penglai cave

penglai cave

Penglai fairy cave is located in Du Village, Gongxi Township, Shitai County, Chizhou City, Anhui Province, 9 kilometers away from the county. There are more than 10 scenic spots in the cave, such as welcome hall, sea exploring corridor, Donghai Dragon Palace and so on.

Main attractions

penglai cave

It is located in Du Village, Gongxi Township, Shitai County, Chizhou City, Anhui Province, 9 kilometers away from the county seat. The total length of the cave is more than 3000 meters, with a total area of more than 20000 square meters. It is divided into four layers: Tiandong, Zhongdong, Didong and underground river. It has unique shape, zigzag loops, magnificent momentum and beautiful scenery. There are more than 10 scenic spots, such as welcome hall, sea exploring corridor, Donghai Dragon Palace, Tongming palace, Mixian palace, Yuchan palace, Yinhe corridor, yaochi, Nanhai, Chaoyin palace, and seeing off living room. There are huge stones of different shapes and underground rivers in the cave. The nine meter high giant stalactite "landing Golden Bell" is magnificent. The middle cave is full of exquisite stalactite groups, which are as lifelike as objects and people. The Tiandong cave is grand and beautiful, with deep twists and turns and strange landscape.

Penglai cave, also known as Luohan cave, formerly known as Shenjia cave, is located at the foot of Shanshan mountain, Gongxi Township, Shitai County. It is a large karst cave with multi-level, multi-stage and multi accumulation forms. Located 9 kilometers east of Shitai County, it is the hometown of Du Xunhe, a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty. With a total length of more than 3000 meters and a total area of more than 20000 square meters, the cave is an overpass structure, with four floors of Tiandong, Zhongdong, Didong and Xiahe. There are welcoming hall, sea exploring corridor, Donghai Dragon Palace, Tongming palace, Mixian palace, Yuchan palace, yinchanglang, yaochi, Nanhai and Songhua living room. The scenery inside the cave is unique, the scenery outside the cave is beautiful, and the scenery inside and outside blend, which is really intoxicating. Penglai fairy cave is a limestone cave. About 450 million years ago, there was a vast ocean here. Later, due to the internal movement of the earth, the sea water dropped, the land rose, and dissolved into today's caves and stalactites. According to the preliminary research, the formation of the cave body has a history of more than 90 million years. There are different shapes of boulders and three underground rivers in the cave. There are Nanhai, Donghai Dragon Palace, welcome hall, see off living room and other scenic spots. Among them, the great natural landscape frescoes, white transparent "Luo gauze tent", Jasper like sea stone flowers, white crystal "Tian Si" and other covers are unique. On the stone wall of the cave, there are many stone inscriptions of chanting since the Ming Dynasty.

It is 164 kilometers away from Jiuhua Mountain. In Penglai fairy cave, there are many bells and breasts, which are colorful, and the beautiful scenery of fairy cave is magical. It is especially famous for its huge landscape frescoes, white and transparent rosettes, Jasper like stone flowers, and white and crystal clear Tencel.

"Queen Mother yaochi" is the best scenic spot in the cave. On the top of the pink stalactite sits a plump woman. She is thin, pink, and dressed in Golden Jade. Her eyebrows are light and her face is like a full moon, just like the queen mother who has just taken a bath. "Niangniang" is surrounded by a copper mirror covered with gauze. Behind her is a jade bed covered with white gauze. The lines are soft, white and transparent, just like the Luo gauze tent in the heavenly palace. In the crescent shaped pool beside her, a group of fairies are playing and bathing, graceful and lifelike. Because of its unique shape, lifelike image and pure color, this spectacle, which is composed of white transparent calcium carbonate crystals, is inferior to other karst caves in China. Together with the three-dimensional traditional Chinese painting "landscape relief" and "Tiansi" like silver and jade, it is called "Penglai three wonders". In 1987, Mr. Zhao Puchu, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and President of the Chinese Buddhist Association, happily inscribed the name of Penglai cave. Mr. Lai Shaoqi, a famous contemporary Chinese painting master, was also happy to present ink treasures after his tour. Since its opening in 1985, Penglai fairy cave has received more than 500000 tourists from home and abroad.

Tourism information

traffic

The scenic spot is 9 km away from 221 provincial road and 50 km away from Yinhui exit of Yanjiang expressway.

Self driving route

1. Chizhou Yinhui Shitai Penglai Fairy Cave

2. Anqing Yinhui Shitai Penglai Fairy Cave

3. Huangshan Taiping Lake Shitai Penglai cave

4. Tongling Qingyang Shitai Penglai Fairy Cave

5. Huangshan Qimen Guniujiang Shitai Penglai cave

6. From Yinhui exit of Hefei Shanghai Chongqing Expressway to g318-s221 Yinhui Shitai section, drive 5.2km along x024 to Penglai Fairy Cave Scenic spot.

admission ticket

The original price is 80 yuan / person

The graduates of middle school and college entrance examination can enjoy a 50% discount on their tickets, that is, 40 yuan per person

Middle school and college entrance examination graduates with their own admission certificate, three of them go together and one of them is free of charge (each person must show his own admission certificate).

Discount time: June 10 - August 31

The full price ticket of Penglai fairy cave is 80 yuan per person. Women tourists can enjoy half price discount on women's day.

Offer information

In February 2020, the scenic spot will implement a free admission policy for medical workers nationwide. The specific contents are as follows:

1、 Free time: from the date of resumption of operation to December 31, 2020

2、 Free target: national medical workers (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan)

3、 Free ticket scenic spots: 35 national A-level scenic spots in the city (the list is attached)

4、 Free way: with valid certificates (doctor's certificate, nurse's certificate, other medical related certificates)

Five. Participation: scenic spots will be released through official account at the first time.

Special food

Braised egg with toon sprouts

Characteristics of this dish: the early spring Chinese toon sprout tip is used with farmhouse eggs, and the stewing technique is adopted. The Chinese toon sprout is stewed in low heat, and its fragrance penetrates into the eggs, so the finished dish is fragrant, crisp and refreshing.

Shaji hairy tofu

Hairy tofu is a famous traditional dish in Shaji area of Qingyang County. It grows a layer of white hairs on the surface of tofu by artificial fermentation. Because bean curd is fermented to make plant protein into a variety of amino acids, it tastes fresh after cooking.

chafing dish

The taste in Qidu Town of Shitai County is the most orthodox. Dry mountain products such as dried bamboo shoots, agaric, mushrooms and dried Pteridium are selected as the main ingredients, and supplemented with homemade rice balls and meatballs. The appetite is greatly increased and the aftertaste is endless.

Accommodation

Shitai Penglai fairy cave nearby star hotels and economy hotels are available. The hotel has complete supporting facilities.

Local specialties

Wuli, a famous Shitai tea, was selected as tribute tea for many times in the history of Qing Dynasty. At first, wuliqing tea is a little green and astringent, but it will soon be fragrant. He has won many international and national gold awards.

Guniujiang National Nature Reserve is a well preserved virgin forest. There are many rare medicinal materials in the forest. Cornus officinalis, a traditional Chinese medicine material, is known as "the first quality of Chinese jujube peel", which is very popular in the domestic market. Wild vegetables such as Lysimachia, Malan, fern and bamboo shoots are regarded as table delicacies because of their pollution-free characteristics.

"Shitai fragrant bud" has been certified as a national agricultural product geographical indication.

Address: Du Village, Gongxi Township, Shitai County, Anhui Province

Longitude: 117.55455367828

Latitude: 30.225784036947

Ticket information: 80.00 yuan

Opening hours: peak season (March 1 ~ November 30): 07:30 ~ 17:30

Off season (December 1 ~ February 28): 08:00 ~ 17:00

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