Jiugong Mountain self-driving tour guide

After passing the archway at the foot of Jiugong Mountain, you must first go to the visitor center to buy a paper ticket. Only with the paper ticket will you be allowed to drive up the mountain.

Jiugong Mountain - a national scenic spot, a national nature reserve, a national 4A tourist attraction, and a national geological park, is located in Tongshan County, Xianning City, southeastern Hubei Province, straddling the border of Hubei and Jiangxi. In the middle section of the Mufu Mountains, Jiugong Mountain has a total area of ??196 square kilometers. It is a cave structure composed of granite and metamorphic rocks, and is a glacial landform of fault mountain terrain.

The highest peak in the entire Mufu Mountains is Laoyajian in Jiugong Mountain, also called Laoyajian. It is 1,657 meters above sea level and is one of the highest peaks in central and southern my country. Jiugong Mountain has a forest coverage rate of 96.6% and is one of the most negative oxygen peaks in China. A natural oxygen bar with the highest ion content, 62,000 acres of forest emit more than 30 million tons of water vapor into the air every year, making Jiugong Mountain full of fountains and waterfalls, with endless flow in all seasons.

Scenic Area Introduction

Jiugong Mountain Scenic Area is located in Tongshan County in the southeast of Hubei Province, in the middle section of the Mufu Mountains on the border of Hubei and Jiangxi, and at the junction of Hubei and Jiangxi provinces. It is 57 kilometers away from Tongshan County, 94 kilometers away from Xianning, 178 kilometers away from Wuhan, 220 kilometers away from Nanchang, and 380 kilometers away from Changsha. It is located at 114°39′ east longitude and 29°23′ north latitude. It is on the same axis as Mount Huangshan, Mount Lushan and Mount Emei. It is also on the three tourist routes of “Three Kingdoms Tourist Route”, “Three Gorges Tourist Route” and “Wuhan-Yueyang-Jiujiang”. central location.

The Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Daguang Expressway, and Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway all run through Xianning, and National Highway 106 passes directly through the foot of Jiugong Mountain. According to the "Taiping Yulan" record, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties in 569 AD, Nanchen Chen Bogong, the second son of Emperor Chen Wen, once led nine brothers to build nine palaces on the mountain to avoid war, namely Hunyuan Palace, Bagua Palace, Qinglong Palace, White Tiger Palace, Doumu Palace, Wuwei Palace and Sanqing Palace. , Qizhen Palace and Yihua Palace, so later generations called it Jiugong Mountain. Another saying is that Jiugong Mountain’s four peaks and five ridges are the number of nine palaces.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia - Jiugong Mountain