When is a good time to go to Jigong Mountain Scenic Area?

The best time for Jigong Mountain Scenic Area: Jigong Mountain has no heat in midsummer, and the climate is cool, with an average temperature of 24℃ in summer. "It's like spring before noon, autumn in the afternoon and early winter at night", enjoying the wonderful legend of "suffocating to death, being suspicious and cool".

The summer resort has been in existence for more than a hundred years, and the golden rooster has taken off, singing prosperous times.

Jigong Mountain is suitable for tourism and holiday all year round: in spring, flowers are long and orchids are fragrant; In summer, clouds are lingering and cool as water; In autumn, the red leaves are full of mountains and the treetops are first frost; In winter, snowflakes fly and are as clean as ice.

Jigong Mountain is one of the famous summer resorts in China. It has the reputation of "the green department is Chu and Yu, and the pressure is Song Heng". Historically, it has been called the four summer resorts in China together with Lushan, Beidaihe and Moganshan. As early as 1,400 years ago in the Northern Wei Dynasty, there were written records in Li Daoyuan's Notes on Water Classics. Later, many famous poets, dignitaries and wealthy businessmen also visited here, and literati left a lot of hymns. At the beginning of the last century, after the Pinghan Railway was opened to traffic, foreigners flocked to it and reached its peak in the 1920s and 1930s. After more than 100 years of development, it has now become a tourist resort.

1978, one of the first eight scenic spots approved for opening to the outside world in the State Council, 1982 was included in the first batch of 44 national key scenic spots in China, becoming a mountain-type scenic spot with natural landscape as the main part, supplemented by human landscape, and having the values of recuperation, summer vacation, tourism, sightseeing, scientific research, practice and natural ecological protection. 1988 was approved as a national nature reserve by the State Council, and 1996 was rated as "Top Ten Tourist Attractions in Henan Province". Now it has become "China Children's Hand in Hand Activity Camp", "China Senior Citizens Association Rehabilitation Base" and "China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Artists Collection Base".

Jigong Mountain is located at the junction of Henan and Hubei provinces, 38km south of Xinyang, Henan Province, between the three customs (Wushengguan, Pingjingguan and Jiuliguan), 0/74 km south of Wuhan/KLOC and 340km north of Zhengzhou. Wusheng Pass at the foot of the mountain is one of the nine famous passes in the history of China. It is like a stone lock, locking Dabie Mountain and Tongbai Mountain into a whole, forming a natural barrier stretching thousands of miles between Jianghuai. The strategic position is very important. The elevation of the main peak is 8 1 1 m, the elevation of Baoxing peak is 767.5 m, and the scenic area is 27 square kilometers. It is the natural dividing line between the north and the south of China, and is known as the "Green Department of Chu and Yu".

Jigongshan is named after its whole mountain, which is like a cock with wings flying high and neck singing. "Chicken Wings Mountain" has a history of more than 1,400 years in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Jigong Mountain and Chicken Wings Mountain were called together in Ming Dynasty. It was renamed Jigongshan in the Qing Dynasty and has been known since then.

Jigongshan is located in the transition zone from subtropical zone to warm temperate zone, with abundant rainfall and humid climate. The climate is characterized by long winter and short summer, and the same spring and autumn. The summer climate is cool and pleasant, with an average temperature of 23.7 degrees Celsius and a maximum temperature of 32 degrees Celsius. It's midsummer, like spring before noon, like autumn in the afternoon and like early winter in the evening. It has the reputation of "dog days make people want to die and feel suspicious".

Jigong Mountain has a unique natural landscape. "Buddha light, sea of clouds, Wusong, Song Yu, Xia Guang, exotic flowers and herbs, strange peaks and rocks, waterfalls and flowing springs" are known as the eight natural landscapes of Jigong Mountain. Jigong Mountain is not very high above sea level, only seven or eight hundred meters, but its geographical position is unique. The canyons on both sides are deep and flat, and there is wind all the year round. Jigongshan has a alpine climate, but there is no alpine reaction. It is especially suitable for recuperation and summer vacation, and has special curative effect on some diseases such as lung disease, beriberi, heart disease, tracheitis, hypertension, etc. In addition, there are many factors, such as strange peaks and rocks, waterfalls, rare flowers and plants, unique rural villages, pavilions and pavilions, which constitute a beautiful natural scenic spot. Jigong Mountain is shrouded in mist all the year round and is known as the "Park in the Clouds". Jigongshan has no heat in midsummer and a cool climate. The average temperature in summer is only 23℃, which is 4-7℃ different from "spring before noon, autumn in the afternoon, early winter at night" in Xinyang city and Wuhan, which can be described as "dog days, suffocating and suspiciously cold".

There are many strange peaks and rocks in Jigong Mountain, which are rugged and towering. Houses are built on rocks, trees are born beside rocks, grass grows in rocks, bloom is beside rocks, and springs flow under rocks, all of which have the characteristics of strangeness, ingenuity, strangeness and beauty, and are integrated with other natural landscapes. The scenery of the four seasons in Jigong Mountain is changing and moving, and it is amazing and unpredictable in spring, summer, autumn and winter. In spring, thousands of trees contend, flowers bloom, colorful, butterflies fly and are full of vitality. In summer, the mountains are covered with green cages, and the climate is cool and misty, just like a fairyland.

Autumn, mountains and valleys, red leaves, ginkgo wax yellow, Jingui fragrance, not spring, better than spring. In winter, it's a northland scenery with white clothes, high ice ridges, blue sky and white snow, and blowing open the petals of ten thousand pear trees. Donggou Waterfall Group in Jigongshan is a scenic corridor with water features as the main body, with a total length of about 20 miles. It has a natural appearance and is extremely wild, and can be reached by aerial ropeway. Throughout the ages, with its magnificent scenery and specific geographical environment, Jigong Mountain has attracted many historical celebrities, including the legendary stories of Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant uprising, and Honghua Girl, all of which have added many beautiful colors to Jigong Mountain and cast a mysterious veil on it.

Jigong Mountain is one of the best mountain attractions in China. Jigongshan Mountain is the dividing line between north and south, and it is also the transitional zone between subtropical zone and warm temperate zone, where plants from north and south can settle down, and the vegetation coverage rate is as high as 87%. There are more than 2,000 kinds of plants here, of which only more than 600 are Chinese herbal medicines, which are called "Natural Botanical Garden" and "Natural Chinese Herbal Garden". At that time, Li Shizhen came all the way to Jigongshan to collect herbs, which added rich contents to Compendium of Materia Medica. At the beginning of last century, British and American botanists also studied and cultivated plants in Jigongshan, which is an ideal research and teaching base for biologists and a natural treasure house of green genes.

Jigongshan is not only a very obvious blend of north and south cultures, but also has the connotation of a blend of Chinese and western cultures. 1903, American missionary Li Heshi climbed the mountains to explore this spectacle and spread it in the west. As a result, priests, missionaries, wealthy businessmen, bureaucrats and warlords from more than 20 countries flocked to build more than 300 villas with their own characteristics. After several wars, there are 2 12 buildings. These multi-ethnic and multi-ethnic architectural communities are distributed between evergreen trees and Xiufeng, which complement each other, just like the "World Architecture Expo".

In terms of architectural style, there are Roman style, Gothic style, crossed hands, German style, and integration of Chinese and Western styles. Or dignified, or majestic, or elegant and harmonious, or exquisite stretch, diverse styles, like bright pearls dotted with mountains, full of mysterious illusions of heaven, can be described as architectural wonders. At the peak of summer vacation, there were as many as 2,000 to 3,000 Chinese and foreign people living on the mountain, which became a prosperous mountain city for a while. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek went up the mountain twice, and Zhang Xueliang, Yang Hucheng, Feng Yuxiang and Wu also climbed the mountain for the summer. Now, Jigong Mountain has become a resort for working people to visit, spend the summer and recuperate, and receives hundreds of thousands of Chinese and foreign people every year, with unprecedented pomp.

There are eight tourist areas in Jigong Mountain. That is, the hiking plank road tourist area, the main attractions are Baibu Ladder, Niuerzhai, Cliff Stone Carving, Wuqi Stone, Erdaomen, Ganquan, Steep Cliff, Cagou and so on. Lu Yi tourist area, the main attractions are Nanbei Street, Yingdeng Stone, Lu Yi and so on. Baoxiaofeng tourist area, the main attractions are Yuehu, Hongniang Village, Sister Building, Baoxiaofeng and so on. Linghua Mountain browsing area, the main attractions are Ling Hua Temple, Ship Stone, Crescent Stone, Ghost Gate, Fairy Cave, Fairy Chair, Ascending Ladder, Stargazing Platform, etc. Nangang Tourist Area, the main attractions are Xiao Xia Garden, Marshall Building, Meiling Ballroom, Chiang Kai-shek Air-raid Shelter, Xiao Xin Pavilion, Chiang Kai-shek Apartment, Hui Jing Pavilion, Western Bath, Living Buddha Temple, Chicken Watching Platform, Love Stone and Spike Stone.

The main attractions of Beigang Tourist Area are churches, American Literature School, Ruihua School, Mother-child Pavilion, Pan Lu (General Building), Ye Shuai's former residence, Baojian Mountain and so on. Summer resort tourist area, the main attractions are villas, Tianfu Palace, waterfall pavilion, Xiangshuitang Waterfall, etc. Donggou Waterfall Tourist Area, the main attractions are North Waterfall Group, Triassic Waterfall, Flagstaff Stone, East Waterfall Group, Songlinwan Waterfall, Double Waterfall, Longtan Waterfall, Longgong Waterfall and Patio Waterfall. Other scenic spots include Wushengguan, Polden Monument, Ginkgo biloba in Tang Dynasty and Sabina vulgaris in Song Dynasty.

In order to better protect, utilize and develop scenic resources and accelerate the development of various undertakings in Jigongshan, Jigongshan Management Zone was established in 200 1, which expanded the original scenic area from 27 square kilometers to 287 square kilometers now, and implemented unified leadership, unified planning, unified development and unified utilization of tourism resources for the whole scenic area and surrounding protected areas. Jigongshan Management Zone has given many preferential policies, and friends from all walks of life are welcome to invest in the mountain and build a big tourism industry. In the future, the people of Jigongshan will aim at "enjoying a good reputation in China and the world" and develop Jigongshan into a national first-class resort for sightseeing, leisure, business meetings, scientific research, training and study, and summer resort.