Lingfeng

The first peak in Hunan Province

Shennong peak

synonym

Lingfeng generally refers to Shennong peak

Shennong peak

It is located in Lingfeng village, Xiacun Township, Southeast of Yanling County, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province. It is 200 km away from Zhuzhou City in the northwest and 160 km away from Hengyang City in the northwest. It is an important part of Jinggang Mountain at the junction of Jiangxi Province. This area is located in the middle of Luoxiao mountain, the northwest slope of wanyang mountain, and the north foot of Nanling Mountain. It is a transitional edge zone from Nanling Mountain to hills in central Hunan, and belongs to Zhongshan landform. With wanyang mountain of Nanling Mountain range as the main body, there are 103 peaks with an altitude of more than 1000 meters. The mountains are in a north-south trend, and the terrain is relatively low, but the mountains overlap, the terrain is steep, and the valleys are crisscross. The highest altitude in the area is 2115.2 meters, and Lingfeng is the highest peak in Hunan Province

The lowest altitude is 420m and the relative elevation difference is 1700m.

1 evolution history

After the opening ceremony of China Hunan Tourism Festival in 2005 and the ceremony of Yandi mausoleum's 100 dragon ancestor worship, Yanling County launched a series of renaming work of "Yandi Shennong".

In 1994, with the approval of the State Council, Lingxian County of Zhuzhou City was officially renamed Yanling County. On this basis, Taoyuandong National Forest Park was renamed Shennonggu National Forest Park with the approval of the State Forestry Administration on August 30, 2005.

It is said that the Shennong family of Emperor Yan once collected herbs on this mountain. In memory of Emperor Yan, later generations called this mountain Shennong peak. Lingfeng, the first peak in Hunan, was also renamed Shennong peak.

2. Environmental characteristics

climate

It belongs to subtropical monsoon humid climate

The annual rainfall is sufficient, about 1100 mm.

The annual average temperature is only 14.4 ℃. The average temperature in January is 0.8 ℃; the average temperature in July is 21 ℃, the average maximum temperature is about 22 ℃, the comfortable period is more than 200 days, the forest coverage rate is 92%, and the negative oxygen ion content in the air is very high. It is called "Central South Green capital". It is a resort for tourism, leisure and recuperation, field activities and scientific investigation, and a good place for summer vacation in hot summer. Due to the influence of alpine climate, the temperature difference between the mountain and the mountain is about 10 degrees.

vegetation

According to statistics, there are more than 1500 kinds of natural plants and a large area of virgin forest in the scenic area. Among them, there are ancient relict tree species left by Quaternary glaciers, Taxus chinensis, which has a history of 2.5 million years on the earth, Ginkgo biloba in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Fokienia hodginsii community, a rare relict plant in the world, and hemlock top community, which is known as "living fossil of plants", and three kinds of precious medicinal materials 7、 Gastrodia elata, Anoectochilus roxburghii, July flower, Michelia fargesii, etc.

3. Historical red forest

It is said that Shennong came here to collect hundreds of herbs, which shows that this mountain is really a blessed land.

During the revolutionary period of the last century, Chairman Mao, the great leader, once passed here to Jinggangshan revolutionary base. He left four big words "expand the Red Army" in the temple of lishuzhou village. In the east of lishuzhou village, there is a small stream called Hongshui River. At that time, Chairman Mao led his troops to camp here. So far, the remains of the ordnance factory can still be seen in the depth of the mountain. In the Holocaust during the war, nearly 2000 people in the village were killed, corpses were discarded everywhere, and the whole stream was dyed red by blood, so it was named Hongshui River. Unexpectedly, such a clear river has such a bloody history.

4 scenic spots

Tianma Village

Tianma village is like a ribbon running through the scenic area, with a total length of 5 kilometers. It goes up the river with different scenery. There are more than 10 landscapes in total. It can be said that "different scenery in ten li, one heavy sky in one Li". There are five main landscapes in this scenic spot, namely mangao beach, Bingjiu group, hemlock community, Huanglong beach and Wohu beach.

Mangaotan, where there is a 30 meter long mangou shaped river. There are round holes of different sizes and shapes on the stones of the river bed, which look like "horseshoes". It is said that Emperor Yan of Shennong had a rest here when he went up here to collect medicine by Tianma. It was the footprints left by Tianma when he drank water by the stream. In fact, these "horseshoes" are ice mortar. During the Quaternary glacial movement 2.5 million years ago, the ice layer melted, and the ice water that had been melting for many years poured down from high places and impacted the ground. After continuous impact, the stones on the ground were washed out of round holes. Because the round holes were very similar to mortar, they were called mortar. In this group, the largest one is 3 meters long and 2.7 meters deep, while the smallest one is only a few centimeters, the size of a button. Most of the glaciers have no water inlet at the high place around them, but only have water outlet at the low place. A few glaciers are connected with each other at the bottom to form connected glaciers. Some of them are as clean as washing, and there is water in the mortar, floating with small fish and shrimp; some are close to the river bank, and are full of flowers and plants, such as natural bonsai, which is unique and wonderful.

On both sides of MACAOTAN, there is a plant similar to Taxus chinensis, which is the unique tertiary relic tree species in the middle subtropical region of China, known as "living fossil" - Tsuga chinensis. There are four hemlock trees over 1000 years old in this community, and 26 trees under 1000 years old. The fourth and the second sixth are linked together, which is exactly the birthday of Emperor Yan Shennong (April 26 of the lunar calendar). Nature is such a coincidence. Along Tianma village, the landscape 500 meters away from machao beach is called Huanglong beach. The water here is as transparent as a mirror. Under the sparkling water waves, a 20 meter long Huanglong seems to swim and play in the water, with its scales and claws looming. Therefore, it is named Huanglong beach.

About 1000 meters up the stream from Huanglongtan to wohutan, where the water is murmuring and clear. Under the stream, a "tiger" with yellow and black fur can be seen. People call it wohutan. This "South China tiger" in the stream, not in spring, summer, autumn and winter, faithfully guards the holy Tianma stockade.

Baishui Village

Baishui village is parallel to Tianma village, with a total length of 5 km. Baishui village, with rapids, dangerous beaches, deep valleys, shallow bays, narrow roads and sharp bends, integrates primitive, mysterious, majestic and precipitous features. Baishui village and Tianma village are like two dancing ribbons. The central part of lishuzhou scenic area is tightly intertwined from south to north. The waterfalls formed by the steep mountains are like beautiful silver chains. Against the backdrop of the waterfalls, the downhill is greener and the water is more beautiful. Baishui village has 18 overlapping landscapes, among which Fokienia hodginsii community, Baishou Valley, Qinglong Valley and lover valley are the most distinctive.

Fokienia hodginsii is a relict plant of the Tertiary in geological history, which is unique in China. In 1911, an English merchant ship captain was in Yongfu County, Fujian Province

(now Yongtai County) collected a strange plant specimen, similar to pine and cypress in shape, but not pine or cypress. He named it Fokienia hodginsii, or Jianbai or fukienia hodginsii for short. After nearly 100 years, this tree species has not been found outside China, and it is rare to appear in lishuzhou.

Baihuo Valley is located in the lower reaches of Baishui village. The landscape is about 500 meters long. The rocks in the valley and on both sides of the valley have different shapes after being eroded by wind and rain. There are many strange shapes, like all kinds of animals. Some are like dragons, playing in the stream; some are like deer, looking for food on the bank; some are like monkeys, standing on the rocks to watch. From different angles, like all kinds of different animals.

Qinglong Valley

Along the valley of beasts, you can go up 1500 meters to Qinglong valley. Qinglong Valley is composed of two streams and two cascaded waterfalls. The large Qinglong lake is about 300 square meters, and the small one is more than 100 square meters. The water in the lake is blue. It is said that there is a green dragon living in each of the two pools, which dyed the water into this color, hence the name of the Green Dragon Valley. Qinglongtan forms two cascaded waterfalls with a drop of about 20 meters, just like two windows hanging in a green barrier. The water vapor from the waterfall can wash, discharge and purify the urban dust and noise in your body.

Green Dragon Valley, shuoxi and up to the valley of lovers. It is said that a long time ago, a local couple was washing medicine in the medicine pool above the waterfall. His wife accidentally fell into the deep pool under the waterfall. In order to save his wife, his husband jumped into the pool and held up his wife. Because of the steep stone walls around the pool, they were unable to go ashore for a long time, and their lives were hanging by a thread. When goddess Guanyin found out, she turned the stone wall on the right side of the waterfall into a stone stream, and the couple were finally saved. Valentine's Valley is mainly composed of a waterfall with a drop of about 50 meters and a stone stream with a length of 50 meters, a width of 20 meters and a height of 30 meters. Looking down from the mouth of the waterfall, the waterfall flies down. The wonder is that you can see the waterfall, but you can't see where the water is going.

Alpine meadow

Another unique landscape of Shennong peak is the Rhododendron corridor and alpine meadow. The corridor has more than 200 mu. Due to the influence of alpine climate, these vegetation have been growing slowly for more than 100 years. When spring comes, all kinds of wild flowers are in full bloom, and rhododendrons are dotted with this world

Shennong peak also got its name. Alpine meadow is mainly distributed in the mountains above 1800 meters above sea level, with a total area of more than ten thousand mu. Among them, the meadows with an area of more than 3000 mu are mainly concentrated in the southwest of shennongfeng scenic spot, about 4 km away from Zhongzhou. Although the meadow is not as boundless as Inner Mongolia prairie, it is also vast and deep, and the long grass is about 30 cm high. The grass layer is low and the grass layer is thick

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