The colorful sand forest

Luliang colorful sand forest is formed by natural effects such as earthquake impact and wind and rain erosion. The main colors of sand forest are red, yellow and white, and mixed with green, blue, gray and black. In addition to different seasons, sunshine, climate and viewing angles, it produces colorful colors and strange postures. There are also some cave resorts and relief sculptures composed of caves in Shalin scenic area, as well as sand horse racing field, ancient plank road, beacon tower, Yijia village gate, etc. Every year, the international color sand sculpture festival is held here, and because of its complex terrain, simple and mysterious, it is often chosen as the location of film and television drama.

The colorful sand forest

Located in Majie town of Luliang County in the south of Qujing City, Yunnan Province, the national AAAA level tourist area, colorful sand forest covers an area of 25 square kilometers and the reserve covers an area of 52.8 square kilometers. It is an important scenic spot on the excellent tourist routes in Yunnan Province. It is 18 kilometers south of Luliang County, 40 kilometers south of Shilin, 130 kilometers south of Kunming, 50 kilometers west of Luxi and 96 kilometers south of Luoping Access conditions.

In April 2018, the quality rating committee of Yunnan tourist attractions decided to give Luliang colorful sand forest a serious warning and set a deadline of 3 months for rectification.

brief introduction

Colorful sand forest, located 18 kilometers southeast of Luliang County, is a distinctive tourist attraction. Looking around, I marvel at the colorful sand peaks and pillars. A gust of hot wind blowing, but also sigh its graceful shape, as if it was a blue and white traditional Chinese painting cut by Tiangong. When people leisurely walk on the post road to study the original appearance of sarin, they find that with the passage of time, they return to the vast ocean of ancient times. She is a treasure offered by nature to human beings. She can make visitors feel satisfied, admire and forget to return.

The scenic area covers an area of 6 square kilometers, adjacent to Cuan Longyan tablet, Zhongnan mountain and Wufeng mountain.

Sarin, there are many wild animals and plants. There are mainly colorful snakes (green, yellow, flower, white, black, red, green); colorful frogs (green, black, flower, red, green, brown, yellow); colorful butterflies (red, yellow, white, flower, black, green, purple); and otters, muntjacs, foxes, pangolins, rabbits, weasels, squirrels, owls, woodpeckers, Jingji, pheasants, turtledoves, starlings, swallows, yellow ducks, kingfisher, etc. The plants are characterized by orchid, Michelia, Rhododendron, camellia, Tricholoma matsutake and Boletus.

Shalin, because of its complex terrain, simple and mysterious, has been selected as the location for shooting by the central and provincial film and television departments for many times. It has successively filmed "Jinsha Shuipai", "nanzhong secret history", "Shanniang", "Yanhuang ancestor", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and other films and television.

Shalin, surrounded by its "two peaks" (Wufeng mountain and Zhongnan Mountain), "five lakes" (Xichong lake, Yongfeng lake, Zhongnan lake, yushimiao lake and Wufeng mountain lake), and a stele (Cuan Longyan stele) facing each other, has attracted more and more tourists and experts at home and abroad.

Main attractions

There are mainly four scenic spots in the scenic area: colorful sand forest, Cuan Longyan stele, Zhongnan mountain and Wufeng mountain.

The colorful sand forest

Shalin scenic area covers an area of 6 square kilometers. It is the result of the evolution of nature for tens of thousands of years. It is a landscape spectacle gradually formed by earthquake impact, magma ejection, crustal movement and wind and rain erosion. It is a collection of sand pillars, sand peaks, sand screens and sand wrinkles formed by colorful sand. The sand peaks stand alone or are connected with each other. They are uneven. From a distance, they become forests. From a near view, they become peaks, with a height of more than 30 meters. The two walls of the valley present clusters of screens, peaks, peaks, cliffs and various shapes.

Because it is a three-dimensional shape, sand forest in the morning, evening, rain, sunny, spring, summer, autumn, winter, with the intensity of light, different angles of sunlight, will produce different colors of landscape. The wonderful "Danqing traditional Chinese painting" with various colors, including red, purple, blue, black, green, gray, green, etc All kinds of sand belts in one body are rare in the world. The strange shape, colorful color and rich landscape constitute the scenery of Shalin multifunctional tourist area.

The geological geomorphology of Shalin is of great scientific value. It is the formation of hundreds of millions of years of crustal movement, the cutting, arch lifting and decline of earth force, forming its complex geological landforms. It is a rare specimen of ancient geology and geomorphology. It has been listed as one of the world heritage sites to be protected by WWF. Visitors here can not only acquire living natural knowledge, but also reflect on the past, the changes of the world and the natural laws of the vicissitudes.

Spring is the most unique in the sand forest. Although there is a word "sand" in its name, it thinks that there is no water there. On the contrary, many springs in the sand forest seep and flow, adding to the beauty of the sand forest. When it's sunny, it's Sandy but not gray; when it's dry but not dry; when it's rainy, it's wet but not muddy; when it's rainy, it's not difficult. At the outlet of the spring, the water pressure flushes the sand, and the water is billowing and evaporating. It looks like a curl of cooking smoke. If you go out to sea, the sand spring is clear and transparent, and the water quality is very good.

Sand is unique here. In the sand forest, you can take sand bath and sand therapy, build sand and slide sand, hunt in sand, run horse, play volleyball and play football in sand. The content is rich and colorful. Walking barefoot in the sand forest is the most comfortable. Standing between the sand streams, the sand at the foot is slowly washed away by the stream water, which forms the friction between the sand and the skin of the foot board. I feel very special. The quartz sand here is good in quality, high in purity, and of all thickness. It contains 97.8% quartz sand, gold, silver, copper, iron, zinc, iodine, silicon and other elements.

The scenic area is rich in water resources. Xichong lake has a water capacity of 1.39 million cubic meters and a surface area of more than 2000 mu. Surrounded by mountains on three sides, green pines, clear water and secluded environment, you can play on the beach, follow the wind by speedboat, take a day bath on the levee and have a picnic on the island. The fishing center can let the fishing enthusiasts show their skills, and the clear shallow river can make you full of fun. Sand forest, natural landscape strange, rich cultural landscape. The uncanny workmanship of nature carved more than 100 lifelike and lifelike natural shapes here, such as "Cuan King's expedition", "scholar's watch list", "Cuan female Wangfu", "mushroom leaping into the clouds", "bamboo shoots springing up", "Eight Immortals crossing the sea", "goddess embracing the sun" and "Taoyuan Jieyi". These vivid shapes will make you daydream and marvel.

Cuan Longyan stele

Cuan Longyan stele stands in the main hall of Douge temple in xueguanbao, about 23 kilometers west of the colorful sand forest. It is one of the famous "two Cuan" steles in China. Its full name is "the stele of the imperial envoy of Hou Xun in dengdu County, the governor of ningzhou, the governor of Longxun in Song Dynasty.". It was established in 458 A.D. in the second year of Ming Dynasty by Emperor Xiaowu of Liu Song Dynasty. This is the tombstone of Long Yan, the governor of ningzhou. It is also known as Da Long tablet. Compared with Bao Zi tablet, it is larger and has more words. It is 3.38 meters high and 1.46 meters wide. There are 24 lines of inscription on the front, 904 characters, and three sections of inscription on the back, 313 characters in total. The forehead of the tablet is semicircular. The upper part is embossed with green dragon, white tiger, rosefinch and Xuanwu. The lower part is perforated in the middle. The sun and moon are engraved on the left and right, and junniao (three legged bird) is engraved in the middle of the sun. There is toad in the middle of the month. The middle title is "the stele of the envoy of Hou Xun in qiongdu County, the governor of ningzhou, the governor of Longxun in Song Dynasty.". In the sixth year of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty, when Ruan Yuan, a Jinshi family, was appointed governor of Yungui, he visited the famous stele and found it in Zhenyuan castle of Luliang. He ordered Zhang Hao to build a pavilion to protect it and wrote a postscript.

Cuan Longyan was the leader of the Cuan family in the northeast of Yunnan at that time. He inherited the local official position. The inscriptions trace the origin of Tong Xun and his life story, which can make up for the deficiency of the official history. The inscription was written by Xun Daoqing.

Longyan tablet of Cuan and baozi tablet of Cuan are two treasures of Nanbei in Yunnan. Cuan Longyan stele was established in the second year of song Daming in the Southern Dynasty, 53 years later than Cuan baozi stele. It can be said that these two steles are contemporary works. "Cuan Longyan stele", the inscription calligraphy font between Li Kai, calligraphy style is unique, known as "Cuan style". The inscriptions are ancient and elegant, with dense structure. Although they are regular script, they are full of Li meaning. The writing is powerful, the mood is strange, and the structure is changeable. They are typical of the transition from Li script to regular script.

Many calligraphers hold it in high esteem. Fan Shouming: "Cuan Longyan stele postscript" says: "the two steles are the ancestors of calligraphers since the Wei and Jin Dynasties." Kang Youwei highly praised the stele, saying that it was "the same as the stele of lingmiao temple, pure gold and pure jade, all of which were originated from Yuanchang (Zhongyao) and inherited the orthodoxy of Zhonglang." In his tablet, he listed Cuan Longyan as "the first divine product" and praised him as "the lower painting is like kundao carving jade, but it is beautiful; the cloth is like Jinggong painter, and they all want to abandon it, so they should be Li Kaiji." Because of the exquisite calligraphy, there are often people who look for rubbings thousands of miles away to learn calligraphy. During the reign of Daoguang, there was a person who wrote poems about it: "my little Ruan is good at writing, and he is fond of tiger lying and jumping. I came to Wanli for this stele, but GUI Ruan was not prepared. A thousand dollars to buy you a view, Pu San Fengshen with the Northern Wei Dynasty

Zhongnan Mountain

Zhongnan mountain is one of Luliang's three famous mountains. It is said that during the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty was the place where the Cuan family fled. From the Song Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty, it was occupied by the chieftain Longhai, and fought against the Ming army in the named Yingpanshan fortification. When the Ming army attacked the camp, it set fire to the camp. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, a palace was built on the top of the mountain, commonly known as Zhongnanshan temple. It was rebuilt in the ninth year of Kangxi reign in the Qing Dynasty. In the second year of Jiaqing reign, Hengrong, Guangxi Wenguan, presided over the teaching of Zen. He raised merits and virtues, expanded it into a Buddhist temple, renamed juezhao temple, and later burned it down and rebuilt it. It was initially restored in 1990. In the Luohan forest at the back of the temple, there are pagodas of monks who died during the reign of Emperor Qianlong and Jiaqing, which record the ancient Buddhist culture,

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