When is the best time to play in Jinfo Mountain?

The best time for Jinfo Mountain: all the year round.

Jinfo Mountain, located in Nanchuan City, south of Chongqing, belongs to Dalou Mountain, also known as Jinshan Mountain, and was called Jiudishan in ancient times. It consists of 108 peaks of Jinfo Mountain, Qingba Mountain and Baishishan Mountain. The total area is 1300 km2, the planned area of scenic spots is 44 1 km2, and the protected area is 522 km2. The main peak, the wind-blown ridge, is 225 1 m above sea level, which is the highest peak of the Dalou mountain range. Jinfo Mountain, like a tall dragon head, stands at the northern end of this mountain system. Jinfo Mountain is known as one of the four famous mountains in central Sichuan. Golden Buddha and Cui Wei, the fog is the best portrayal. Whenever the sun is shining in summer and autumn, the setting sun reflects the layers of cliffs with golden walls. Such as a golden Buddha, shining with thousands of rays of sunshine, spectacular and beautiful, hence the name Jinfo Mountain.

Jinfo Mountain is a typical karst geological landform. Due to the special geographical location and climatic conditions, the invasion of ancient Quaternary glaciers was buffered. It has completely maintained the primitive natural ecology of ancient times and different geological ages, and integrates mountains, water, rocks, forests, springs and caves. It is a natural scenic spot with great development value recognized by experts at home and abroad. It is known as one of the national key scenic spots and national forest parks because of its unique natural features, a wide variety of rare animals and plants, strange rock formations, mysterious caves and palaces, unpredictable meteorological landscapes and precious cultural relics.

Jinfo Mountain natural landscape

Jinfo Mountain is majestic and beautiful with beautiful scenery. There are dozens of peaks and valleys, and more than 100 steep peaks stand tall. Shizikou, Hazelnut Mountain, Thumb Mountain, Monkey Mountain and Luxiang Mountain are exquisite and lifelike. Deep valleys and canyons such as Qiaoheba, Longguxi, Badushui, Lianghekou and Dayakou are surrounded by dangers. There are also towering Eagle Mouth Rock, Zhuanzhuan Rock, Chuanbi Rock, Thousand Buddha Rock and Guanyin Rock. There are also natural caves in Jinfo Mountain, dotted with lifelike stone forests, stalagmites, flying stones, golden rooster stones and Buddha's head stones. The ancient Buddha cave, located on the navel of the reclining Buddha in the fuselage, is the most famous, large and deep, with mountains and rivers and dams in it. There are holes in the cave and layers are staggered. There are upside-down stalactites and grotesque smoke caves, Dabao caves and black wind tunnels; There is also the fairy cave left by the legendary Seven Fairy Dam; There is also a deep and steep golden Buddha cave, which goes straight down to thousands of feet; There are also Laolong Cave, Mingfo Cave and Taoyuan Cave, all of which were in the 11th year of Jiaqing. Literati Zhou wrote in "Sacrificing the Golden Buddha Mountain": There are strange dragon palaces, fairy halls, wood and stone feathers, and the spirit of snowstorms and thunderstorms, but the only danger is that people often can't come here.

Meteorology and Water Landscape of Jinfo Mountain

Jinfo Mountain has beautiful scenery and pleasant climate, which belongs to subtropical humid monsoon climate. It is characterized by short winter, long summer in early spring, the same season of rain and heat, and obvious vertical climate change. In hot summer, the average annual temperature in Nanchuan is 26. C or so, Chongqing is 28. C, while Jinfo Mountain only has 17. C. The annual average rainfall is 1400 mm, and the rainfall is mainly concentrated in summer. There are 26 first frost days and 260 foggy days throughout the year. The relative humidity is 90% per year. Snowfall usually lasts from mid-June 1 1 to March of the following year. Due to the special climatic conditions, sometimes the clouds go and come suddenly, the sea of clouds rolls, and sometimes the rain clears. Clouds, rain, clouds, fog, snow and wind have formed a unique and beautiful meteorological landscape, which is colorful, such as the golden Buddha sunset glow, white mist and smoke, cypress red rain, Jinshan residual snow, Jinshan sea of clouds and dragon maiden pearl throwing, which has formed many beautiful water landscapes and is famous for its constant water quantity all the year round. Like a galaxy falling for nine days, like a ribbon competing to shine. Beautiful mountains and rivers and streams; Small bridge flowing water, beautiful image shining. There are three famous springs, cold, warm and hot, which appear on the same water body section.

Animal resources in Jinfo Mountain

Abundant plant resources have nurtured 150 species of wild animals and 1 13 subspecies. Among them, there are 37 rare animals, accounting for 67.2% of the 55 protected animals in Sichuan Province and 22% of the total number of protected animals in China. National first-class protected animals 10 species, including leopard, South China tiger, tortoise leopard, red-bellied pheasant, langur and so on. There are 1 1 species of macaques, pangolins, crested deer, forest musk deer and black bears under second-class protection; There are civet cats, suzaku, sunbird, golden thrush, flying squirrel with orange feet, south fox, etc. 15 species. Jinfo Mountain, with its ancient and primitive geology, natural resources and warm climate conditions, has created and multiplied countless precious creatures, and is a treasure house of various rare and concentrated creatures. Because of the great difference in topography, the plant community is distributed vertically, and subtropical coniferous forest, coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest, deciduous broad-leaved forest, virgin forest, bamboo forest, shrub and meadow have their own characteristics; Rare plants are distributed regionally, forming a well-defined landscape of rare and rare plant communities. There are 6.5438+10,000 mu of Phyllostachys pubescens and various shrubs under the tall arbor forest, and ferns and mosses can be seen everywhere. In late spring and early summer, a hundred flowers blossom and compete for beauty.

At present, there are more than 5,000 species of plant resources verified by relevant experts, including more than 250 ancient plants, 36 endemic plants/kloc-0, 82 rare and endangered plants and 52 rare plants. Four of them are listed as national first-class protection, 18 as second-class protection, and more than 30 as third-class protection. Cryptomeria fortunei, Phyllostachys praecox, tea, Rhododendron King and ancient Ginkgo biloba are collectively called the five wonders of Jinshan. Cryptomeria fortunei is a giant panda that survived the Quaternary glacier attack. It is unique to China and extremely precious. Bamboo shoots are thick, crisp and tender. They are delicious dishes with meals and are exported overseas. More than 2,000 ancient tea trees have proved that China Bashu is the origin of tea in the world. The Aric of Rhododendron is12m, and its bust is nearly 4m. The three embrace each other, making it a veritable azalea king in the world. There are 33 species and more than 300,000 shrubs and trees in Jinfo Mountain. The ancient ginkgo biloba is 26 meters high and its bust is 1 1.6 meters. It is old, and the locals call it the goddess of ginkgo. Davidia involucrata, Cephalotaxus fortunei and Cordyceps sinensis are called the three treasures of Jinshan. Ginseng, bamboo rice and Tianzhu Huang are the three essences of Jinshan.

Other resources of Jinfo Mountain

Jinfo Mountain is not only rich in tourism resources, but also rich in Chinese herbal medicine plant resources, bamboo and wood resources, mineral resources and so on. Jinfo Mountain is rich in cash crops such as tea, flue-cured tobacco, konjac and out-of-season vegetables. Among these 5,099 plants, 4 180 plants are Chinese medicinal plants, and the ones that have been planted on a large scale are Cortex Phellodendri, Rhizoma Coptidis, Rhizoma Gastrodiae, Cortex Eucommiae, Radix Aucklandiae and Galla Chinensis. Jinfo Mountain has an annual output of 20,000 cubic meters of wood and 7,000 tons of bamboo chips. 6.5438+0.5 million mu of Phyllostachys pubescens can provide more than 5,000 tons of green food in China every year. Jinfo Mountain is rich in mineral resources, with bauxite reserves of more than 50 million tons, ranking first in Chongqing. Its high grade and excellent quality are also rare in China. Due to the special topographical structure, Jinfo Mountain is also rich in water conservancy and hydropower resources. The average runoff of groundwater is 220 million cubic meters per year, and the average runoff of surface water is 973 million cubic meters per year. It is one of the important sources of Wujiang River system and Qijiang River system, with large water level drop and strong hydropower generation capacity.