Shixiang Lake

Shixiang lake is located in Pujiang County, Chengdu City. Shixiang lake is named after Shixiang temple, an ancient temple in the lake area. It is said that it is the place where Yan Yan Yan, the general of the Three Kingdoms, ascended to heaven by riding an elephant. In the lake, there are Shixiang temple, the "Western Sichuan Buddha" with a posture of 15 meters, and other scenic spots such as ziyanyan, shuiniawan, Fuling Bay, Zhudao, Qinglong Island, gonggou, wawagou, Erlong Xizhu, etc. The forest coverage rate of the scenic spot is more than 90%, and its excellent natural ecology is like a piece of jade inlaid in the Chengdu Plain.

It has unique natural resources. The large-scale ecological park has become a paradise for animals and plants to coexist. It is a pure land for urban people to cultivate their body and mind. In the early morning, the lake is surrounded by smoke, birds and flowers, the forest is covered with green shadows at sunset, and Confucianism and Buddhism infiltrate the heart. This scene allows visitors to purify their body and mind, and enter the highest realm of harmony between man and nature.

Shixiang Lake

Shixiang lake is named after Shixiang temple, an ancient temple in the lake area. It is said that it is the place where Yan Yan Yan, the general of the Three Kingdoms, ascended to heaven by riding an elephant. In the lake, there are Shixiang temple, the "Western Sichuan Buddha" with a posture of 15 meters, and other scenic spots such as ziyanyan, shuiniawan, Fuling Bay, Zhudao, Qinglong Island, gonggou, wawagou, Erlong Xizhu, etc. The forest coverage rate of the scenic spot is more than 90%, and its excellent natural ecology is like a piece of jade inlaid in the Chengdu Plain.

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geographical environment

Shixiang lake is located in Chengya expressway

Pujiang County, Chengdu

In China.

It has unique natural resources. The large-scale ecological park has become a paradise for animals and plants to coexist. It is a pure land for urban people to cultivate their body and mind. In the early morning, the lake is surrounded by smoke, birds and flowers, the forest is covered with green shadows at sunset, and Confucianism and Buddhism infiltrate the heart. This scene allows visitors to purify their body and mind, and enter the highest realm of harmony between man and nature.

historical background

"Benevolent people enjoy mountains, wise people enjoy water

”As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, Confucianism flourished around shixianghu. Ancient Heshan academy is a typical example.

Features of scenic spots

Over the past few years, people who have been to Shixiang lake, benevolent people and wise people, have different opinions, perspectives and feelings: some say that Shixiang lake is "a sea of flowers, a paradise of vision"; some say that Shixiang lake is "little Switzerland in the East, little Holland in Asia, Davos in China, Royal Garden in Chengdu"; others praise it as "a land of dreams, a land of ease, and a paradise for human settlement". All the visitors here are full of praise. In 2002, President Jiang Zemin visited the lake and praised the development and construction of the scenic spot for "absorbing foreign advanced experience and carrying forward Chinese cultural tradition". There are so many laurels. Thousands of families and thousands of words can be summarized as follows:

a landscape of lakes and mountains

Shixiang lake is a fairyland like water maze. The beauty of Shixiang lake lies in the scenery of lakes and mountains.

Shixiang lake has a memorial to Yan Yan, a famous general of the Three Kingdoms

It is named after the stone elephant temple. The characteristics of the lake are small and exquisite, clear water, 800 mu of lake, many harbors, deep twists and turns, with nine ditches and eighteen chachachas, eighteen chachachas, mysterious and unique charm. When people go boating, they don't know the way back, just like a natural "water maze." Shixiang lake is located in ten thousand mu of virgin forest, hidden under the shade of flowers. It is like a fairyland or a painting when you take a boat. The mountain is bathed in the water, and the flowers are symmetrical in the clear water. When you sit on the boat, the clouds are floating in the water, the waves are shining, and the songs are long. When you look at the mist cage, you can enjoy the green, and at dusk you can hear the birds chirping.

Boutique scenic spot

Shixiang lake is the first boutique scenic spot that integrates the original ecological environment and flowers

As soon as you enter the Shixiang lake ecological scenic spot, you will see a distinctive feature. Shixiang lake has a sea of flowers. These flowers are not planted under the greenhouse, not in the flowerpot, but in the trees and lawns. The flowers of Shixiang Lake grow naturally in the natural environment, which is quite different from the urban flower show and the production of greenhouse cut flowers. There are two basic concepts for planting flowers in Shixiang lake. One is that the performance stage of flowers was originally in nature. Only when a flower is allowed to return to the fields and mountains where they have been growing for millions of years for generations, and grow in the excellent original ecological environment, can it grow freely and develop well, and show the most complete and pure beauty in front of human beings

The second is to let tourists stay in the nature and enjoy a large-scale, varied, colorful and spotless flower feast in the pure landscape. The trees and forests of Shixiang lake are formed naturally, not artificially. The flowers of Shixiang lake are in full bloom in nature. Shixiang Lake completely integrates the original ecological environment with flowers. Therefore, to walk into Shixiang lake is to walk into nature. You can feel the harmony between man and flower, between man and nature, and between man and man.

Natural classroom

Shixiang lake is a unique natural classroom of "plant kingdom" and "plant diversity protection".

When Sichuan Province and Chengdu City chose the environmental education base with "plant diversity protection" as the main content, after extensive voting by citizens and repeated investigation and demonstration by experts, they finally issued documents to award Shixiang lake ecological scenic spot as "Sichuan Environmental Education Base" and "Chengdu Environmental Education Base". Some people ask why Shixiang lake ecological scenic spot is chosen instead of other places because there are many trees and forests in Sichuan? Why? Because the plants in Shixiang lake are more knowledgeable, interesting, readable and educational than those in other areas of Sichuan.

Shixiang lake is a subtropical humid monsoon climate with good conditions for plant growth and reproduction. There are more than 3000 families and genera of plants, of which more than 420 are well-known. Its characteristics are as follows: 1. It has an ancient origin and many relict plants. When the Quaternary glaciers destroyed the plants on the earth 2.5 million years ago, the plants here survived, and many ancient plants survived. Such as Alsophila spinulosa, haijinsha, Osmunda japonica, etc.

2. The community structure is distinct. The scientific distribution of arbor layer, shrub layer, herb layer and extrastratal plants can be clearly seen in the forest. It is a natural textbook of plant diversity research.

3. It has high ornamental value, economic value, scientific research value and ecological value. There are a lot of plant roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits with medicinal, edible, industrial materials, genetic variation advantages and other aspects of research value, everywhere reflects the species diversity and ecosystem diversity. Such as kiwifruit, Luofu persimmon, wild litchi, Poria tree, etc.

In the ten thousand mu primeval forest of Shixiang lake, the largest quantity is Pinus massoniana. Because the Pinus massoniana here is an excellent variety with long shoots, straight trees and no insects, it was selected as the "national Pinus massoniana provenance base" as early as the last century. Pine is the main producer of natural oxygen bar. There are about 20000 negative oxygen ions (air vitamins) in general forest, and the negative oxygen ions in pine forest are twice of that in general forest. Especially in spring, pine flowers fly in the air, providing a lot of life elements for human beings. Pine can release 24 kinds of organic bactericides, it is a master of air purification. Therefore, scientists regard masson pine as the best fitness plant. 4. It has the best affinity. The growing environment of the plants in Shixiang lake is on the platform of shallow hills. People can get close to these plants without climbing. Moreover, it has a large area and is a natural knowledge classroom. 5. It is a model of social practice of environmental protection. From the development to operation, the environmental protection work of Shixiang lake has been done excellently and realistically. People can learn a lot of social practical knowledge and experience about the cooperation and co management of the scenic spot and surrounding communities to do a good job of ecological environment protection by understanding many innovative activities of the scenic spot ecological environment Protection Association.

Tianxiang world

Go to the nature to see the wild flowers growing by the side of wild rocks, see their natural beauty of natural red without rouge, and smell their natural flavor without dew juice, which is the real enjoyment of intoxication. This kind of desire to enjoy the stone Elephant Lake can be achieved to enjoy. The flowers of Shixiang lake are woody, herbaceous and rattan. There are many kinds of flowers with gorgeous colors. There are countless flowers all over the mountains. Rhododendron, Magnolia, camellia, Camellia oleifera, sizhao flower, lobster flower, wild lily, Chinese Jingjie flower, Magnolia, Dengtai flower, Yuye Jinhua and other hundreds of common wild flowers grow on the rock side of the mountain and the water side of the forest. They are fragrant and unique in shape. All year round, they are charming and charming. These flowers in the natural sea of flowers everywhere show exuberant vitality, give people a harmonious enjoyment, give people a spiritual shock. Because of this, there are many new people here to take wedding photos. Beauty, flowers, butterflies, why not? An intoxicating world of mountain flowers will enlighten people, turn your thinking back to nature and sublimate your philosophy of life.

Garden of Eden

As soon as you walk into Shixiang lake, you can see four hundred mu grasslands, which makes you feel as if you have entered a foreign country. The grassland is surrounded by a sea of trees. On these broad gentle slopes, tall fescue imported from Denmark grows. It is green all the year round. Visitors can freely enter and touch it at will. It is amiable with the United States. Since its opening in 2002, Shixiang lake has introduced tens of millions of famous trees of various varieties from the Netherlands and other European and American countries every year

Chinese PinYin : Shi Xiang Hu