What's interesting about Weining?

The average elevation of Weining Yi, Hui and Miao Autonomous County is 2,200 meters. Wumeng Mountain winds its way from Yunnan to China, forming a magnificent momentum. Emperor's Slope, the main peak, is 2 879 meters above sea level and is called "the roof of Guizhou". On the plateau, the peaks are prominent and magnificent, and the rivers are rushing. Wujiang River, the largest river in Guizhou, originated here. The central part of the county is an open and gentle plateau, surrounded by vast hilly areas, with a flat dam in the middle, which is a plateau granary and an alpine pasture. Just near Weining County, there is a Caohai known as the "Pearl of the Plateau". This is a national nature reserve, and the main protection objects are the ecological environment of plateau wetlands and birds, especially black-necked cranes.

Speaking of Caohai, you may be surprised. Why is there "sea" on the plateau? It turned out that this was influenced by the Mongols, who called this lake "Haizi". Caohai is named for its abundant aquatic plants. The lake here is as clear as a mirror, and you can clearly see the shaking of every aquatic plant under the water. This is an underwater botanical garden. There are more than 90 genera and species of phytoplankton, including chlorophyta, diatom, cyanophyta, cryptophyta and xanthophyta. There are 37 species of aquatic higher plants. Sedge covered the bottom of the lake with a carpet as soft as green velvet, and seaweed had small white flowers. Pucao: Looking up at the blue sky from the middle of the water, shepherd's purse blooms with yellow flowers, which makes a transparent "underwater garden" and "green land in the lake". More than a hundred years ago, there was no "sea" here, only rich grasslands. A hole flows through the grass and suddenly disappears into a funnel-shaped "sinkhole" and dives into the ground. During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, mountain torrents broke out, and the torrent was mixed with many mud stones, which blocked the sinkhole. So there was a lot of water here, which accumulated bigger and wider, forming the lake. Caohai covers an area of 27.5 square kilometers, surrounded by nature reserves, with a core area of 40 square kilometers dominated by water and marshes and a slope area of 45 square kilometers around the sea.

Caohai is indeed a "pearl of the plateau" with unique scenery, a clear water, a green hill, a wild field and a touch of light clouds. Spring has come to Caohai, which seems to be a long arrival. It was only in February and March that last year's hay turned green, struggling to spit out new buds, reminiscent of the poem "No flowers in February Spring City". In the short summer, the mountain flowers are blooming, and clusters of red azaleas are blooming in Shan Ye, which makes the scenery particularly charming. The grass sea in July is not hot, and the weather is like a little doll's face. When it changed, a dark cloud suddenly floated in the cloudless sky of Wan Li, and suddenly it turned into a downpour. After a storm comes a calm, just like after a bath, I feel particularly relaxed and comfortable. Sitting on the boat, sometimes swimming in the rain, and sometimes sunbathing. The clothes that just got wet soon dried in the sun, and the clothes that didn't dry long suddenly rained. The boat shuttled through the lake, and a burst of fishing songs floated in, as if it were a journey in painting, and a faint ink landscape painting emerged in front of me. In autumn, the blooming adopted flowers become patches, like a crimson light cloud floating on the vilen, with a hazy aesthetic feeling. The slender, bright red buckwheat stalk swings with the wind, but it is not broken by the strong wind, showing the strength and exuberance of life on the plateau. After winter, many other cold places have become "no birds in the mountains", but Weining Caohai, known as the "alpine region" in Guizhou, is the place where migratory birds spend the winter and the best season for bird watching.

Some people say that Caohai is "the world of grass, the kingdom of fish and the paradise of birds", which makes sense. Speaking of birds in the grass sea, it is hard to see them in other places. In terms of bird species, * * * has 1 14 species, accounting for about a quarter of the birds in the province. Some of these birds stay in Caohai for a long time, which is called resident birds. Have a plenty of winter to summer or summer to winter, called migratory birds; Others are just passers-by on the journey, called travelers. According to statistics, there are 44 species of winter migratory birds, 2 species of summer migratory birds, 55 species of resident birds and 0/0 species of tourist birds in Caohai. 198 1 year, China and Japan signed an agreement to protect migratory birds, and 40 species of birds in Caohai were specially protected. There are 15 species of cranes in the world today, of which 9 species are in China and 3 species are in Caohai. They are black-necked cranes, white-headed cranes and gray cranes. Other protected birds are heron, upturned-nosed duck, striped duck, duckling, red-headed diving duck and white-tailed wren. There are tens of thousands of geese and ducks in waters and swamps, and some new species have been found in Caohai.

Black-necked crane is an extremely precious bird species in the world. There are only more than 500 in Asia, which is called "the pride of the plateau". Black-necked crane has a special mark, which is androgynous, except for a dark red spot on its head, a third of its neck is black, and the back of its eyes is decorated with a gray patch, while its wings and the rest of its feathers are still white. This kind of bird lives in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and adapts to the extremely cold climate. But in the late June of 65438+ 10 every year, they form a "one" and a "human" in droves and fly to Caohai for the winter, and then return to the earth in the following spring and fly back to their hometown. Caohai is a permanent "villa" for black-necked cranes. They are not far from Wan Li. What is the reason? This is because Caohai has a great temptation to it. This temptation comes from this plateau wetland, from a large number of aquatic plants and aquatic animals in the grass sea. The water quality here is good, the light transmittance is strong, and the bottom silt layer is thick. There are not only abundant aquatic plants, but also a variety of plankton, benthos and fish and shrimp. More than 0/00 species of plankton/kloc-,52 species of benthos, 0/7 species of mosquitoes/kloc-,9 species of fish, and 0/9 species of amphibians/kloc-are all necessary food for black-necked cranes to survive the winter. Therefore, when the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is frozen for thousands of miles, they will instinctively fly to Caohai for the winter and will never forget this beautiful pearl of the plateau.

When you come to Weining, you can enjoy Wumeng flower rhyme, highland pastoral, and endless forests. You can explore the remains left by Emperor Wen Jian of the Ming Dynasty, watch the ancient Yi drama, participate in the Yi Torch Festival and the Miao Huashan Festival, and taste Weining ham, Caohai fish and shrimp, buckwheat food and potato series food.