Huoshizhai National Geopark

Huoshizhai National Geopark

Huoshizhai National Geopark is located in Huoshizhai Township, 15 kilometers north of Xiji County, Guyuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. It is located in the center of Lanzhou, Yinchuan and Xi'an, 140 kilometers east of Liupan Mountain and 28 kilometers east of Xumi mountain, with a total area of 97.95 square kilometers. It is the largest Danxia landform distribution area in northern China, and also the highest Danxia landform group found so far in China. Because the rocks in the mountain are dark red, like burning flames, they are called Huoshizhai.

Danxia landform of Huoshizhai is distributed in 6000 hectares, with a span of 33 kilometers and an altitude of 2100-2450 meters. Danxia landform modeling landscape is mainly characterized by red cliff in Chibi. Intermittent uplift in tectonic movement, supplemented by earthquake and other internal forces, makes the strata block rise as a whole. Combined with the comprehensive effect of gravity collapse, landslide, erosion, dissolution, wind erosion and other external forces, it forms steep cliff and deep Valley, Fangshan, Danfeng, Chibi, Danya, Qidong, Shizhu and other unique landscapes, which are well preserved.

Huoshizhai National Geopark is also a national AAAA tourist attraction, National Forest Park and National Nature Reserve. It is known as "the most magnificent Danxia Landform in China" and "the Grand Canyon of Colorado in China".

It has been awarded "land and resources science popularization base", "national science popularization education base", "Northwest style self driving tourism base", "autonomous region science popularization education base", "Northwest outdoor rock climbing base" and "literature creation base" by relevant ministries and commissions.

Development history

In 2002, Ningxia Huoshizhai Danxia landform Nature Reserve was established, covering a total area of 9795 hectares. It is a natural heritage nature reserve mainly for the protection of Danxia landform geological relics on the Loess Plateau.

In March 2004, Huoshizhai Geopark was approved as a national geopark.

In May 2007, Ningxia Xiji Huoshizhai National Geopark opened.

In January 2013, Ningxia Huoshizhai Danxia landform nature reserve officially passed the National Nature Reserve review meeting, becoming the highest Danxia landform National Nature Reserve in China.

In May 2014, Xiji Huoshizhai clove Tourism Festival opened.

geographical environment

geographical position

Huoshizhai National Geopark is located in Huoshizhai Township in the north of Xiji County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. It is between 105 ° 42 ′ - 105 ° 47 ′ E and 36 ° 04 ′ - 36 ° 10 ′ n. On the plane, the park is irregular, 10 kilometers wide from east to west, 17 kilometers long from north to south, with a total area of 97.95 square kilometers. The park is located in Liupan Mountain tourism area, which has obvious geographical advantages.

Climatic characteristics

Huoshizhai National Geopark, located in the east of Northwest China, is located in the intersection of the Loess Plateau, the Mongolian Plateau and the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. Drought and less rain, strong wind and sand, sufficient sunshine, strong evaporation, long cold winter, fast warm spring, short hot summer, early cool autumn, large annual and daily temperature range, short and changeable frost free period, drought, hail, strong wind, sandstorm, frost, local rainstorm and flood and other disastrous weather are more frequent.

Geology and geomorphology

The red Cretaceous strata are exposed in Huoshizhai National Geopark, which has the material basis for forming Danxia landform. The rocks have experienced nearly 100 million years of long geological history changes, leaving traces of previous tectonic movements. Under the joint action of weathering erosion, gravity collapse and other external forces, Danxia landform with the characteristics of "flat top, steep body and gentle foot" has finally developed.

natural resources

plant resources

There are 442 species of wild vascular plants belonging to 235 genera and 74 families in Huoshizhai National Geological Park, including 11 species of pteridophytes belonging to 8 genera and 6 families.

Animal resources

There are 181 species of vertebrates in 5 classes, 20 orders, 55 families, 117 genera, and 391 species of insects in 6 orders, 112 families in Huoshizhai National Geopark.

Main attractions

skyreach pillar

Optimus Prime, the cylinder is a natural cylindrical rock, dozens of people can not encircle, danger towering into the clouds, straight to the sky. It is said that after Pangu opened the sky, chaos began to open, and heaven and earth could not be separated. So Pangu folded his axe into four parts to hold up the sky. One of them was left in Huoshi stronghold and became Optimus Prime.

Huoshizhai Geological Museum

Huoshizhai Geological Museum, with a total area of more than 840 square meters, is divided into upper and lower floors. It is mainly composed of three parts: "science popularization of universe and earth", "Danxia geology and geomorphology" and "Huoshizhai resources". It reflects the process of human participation in geological changes. The museum is divided into ten units, using modern art, multimedia, large-scale scene painting and other means and new materials to present, making the museum a veritable Danxia popular science education base, ecological protection base, tourism and leisure base. In the museum, through sound, light, electricity and other high-tech means, the historical events such as the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake and the Ming Dynasty "Shicheng war" are vividly reproduced.

Yuntai Mountain

Yuntai Mountain is the first of eight landscapes in Huoshi village. According to the records of Xiji County annals, it is named Yuntai mountain because "whenever the mountain rain is about to come, it must first make clouds leisurely, that is, it is sunny and smoky.". When the clouds are shrouded, tourists come here as if they are walking on the clouds. Yuntai Mountain is also known as broom forest or Wudang Mountain in the West. There is a kind of Phyllostachys pubescens that can be used to make brooms on the mountain. Most of the local people come to cut it, so it is called broom forest. According to the records of Guyuan Prefecture, "broom bamboo ridge is more than 100 miles northwest of the state. -----The natives took advantage of this to prepare for captivity, and the temple is Zhenwu temple, commonly known as "West Wudang Mountain".

Yuntai Mountain has a vertical height of 113 meters and a width of 330 meters in the southwest. There are 10 porous Grottoes on the mountain. According to the excavation style, it was first excavated in the northern and Southern Dynasties. In the past dynasties, it "chiseled immortal Grottoes to live in Zen Buddhism". Later, it flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and was robbed by soldiers in the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. However, its natural style remains the same, with the sound of birds and the fragrance of flowers.

Eagle snake peak

Yingshefeng is located about 200 meters in front of the entrance to the South Gate of Huoshizhai scenic spot. When you look up, you can see two peaks about 30 meters away, such as an eagle waiting to be attacked and a cobra spitting out a message. Blue sky and white clouds, green grass, Danxia landform created many magical stories, you see the eagle, bald, long mouth, as if at any time may launch a terrible attack; and the cold snake, has been ready to fight, head up. For thousands of years, the eagle and the snake have been confronting each other. They are ready to go, and no one can defeat them. The years have been accompanied by this pair of deadly enemies.

Daobeiling

Daobeiling, as its name suggests, is like a big knife, which divides the Huoshizhai scenic area into two parts. In the west is the lover's valley with beautiful scenery and birds singing, and in the East is zhaizigou with trees blocking the sun and pine waves like a sea. Daobeiling is the most precipitous and precipitous place in the scenic area, with a thousand cliffs and a ridge like a knife. At the end of the mountain is like a camel roaring up to the sky.

 

Flying

Feilaishi, there is a stone standing on the top of the mountain, just like the flying stone outside the sky, which is called feilaishi. When it comes to feilaishi, we have to talk about the legend of Huoshizhai: it is said that during the song and Liao dynasties, the Yang family was trapped in Tianmen formation, so Jiao Zan and Meng Liang sent huohulu to Muke village to break the formation by borrowing dragon subduing wood from Mu Guiying. Mu Guiying didn't borrow it, so Meng Liang put the calabash on the top of the mountain and set fire to Muke village. As a result, Muke village became huoshao village, and huohulu remained on the top of the mountain and became a stone.

 

Function value

Huoshizhai National Geopark has 8 scenic spots per square kilometer, which is very rare in China's Danxia Landform Scenic spot. The total thickness of its landscape formation is 1160.1 meters, which is among the best in China's Danxia Landform Scenic spot. Huoshizhai National Geopark is not only a typical Danxia landform group developed in northern China, but also one of the highest Danxia landform groups found in China, which has national comparative significance, especially in the Loess Plateau of Western China.

Large: the distribution range of Danxia Landform in the area of yueliangshan in Xiji County, from the main peak of yueliangshan in the west to Huangzhuang forest farm in the east of guoqu District in the East, from the watershed of yueliangshan to the line of huangquan mountain in the south, to Yangming River in the north, with a total area of more than 500 square kilometers. Among them, the area with scientific research value and ornamental value is 97.95 square kilometers. In the Loess Plateau of Northwest China, Danxia landform has the largest exposed area.

More: there are many types of Danxia Landform in Huoshizhai Geopark, including four macro landform types and more than ten micro landform types. Many attractions: there are as many as 34 scenic spots with ornamental value and protection significance.

Chang: Moon Mountain, including Huoshizhai scenic spot, stretches for more than 150 kilometers from east to west, and is composed of Sanqiao formation and heshangpu formation. Standing on the top of the moon mountain, looking around, the red layer is endless.

Dense: Huoshizhai Geopark is densely distributed. The maximum density of Danxia scenic spots in the park can reach 8 per square kilometer.

Thick: flint

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