What are the famous caves in China worth visiting?

The cave is a natural landform environment. The special geological structure presents visitors with beautiful and fantasy visual effects, which will subversively change your thinking and open up a new understanding of nature for everyone. There are many karst caves in China. Which ones are worthy of exploration and play?

When talking about karst landforms, we have to think of karst caves. This is how karst landforms are described in geography. It refers to the landforms formed by the dissolution of soluble rocks (usually limestone) by water with dissolving power, including the surface and underground. It is also called karst landforms.

A cave is an underground space in karst landforms. Calcium carbonate in limestone is converted into soluble calcium bicarbonate under the long-term action of water and carbon dioxide.

The chemical formula is: CaCO3+H2O+CO2=Ca(HCO3)2.

Because each layer of limestone has different compositions and varying degrees of dissolution, various caves with steep and beautiful peaks and strange landscapes will gradually form. There are six major caves in our country that are the most famous. Whether it is as common geographical knowledge or as an interesting knowledge point for future travel, you can collect it if you like. Zhijin Cave

Zhijin Cave is located in Guanzhai Miao Township, Zhijin County, Guizhou Province, 120 kilometers away from Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province. It is located on the south bank of Liuchong River, one of the sources of Wujiang River, with an altitude of 1000 meters to 1700 meters. . Guizhou is originally a multi-karst landform. Because Guizhou is rich in limestone and suffers from heavy rainfall due to the subtropical monsoon climate, Guizhou's karst landform is relatively prominent in my country.

Zhijin Cave was discovered in 1980 and is now a national geological park, a national natural heritage, a national AAAA tourist attraction, and a world geopark. It is rated as the first among the "Six Most Beautiful Tourist Caves in China", the most beautiful tourist attraction in China - the first among the "Top Ten Wonderful Caves in China", and the "King of Chinese Caves". There is no world in the sky!" In 2015, it filled the gap of Guizhou not having a global geopark.

The geological formation is about 500,000 years old, and it has experienced the late Early Pleistocene to the middle and late Pliocene. Due to the complex and changeable geological structure, the cave has the characteristics of multi-pattern, multi-stage and multi-type development.

Zhijin Cave is large in scale, with various shapes and colors, which is a prominent feature of the Zhijin Cave landscape. The length of the cave is 12.1 kilometers, with a relative height difference of more than 150 meters. The widest span that has been surveyed is 175 meters. The general width and height are 60 to 100 meters. The total area is more than 700,000 square meters. The average height of the accumulation is about 40 meters. The highest It reaches 70 meters, covering more than 40 types of cave deposits around the world, presenting a vast atmosphere and infinite scenery.

It has high ornamental value and scientific research value, and is called "the world's first-class karst landscape" by the internationally renowned geomorphologist William. Huanglong Cave

Huanglong Cave, there are several places in China called this name. What we are talking about here is Huanglong Cave in Wulingyuan Scenic Area in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province. You must remember it, otherwise you will fail the exam and your travel tickets will be in vain. .

Zhangjiajie is a world geopark, and Huanglong Cave is an important part of it. It is listed as an international tourist cave member, one of the country’s 35 trump card attractions, and the first batch of AAAA tourist areas (spots) in China. In 2005, it was selected as "the most beautiful tourist cave in China".

Zhangjiajie Huanglong Cave is also known as Huanglong Spring. Legend has it that a hundred-day drought occurred during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The famous mage He Junru led his disciples into the cave to pray for rain. They all died. He Laosi left a sentence before his death. As the saying goes, "If you fight to the death, don't attack Huanglongquan." Since then, Huanglong Cave has been ignored. In early 1983, local villager Mao Jinchu organized nine militiamen. After going through many difficulties and dangers, they finally discovered the truth about the wonders of the caves in the world. Ground was broken for development in February 1984, and the Huanglong Cave Management Office was established in June of the same year and officially opened at the end of the year. Tenglong Cave

Tenglong Cave is a national AAAA-level scenic spot. It is located in Lichuan City, Hubei Province, 6 kilometers away from the urban area of ??Lichuan City, Hubei Province. The total area of ??the scenic spot is 69 square kilometers. It is the largest proven cave in China. Water, caves and forests are integrated into one, and it is famous both at home and abroad for its majesty, danger, strangeness, secludedness and beauty. It ranks seventh among the longest proven caves in the world and is a provincial-level scenic spot in Hubei Province.

In 1988, 25 Chinese and foreign cave experts conducted a 32-day field investigation and demonstrated that Tenglong Cave is currently the largest cave in China and one of the world’s top-grade caves. In 1989, the People's Government of Hubei Province approved it as a provincial-level scenic spot. It was rated as "the most beautiful place in China" and "the six most beautiful tourist caves in China - the shocking Tenglong Cave" by the national authoritative publication "China National Geography". It was also selected as one of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. One of the 30 best new tourist attractions.

There are more than 300 large and small branch caves. There are mountains in the caves, caves in the mountains, no mountains without caves, no caves without wonders. There is water in the caves, and the water caves are connected, forming a huge and majestic Cave landscape. Furong Cave

Furong Cave, located in Chongqing, one of the four municipalities directly under the Central Government, is known as one of the "three largest caves in the world". Furong Cave Scenic Area has been officially approved by the National Tourism Administration as a national AAAAA (5A) scenic spot Attraction area. It is also the only cave in the world that is listed as a World Natural Heritage Site.

The huge cave body and rich cave sediments of Furong Cave not only conquered cave experts from all over the world, but also attracted many tourists who came to visit.

The types of stalactites are remarkable, dazzling and colorful, including almost all deposition types of stalactites, such as stalactites, stalagmites, stone pillars, etc., Xueyu Cave

Xueyu Cave, located in Fengdu County, Chongqing City is the youngest cave among the caves developed in China, with extremely high ornamental and scientific research value. Because 80% of the stalactites in the cave are "as white as snow and as pure as jade", it is called the Snow Jade Cave.

Xueyu Cave is the best of the karst caves in the Longhe tourist area, and is also an emerging wonder on the golden line of Yangtze River tourism in the Three Gorges Reservoir area. Xueyu Cave is a rare white-as-snow cave in the world. "World"; Xueyu Cave is a rare fast-growing cave "young girl" in the world; it is in a period of rapid growth. The growth rate of cave sediment landscape is generally about one millimeter per 100 years, while Xueyu Cave has reached 100 33mm year. Benxi Water Cave

Benxi Water Cave is located in Benxi City, Liaoning Province. It is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction. It is the longest underground water-filled cave in the world discovered so far. An underground underground river of 3,000 meters is now developed, and the water flow does not flow all year round. Exhausted, crystal clear, in the Hot Spring Temple Scenic Area, the temperature of the spring water can reach 44°C, and has high medical value.

"There are thousands of stalactites and strange peaks, and there are boats on clear water among poems and paintings; bells and bells can only be found in the fairy world, and this is the only cave in the world."

The people in Guandong Mountain call the place where the mountains and rivers turn "Weizi". Xiejiaweizi, eight miles away from the east of Benxi County, is backed by vast green mountains and faces the Taizi River. It has towering peaks, winding clear streams, picturesque countryside and myriad scenes. Benxi Water Cave, which is like a fairyland on earth, is hidden in the heart of Xiejiaweizi Mountain.