Introduction experiment of alpine meadow in Dongping ditch

Dongpinggou alpine meadow is a very important place in Qinling Mountains, where you can feel the rich flavor of natural life. It is also the most enduring and highly integrated place of China's ancient culture, which makes tourists feel uneasy but happy to sigh. Here, I will provide you with a specific guide.

The Great Qinling Mountains is about 900 kilometers long from east to west and more than 300 kilometers wide from north to south. Qinling Mountain, the national central park in China, is well deserved. I like hiking and photography, and I spend a lot of time hiking with my friends in Qinling Mountains every year.

Among the many routes in Qinling Mountains, the author likes the alpine meadow near the watershed in my hometown best.

In Qinling area, there are alpine meadows in many places, and more than 2200 Qinling girders are basically covered by vast meadows. Alpine meadow usually refers to the bamboo forest in the middle of Qinling Mountains.

Scenery of alpine meadow in Qinling Mountains

It is said to be an alpine meadow in Qinling Mountains. In fact, the main vegetation is not grass, but a low bamboo forest. Many friends may ask, isn't arrow bamboo the food of giant pandas? Yes, it's true. Qinling area is also one of the main gathering places for giant pandas. However, because the northern slope of the Qinling Mountains is close to the city, there are almost no traces of giant pandas. Giant pandas in Qinling Mountains are mainly distributed in Foping County of Hanzhong City and ningshan county of Ankang City on the south slope.

Alpine meadow, also called 10,000 mu meadow, is located in Jiwozi, Yufeng, Chang 'an District, Xi 'an, near the Qinling watershed. It's about 70 kilometers from downtown Xi. Drive from the city, and go all the way along the National Highway 2 10 Xiwan Highway into the mountain. Along the way, the mountains are high and steep, and the cliffs point to the sky as far as the eye can see. Driving to the Qinling watershed, you can go hiking in the big meadow.

Now there are three or four routes leading to alpine meadows. The first one is from the viewing pavilion opposite the watershed, and you can reach it by crossing the girder and two passes along the way. The second route starts from Dongping ditch, which is a relatively simple route. The journey is not too long, the distance is short, and it is not very difficult to walk. There is a very urgent climbing section near the top. The third is from the mountain behind Jiwozi village, which is slightly more difficult than Dongping ditch. The fourth route is to enter the mountain from Dongfogou. This route is not difficult to take, but it takes a detour and a long distance.

If it is the first time for a donkey friend, it is recommended to go up and down Dongping ditch, which is relatively simple. If you are an experienced donkey, choose any two crossing lines: Watershed, Jiwozi, Dongpinggou and Dongfogou.

Reaching the meadow top, there is the Yangtze River basin in the south and the Yellow River basin in the north. In early summer, the meadow is covered with a large area of grassland, standing on the top of the mountain, endless. There are also some azaleas in full bloom, and you can feel the vast Qinling Mountains at the top of the mountain. The whole journey is about 40 miles on foot, but the distance is hard, and the intensity is relatively high when it is near the top of the mountain. The highest altitude is 2550 meters.

Alpine meadow is a part of Niubeiliang Nature Reserve, with different scenery in four seasons. In winter and spring, you can walk on the meadow to watch the ice hanging, in summer, you can enjoy the most beautiful alpine rhododendron in Qinling, and in autumn, you can see red leaves and yellow leaves.

Especially at the turn of spring and summer, the red, white and yellow azaleas all over the mountains draw a beautiful dividing line for Qinling Mountains.

The alpine meadow snow scene in winter is a must. Winter is coming, and the snow is as beautiful as a blanket.

Maybe it's because I've been in a noisy city for a long time. I am always looking for a beautiful and deserted place to relax and purify myself. Not long ago, some friends and I went to the Qinling meadow to explore the infinite natural scenery of the beautiful Qinling Mountains.

The Qinling Mountains hide the prairie deep.

This wonderful place that people dream of is called "Dongping ditch" by local people. On that day, because it turned cloudy to cloudy, the top of Dongpinggou at an altitude of 1, 800 meters was always shrouded in mist, so it was difficult for us to see its "true face".

However, it is because of the gloomy weather that we can fully spread our imagination wings and outline the footprints of Shan Ye in childhood. The eternal blue sky is still an attractive tourist virgin land that needs to be developed urgently, and it is also a "good family" hidden in the deep mountains-Dongping ditch. For a long time, Dongpinggou is a natural base for teachers and students of Northwest A&F University, primary and secondary schools to carry out nature and popular science education, and it is also the best place for people in mountainous areas to collect Chinese herbal medicines.

In midsummer, the highest temperature here does not exceed 25 degrees, so it is a summer resort.

Mountain road in Qinling meadow

Walking slowly into the ditch from the artificially opened narrow path, we are in awe of the mysterious, quiet, humid and mossy virgin forest in front of us. The scene we see is just like the scene of "Wandering around the stream and looking at the distance of the road, suddenly meeting the peach blossom forest, with no miscellaneous trees in it" in Tao Yuanming's masterpiece "Peach Blossom Garden" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

A stream leading to alpine meadow

Winding along a stream, there are spruce, fir, hemlock and yew in the dense forests on both sides. Looking up, they are tall and straight, arranged in an orderly way, covering the sky. There are more than 20 kinds of primitive plant belts and plant communities in the ditch, and there is a natural plant belt almost every 1 km. The scenery is really intoxicating. There are also medicinal plants such as Gastrodia elata, Angelica sinensis, Acorus calamus, Fritillaria, Poria, Polyporus and Pinellia ternata in the three-dimensional climate forest. Walking in the mountains, I met several local herbalists from time to time, and I was very busy. According to their introduction, wild animals such as golden pheasant, forest musk deer, blood pheasant and bear live in Dongping ditch. Lily, azalea, peony, sour apple and other exotic flowers and herbs are countless, which makes people dizzying!

Qinling meadow

Qinling meadow

Climbing up the mountain, the azaleas are more abundant. Look carefully, the bud that is about to bloom is red, like a child's rosy and smooth face. Blooming flowers wear dark lace, like a naughty girl's skirt; The blooming flowers are pink or white, like an 18-year-old girl, elegant and full of vitality, showing charm, temptation and color to the fullest?

The rugged lines and ups and downs of the Qinling Mountains extend to the ethereal sky, and together with the surging sky, a magnificent picture is drawn. The golden meadow curved surface slowly winds from the foot to the opposite hillside, and the touch between the blue sky and the dark mountain suddenly expands the spatial level of the picture.

On the Qinling meadow, patches of arrow bamboo half a person's height and grass twenty or thirty centimeters high have not recovered in the yellow, and there are some low shrub rhododendron forests, which are different from the tall rhododendron trees in the mid-levels and dotted with striking colors in golden yellow.

Walking on the meadow in Qinling Mountains, losing the forest that hides us is like suddenly getting rid of the bondage and flying freely to another world with a vast sky and a vast sea of clouds. The bathing wind sang Li Taibai's poem: "I would like to ride the wind straight out of the clouds. Raising your hand can be close to the moon, and there is no mountain ahead. " Lying on your back on the thick grass is free, soft and warm, and all the fatigue is distributed for nine days. Your body seems to have the ability of Aetna in Greek mythology, and it draws endless energy from Mother Earth for rebirth.

If you try to save this amazing 360-degree picture with a camera at this time, it is certainly impossible, because you are afraid of complaining that the depth of field of the camera is not deep enough, that the excitement in people's brains can't be restored, and that you can't take uncertain magnificent scenery.

In theory, beauty can be divided into two categories: graceful and sublime, but standing on the Qinling meadow is a perfect combination of the two kinds of beauty, which is gentle, harmonious and magnificent. In the opposition between man and nature, there are both small sighs and strong spiritual strength, which gave birth to great heroism after conquering mountains and sublimated to the peak of today's crossing.

Chatting with two villagers carrying Mizutaniyama, I said that in July and August, Meadow would wear green clothes, and it was another look at that time; Or after a thick winter snow, the world is pure, just like the fairy world. The scenery of the four seasons is really different, and it's fascinating just to think about it.

There's a village where there's no road. When we walked into the depth of the ditch for more than 2 hours, the scenery in front of us became suddenly enlightened. What caught our eye was a green lawn of thousands of square meters, like a carpet and more like an airport. Strange flowers and grasses grow everywhere on the lawn. In the grass, whether sitting, leaning or sleeping, all actions are in emotions. People are happy and unrestrained on this lawn.

We are tired of running in the grass or playing hide-and-seek, lying on the lawn, looking at the endless "sky", deeply impressed by the wonders of nature, which has created such a magical place for us.

In this lawn close to the sky, strange peaks and rocks can be seen everywhere. Looking up at the flowers and plants around the sky makes people feel surprisingly quiet and wonderful. Pulling a garlic on the lawn, picking a small flower and climbing Qifeng are all very pleasant. Who knows?

This kind of artistic conception seems to be in a "Xanadu". Walking in it can only be in a dream! On the lawn, we seem to gallop on the grassland, more like marching in the lonely smoke of the desert, but who knows that this lawn is in a deep valley?

Qinling Tibetan prairie! Why can this situation exist in "isolation" and not be known to outsiders? Flowers bloom and fall, life is geometric, fortunately, there is always a time when flowers bloom, fortunately, the most beautiful time, we are together!

Four seasons in one mountain, ten miles in different days. There was a burst of thunder in the sky, like seeing us off and looking back at the big clouds on the top of the mountain. The layer gradually became thick and black, and the rain could be smelled in the air, so we accelerated the speed of going down the mountain.

Finally, a few raindrops fell behind us. According to the walkie-talkie contact of the patrol personnel at the foot of the mountain, there was hail on the top of the mountain after we left. On the way back, we chatted. It is estimated that there may be many similar scenic spots in the depths of Qinling Mountains, but people have not found them. In addition to lamenting the magic of nature, we are glad that we have come to a "paradise", which has cultivated our sentiment and made us happy. But we are also worried that once the number of tourists increases and the environment is polluted and destroyed, this "Xanadu" will no longer exist.

Author: Lu Jianli