of the wild man with the arrow bamboo. The hair of savages is superior to that of higher primates, both in terms of surface and cellular structure. The footprints of the savages are about 25 centimeters long and the stride length is about 2.7 meters, so it is conceivable that the size of the savages is very tall. The most amazing thing is the wild man's nest, the nest is made of 20 arrows and bamboos, people lie on it, the view is wide, comfortable as a chair, it has been verified, this is not made by hunters, let alone apes, bears, its manufacture and use is of course the kind of strange animals between humans and higher primates.

Good times are always short-lived, thank you very much for your support of my work, and please criticize and correct the bad things. As the saying goes, "read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles", and I hope that this trip to the hanger can give everyone a new understanding of life. It is often said that we can't lose our jobs for the sake of life, but we can't lose our lives because of our work, so don't forget to take some time to relax while you're busy, and remember that you come or not, God's hanger is here, and you won't give up. Thank you!