Weather forecast of Chaling in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province

In October, when Jiangxi Wugong mountain fires spread all over the Internet, Geographer will visit our own Wugong Mountain in Hunan.

Coordinate southeast of Changsha, Wugong Mountain in Hunan is located in the arms of Chaling and Youxian County in eastern Hunan.

In Hunan, in the mouths and hearts of Chaling people and immortals, this mountain at the southern end of Wugong Mountain is not called Wugong Mountain, but they gave it another name, Tai and Xian.

When the name is changed, it is like a hermit, birds and animals, vegetation and mud. No matter how beautiful it is, it is not ostentatious. Year after year, the four seasons alternate, and time directs many joys and sorrows in the world outside the mountain, but still sticks to its silence. Perhaps, in its eyes, clouds are clouds and flowers are flowers, even if clouds and flowers are the most beautiful when they are in their arms.

Taihe Xian in Youxian County, Zhuzhou, the dog of the mountain ranger, Taihe Xian belongs to Youxian County, and Taihe Xian belongs to Chaling, with different pronunciations. Are all immortals on the same mountain. Figure/Ouyang Lin

Choose the cheapest route to see the strange scenery in Jiangxi.

From Changsha to Taihe County, the navigation software has made three plans. The one with the lowest toll and the shortest time is the Shanglian Expressway (from Shangli to Lianhua, Jiangxi), which has just been opened to traffic. Thanks to the regional cooperation between Hunan and Jiangxi in recent years, this shortcut is more convenient to enter and leave the border between the two provinces.

Geographers chose the scheme with the least charge, and transferred the expressway around the city to Changliu Expressway, then to Changzhou, Shanghai and Kunming, and then to Liannan and Quannan. Choosing this route not only costs less, but also can see the unique scenery in Jiangxi.

Facts have proved that this is a good choice. Anyuan, a place name that only appeared in textbooks or red stories before, really saw and passed by shortly after entering Shanglian Expressway.

Obviously, it bypassed Jiangxi and got out of Quannan Expressway under the light of Chaling Expressway, and the charge was less than 100. This feeling of bargain-hunting makes the originally cloudy sky clear.

It takes nearly 30 minutes to walk from the expressway to Wolong Village at the foot of Taihe County. In the nearby fields, the late rice that has not yet been harvested presents Mr. Geography with a familiar and cordial golden color. In the distance, Wugong Mountain, where Taihe County is located, outlines a soft and slender skyline.

When the road approaches Wolong Village, it gradually narrows. I don't know when the distant mountain is nearby. You have to look up to see the skyline. However, I am still very happy, because I saw the sunshine sprinkling pieces of broken gold on the roadside stream.

At the foot of the mountain is a small Hakka village.

Wolong village is a small Hakka mountain village. It turns out that most of the villagers in Wolong Village live in Taihe Fairy Mountain. Since 2006, cement roads have been built in the village, and villagers living in the mountains have moved to the foot of the mountain and resettled by the stream in the village. Yin and Zhou are the most popular names in this village. The Yin family is mostly on the right bank of the stream, and the Zhou family is mostly on the left bank of the stream. On both sides of the stream, villagers who love beauty built flower galleries.

The original tour guide was temporarily occupied. He suggested that Geojun rest in Wolong village first and then go up the mountain the next day. Mr. Geography can't wait to see the fine weather. He heard the guide say that there was only one way to Taihe Xian, so he decided to go to the advanced mountain by himself.

Most of the villagers in Wolong village believe in the immortals enshrined at the top of Taihe Fairy Mountain. People burn incense on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and in the first month of each year, people dance dragon lanterns to pay New Year greetings to the gods. For the convenience of "welcoming immortals", the villagers in Wolong Village managed to raise some funds and built a road leading to the middle of the main peak of Taihe Fairy.

19 At noon, several staff members of Zhuzhou Survey and Design Institute were having dinner with Geographer at Yongzai firewood farm in Wolong Village. They have climbed to Taihe county in the first half of the year.

"Don't worry, it's just a road. The car stopped at the end of the cement road and arrived at the top of the mountain in less than an hour. "

After hearing what the design institute said, my idea of going up the mountain first became more firm. There is really only one road to the top of Xianshan Mountain in Taihe, but Geojun drove to the farther side of Wolong Village. After only two or three minutes, he was led to a fork in the road by a hard gravel road that looked like a rotten cement road.

20 14 years ago, there was a small lead-zinc mine in Dazhushan, Taihe County. This lead-zinc mine used to be a very simple path in and out of Dazhu Mountain, which led the geographical gentleman to a fork in the road. This path covered with hard stones took Mr. Geography to a dry waterfall and stopped.

Although he took a fork in the road that day and delayed the summit, Geographic Jun was not disappointed. Wild pears, osmanthus fragrans, cranberries and sweet wild strawberries on the roadside are the best gifts for Geojun in Taihe County.

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There are muntjac, bison and many wild chestnut trees on the mountain.

Geographic Jun's Unicom mobile phone has no signal in Wolong Village. At dinner, the branch secretary of Wolong Village told Geography Jun that at 6: 30 the next morning, the tour guide took Geography Jun up the mountain.

I have been worried because the weather forecast shows that Chaling, where Wolong Village is located, is changing from light rain to moderate rain. I woke up in the middle of the night and connected to the Wi-Fi of the small hotel to watch my mobile phone several times. The weather forecast shows that the recent rainfall is 52km to the west and 80km to the north. By 6 o'clock in the morning, the weather forecast showed that it had not rained for nearly two hours, and the nearest rain belt was 60 kilometers north. So I went downstairs to eat powder and waited for the guide to arrive.

The guide is Zhou Songyuan, a former soldier and a village battalion commander. At 64, he still looks strong. He was carrying a black leather bag with a handful of incense in it.

"Don't worry, it won't rain." The food delivery staff Zhou said.

Asked why he was so sure, he said that before he went out, he prayed for the fairy spirit of Taihe in his heart. The fairy of Taihe Fairy is very clever. He won't let Taihe Fairy rain.

When we had dinner the day before, Chen Qiang, the branch secretary of Wolong Village, also said that the fairy of Taihe Fairy was very smart, and that he went to take photos on the top of Taihe Fairy with a person in charge of the Provincial Photography Association a few years ago. At that time, the visibility was less than 5 meters under the cover of clouds and fog. The person in charge of the photography association was frustrated that he couldn't take pictures, but Chen Qiang said to him with certainty, "Don't worry, the clouds will definitely disperse." After that, he went into the temple and asked the immortal. Less than five or six minutes after he came out, a gust of wind came and most of the clouds dispersed. The person in charge of the photography association took a good picture.

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"Is it really not going to rain?" Geography gentleman was dubious, so he set off, or asked the hotel proprietress for two umbrellas behind his guide.

In the Taihe Fairy in the early morning of autumn, the sky is soft and clear, and the flowers and fruits are trembling with crystal dew. I don't know where thrush and bamboo chicken are hiding to greet strangers in the mountains.

Sitting on the mountain, Zhou Songren was once a very powerful hunter. Every time a bird calls, he can tell the species, size and hiding position of the bird.

"There are muntjac and bison on the mountain. Bison has a short tail. It can jump three or four meters. " Correspondent Zhou told Geography Jun.

After walking for a while, he added that thirty or forty years ago, there were tigers and leopards in the mountains, and rabbits seemed to be his easy prey. You could catch them by putting a clip anywhere.

Of all the wild animals, what he hates most is wild boar. "Wild boar's nose is too smart. When the winter bamboo shoots came out, we didn't dig them. It just smelled through the soil and ate a large piece of winter bamboo shoots with one arch. "

Fortunately, there are many bamboos and wild boars from the foot of Taihe Fairy Mountain to the middle of the mountain, and villagers at the foot of the mountain can also grab many winter bamboo shoots from wild boars. Winter bamboo shoots are an important source of income for villagers such as Wolong Village, Daying Village and Xiaoying Village at the foot of Taihe Fairy. One winter, villagers in Wolong Village can earn 500,000 to 600,000 yuan by digging winter bamboo shoots.

Another big income contributed by Taihe County to villagers in Wolong Village and other villages comes from wild chestnuts. Zhou Songren said that he once picked more than 2,000 kilograms of wild chestnuts a year. In order to pick wild chestnuts, villagers in distant villages such as Daying Village often go into the mountains in the dark at four or five o'clock.

/kloc-In the early morning of 0/9, Geographic Jun will see tall and straight wild chestnut trees from time to time on the roadside leading to the top of Taihe fairy mountain. Some chestnuts covered with thorns are still on the tree, and some fall on the road. Zhou Songren said that there are more wild chestnut trees growing on the rock wall of Xiancaochong in Taihe.

The road up the mountain and the old house. Figure/Wu Yuxin

Clouds cover the fog, and the Taihe fairy is really like a fairyland.

When we reached the altitude of1200m, a fine Mao Mao rain floated down. At this time, the peak turns and the eyes open. I see the mountains layer by layer in the distance, and I see the mist rising and spreading between the mountains layer by layer, connecting with the clouds and mountains in the distance.

At this time, Zhou Songren was quite sure that it would not rain, and the rain floating on us was actually fog. That's what he said, but when he saw the geographical gentleman take out his umbrella, he took it without hesitation.

The clouds and fog in the distance are getting closer. In a few minutes, the fog in the forest we just passed began to climb. It seems that their climbing speed is slower than ours, but before we climbed to another corner of the mountain road, the fog reached our heads. At this time, the clouds are lingering, and the Taihe fairy is really like a fairyland. I don't know when the alpine meadow obsessed with geography will reach my feet.

This is the meadow in autumn, and the cold in autumn makes the meadow mottled. Like Wugong Mountain, the meadows in Taihe County are mostly white thatched. In late autumn, white thatch, yellow stems, seemingly soft long leaves, still do not want to completely fade green. Before the fog became thicker, the geographical monarch felt that the white thatched hills were covered with their continuous poems brewed by wind and fog.

"They always build temples for God on sparsely populated peaks//and then use the excuse that God is too lonely/unable to occupy the whole mountain."

This is the poet Ma Fei's short poem "Man and God". Many famous mountains have staged stories in poems. I was worried about Taihe Xian, too, until I climbed to the top of the mountain in the rain and saw a small temple with only three very simple houses, which made me sigh for Taihe Xian and the local immortals believed by Taihe Xian villagers.

Mountain spring. Figure/Wu Yuxin

The villagers of Taihe Xian, whether from Chaling in Shannan or Youxian in Shanbei, all believe in Taihe Xian. Interestingly, they believe in different immortals. Yin, the immortal of Chaling, rode a white dog to Taihe Xianding. In Youxian County, there is a fairy named Hong, who is the queen of Hong, and the first place to worship Queen Hong is Fengxian Temple.

These two legends are the same, that is, the rice fields at the foot of the mountain have been invaded by bedbugs. Later, they went to the immortal of Taihe to ask for immortality. Their immortal led the bedbugs to the immortal view at the top of the mountain. There were no bedbugs in the rice fields at the foot of the mountain. 10, 19 In the morning, Geographer saw more than a dozen legendary smelly elephants on the outer wall of the fairy temple at the top of the mountain, and finally understood why Zhou Songren trusted this fairy who was so peaceful.

Legend belongs to legend. Believe it or not does not affect the root of Taoist culture, which is deeply rooted in Taihe County and its surrounding areas. So that the Taoist temple on the mountain was destroyed decades ago. In 2009, villagers from two counties at the foot of Taihe Fairy Mountain raised funds to build a humble fairy temple. On the wall of the main hall of the Fairy Hall, the names of donors in Chaling are recorded here, and the names of donors in Youxian County are recorded there. The concept of immortals is simple, but the villagers in the two counties below the mountain don't care: the immortal spirit of Taihe immortals has finally continued.

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2. In the direction of Youxian County, drive up the mountain from Shang Ping Village, Luanshan Town, and there is a cement road leading halfway up the mountain. When the weather is good, you can drive an off-road vehicle with good driving skills and drive along the dirt road to a place only a few tens of meters away from the top of the mountain.

3. Wolong Village at the foot of Fairy Mountain in Taihe was rated as "the most beautiful leisure village in China" in 20 15, which has the ability to receive tourists. For example, the Yongzai Chaihuo farmhouse restaurant where Geography Jun lives has food and shelter. Eat more local ingredients. If there are more than six or seven people traveling with them, including accommodation, each person can have local chickens and ducks to eat on average 130 to 150 a day.

4. Taihe Xianshan goes up and down the mountain, and Unicom's mobile phone has no signal. Unicom users had better go up the mountain with mobile or telecom users, or they will be lost if they get lost.