Wannian Ice Cave National Geopark

It is located in madigou village, chunjingwa Township, 50 kilometers west of Ningwu County, beside the special tourist line, with an altitude of 2300 meters. According to the on-site investigation by cave experts from the Institute of geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the cave was formed in the Cenozoic Quaternary glacial period, about 3 million years ago, so it is named Wannian ice cave

Wannian Ice Cave National Geopark

The Wannian ice cave was formed in the Quaternary glacial period of Cenozoic, with a history of 3 million years. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that the climate outside the cave can't form an icy environment at all, while the icicles inside the cave don't melt all year round, and the deeper the ice gets, the thicker it gets. It is the largest ice cave ever found in China, and also a rare large ice cave ever found outside the permafrost in the world.

geographical environment

Wannian ice cave national geopark is located in madigou village, chunjingwa Township, 50 kilometers west of Ningwu County, next to the tourism line, with an altitude of 2300 meters. According to the on-site investigation by cave experts from the Institute of geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the cave was formed in the Cenozoic Quaternary glacial period, about 3 million years ago, so it is named Wannian ice cave.

In 2005, the Wannian ice cave in Ningwu became a National Geopark in the fourth batch of national geoparks. It is now nearly 100 meters in development. Divided into up and down layers, through drilling ice holes, down the ice stairs, over the ice stack, you can visit each layer. Each layer can hold dozens of people, and the cave is surrounded by ice.

Icicles, ice curtains, ice waterfalls, ice flowers, ice Buddha, ice bed, ice bell, ice man, ice Bodhisattva, etc. are formed by ice.

The scenery in the cave is exquisite, dazzling, graceful and magnificent.

It's a world of ice. What makes people even wonder is that less than 200 meters away from the ice cave, there is a thousand year old ground fire, which is called Millennium volcano.

This ice and fire, originally meant to conquer each other, coexist wonderfully on the same mountain. It can be said that it is a wonder in the world and a unique one in China.

Main attractions

Stone gate hanging coffin

Shimen hanging coffin is located in a secluded valley in the west of xiaoshimen village, 70km west of Ningwu city. There is a secluded Lane deep in the valley. The entrance stone wall is like a door, and the trees are green in the lane. Ancient architecture experts believe that this is a geomantic omen treasure land. Archaeological experts believe that Shimen hanging coffin is the earliest cliff burial group found to the north of the Yangtze River, which is of great archaeological research value.

This is the mysterious Shimen hanging coffin scenic spot.

Looking around, the stone walls in the stone gate are not high-rise rocks, but only 10 to 20 meters high. They are straight and smooth up and down. The top of the wall is covered with green trees and shrubs. The wooden coffins hanging on the stone walls are either embedded in caves or exposed outside the stone walls. They are supported by wooden piles or tied by iron chains. One coffin is hanging alone, and the other two coffins are juxtaposed. The height from the ground is different, but all of them can be seen very well Clearly, there are 11.

In addition, there are scattered hanging coffins on the mountain wall around the stone gate. Hanging coffins are mostly located in shady and dry places away from water, such as Shiya grottoes. The height from the ground varies from nearly 100 meters to tens of meters.

According to archaeological experts, the stone gate hanging coffin is the only cliff burial group found in northern China, which is of great archaeological research value.

The ways of hanging coffin in Shimen can be divided into cave, hanging, hanging pile and plank way.

Cave type is to place coffins in natural or artificial caves at the height of the cliff; hanging type is to hang coffins with iron chains at the height of the cliff; hanging pile type is to drill holes on the cliff, insert wooden piles horizontally, and put coffins on the wooden piles; trestle type is to drill holes and insert piles in the middle of the cliff, and pave a mini trestle road to put coffins on the trestle road.

If we say that the magangba hanging coffin group in Gongxian County, Sichuan Province ranks the first in China in terms of quantity with more than 200 pieces, while the Shimen hanging coffin group ranks the first in China in terms of variety because it contains many types, such as plank road, cliff crack, pile cliff, suspension, cave and so on.

Cliff plank road

Cliff plank road is located on Xiangfeng mountain in the west of zhangjiaya village, censhan township. Its founding date can be traced back to Zhenyuan period of Tang Dynasty. The original length is 42 Li, and the ancient temples are connected by the plank road, which is breathtaking and unique. It is "a rare horizontal linked cave plank road in North China", and also one of the ten ancient scenic spots in Ningwu county.

When you enter the scenic area, the first thing you can see is the simple and majestic mountain gate. You can walk up the steps through the mountain gate. All the way, there are trees, birds and flowers, and the water is murmuring.

Luohan hall is the first building on the cliff plank road and the starting point of the plank road. The Luohan hall, with a width of three rooms of 9 meters and a depth of 10 meters, is built according to the mountain. The building cleverly uses the natural stone cave behind. There is a statue of Guanyin in the cave of the 18th arhat Dynasty, which leads to the name of the hall.

Next to the Luohan hall is a stele that was rebuilt during the reign of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty. The stele records the prosperity of the mountain in the past. Along the plank road, I turned around a dangerous place and drilled through a stone cave. There was a main hall facing south and North, the Pilu hall.

Pilu hall is three rooms wide and 10 meters deep. There is a statue of the Buddha of viluzana. Pilu Buddha is the Dharma body of Buddha.

From piludian to the East, sometimes relaxed and happy, sometimes fearless and palpitating, sometimes stooping and crawling, sometimes squatting and moving, endless scenes in the mirror and endless dangerous plank road.

There are 15 caves on the plank road with a length of more than 1000 meters, the longest of which is 15 meters. At the end of the 15 meter long cave, the Xichan Temple rises above the 300 meter stone wall depression, which is the residence of the abbot of the temple.

It is said that the Great Buddha Hall was originally a two-story loft building. It is very spectacular, but unfortunately it has been destroyed.

From the site of the Great Buddha Hall to the northwest stone steps, gradually to the peak of Xiangfeng mountain. A magnificent four story stone pagoda was built on it. This is Xiaozu pagoda. Xiaozu pagoda is a tomb pagoda.

The fourth Prince of Chongzhen emperor became a monk here after Li Zicheng conquered Beijing. He was named xiao'an. He took the lead in building the pagoda in 1712.

The original body sculpture of Xiaoan in the tower base. Around the pagoda, the ancient trees are towering, and the exotic grass is fragrant. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, people from all over the world always pay homage to Xiaozu, which is said to be very effective.

It is quite strange that in recent years, when developing tourism resources and repairing the plank road, a larch tree in front of the tower, which has been dead for decades, has turned green again and sprouted new shoots.

Xuankong Village

Ningwu is a green pearl on the Loess Plateau of Shanxi Province. Ningwu more than 800000 mu of primary secondary forest sea, the county Dongzhai town more than ten kilometers away "wanghuagou" this small village deep hidden. Because of its unique geographical location and distinctive architecture, wanghuagou village has gradually become famous in recent years and is said to be "suspended village". It is not up or down, the whole is located on the hillside, the village is built along the cliff, looking up from the bottom of the valley, like a castle in the air. Along the winding path, many old people and children are looking at us. The houses in "Xuankong village" are well arranged, connected with each other, and some are even two-story attics. Villagers' cattle, sheep and mule pens were also built on the edge of the cliff. The whole village faces the canyon. The first half of the village is supported by wooden columns and is built in the air. In front of it, it is widened and paved with planks, which is the only road less than one kilometer long in the village, forming a rare "aerial plank road" landscape. The people in "Xuankong village" are easy-going, honest and friendly. Hospitable villagers, whether elderly or childish, will warmly invite you to be a guest at home and introduce the history of wanghuagou to you unreservedly. Wang Jianjun, a 32 year old enthusiastic villager, took the initiative to serve as our tour guide. There are only 30 or 40 people living in this isolated home with only 13 families. Like most rural areas today, many people in the village have gone out to work for a living. Naked oatmeal, bean noodles and potatoes are their main food. A mountain spring in the village is the only source of water for the whole village. Most of the buildings are made of stone and wood. Although the village is small, there were three small temples, namely the Dragon King Temple, the great immortal temple and the wudaoye temple, which repose the spiritual world of the villagers living in the mountains for a long time.

The "suspended village" in the quiet valley is like a group of stilted buildings in the south, forming a unique picture of seclusion in the mountains. When you are in a stone house, you can see the green waves in the sea. Every time after the rain and snow, the "suspended village" is even more magnificent with thousands of miles of clouds and vast silver sea. On the plank road of the village, from time to time, white clouds of sheep and villagers flash over the mountain for farming. In the warm sun under the stone house in front of muwei, there are people chatting about their lives. In this quiet and natural nature, a special warmth of "Xuankong village" is formed.

Pilufo

According to the dictionary of Buddhism, it is the abbreviation of "piluzana Buddha" and "piluzana Buddha" is Sakyamuni's Dharma Buddha. Speaking of this, you may have to ask what kind of Buddha "Dharma Buddha" is? In fact, Buddhism often refers to the "three body Buddha", that is, Dharma body "piluchana Buddha", Yingshen body "Sakyamuni Buddha" and Baoshen body "lushana Buddha". The relationship between these three Buddha statues is very wonderful. There is a subtle metaphor in Buddhism. In fact, the Dharma body "piluchana Buddha" is like a bright moon in the sky, Yingshen body "Sakyamuni Buddha" is like the shadow of the moon in the water, Baoshen body The body of lushana Buddha is like the water is dry, the shadow of the moon is gone, but the moon still exists, that is to say, the body is close to lushana

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