Introduction of Alpine Meadow in Dongpinggou

Donggou alpine meadow is a very important place in the Qinling Mountains, where you can feel rich natural life. It is also the place where China's ancient culture is the most obsessed and integrated, which makes tourists feel uneasy but sigh with relief. The following is a specific raiders guide.

The Great Qinling Mountains is about 900 kilometers long from east to west and more than 300 kilometers wide from north to south. As the national central park of China, Qinling Mountain 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 the 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 arrow bamboo forest in the middle of Qinling Mountains.

Scenery of alpine meadow in Qinling Mountains

It's called Qinling alpine meadow. In fact, the main vegetation is not grass, but low arrow 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. The giant pandas in Qinling Mountains are mainly distributed in Foping County, ningshan county City, Ankang City and other places in Hanzhong City on the south slope.

Alpine meadow, also known as ten thousand mu meadow, is located in Yufeng Jiwozi, West Chang 'an District, near the Qinling watershed. It is about 70 kilometers from the west. You drive from the city, along the 2 10 national road, all the way to the mountains. Along the way, the mountain suddenly changed, and the cliffs and peaks pointed to the sky as far as the eye could see. Driving to the Qinling watershed, you can go hiking in the meadow.

Now there are three or four routes leading to alpine meadows. The first one comes from the viewing pavilion opposite the watershed, and it can be reached by crossing the girder and two passes along the way. The second line starts from Dongping ditch, and the route is relatively simple. The distance is not too long, the distance is short, and it is not difficult to walk. When we reached the top of the mountain, there was a very urgent climbing section. The third is from the back mountain of Jiwozi Village, which is slightly more difficult than Dongping Valley. The fourth route is to enter the mountain from Dongfogou. This route is not difficult to take, but it takes a detour.

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

Meadow reaches its peak, the Yangtze River basin in the south and the Yellow River basin in the north. In early summer, the grass is covered with a large area of grass, standing on the top of the mountain, as far as the eye can see. There are some azaleas in full bloom, and you can feel the vastness of the Qinling Mountains when you reach the summit. The whole journey is about 40 miles on foot, but the distance is hard and the intensity is relatively high at the top of the mountain. The highest altitude is 2550 meters.

The meadow is a part of Niubeiliang Nature Reserve, with different scenery in four seasons. In winter and spring, the meadow walks through the snow to see the ice hanging, in summer, the meadow enjoys the cool air to enjoy the most beautiful alpine rhododendron in Qinling, and in autumn, it looks at the red leaves and yellow leaves.

Especially at the turn of spring and summer, the red, white, yellow and alpine 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 stayed in a noisy city for a long time. I have always wanted to find a place with beautiful scenery and no one to relax and purify myself. Not long ago, some friends and I went to the alpine meadow in Qinling Mountains to explore the infinite natural scenery of the beautiful Qinling Mountains.

Tibetan grassland deep in Qinling Mountains

This wonderful place that people dream of is called "Dongping ditch" by local people. On that day, due to cloudy to cloudy days, the top of Dongping ditch at an altitude of 1800 meters was always shrouded in mist, and it was difficult for us to see its "true face".

However, it is precisely because of the gloomy weather that we can fully spread our wings of imagination and outline the footprints of childhood Shan Ye in our minds. The ancient 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-the East Pinggu. For a long time, Dongpinggou is a natural base for teachers, students, primary and secondary schools of Northwest A&F University to carry out natural 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 that catches our eyes is like the scene of "walking by the river and looking at the distance of the road" in Tao Yuanming's masterpiece Peach Blossom Garden in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Suddenly I saw a peach blossom forest with hundreds of steps on the shore. There were no miscellaneous trees in it, and colorful trees fell down.

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, blocking the sun. 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 charming. There are also medicinal plants such as Gastrodia elata, Angelica sinensis, Acorus calamus, Fritillaria, Poria and Pinellia ternata. In the mountainous area with three-dimensional climate. Walking through the mountains, we met several local herbalists from time to time. They were very busy. According to their introduction, Dongping ditch is the home of famous wild animals such as golden pheasant, forest musk deer, blood pheasant and bear. Lily, azalea, peony, sour apple and other exotic flowers and plants are competing to open, and there are many names, which are dizzying!

Qinling meadow

Qinling meadow

Climbing up the mountain, azaleas are more abundant. Look carefully, the bud that is about to bloom is red, like a child's rosy and smooth face; The first blooming flower wears dark lace, like a naughty girl's skirt; The blooming flowers are pink or white, like a girl of 18 years old, elegant and full of vitality, showing charming, attractive and colorful feelings.

The rugged lines and ups and downs of the Qinling Mountains extend to the ethereal sky, and together with the stormy 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 Mountains, there are arrow bamboo half a person's height and grass twenty or thirty centimeters high, which have not been restored in the yellow, and there are some low shrub rhododendron forests, which are different from the tall rhododendron trees halfway up the mountain and are dotted with golden eye-catching colors.

Walking on the Qinling meadow, we lost the hidden forest, as if we suddenly got rid of the shackles and flew to another world with high skies and light clouds. Bathed in the wind, we sang Li Taibai's poem: "I would like to ride the cold wind and go straight out of the clouds." You can raise your hand for nearly a month, if there is no mountain ahead. "Lie on your back on the thick grass, soft and warm, and spread all the fatigue to nine days. Your body seems to have the antai ability in Greek mythology, drawing endless energy from Mother Earth for rebirth.

If you try to save this amazing 360-degree scroll with a camera, it is certainly impossible. I dare not complain that the depth of field of the camera is not deep enough, the excitement in people's brains can't be restored, and the fantastic scenery can't be photographed.

Theoretically speaking, beauty can be divided into two categories: beauty and sublimity, and standing on the Qinling meadow is the perfect combination of these two kinds of beauty, which not only contains the harmony of women, but also has a magnificent momentum. In the opposition between man and nature, there is not only a small sigh, but also a powerful spiritual force, which gave birth to a great heroism after conquering the mountains and sublimated to the peak of today's leap.

Chatting with two villagers in Shuijian Mountain, they said that in July and August, the meadow would wear green clothes, and then it would look different. Or after a thick winter snow, the world is pure and clean, just like heaven. It's really different scenery in four seasons. The tenth letter of the English alphabet.

There is no way back, but there is Guangming village. When we walked into the depths of the ditch for more than two hours, the scene in front of us suddenly widened. What you see is a green lawn of thousands of square meters, like a carpet, more like an airport. There are strange flowers and grasses growing everywhere on the lawn, sitting, leaning or sleeping in the grass, and all the actions are in your mind. People on this lawn feel happy and free.

We run, play or hide-and-seek in the grass, and when we are tired and sleepy, we lie on the lawn and look at the endless "sky", deeply feeling the wonder of nature and creating 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. Pull a garlic from the lawn, pick a small flower and climb the Qifeng, which is very comfortable. Who knows?

This kind of artistic conception seems to be in a "Xanadu". Walking through it, you can only 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 is deep in the grassland! Why is it that "isolation" is unknown to outsiders? Flowers bloom and fall, life geometry. Fortunately, there are always flowers. Fortunately, we are together at the best time!

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 clouds on the top of the mountain. The stratum gradually became thick and dark, and the rain could be smelled in the air, so we speeded up the descent.

Finally, a few raindrops fell behind us. According to the intercom contact of the inspector 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 the Qinling Mountains, but people have not found them. In addition to lamenting the magic of nature, we are even more glad that we are in 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, this "Xanadu" will no longer exist.

Author: Lu Jianli