Introduction to alpine meadow in Dongpinggou

Dongpinggou Alpine Meadow is a very important place in Qinling Mountains, where you can feel the rich flavor of natural life. It is also the place where Chinese ancient culture is the most persistent and highly integrated, which makes tourists feel uneasy, but they are happy to sigh. Here are specific strategies and guides for everyone.

The Great Qinling Mountains are about 9 kilometers long from east to west and more than 3 kilometers wide from north to south. China's national central park, Qinling Mountains, is well-deserved. I like hiking and photography, and I spend a lot of time hiking in Qinling with my friends every year.

Among the many routes in the Qinling Mountains, the author likes the alpine meadow near the watershed in his hometown.

In the Qinling area, there are many places with alpine meadows, and the Qinling girders above 22 are basically covered with vast meadows. The alpine meadow usually refers to the bamboo forest in the middle Qinling Mountains.

Qinling Alpine Meadow Scenery

It is said to be Qinling Alpine Meadow. In fact, the main vegetation is not grass, but a low bamboo forest of arrow bamboo. Many friends may ask, isn't arrow bamboo the food of giant pandas? Yes, it's true. The Qinling area is also one of the main gathering places for giant pandas. However, because the northern slope of Qinling is close to the city, there are almost no traces of giant pandas. The giant pandas in Qinling are mainly distributed in Foping County of Hanzhong City and ningshan county of Ankang City on the southern slope.

Alpine meadow, also known as ten thousand mu meadow, is located in Jiwozi in Fengyu, Chang 'an District, Xi 'an, near the Qinling watershed. It is about 7 kilometers away from the downtown area of Xi 'an. Driving from the downtown area, you have been going into the mountains along the 21 National Highway Xiwan Highway. The mountains are steep and varied along the way. The cliffs point to the sky and the mountains are endless. Drive to the Qinling watershed and you can go hiking in the big meadow.

Now there are three or four routes to the alpine meadow. The first one is from the viewing pavilion opposite the watershed, and you can reach it all the way up the mountain and over the girders and two big passes. The second route is from Dongping ditch, which is a relatively simple route. The distance is not too long, the distance is short, and it is not very difficult to walk. There is a very urgent climbing section near the top. The third one is from the mountain behind Jiwozi Village, which is slightly more difficult than Dongpinggou. The fourth route is to enter the mountain from Dongfogou. This route is not difficult to walk, but it takes a detour and more walking distance.

if you are a first-time donkey friend, it is recommended to go up and down Dongping ditch, which is relatively simple. If you are an experienced donkey, choose any two of the watershed, Jiwozi, Dongpinggou and Dongfogou to cross the line.

To reach the top of the meadow, the Yangtze River valley in the south and the Yellow River valley in the north. In early summer, the meadow is covered with large grass, standing at the top, endless. There are also some rhododendrons in full bloom, and you can feel the vast Qinling Mountains at the top. The whole journey is about 4 miles on foot, but the journey is hard, and the intensity is relatively high when it is about to reach the top of the mountain. The highest altitude is 255 meters.

Alpine meadow is a part of Niubeiliang Nature Reserve, with different scenery in four seasons. In winter and spring, you can walk on the meadow to see the ice hanging, in summer, you can enjoy the most beautiful alpine rhododendron in Qinling Mountains, and in autumn, you can see the red leaves and yellow leaves.

Especially at the turn of spring and summer, red, white and yellow mountain rhododendrons all over the mountains draw a beautiful dividing line for the Qinling Mountains.

The snow scene in alpine meadow in winter is a must. When the winter comes, the snow is blanket-like and beautiful.

Maybe it's because I've stayed in a noisy city for a long time. I'm always looking for a beautiful and deserted place to relax and purify myself. Not long ago, I went to Qinling Mountain Meadow with a few friends to explore the infinite natural scenery of the beautiful Qinling Mountains.

The Qinling Mountains hides the prairie

This wonderful place that people dream of is called "Dongpinggou" by local people. On that day, because it turned cloudy to cloudy, the top of Dongpinggou at an altitude of 1,8 meters was always covered with clouds and fog, making it difficult for us to see its "true face".

However, it is precisely because of the gloomy weather that we can fully spread our imagination wings and sketch the footprints of Shan Ye in our childhood. The ancient blue sky and the tourist virgin land that is still attractive and needs to be developed urgently are even more a "beautiful family" hidden in the deep mountains-Dongpinggou. For a long time, Dongpinggou is a natural base for teachers and students of Northwest A&F University and primary and secondary schools to carry out nature and popular science education, and it is also the best place for people in mountainous areas to collect Chinese herbal medicines.

In midsummer, the highest temperature here does not exceed 25 degrees, so it is a summer resort.

the mountain road of Qinling Mountain Meadow

Walking slowly into the ditch from the artificially opened narrow path, we were awed by the mysterious, quiet, damp and mossy virgin forest in front of us. The scene we came into view was like "Walking along the edge of the stream, looking at the distance of the road, suddenly meeting the peach blossom forest, sandwiching the shore for hundreds of steps, with no miscellaneous trees in it, and falling into the English colorful" in Tao Yuanming's famous book Peach Blossom Garden in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The stream leading to the alpine meadow

meanders along a stream, and there are spruce, fir, hemlock and yew in the dense forests on both sides. Looking up, it is tall and straight, arranged in an orderly way, covering the sky. There are more than 2 kinds of primitive plant belts and plant communities in the ditch, and there is a natural plant belt almost every kilometer. The landscape is really intoxicating. There are also medicinal plants such as Gastrodia elata, Angelica sinensis, Acorus calamus, Fritillaria, Poria cocos, Polyporus, Pinellia ternata in the three-dimensional climate forest. Walking in the mountains, I met several local herbalists from time to time, and I was very busy. According to them, there are wild animals such as golden pheasant, forest musk deer, blood pheasant and bear living in Dongping ditch. And the lilies, azaleas, peony flowers, sour apples and other exotic flowers and trees are numerous and countless, which makes people dizzying!

Qinling Meadow

Qinling Meadow

Climbing up the mountain, azaleas are more abundant. Careful observation shows that the buds to be blossomed are small red, like the rosy and tender faces of children; Blooming flowers wear dark lace, such as a naughty girl's skirt; Flowers in full bloom are pink or white, such as a girl of eighteen or nineteen, elegant and full of vitality, showing charm, seduction and color to the fullest?

The rugged lines of the Qinling Mountains and the ups and downs of the mountains extend all the way to the ethereal heaven, and together with the surging sky, a magnificent picture is drawn. The meadow curved surface with golden tone winds gently from the foot to the opposite hillside, and the touch between the blue sky and the dark mountain expands the spatial level of the picture at once.

A patch of Fargesia lanceolata half a person's height and a patch of grass 2 to 3 centimeters high on the Qinling meadow have not recovered in the yellow, and there are some low shrub rhododendron forests in between, which are different from the tall rhododendron trees in the mid-mountain, and are dotted with striking colors in golden yellow.

Walking on the meadow in the Qinling Mountains, losing the forest that hides us is like suddenly getting rid of the bondage, and being free to fly to another world with a vast sky and a vast cloud, bathing in the wind and singing Li Taibai's poem: "I would like to take the wind and go straight out of the clouds. Raising your hand can be close to the moon, and there is no mountain ahead. " Lying on your back freely on the thick grass, soft and warm, all fatigue is emitted to nine days away, and your body seems to have the ability of Antai in Greek mythology, drawing endless energy from Mother Earth for rebirth.

It's certainly impossible to try to save this 36-degree picture with a camera, for fear of complaining that the depth of field of the camera is not deep enough, that the excitement in people's brains can't be restored, and that the uncertain magnificent scenery can't be photographed.

In theory, beauty can be classified into two categories: graceful and sublime, but standing on the Qinling meadow is a perfect combination of the two kinds of beauty, which is both gentle and harmonious and magnificent. In the opposition between man and nature, there are both small sighs and strong spiritual strength, which gives birth to great heroism after conquering mountains and sublimates today's crossing to the peak.

I talked to two villagers who were carrying Mizukamiyama. They said that in July and August, the meadow would wear green clothes, and then it was a different look. Or after a thick winter snow, the heaven and the earth are pure, like the fairy world. It's true that the scenery at four seasons is different, and it's fascinating just to think about it.

there is no way for mountains and heavy waters to return to doubt, and there is another village with a bright future. When we walked into the depth of the ditch for more than 2 hours, the scenery in front of us became suddenly open, and what caught our eye was a green lawn with thousands of square meters, like a carpet, more like an airport. There are strange flowers and grasses growing everywhere in the lawn. In the grass, whether sitting, leaning back or sleeping, all actions are in the mood. People are in this lawn, feeling happy and unrestrained.

We are in the grass, or running, or frolicking, or playing hide-and-seek. Tired from running, and sleepy from playing, we lie on the lawn, looking at the boundless "sky", deeply impressed by the wonders of nature, and created such a magical place for us.

In this lawn "close to the sky", strange peaks and rocks can be seen everywhere. Looking up at the flowers and plants around the sky, people feel strangely quiet and wonderful. Who knows how comfortable it is to pull a garlic and a small flower in the lawn and climb the strange peak?

this kind of artistic conception seems to be in a "paradise". If you stroll through it, you will only be in a dream! Being in the lawn, we seem to gallop on the grassland, more like marching in the lonely smoke of the desert, but who knows that this lawn is in a deep ravine?

the Qinling mountains hide the prairie! Why can this situation be "isolated" and not known to outsiders? Flowers bloom and fall, life is geometric, fortunately, there is always a time when flowers bloom, fortunately, the most beautiful time, we are together!

there are four seasons in one mountain, and different days in ten miles. There was a burst of thunder in the sky, like seeing us off and looking back at Yunda on the top of the mountain. The layer gradually thickened and turned black, and the rain could be smelled in the air, so we accelerated the speed of going down the mountain.

Finally, a few raindrops fell behind us. According to the walkie-talkie contact of the patrol personnel at the foot of the mountain, there was hail on the top of the mountain after we left. On the way back, we talked about it. It is estimated that there may be many scenic spots like Dongpinggou in the depths of the Qinling Mountains, but people have not found them. We are more glad that we have arrived at a "Xanadu" besides lamenting the magic of nature, which has cultivated our sentiment and made us happy. But we are also worried that once the number of tourists increases and the environment is polluted and destroyed, this "Xanadu" will no longer exist.

Author: Lu Jianli