How is Wulingyuan?

Wulingyuan is a famous scenic spot in Zhangjiajie Forest Park.

Wulingyuan is a scenic spot in the northwest of Hunan. Different from other famous mountains and rivers, those famous wuyue, Huangshan and Guilin have been famous for thousands of years, while Wulingyuan was not known until the 1970s. Wu Guanzhong, a great painter, came here by accident and was fascinated by the landscape here. He couldn't help sighing that "pearls stay in the mountains".

Since the 1980s, Wulingyuan has finally become famous for its tourism development and its location in the middle of Wuling Mountain range.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, Wulingyuan was still a sea in Wang Yang. Nature kept moving and carving, which changed the landform of Wulingyuan sandstone peak forest canyon today. There are strange flowers and plants everywhere; Pine and cypress cover the sky; Strange peaks and rocks are abrupt; The stream surrounds the cloud valley, and the cliff is filled with smoke. Wulingyuan's natural value and rich primitive wildness conquered people, and it even left many old-fashioned famous mountains and rivers, and quickly became one of the world's natural heritages.

Wulingyuan consists of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Suoxiyu Nature Reserve and Nature Reserve. It is generally believed that Wulingyuan has "five wonders": strange peaks, strange rocks, valleys, beautiful waters and caves.

Wulingyuan's unique seasonal sandstone peak forest is rare at home and abroad, making it an extraordinary scenic spot. In an area of more than 360 square kilometers, according to aerial survey, there are more than 3000 peaks, 1000 more than 400 meters vertical. Unlike other places, the peak stones here are tall and dense. Those rock walls and peaks that suddenly come into view, such as silks like bamboo shoots, spears like fans like roots, are endless, giving people a magnificent momentum and grand landscape.

There are more than 80 observation platforms in Tian Zi and Zhangjiajie, where you can watch. The names of many peak stones range from Shentang Bay and West Sea Scroll to Goddess Offering Flowers, Qu Zi Ling Xing and Luohan Peak, while the nameless peak is unique, just like an article, which also makes people have a wild imagination.

Whenever the rain clears or the rainy weather continues, the faint valley produces clouds and clouds, and the mountains are surrounded by clouds. The sea of clouds is thick and light, the stone peaks are hidden and present, and the scene changes. On sunny days, fog makes hard peaks charming, elegant and mysterious. The best season to watch fog is summer. Tian Zi is the best place to watch fog, and it is also the place where photographers often set foot.

Wulingyuan water turns around the mountain. It is said that there are "800 beautiful waters" in Zhangjiajie alone, and many waterfalls, springs, streams, ponds and lakes are wonderful. Water makes mountains more alive. Jin Bianxi is a long river more than ten kilometers long. You can walk along the stream from Zhangjiajie to Suoxiyu. Slowly flows through Zhicaotan, Tiaoyutan, Nanmuping and Tianzizhou, and finally flows into Lishui from Suoxiyu.

The canyons on both sides of the strait confront each other, and the red rocks and green trees reflect the streams. Walking on the path by the stream is refreshing, stepping on the stone steps of the wooden bridge, watching the grouper playing in the deep pool and listening to the cuckoo's voice echoing in the valley. Perhaps there will be such an encounter suddenly: a pheasant with its own water sac and gorgeous water storage feathers is drinking water by the stream.

There are countless caves here, which are numerous and large in scale. The famous ones are Huanglong Cave, Guanyin Cave, Xiangshui Cave, Qiuci Cave, Feiyun Cave and Luojin Cave. The Huanglong Cave in Suoxiyu is seven and a half kilometers long. The cave is divided into four floors, including a reservoir, two rivers, three waterfalls, four pools, thirteen halls and ninety-six corridors. "Ice Bell", "Bamboo Lining Road" and "Dragon Palace Dance" are the essence of Huanglong Cave.

Wulingyuan is full of mountains and plains, and there are dense forests everywhere. The forests that have grown here for thousands of years have never been cut down, and the forest coverage rate is as high as 97.9%. Even a lonely stone peak stands a few pine trees. Large areas of primitive secondary forests cover the sky, and ancient plants such as Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Ginkgo biloba, Davidia involucrata and lobster flower, which are called living fossils, also abound. Walking in the dense forest, you may inadvertently encounter the leaves of some rare plants.

Pheasant, pangolin, monkey-faced eagle, red-billed lovebirds, macaques, flying tigers, giant salamanders and other rare birds and animals often haunt the forest edge. In the early 1980s, when experts visited Wulingyuan, they lamented that it was both a "refuge" for animals and a "gene bank" for plants. Wulingyuan has a mild and rainy climate, no heat and cold, and the annual average temperature is around 15C_, which undoubtedly provides a good habitat for animals and plants.

It is the simple pastoral scenery that contrasts with the natural scenery. Wulingyuan is a settlement of Tujia, Bai and Miao ethnic minorities, with terraced fields, green mountains and green waters dotted among them, shady trees and smoke curling up. If you are lucky enough to catch up with local festivals, you can also enjoy folk songs and dances. Together with the mountains and dense forests of Wulingyuan, it constitutes a primitive and boundless picture scroll.