The majestic Fan Jing is a book on natural geology.

Wei Shan, a book on natural geology.

Xu Shuchun

May her dream come true and she will walk into Fan Jing.

The yearning and worship for Fan Jing originated from the ecological scientific research activity of beautiful China in Shiqian, Guizhou in 215. The cross-border scientific research focusing on Foding Mountain involves many disciplines such as ecological environment protection, flora and fauna, hydrogeology and so on. The local rich natural resources and excellent ecological environment are amazing.

Among the Wuling Mountains in eastern Guizhou, Foding Mountain can only be regarded as the younger brother. What kind of magnificent sight should Fan Jing, the big brother at the top of Wuling? At that time, due to time constraints, I passed by Fan Jing, which was close at hand.

In September p>28, the members of the third cross-border scientific expedition of beautiful China gathered in jiangkou county again, and the author finally got close contact with Fan Jing. Out of preference, I specially spent two days in this expedition to visit Fan Jing from the west and east, paying more attention to its unique mountainous terrain and reading the geological wonders of Fan Jingshan attentively.

Guizhou is mountainous with dense vegetation. On the expressway from Guiyang to Jiangkou, the mountains on both sides are undulating and covered with green shade, which makes me downplay my impression of mountains. I always feel that the oncoming mountain is the wave, and the farmhouse at the foot of the mountain is like a canoe.

the charm of nature is fully displayed in the endless green fields.

When entering Jiangkou County, the sky is always filled with dense fog and light rain. Fan Jingshan is unique, which consists of geological wonders, ecological kingdom and Buddhist culture. It is a unique tourism resource in Shenzhou.

Look up at the golden dome of the sky from the top of the mountain, step on the cascade of stone cliffs, read thousands of stone carvings and scriptures that record the changes of the earth under your feet, and explore the mysteries of the universe.

At this moment, the past and the present of heaven and earth seem to connect with each other. Perhaps only Fan Jing can give people such a spiritual feeling.

Go to Xiling and enjoy the strange rocks and dangerous peaks.

From the entrance of the Huguo Temple in Yinjiang to the Jinding of the main peak, it is the western route to climb Fan Jing. Take the shuttle bus from the scenic spot to Mianxuling, halfway up the mountain, where the altitude has exceeded 2 meters. After that, they walked through the forest along the mountain road. Some sections of trees are dense and branches interact to form a natural corridor hundreds of meters long, which is called black alley.

From time to time, you can see some metamorphic strata under the forest, which are covered with moss and lichen like green carpets.

Through the cracks in the trees, you can see misty valleys and magical Taizi Stone on both sides. After careful identification, we realized that we were actually walking on a narrow ridge.

Across the mountain is the 1,-meter reclining Buddha. There are several platforms to watch. However, the thick clouds always refused to disperse. Occasionally, the top of the mountain shows a little outline and disappears in a hurry.

All the way through the sea of clouds and forests, people can't help thinking. Perhaps the ancient ocean is another form of Fan Jingshan today.

About 8 million years ago in Proterozoic, Fan Jing was still a piece of Wang Yang. Later, this ancient land in the south was uplifted and became the earliest ancient area south of the Yellow River in China, which was uplifted from the sea to the land.

After several geological tectonic movements lasting hundreds of millions of years, it finally rose to become the highest peak of Wuling Mountain in Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan and Chongqing.

Climbing Fan Jingshan is like visiting a natural geological museum. The rock on the top of the mountain is slate which is metamorphic from sand and mudstone deposited in the ocean 8 million years ago, and igneous rocks formed by submarine volcanic eruption or magma intrusion are sandwiched in the middle of the mountain.

Steep peaks and valleys, towering stone pillars and columnar peaks are masterpieces of Quaternary glaciers and surface water, which form the special landscape of Fan Jingshan, together with Lin Tao and the sea of clouds.

keep walking along the mountain road. As we approached the top of the mountain, the trees gradually became sparse, accompanied by wet fog, and there was a feeling of darkness.

The old Jinding was called Moon Mirror Mountain in ancient times, and it was named after the moon mirror phenomenon on the rocks on the mountain. It is said that on a moonlit night, people can take clear images of themselves facing a slate on the ancient golden dome. These stone slabs are hard and delicate, so it is not absurd to produce the phenomenon of moon mirror under certain air and light conditions.

Hundreds of millions of years of wind and rain have also carved mountain peaks on the alpine rocks of Laojinding, such as Mushroom Rock, Eagle Rock, thousands of books and Tianyin. Ingenious and lifelike. Especially the strange mushroom stone, standing on the platform of the old Jinding, is thick on the top and thin on the bottom, just like a giant mushroom, which is easy to fall over when touched. However, it has stood for hundreds of thousands of years, becoming a rare balance stone in mountain landscape, and is also regarded as a unique symbol of Fan Jingshan.

adjacent to Qianshu Mushroom Stone are schist and slate strata of Banxi Group in Proterozoic, with gentle occurrence and well-developed columnar joints. For example, countless ancient books are neatly stacked and magnificent. The ancients had a poem saying: whoever keeps a jade axis, thousands of rolls are piled up at the beginning of the mixed generation; The land was robbed by Qin fire, and there are still unburned books in the famous mountains. This is a big unburned book, which has been written for more than 1 million years.

what attracts me more than the old Jinding is the adjacent Fortune Jinding. The highest mountain in the world is the main peak, and the Phoenix Mountain, Hongyun Jinding and Laojinding, which are arranged in sequence at the top of Fanjing Mountain, are all above 23 meters above sea level. The three mountains stand shoulder to shoulder, each with its own shape, which is difficult to distinguish. If you look at the landscape effect, Hongyun and Jinding seem to be better.

This 1-meter-high independent columnar mountain stands in the hollow between Fenghuang Mountain and Laojinding. Although the altitude is slightly lower, it is towering and abrupt, with great visual impact, like a thumb like praise, and like a pagoda Turing Tower standing between heaven and earth, hiding and appearing in the clouds.

I can't help but be filled with reverence and awe when I climb the zigzag steps under the Hongyun Jinding.

there are slippery steps under your feet and a wall hanging on one side. We can only climb the chain on the narrow and steep cliff and crawl forward.

After the Guanyin Cave in the middle, there was only a moment of breathing. However, when I looked up, I saw that the mountain was split in half from top to bottom, called Golden Knife Gorge, and the narrowest place could only pass sideways and climb the stone steps like a ladder.

climbing to the top of the mountain, I saw a stone arch bridge flying in the air, connecting the left and right halves of the mountain. There are Sakyamuni Hall and Maitreya Buddha Hall on the top of the two temples, and behind each temple there is a slate boulder stacked like a scripture. Not to mention how clean the Buddha's days in the clouds are, just how the building materials used to build Buddhist temples and arch bridges are transported is enough to make people marvel and daydream.

This magical place created by natural and man-made forces stands proudly in the sky, making the world independent and bringing chivalry and heroism to Fan Jing. Standing at the top of the pole, feeling refreshed, I unconsciously pieced together a few such poems:

The peak of Fanshan Mountain supports the vast sky. I dare to laugh at Daiyue Hengzong when I reach the summit today.

The Phoenix Mountain behind the Red Jin Feng, with an altitude of 2,572 meters, is the highest peak in Fan Jing and has many geological and cultural landscapes. However, because the mountain is too dangerous, the mountain road is deep in grass and dense forest, so it is impassable. Besides, it's foggy at night, so we have to hurry down the mountain.

wanbao rock on the eastern route witnessed the changes of land and sea.

The next day, we went to Fan Jing with another expedition, focusing on a geological relic named Wanbaoyan.

enter from the east gate and take the shuttle bus to Yu 'ao in the mountain. This is a regular tourist route. There are two ways to climb a mountain. If you go up the mountain along the 1,-step ladder, you can cross four vertical climatic zones along the way, and you can see rare plants such as hemlock, fir and Davidia involucrata. Maybe you can meet the unique Guizhou golden monkey in Fan Jing, but it needs enough time and endurance.

We took the cable car, which gave us a wider view. After that,

It was completely different from the slate at the top of Fanjing Mountain. Wanbao rock looks like concrete. There are many large and small gravels cemented in the sandstone and argillaceous structure inside, and countless mysteries are buried under the rough surface. This book is a Proterozoic bottom conglomerate with relatively young horizontal strata.

Fanjing Mountain area experienced intense compression deformation, crustal uplift and orogeny, which lifted deep seabed rocks to the peak of more than 2, meters and formed a steep gravel hanging wall. Wanbaoyan is the evidence of this land-sea change. Jingshan has fertile soil and dense vegetation. Except for the top of the mountain, few rocks are exposed, so Wanbao Rock is particularly prominent and important.

Wanbao Rock is still a miniature biosphere, full of miracles of life. Dozens of plants such as fungi, lichens, mosses, ferns and seeds can be found only on the shady side of the stone, which is easy to observe. It can be seen that Fan Jingshan's species gene bank is magical and vast.

Fan Jing is such a wonderful book of natural geology, and it is also a unique landscape painting, which shows the unique and original geological beauty to the world.

Its strata and rocks are ancient, its geological structure is superimposed in multiple stages, and its alpine glaciers and landforms are diverse and magnificent. This masterpiece is profound and magical, which fascinates countless visitors.

going down the mountain through Yu 'ao, you can see the swift Black Bay River, with waterfalls on both sides, which is spectacular. The pebbles in the river vary in size, and some have been smooth and round after being impacted by running water for a long time; Some still have sharp edges and corners after falling into the water. Some are stones falling from the top of the mountain; Some of them are the result of river cutting bedrock, which is mixed with ancient pillow basalt.

these stones have been honed by years, just like the ancient firs and Davidia involucrata in the mountains. Fan Jingshan will always be their home, and it will always exist. Looking at Yuntai from the golden roof.

The photos in this article were taken by the following photographers

Special thanks

Guo Longfu Yun Tianhe Chaoqing Jia Changjiang Huang Longxing Hu Mingding Li Guiyun Li Ziding Yang Shengbin Zhang Shaoyou Zhang Hongda Chen Chen Changsheng Chunzhi Yang Futong Bai Jiangping Long Junlinsen.