Chapter Ninety-Three: Wanfeng Forest
Wanfeng Forest Scenic Area is located in the southeast of Xingyi City, Guizhou Province, the momentum is magnificent and magnificent, the shape of the mountain peaks is peculiar, the overall shape is beautiful, it is the largest and most typical karst peak forest in China.
More than 360 years ago, Xu Xiake, a famous traveler in the Ming Dynasty, once went to Wanfeng Forest and exclaimed: "There are so many peaks in the world, but only here are the peaks into forests." According to the morphology of the peak forest, it is divided into five types: array peak forest, sword peak forest, group dragon peak forest, Luohan peak forest, and stacked hat peak forest. Each type has its own characteristics, which are both independent and complement other types of peaks and forests to form a majestic and vast landscape. Wanfeng Forest Tourist Scenic Area has successively won the titles of "National Key Scenic Area" and "China's Most Beautiful Five Peak Forests".
When you go to Wanfeng Forest, you can't fail to see the sinkhole, just like a big flying saucer landing on the earth and smashing a pit. There is no accurate data on how many sinkholes there are in the peak forest, among which the sinkholes such as Yugulu, Yangping, Hanging Well Dam, and Fa Li are the most typical. The Yugulu sinkhole, which is 40 kilometers northeast of Xingyi City, is called the first of the sinkholes discovered in China by geological experts. The bottom is flat, trumpet-shaped, with a height difference of 600 meters, surrounded by strange peaks.
The houses of the 126 families living around the bottom of the pit and some of the tools for production and life are made of stone, such as stone foundations, stone walls, stone benches, stone roads, and stone tools. There is a spring in the east of the sinkhole, which not only meets the drinking needs of people and livestock in the pit village, but also irrigates nearly 20 hectares of paddy fields; There is a sinkhole on the west side, which removes the domestic water.
There are two very peculiar springs in the peak forest around Pogang. In the dense forest of ancient trees and red beans (acacia beans) between Kinxiu Peak and Samurai Peak, the locals call it "Divine Water", "Strange Water", and "Flower Water", and some people jokingly call it "Male Spring" and "Female Spring". The two springs each flow out of a crack in the natural stone, and the two waters are communicated by a "husband and wife tape". The female spring gushes every 4-6 minutes, the water surface rises by 3-5 cm, and then it meets the male spring and flows forward for a few minutes.
When the female fountain descends, the male fountain flows backwards to the female fountain for a few minutes. The two springs seem to be husband and wife, natural and tacit, interdependent, intimate, and very interesting. The water is as clear as a mirror, and the seasons do not change much.
Next to the village of Rubbing Rock, which is separated from the "geyser" by a mountain, there is a "Sun Spring". The spring water flows from the horizontal rocks in the middle of the hillside in an east-west direction, and is sweet and delicious.
Every spring and autumn, especially in the dry spring, when the sun rises and shines near the well, a large spring water flows out, which can be used by more than 20 households to drink. In the evening, when the sun sets and the well is not dry, the spring water stops, and by dawn the next day, the mud where the water comes out has dried up and cracked. After the sun rises in the east, it begins a second cycle.
According to the local people, the use of "Sun Spring" water to make tofu and boiled wine is more than the output of ordinary well water, and the mystery needs to be studied and explained by experts.
The plants that grow in the Manfeng Forest are also very special. Lush Xingyi cycads can be seen at an altitude of about 800-1200 meters along the Nanpan River and Maling River, such as Putong, Yangping, Jingkou, Qili, Canggeng, Wushe, and Crooked Dye.
It is a new species of cycad discovered in 1981, the pinnate compound leaves are cool to the legendary "phoenix tail", the female flowers that bloom at the top of the stem are stacked into a flat lotus shape, which looks like a peony flower from a distance, and is headed by the local people as "mountain pineapple", "anchovy" or "Guanyin lotus" and so on.
Cycads are one of the oldest seed plants on the earth, which is of great significance for the study of the origin and evolution of seed plants, the genera and species of seed plants, and the evolution of paleoclimate.
Wanfeng Forest, magnificent, peculiar landscape. Peak, dragon, pit, crack, forest, lake, spring, cave eight scenery is widely distributed, during which the natural bright river undercurrent, natural lake, natural karst cave, natural forest, exotic flowers and plants, birds and beasts complement each other, complement each other, make the peak forest strong like thousands of troops, strange like ocean waves, beautiful like ink painting.
According to the morphology of the peak forest, it is divided into five types: array peak forest, Baojian peak forest, Qunlong peak forest, Luohan peak forest, and stacked hat peak forest, which is a typical representative of the most mature cone-shaped peak forest in China's karst geological landform, like the ocean waves, [1] the southern end of the border with Guangxi, the west to the Sanjiang estuary at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou provinces (regions), and the north to the main peak of Wumeng Mountain, with a total area of 2,000 square kilometers. Such a vast, magnificent, spectacular, peculiar karst landform peaks and forests are like a beautiful jade belt, decorating the plateau rivers and mountains with enchanting loveliness.
From the geological point of view, the north is the Fenglin Basin, the central and southern parts are the Fenglin depression and the peak cluster mountain, the peak forest and the peak cluster are mostly cone-shaped, and some are bell-shaped, flat-topped and saddle-shaped, which can be called a "Chinese cone-shaped karst museum". The north and south peaks and forests also have their own characteristics, and the northern peaks and forests are like a screen, protecting the villages and pastorals in the area of Erzhai, Yulong, Twins and Leli. Here the strange peaks are like forests, the dams are like brocades, the rivers are like belts, the villages are like clouds, full of poetry and picturesqueness, just like a simple, beautiful Buyi brocade.
And in the area of Nahui Village in the central and southern part of the country, I saw a number of strange peaks rising from the splendid countryside, the strange and beautiful, the posture is thousands, the peaks are connected and broken, and the staggered fall has a strong sense of emptiness. Wanfeng Forest has a good ecology and strong ethnic customs. The beautiful mountains, with the green fields, crooked rivers, quaint villages, and lush forests, constitute the best ecological environment in nature, forming a rare pastoral scenery of peaks and forests. People say: to see the most beautiful scenery in the world, go to Wanfeng Forest; To view the most beautiful countryside in the world, go to Wanfeng Forest.
Lin Junshu, an expert from China's National Geographic Magazine, commented: "Xingyi Wanfeng Forest has a clear differentiation and perfect development from the plateau to the slope zone, which has long been valued by Xu Xiake in the Ming Dynasty, and the Buyi and Miao customs add to its interest. Mr. Desmond, a world-renowned tourism expert, praised it as "a beautiful picture of a high degree of harmony between human beings and nature." ”
The distance from Guiyang to Xingyi is not close, and He Tao and He Chaoqun took turns driving and walked for half a day before arriving.
A few people were tired from the journey, so they simply drove the car directly to the hotel that had been booked in advance, and after getting off the car, they had a casual bite to eat.
It's not just them who are tired along the way, but the subordinates sent by the Miao family are also very tired.
"Sister Zisu, this is on purpose, right? Running so far today, wouldn't it be because you want to fight with those shadows? Bai Ye ate the sauce elbow in his hand and said with an oily mouth.
Compared with Bai Ye's tiger-headed and tiger-brained appearance, Song Zisu is much more elegant!
Holding a bowl of millet porridge, slowly putting it into your mouth with a spoon, suddenly!
"Poof, ahhh
Song Zisu was burned by a mouthful of hot millet porridge, and he didn't care about his head and tail, and took the wine in He Chaoqun's hand and dried it in one sip!
"Miss, this is a high level of Moutai, you can take it easy."
"Ahhh It's so spicy, He Chaoqun, you didn't mean it, don't say it early! ”
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