Ningwu Xuankong Village Attractions

Wannian Ice Cave

The Wannian Ice Cave near the village is located in a giant Huiyan funnel. As the saying goes, "If there is no mountain, there must be caves." But most of them are stone caves. If you are well-informed, you must have experienced them several times. But when visiting ice caves, I think you still have to "get on the sedan chair." ----For the first time"! The creator of nature has built a crystal clear underground crystal palace for himself here. Even in the sweltering midsummer, entering the cave is still a cool winter scene with ice sculptures and jade, which is in contrast to the scorching sun, green trees and red flowers outside the cave. constitute two completely different worlds. The Ten Thousand Years Ice Cave developed in an Ordovician limestone cave with an altitude of 2,200 meters, with a dimension of 38°50'. It was formed during the Quaternary Glacial Period of the Cenozoic Era and has a history of 3 million years ago. So far, more than 20 ice caves have been discovered around the world. In my country, more than ten ice caves have been discovered in Tanggula, Wulingyuan, Shennongjia, Taibai Mountain, Wushan, Chengde, etc., and even ten thousand year ice caves have been discovered in Ningwu. There are four large and small ice caves including Bagou Bay, Huangcaoliang and Tianchi. Among these many ice caves, after years of investigation and demonstration, experts believe that it is "the largest ice cave discovered so far in our country. It is also the largest ice cave in the world so far outside the polar ice caps, the distribution range of modern glaciers, and the permafrost in alpine areas." A rare large ice cave discovered. Its underground refrigeration mechanism is different from other ice caves in areas north of 40° north latitude (such as Heilongjiang Province in China and Siberia in Russia). It is the most special ice cave in China, not only for high-latitude atmospheric ice. The cave cannot be compared with it, nor can the underground refrigeration ice cave at low latitudes. Its protective development plays an important role in academic research and rich tourism products." The Ten Thousand Years Ice Cave is also an underground treasure house and scientific underground palace: "The ice in the ice cave records the changes in the global environment over the past ten thousand years, in terms of atmosphere, climate, hydrology, geology, landforms, biology, human living environment and protection, etc." , all have records of immeasurable information precipitation and concentration.”

Volcano

The eternal mystery of the existence of ice caves has puzzled the minds of many experts and scholars, and there is still no satisfactory answer. Because it has no reason or possibility to exist no matter from the perspective of dimensions, altitude, geology, and climate. It is the only ice cave formed under similar climate and terrain conditions in the country. In addition, the most puzzling point of the Ten Thousand Years Ice Cave is that according to general rules, for every 100 meters deep into the bottom, the temperature will rise by 0.4°C, while the Ten Thousand Years Ice Cave does the opposite. Deep down, the temperature gets colder and the ice becomes thicker. This is a rare "negative geothermal phenomenon." Some experts believe that there are huge underground glaciers hidden deep in the ice caves, which objectively cause refrigeration.

In 2001, another ice cave opening was discovered in Shenchi County on the back side of the ice cave, which may have played a certain role in the ventilation and heat dissipation of the ice cave. As the saying goes: It's not that enemies don't get together, just an ice cave makes people sigh that "the world is so big, there are all kinds of wonders". But who would have thought that nature would actually play a huge joke on humans: another "thousand-year volcano" was "moved" on the hillside 500 meters away from the Ten Thousand Years Ice Cave - a dark and cold winter , a black hole that breathes smoke. It is also a cave. The north side of the mountain is covered with ice and snow bones for thousands of years, and the air is freezing; the south side of the mountain is covered with thousands of years of steaming heat and smoky fire. Since ancient times, water and fire have been incompatible. This pair of enemies seem to be at odds with each other, but in fact they are "in the same room (mountain)" and "ice and fire are incompatible". It is really a strange and strange natural wonder and an inexplicable mystery. Therefore, the local people gave this mountain an vivid name, "Contradiction Mountain". In short, as the first of the "Five Mysteries of Luya Mountain", the Wannian Ice Cave is still confusing and mysterious. If you are interested, we all might as well make our own interpretations of the eternal mystery. Maybe your inference is correct!

The scenery inside the ice cave

When entering the ice cave in midsummer, everyone should also wear more clothes, line up to follow the tour guide into the ice cave, drill the ice tunnel, hold the ice railing (pole), and step on the ice ladder , pass the ice stack and walk on the ice to get a panoramic view of the ice caves on each level.

This is the first level of the ice cave. The shape of the ice on the surface of the cave roof and walls is like snow and silver flowers. There is a square opening at the top of the center of the cave. A stream of water seeps out of it and drips down. When it is cold, it turns into ice. Over the years, the water drips and freezes, forming a huge icicle that faces up and down, hanging up and down. The icicles are 6 meters high and 5 meters in circumference. They are very spectacular. There is a winding ice channel on the lower ice body of the cave, which is unfathomable.

Go to the second level of the ice cave. It can be called a world of ice. The walls of the cave are hung in strings, sparkling; the roof of the cave is covered with solid ice and densely hung with ice and milk; the icicles in the cave seem to be unconnected. There is a pool in the middle of the cave, with thin ice on top and a puddle below. Around the puddle, ice picks, ice cream, and ice tips stand as tall as bamboo shoots, crystal clear.

Go to the third floor of the ice cave, where you will find the most spectacular sight in the ten thousand year ice cave - the Jade Waterfall. The huge icefall, 30 meters high, 15 meters wide and 3 meters thick, pours down from the roof of the hall. Icicles, ice curtains, ice hangings, ice bells, etc. are formed on the ice waterfall and on the surrounding cave walls. Ice buds, ice flowers, ice flags, ice peaks, ice men, ice Buddhas, ice beasts, ice birds, ice bamboo shoots, ice beds, ice towers, ice milk, ice picks, and ice tips. . . . . . . They are in various forms, crystal clear, with different shapes, beautiful and graceful, which is dizzying and has a unique charm. Its unique shape is comparable to the stalactites in karst caves.

This is a group of underground ice waterfalls that are rare in the world. The main waterfall "flows straight down into the cave, suspected to be the Milky Way falling from the sky." It seems that Sun Wukong used the immobilization method to freeze him for an instant, making people suspicious that he has entered the crystal palace of the Dragon King of the East China Sea, and also seems to have broken into the Guanghan Fairyland of Fairy Chang'e. There are two huge icicles here, with the top covered by the ice roof and the bottom touching the ice ground, just like the Gate of Heaven. There are holes within caves, and halls behind halls. Drill through the narrow ice path from the ice hall, and enter another suspended ice hall that looks like it is hanging on the second floor of the theater. Up, down, left, and right in the hall is a world of pure crystal ice and snow.

The ice layers on the roof of the cave are of different colors and thicknesses, stacked in layers like sedimentary rocks. These ice layers have extremely high scientific research value, because they are frozen in layers of ice and snow for millions of years; they are the deposition of a large amount of information about the changes in the atmosphere, climate, species, and the birth and evolution of human beings over millions of years. The secrets are all hidden inside, and all of them have never been modified due to human destruction. The oxygen isotopes contained in the ice record the annual temperature of the earth; the dust layer in the ice shows the prehistoric volcanic activity; the bubbles in the ice reveal the composition of the atmosphere thousands of years ago; and the ice itself The water contained provides people with the elemental content of the earth in nature at different times.

In the fourth and fifth layers of the ice cave, there are both "old ice" formed millions of years ago, "child ice" hundreds of thousands of years ago, and ice formed tens of thousands of years ago. "Sun Bing", and "Sun Bing" formed over nearly ten thousand years. The bottom area of ??the ice cave is 110 square meters. According to the investigation by glacial geology and cave experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, underneath the ice cave. There may also be larger, more spectacular ice or water caves.