Mandarin duck in the sea of flowers

Huahai Yuanyang, also known as luanheizi and eye lake, is one of the eight ancient sceneries in Menyuan. It is 36 kilometers away from Haomen Town, Menyuan County. It is located in Huangcheng grassland, which is known as golden grassland. It is an important part of Qilian mountain grassland, the six most beautiful grasslands in China. The lake is surrounded by eight lotus like hills and is composed of 108 springs. It is set off against the gangshika snow peak, just like a mirror embedded in the snow highlands. This is a nature reserve for rare waterfowl in high mountains. In spring and summer, there are about 100 Tibetan mandarin ducks playing up and down with the waves, which is called "paradise for love birds".

Mandarin duck in the sea of flowers

Huahai mandarin duck, also known as luanheaizi, eye lake. It is 36 kilometers away from Haomen Town, Menyuan County. It is located in Huangcheng grassland, which is known as golden grassland. It is an important part of Qilian mountain grassland, the six most beautiful grasslands in China. The lake is surrounded by eight lotus like hills and is composed of 108 springs. It is set off against the gangshika snow peak, just like a mirror embedded in the snow highlands. It is a nature reserve for rare waterfowl in high mountains. In spring and summer, there are about 100 Tibetan mandarin ducks, playing up and down with the waves. It is known as "paradise for love birds". In Xining Fu Xinzhi, the name of "Yuanyang in the sea of flowers" is recorded in the annals of history and listed as one of the eight ancient scenes of Menyuan.

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"The sea mirror waves turn over the flowers and wipe away the dust. East wind blowing shadow green uneven, envy mandarin duck pairs, as a home. In the years of flowing water, there is a mixture of pleasure and life. No matter what happens outside, which one is like him? " Liao Su's poem shangque in the late Qing Dynasty depicts the mandarin ducks in the sea of flowers, which is known as one of the "eight sceneries of Xining" in Xining Fu Xinzhi.

"Huahai Yuanyang", also known as luanheizi (also known as eye lake), is located in the south of panpo, 42 km west of Menyuan County, Qinghai Province. It is an important part of the six most beautiful grasslands in China, namely Qilian mountain grassland, in Huangcheng grassland, which is known as golden grassland. Literati call it "Huahai", but local herdsmen call it "luanheaizi". Huahai is about the natural composition of the lake and the surrounding mountains. On the Huangcheng prairie, there are lotus petals all around the lake, which look like mountains, embracing stamens. On the whole, there is a blooming eight petaled lotus. Luanhei, on the other hand, refers to the fact that it is composed of hundreds of spring water. Around it, there are countless stars like bright water. The local people can only describe it as "luanhei", which is just a reflection of the grassland around it.

Huahai Yuanyang wetland

"Huahai mandarin duck" is a nature reserve of rare waterfowl in high mountains. In spring and summer, there are about 100 Tibetan mandarin ducks, playing with the waves, which is called "paradise of love birds". In Xining Fu Xinzhi, the name of "Yuanyang in the sea of flowers" is recorded in the annals of history and listed as one of the eight ancient scenes of Menyuan. Luanheizi, a lake in this alpine wetland, is also a nature reserve for alpine waterfowls. The wetland is called the lung of the earth. The wetland of Huahai is even more precious to Qilian Mountain, a giant with high cold and lack of oxygen. Tibetan mandarin ducks, who are not so beautiful in appearance, are just like people on the plateau. They don't decorate their appearance, but they are praised for their loyalty to love. They always appear in pairs and accompany each other day and night. When one of them dies, the other will never exist alone. In a short time, they will die for their lovers. Accompanied by Tibetan mandarin duck are red crowned crane, black necked Crane and other rare birds. They come here in April and may every year to lay eggs and have children. They sail far in August and September, reflecting the meaning of life in constant flight.

Legend of luanheizi

It is said that this sea of flowers is also related to Monk Tang's seeking scriptures from the West. At that time, four of Tang's monks and disciples went to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures. On the way to Wuzhuang Temple of Wanshou mountain, the monkey king was encouraged by Zhu Bajie to eat ginseng fruit of Zhenyuan immortal. He was scolded by Zhenyuan immortal's disciples. In his anger, the monkey king knocked over ginseng fruit tree. Zhenyuan immortal catches Wukong and doesn't let them go on the road if they don't cure ginseng and fruit trees. In desperation, the monkey king turned to Avalokitesvara. Guanyin Bodhisattva came to the holy mountain by riding on the lotus platform and lived the immortal tree with the nectar in the pure bottle.

I don't know how many years later, in the place where Guanyin Bodhisattva once parked the lotus platform, eight mountains miraculously grew up. One mountain is a lotus, and eight mountains are the complete eight treasure lotus platform. In the middle of babaolianhua mountain, there was a lot of spring water, and the water accumulated more and more, and later became a pool of lake water. Under the setting sun, the lake reflects five colors: gold, wood, silver, fire red and earth yellow. There is a kind of color in Yitan lake, which is very beautiful. These five colors are the colors of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. It turns out that the dew sprinkled in Bodhisattva's pure bottle is protected by the lotus throne, so the water overflows from the ground in the middle of Babao lotus mountain. Because the nectar and holy water infiltrate into the ground and merge with the five elements, and then seep out of the ground. When you see the sun, it appears in the color of the five elements. Lake after lake, connected and separated, decorated on the green grass, just like the Babao lotus blooming in the middle of a beautiful flower, so people call it "flower sea".

The spring in the "flower sea" is just a day and night, but it is just a water coming out of the water. But when the water in the lake rises to a certain height, it never rises again. The lake is not dried up because the net is drawn from the three rivers and lakes, the eight seas and four blasphemes, and the essence of the stream source. The exit is at the foot of gangshika mountain, 20 kilometers east of "Huahai". The outlet is Wuyan spring. If you taste it one by one, you can get a taste from the spring. The Wuwei water falls from the cliff and forms a colorful waterfall in the sunlight. The color is exactly the same as that of Huahai sunset. People at the foot of the mountain often drink the water from the Wuwei spring, which can prevent all kinds of diseases and prolong life.

Besides, although the ginseng fruits that were knocked down by the monkey king were cured by the Bodhisattva's nectar and holy water and returned to the immortal tree, they had roots in the earth, so they also bear fruits in the earth. However, because they grow in the earth, they follow the law of the growth of all things in the world. They no longer bloom in 3000 years, bear fruit in 3000 years, and mature in 3000 years. They no longer grow into giant trees and bear fruit in the trees, but grow in the trees Soil will bear fruit, a year, winter buds, summer grass, autumn flowers, winter fruit. People dig it out to eat, and give it a common name "Juema", but after all, it is the root of ginseng fruit, so the nutrition is especially good, invigorating the spleen and stomach, refreshing and brain clearing.

So, where is longevity mountain now? It turns out that it has already reached the cloud and has become a snow peak for thousands of years. This is gangshika, the highest peak of Menyuan. After the Tang monks and disciples left for the west, Zhenyuan immortal in Wuzhuang temple also led his disciples to take the immortal tree to heaven. However, on the cliff under the glacier at the top of the mountain, there is still a couplet in Wuzhuang Temple: "immortal mansion, a family with the same longevity as heaven".

Address: in the Western Huangcheng prairie of Haomen Town, Menyuan County, Qinghai Province (36km away from Haomen Town, Menyuan County)

Longitude: 101.362776

Latitude: 37.624285

Tour time: 1-2 hours

Traffic information: Huahai Yuanyang is located in Huangcheng prairie on the north slope of Lenglongling in the Eastern Qilian Mountains, 36 kilometers away from Haomen Town, Menyuan County.

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Xining Menyuan County (Haomen town)

At Xinning bus station in Xinning, there are more than ten buses to Menyuan County every day. The whole journey is about three hours, and the ticket price is about 40 yuan per person. When you arrive at Haomen Town, you can charter a bus to Xinning bus station. The telephone number of Xinning bus station is 0971-6155795

[self driving]

Starting from Menyuan County, walk westward along gangqing highway, 22 kilometers northward after national highway 227 in qingshizui Town, and then pass panpo pass in Huangcheng

Ticket information: 30 yuan per person

Opening hours: 8:00-17:00

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