What internal and external forces formed the Swan Cave?

Swan Cave Group: a scenic spot in Fujian Province. Swan Cave Group Scenic Area is characterized by karst wonders, including Swan Cave, Kamikaze Tunnel, Shiping Cave, Crystal Cave, Shan Jian Yixiantian and other six caves with different styles. It is the largest, largest and most densely distributed karst cave group in Fujian Province, and has been rated as a national geological park and a provincial key scenic spot. Because its mountain is shaped like a swan, the stalactites in the cave are as white as swans, hence the name.

Chinese name

Swan Cave Group

geographical position

Fujian Province

Scenic spot level

Provincial key scenic spots

famous scenic spot

Swan Cave and Shenfeng Tunnel

quick

navigate by water/air

Historical legends

Main attraction

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Development history

According to the research of geologists, about 300 million years ago, this place was the sea of Wang Yang. After more than 50 million years of crustal movement, it gradually rose from the ocean to the land. In the process of rising, many gaps are formed in limestone strata. For thousands of years, surface water has been eroded and dissolved with carbon dioxide and vegetable acid infiltrating into these cracks, which has expanded and deformed the cracks and formed many caves. At the same time, because of the dense forest and abundant water storage, the water droplets containing plant acids can continuously dissolve the limestone in the cave, so the stalactites in this cave group are particularly rich and perfect, and their distribution is also particularly dense. Therefore, experts and scholars call it "a typical karst landform area in coastal provinces of China".

Swan Cave Group Scenic Spot was listed as the second batch of provincial-level scenic spots by Fujian Provincial People's Government on 199 1, and was approved as the main park of National Geopark by Ministry of Land and Resources 1 in 2004. 1991-In 2004, * * * received 560,000 domestic and foreign tourists, and the tourist ticket income was1344,000 yuan. Since 1995, the annual growth rate of tourists in scenic spots and tourist ticket income has been 20% and 22% respectively. Especially since the ancestor worship ceremony of Shek Pik Hakka ancestral home was launched, more and more tourists from home and abroad have come here and become very attractive tourist attractions.

Historical legends

The scenic spot is located in Hucun Town, 28 kilometers east of Ninghua County. According to legend, in ancient times, seven fairies descended from the sky by a swan and came here to bathe and play in Jiaohu Lake. A young farmer put away their colorful clothes, and the fairies hid in shame at the bottom of the lake. Now it's time to go back to heaven, but the swans waiting on the shore didn't see fairies everywhere. In a hurry, they lay on the ground. When the fairies came out from the bottom of the lake, they saw that the swan had turned into a stone mountain, and a hole in the stone mountain floated with fairy dust. They filed into the cave and found that this abode of fairies and immortals was better than heaven, though it was not heaven, so they stayed in the cave to cultivate their self-cultivation. From a bird's eye view, Swan Mountain looks like a swan spreading its wings, and the seven caves in Swan Cave are said to be one for each fairy. Legend is beautiful, but the realistic cave landscape is more beautiful and spectacular.

Main attraction

The Swan Cave Group is named after its mountain is shaped like a swan, and the stalactites in the cave are as white as swan feathers. The scenic spot consists of nearly 100 caves with different styles, such as Swan Cave, Shenfeng Dragon Palace, Daciyan, Shiping Cave, Crystal Cave and Mountain Stream. The distribution area of caves is about 16 square kilometers, and the landscape in caves is colorful and unpredictable. According to experts such as researcher Wang Xunyi, the head of the cave group in China Institute of Karst Geology, the number, density and scale of its caves are the highest in Bamin Cave Group, and it is a rare cave group world in southeast China. Among caves, the underground river stone forest with caves is unique in China. It has been proved as a "unique underwater stone forest and fascinating geological wonders" by geological experts from China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering.

The total depth of Swan Cave is 5 Li. The cave is divided into upper, middle and lower floors, 7 halls, 49 big scenes, and countless small halls and small scenes. There are many stalactites and stalagmites in the cave. There are magnificent stone waterfalls pouring down from a height of 40 meters, exquisite and exquisite stone corals, steep peaks with towering stone pines, and Swan Lake with the reflection of Yushu ... It is unforgettable to be in it. Among these caves, the underground river stone forest landscape with caves is unique in China. Kamikaze tunnel, also known as Kamikaze Dragon Palace, is a karst cave landscape of underground river. There is a breeze at the mouth of the cave, hence the name. The cave is 5 Li deep, and there are three caves, an underground lake and an underground river. The three halls in the cave are magnificent, and the karst landscape shapes such as "King Kong guarding the door", "Dragon Patrol", "Yin Zhong Zhen Hu" and "Jigong Dream" are full of charm. The lake in the cave is as flat as a mirror, stepping on the Lotus Pier in the lake, and the karst reflection is clear and unique. The most distinctive tourist project in the cave is boating in thousands of square meters of underground river waters. Water is the reflection of karst, and the dense stalactites at the top of the cave are hung with crystal drops, which makes people feel like they are in the Dragon Palace under the sea, making it a must for the scenic spot.

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