Volume II, Chapter 51
In Dabie Mountain, you can not only enjoy the magic of strange peaks, dangerous mountains, strange rocks and sea of clouds, but also let you enjoy the charm of paradise and beautiful water. Dabie Mountain has six scenic spots, including Paradise Village, Wujia Mountain, Bodao Peak, Taohuachong, Jiuzi River, and Paradise Lake. Today we are mainly visiting the Paradise Village Scenic Area.
Paradise Village is 1729 meters above sea level, and it is the main peak of Dabie Mountain - known as the first peak of the Central Plains. Across the two provinces of Hubei and Anhui, at the junction of Luotian, Yingshan and Jinzhai counties. Ascend the paradise village, you can see 100,000 mountains to worship below, look at the Central Plains in the north, look at Jingchu in the south, on the west side, the monk of the nine hoops is eye-catching, a cliff of several hundred meters high, just like a monk with a big belly, smiling. The monk also has the light of the Buddha from time to time.
Friends, we are now about to enter the gate of Tiantianzhai National Forest Park, please take your belongings, get off the bus and pay attention to your feet, we are going to start the journey of Dabie Mountain. What to see in Paradise Village, look at the mountains, and look at the ability of the house is the mountain male, the secluded ravine, and the water show. The strange rocks in the park are towering, and the perennial clouds and mist cover them, giving people a sense of unfathomable mystery. This is the Valley of the Gods, and it's so picturesque that we walk in the paintings, so please be careful to take care of the environment and make the magical colors shine brighter. Wonderful place will naturally have beautiful myths and legends, there is a legend in the Valley of the Gods for the Taishang Laojun loves to frequent activities of the place, everyone see, that boulder, there is a deep hole under the boulder, there is a pool in front of the hole, according to legend, there is a pair of carp in the pond is infected by the fairy spirit of the Taishang Laojun, whenever the Taishang Laojun concentrates on preaching, the two carp also swim into the well to listen attentively, and the feathers become dragons for a long time, and the cultivation is a positive fruit, so the descendants call this two wells Shuanglong Pond. This is the myth and legend about the origin of Shuanglong Pond, although the myth is beautiful, life still needs to be practiced. The cave in front of everyone's eyes is said to be the place where Taishang Laojun lived and ate, so people named it the fairy cave. The fairy cave is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the environment is beautiful. There is about 10 square meters of empty space in the hole, there is the stone bed where Taishang Laojun stays at the bottom of the hole, this is the immortal stove of Taishang Laojun, there is also the "Xianyi Cave" where Taishang Laojun plays chess not far away, and there is "Shuanglong out of the valley" next to the immortal cave. The water of the Valley of the Gods was now split in two by a boulder, gurgling down from both sides of it, like two silver dragons happily running out of the valley.
Let's keep looking, please keep up. What we see now is the Philosopher's Peak, which is known as one of the Three Wonders of Heaven. Please take a closer look, this cliff is about 100 meters high, resembling a huge head, broad forehead and thick eyebrows, high raised nose bridge, fleshy lips, contemplating the north, as if thinking about a major philosophical proposition. The buildings here are unified in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Most of them are located in the mountains. Quite a copycat. The mountain road is rugged, please be careful with your steps and pay attention to safety. It may seem inconspicuous, but in fact it has quite favorable military conditions.
In the War of Liberation, Liu Deng's army advanced into the Dabie Mountains, which was a historical turning point for our army to shift from strategic defense to strategic offensive. On June 30, 1947, Liu Bocheng and * led the main force of the Jin, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan field armies, Liu Deng's army, in accordance with the strategic policy of the Party Central Committee, with superhuman courage and courage to cross the Yellow River and leap into the Dabie Mountains, victoriously opening the prelude to the People's Liberation Army's strategic counter-attack. By mid-October, Liu Deng's army had controlled more than 150 kilometers of Jiangfang on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Now we have reached the summit of the Philosopher's Peak, and here, looking around the world, you can see 100,000 mountains worshipping below. To the north, you can see the Central Plains, and you can see the Jingchu landscape in the south. Watching the sunrise in the early morning is like being outside the nine heavens, and watching the sunset in the evening is like walking in Asgard. Whenever the rain is clear, the morning to climb the peak to watch the sea of clouds is the weather is thousands, the vast sea of clouds, layers of smoke flow, the green mountains, like the fishing boat in the sea of white waves, from time to time, and like a dragon soaring and dancing, swallowing clouds and spitting fog. The view is spectacular and breathtaking. It's a pity that we don't have enough time to enjoy this beautiful scenery together, if you have the opportunity to come to Dabie Mountain next time, you must not miss this view!
This is the Star Picking Peak, as the name suggests, we are almost at the end of the sky. It is surrounded by abysses on both sides, with only a stone path to climb up, and the danger is shocking. Several boulders on the top of the Star Picking Peak, independent of the peak, seem to fly from the sky. If you stand on the star-picking peak and look northeast, there is still a dangerous scene that will jump into your eyes. A mountain range is interrupted to become a cliff here, different from others, here every spring and autumn, there are countless stone swallows come together, dwelling between the cliff wall cracks, flying in the mountains and jungles, people call the stone swallow cliff.
It's getting late, so please come down with me. Please be sure to pay attention to safety when descending the mountain.
The trip to Dabie Mountain is coming to an end, thank you for your cooperation and help. If you have any comments or suggestions on my work, please let me know so that I can improve and provide you with better services in the future. We hope that this tour will leave you with a wonderful and unforgettable memory. I wish you all a safe and prosperous journey. Thanks to 29 ethnic groups including the Zhuang ethnic group, the ethnic minority population accounts for 54% of the total population. Enshi Prefecture is a magical and beautiful place. It is the birthplace of Ba culture, the hometown of the world's excellent folk song "Dragon Boat Tune", and the core area of the ecological and cultural tourism circle in western Hubei Province. Enshi Grand Canyon, located in the world's selenium capital - Tunpu Township and Banqiao Town, Enshi City, Hubei Province, is located at the junction of Hunan, Chongqing and Hubei provinces, and is the most beautiful section of the Qingjiang River Basin. It is a section of the Qingjiang Grand Canyon, with a total length of 108 kilometers and an area of 300 square kilometers, which is a national 5A-level scenic spot. Enshi Grand Canyon has opened two core scenic spots, Qixingzhai and Yunlong Ground Seam, with a total area of 35.2 square kilometers, with sinkholes, ground cracks, cliffs, peak clusters, rock pillar groups, karst caves, dark rivers and other geological landscapes. The scenic spot can be summarized as a section of the ground crack, two rivers, three plates, four magical, and five characteristics. A section of the ground crack refers to the ground crack of the Yunlong River. The two rivers refer to the Xuezhao River from Icheon and the Yunlong River from Fengjie. The three major plates are the Chaodongyan plate, which is mainly for adventure tourism, the big mountaintop plate, which is mainly for leisure and vacation, and the Qixingzhai plate, which is mainly for landscape tourism. The four miracles are the coexistence of cliff peaks, the "hot cloud cave" on the dark river, the daughter meeting on the top of the back mountain, and the cracks of two different geological ages. The five major characteristics refer to the rising white clouds of the Qingjiang River, the cliff ring peak cluster, the overpass and the cave group, the ground seam and the waterfall, and the dark river with the sinkhole. The main scenic spots of the Grand Canyon are concentrated in the front and back mountains. At present, only the Qianshan Qixingzhai Scenic Area has been developed. Enshi Grand Canyon Qixingzhai Scenic Area is located in the northeast of Enshi City, 40 kilometers away from the urban area, the scenic spot is composed of Yunlong River cracks, building gates, building gates, small building doors and cliffs, mainly including ground cracks, cliffs, strange peaks, canyons and other geological landscapes, is the essence of the entire Qingjiang River fault landscape, with a total area of 23.9 square kilometers, and the trail that has been opened is 7.5 kilometers long.
Okay, let's go to the Enshi Grand Canyon Visitor Center, please bring your belongings, get off with me and feel the beauty of nature together. Before arriving at the scenic spot, Xiao Tan is here to give you some warm tips: we walk in the mountains, the road on the mountain is very different from the cement road that we often walk, and some roads are very steep, so we must pay attention to safety, watch our feet, and be careful of wrestling. If you look in the direction of my hand, that is the Yunlong River fracture landscape, which was formed at least 50 million years ago, and the strata from the top of the ground fracture to the bottom of the ground fracture are mainly limestone formed between 210 million and 290 million years ago, spanning the Permian and Triassic periods; The total length is 3.6 kilometers, the average depth is 75 meters, the width is 15 meters, the two banks are steep, the waterfall is raging, the bottom of the seam is gurgling, the upper reaches of the Tianshui Dark River, and the lower connection is reckless and reckless Qingjiang. There are seven and a half waterfalls in the cracks in the ground, and at this point, do you want to ask why there are seven and a half waterfalls? That's because there is a waterfall called "Half-stream Waterfall", which has a wet season and no dry waterfall, so it is called a half-waterfall. Everyone looked in the direction of my hand, the waterfall upstream of Yunlong Bridge, the waterfall is clear and a rainbow appears in the sun, if you are lucky enough to see this rainbow, you must be noble and developed. The waterfall downstream of Yunlong Bridge, called Kaiyang Waterfall, the waterfall contains pyrite, the pebbles are washed over time, the stone becomes a colorful color, it is also called the colorful Huanglong Waterfall, and the following is the colorful river. The multicolored stone used by Nuwa in mythology to mend the sky is exactly this kind of stone.
Now the passenger ropeway we take is the first single-line circulating detached ropeway in Enshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, with a total length of 2,284 meters and a line height difference of 792 meters. Please pay attention to your steps when getting off the ropeway and be careful of falling. Unconsciously, we have come to the Xiaoloumen Scenic Area, where the green trees under the Xiaolou Gate, the vegetable village is scarce, the traffic is strange, and the chickens and dogs smell each other, reproducing the scene of Wulingyuan written by Tao Yuanming. Here, people can walk from the valley to the light, and they can enjoy the fun of the beginning of chaos. Please look here, this is the cliff promenade, also called the "cliff plank road", was built in October 2007, with a total length of 488 meters, 118 steps, located at an altitude of more than 1,700 meters, the net height difference of more than 300 meters between the cliff mountainside, built by Shuguang Holding Group, which lasted one year and eight months. The project draws on the construction method of the ancient plank road in Bashu, and combines the advanced technology of modern reinforced concrete construction, which is scientific and safe, and the atmosphere is spectacular, which embodies the courage and wisdom of contemporary development entrepreneurs. The plank road has a total of seven bends and eight turns, which means: the road has seven bends and eight turns, and the heart is always the same. Everyone must pay attention to their own safety while taking pictures.
Now in front of us is the bow pine of the Enshi Grand Canyon: in the karst landform, there are no peaks where there are cliffs, and there are no cliffs where there are peaks. And to have both here has to be said to be a miracle. As we all know, the "welcome pine" of Yellow Mountain, famous all over the world, the welcome pine is to open arms and smile to welcome tourists from all over the world. On behalf of our hospitable Tujia and Miao people, this pine in the Grand Canyon bows deeply to the tourists from afar, both to welcome and to send off. Do you look like it?
Then now on my right hand is a stick of incense", which is a rare single Triassic limestone column on earth, with a height of 150 meters, a diameter of 6 meters at the bottom of the column, and a minimum diameter of only 4 meters. The compressive strength of the rock here is 800 kilograms per cubic centimeter, it cannot be blown down by the wind, it cannot be moved by the rain, and it has stood proudly among the peaks for thousands of years, guarding this mysterious land. It looks like a male root up close, showing his majestic posture, and it has become the treasure of the town valley in the Grand Canyon. Geologically speaking, it is due to the long-term staggering effect of the Yangtze River water system and the Qingjiang water system that the current steep stone pillars were formed by continuous erosion and erosion. Due to the extreme difficulty of preservation, there are few elongated stone pillars on earth, and there are no longer than the longest and largest.
Have you ever heard Han Hong's song "Heavenly Road"? On my right hand side is the Heavenly Road of the Grand Canyon: from the Ascending Heaven Pavilion to the Ascending Heaven Gate, there are 180 steps of ladders, 100 means that the merit is complete, and 81 steps, which means that there is no reason to ascend to the sky in one step, and to ascend to the sky, you must go up 9981 steps, and each step is closer to the sky. Everyone looked directly in front of us, and the peak was like a Tujia woman holding a baby and kissing her face. Therefore, it is aptly called "mother-child affection". This affectionate kiss has witnessed the greatness of maternal love in the world, and Meng Jiao's poem "Whoever says an inch of grass will be rewarded with three springs". This masterpiece of nature is a sculpture of a lullaby.
Coming here, our Enshi journey is coming to an end. There is a poem that everyone will not be familiar with, gently I go, just as I come gently, I wave my sleeves, and do not take away a cloud. The world is so big that there is no banquet that will not be dispersed. The short encounter is about to end, wave your hand to say goodbye to everyone, thank you very much for your support and cooperation with my work along the way, what is not done well, please bear with me, and finally I wish you good health, all the best'I hope to meet you again, thank you!