Tonglu Yaolin fairyland

Yaolin cave is located in Yaolin Town, Tonglu County. Formed 100000 years ago, the cave is a huge limestone cave with an area of 28000 square meters. The whole cave is deep underground, with thousands of postures. It is known as the top of karst caves in China for its zigzag and deep landform and magnificent karst scenery.

Cave scenery is magnificent, known as "Yaolin fairyland". There are seven halls in the cave, the largest of which covers an area of 9000 square meters. The first four halls are the masterpieces of nature for hundreds of millions of years: stalagmites, stone waterfall, stone curtain, stone curtain and so on. The latter three halls use modern scenery, lighting, sound and other effects as well as scientific and technological means. Through 21 scenes and more than 300 characters, they reproduce 18 moving stories in the legend of China, giving people the enjoyment of beauty and the edification of wisdom.

The tunnel had collapsed and was re excavated in 1979. Chinese rhinoceros tooth fossils, charcoal embers of the Western Zhou Dynasty, printed pottery of the Eastern Han Dynasty, charcoal inscriptions of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and ancient coins of the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty were found in the cave.

Outside the cave, you can also visit the thirty-six imitation wax museum and Miaofeng garden. The constant temperature in the cave is about 17-18 ℃. Since the 1980s, it has become a hot tourist spot and one of the top 40 tourist attractions in China.

Yaolin Wonderland

synonym

Tonglu Yaolin fairyland generally refers to Yaolin fairyland

Yaolin fairyland is located in Tonglu County, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China. It is 80 kilometers away from the urban area of Hangzhou and 23 kilometers away from the county seat. It is a typical representative of karst caves in the subtropical humid area in the central coastal area of East China and a national scenic spot. Yaolin Wonderland, also known as Yaolin cave, is one of the "Top 40 tourist attractions in China" and "top 10 tourist attractions in Zhejiang Province" with a depth of 1 km and a total area of 28000 square meters. In 2002, it became one of the national AAAA scenic spots. It is known as "the top of all caves in China" for its tortuous cave landform and magnificent stone landscape. Painter Ye Qianyu praised it as "rare in China and rare in the world".

Practical information

Best season

May to August. The best season for Yaolin cave is summer. Hangzhou has a warm and humid climate with four distinct seasons. The annual average temperature is 16.2 ℃, the summer average temperature is 28.6 ℃, and the winter average temperature is 3.8 ℃. The average annual rainfall is 1500 mm, and the average relative humidity is 76%. From March to April, spring is the peak season for tourism, and the temperature is between 9-15 ℃, which is also the best season for tourism. The rainy season is from late June to early July. The weather changes from sunny to rainy. In the first and middle of August, there are many typhoons with heavy rain. The temperature is above 20-26 ℃.

geographical environment

Yaolin fairyland attracts tourists all over the world with its magical topography and magnificent stalactite scenery. It is a typical karst landform, a typical representative of karst caves in the subtropical humid area in the central coastal area of East China, and a national scenic spot.

Karst is also called karst. It usually refers to the area where rocks are exposed, vegetation is not growing, and there are caves, sinkholes, underground rivers but lack of surface rivers and lakes. It is the result of dissolution of soluble massive limestone by groundwater. The term "Karst" originally refers to the limestone area along the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea, and has been used in all similar areas. Karst is distributed in scattered areas in the world, such as Coase in France, Guangxi in China and Kentucky in the United States.

The conditions for karst development are as follows:

1. There are tight limestone with joints near the surface;

2. Moderate to large rainfall;

3. The groundwater circulation is smooth.

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is easy to dissolve in slightly acidic water, which widely exists in nature. Rainwater seeps into limestone along horizontal and vertical cracks, dissolving it and taking it away. Because the surface material is also carried away by the running water, the limestone that has not been dissolved forms the limestone karst surface. The vertical cracks along the joints gradually widen and deepen, forming a rocky terrain. When the rainwater flows along the underground cracks, it continuously widens and deepens the cracks until the cave system or underground river channel is finally formed. Narrow vertical shafts connect these channels, allowing surface water to flow smoothly through underground rivers. Most of the big caves in the world are karst areas. The rock gully, Tianshengqiao, solitary limestone peak and stone forest that we often see in the photos are all the unique topography of karst area. If the cave is large enough and the top is close to the ground surface, the cave top will collapse. This creates depressions called sinkholes. The sinkhole is one of the most representative features of karst topography, which is often merged into a larger depression, called poligou (commonly known as "Tiankeng"), which is often flat bottomed and covered by soil formed by insoluble residues in limestone. In some areas, there are more insoluble substances in limestone, which form arable soil. In some karst areas with heavy rainfall, all the precipitation completely infiltrates into the ground, even making it difficult to find domestic water in that area. In other places, large springs may appear on the surface, flow over the surface in the form of rivers, and then disappear underground again.

origin

According to the Ministry of Geology

According to the mensuration, Yaolin area was once a shallow sea 270 million years ago (in the rocks of the mountains in this area, the fossils of marine animals, such as meandering tadpoles, meandering stoneworms, seashells, etc., can still be seen in the shallow sea). After several orogenic activities such as Variscan and Himalayas, a new landform was formed.

Yaolin has three necessary conditions for the formation of karst caves: one is soluble rock limestone; the other is permeable fracture, which can be divided into extension and secondary. Geologically, it is called bedding and joint fault respectively (the primary is the layered fracture formed by limestone in the process of seawater deposition, and the secondary is the fracture, weathering and diurnal deformation caused by rock movement through geological structure) The third is flowing water. This kind of carbonated water meets the hard limestone, just like a "sharp chisel", which endlessly carves, turning the rock into such beautiful beautiful stone. According to historical records, as early as the Song Dynasty, poet Ke Youzhai compared this cave to a fairyland. In the 12th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Baoyi, the magistrate of Tonglu, nominated this cave as "Yaolin fairyland". This place is also recorded in the annals of Tonglu County during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. It is said that it is a place for gods to play.

natural environment

According to the annals of Tonglu County written by Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, "Yaolin cave, 45 Li northwest of the county, is about two Zhang wide, with more than five Zhang steps down. There are cliffs, lands, pools and caves; the walls are colorful, like clouds and rosy clouds; the spring has eight tones, like many drums and musical instruments; the sound of human and dog can be surprising. It's also a place where immortals travel and gather "。

There are four characters of "Yaolin fairyland" engraved on the old cave about 20 meters away from the present cave entrance. On the right side of the cliff, there is an inscription of Yang Baoyi, the magistrate of Tonglu County in 1886. On the stone wall of the three cave hall, there are some handwriting such as "the 18th year of kaihuang of Sui Dynasty" and "the 17th year of Zhenguan of Tang Dynasty". Because of its long history, it has been covered by a layer of transparent calcium carbonate crystals, which has a history of more than 1300 years. There is also a cemented carbonaceous layer. According to isotopic examination and analysis by relevant experts, it is confirmed that this is the remains of ancient fire in the Western Zhou Dynasty more than 2900 years ago. In addition, we also found the Eastern Han dynasty printed pottery pieces scattered among the cave halls, the ancient coins of the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, and the celadon fragments of the Yuan Dynasty. There is a bronze mirror engraved with the word "Fangzhou" written by Xu Fang, a poet from Tonglu.

There is a murmur of underground water, which has no trace and shadow. It leads you into this mysterious world. Entering the first Hall of "fairies gathering", the "lion and elephant welcome" is like a solemn screen door, with a male lion on the left and a group of long nosed elephants on the right to welcome guests from afar. After the welcome door, there is a splendid "Palace" in front of us. On the 30 meter high dome, there are thousands of beautiful things. The colorful stalactites are like stars and clouds. In the middle of the cave hall, a huge "carp" is leaping from the Yao pool. High on the "cold stage", as if there are fairy music melodious, Fairy Dance sleeve. "Penglai Palace" is full of haze, shadow and unpredictable, which makes people reverie. "Galaxy waterfall" is rare both in terms of geological structure and landscape appreciation. This karst rock waterfall is 7 meters high and 13 meters wide. It is like an iceberg melting with snow. Although there is no sound, it seems to have the sound of thunder. It can be called a wonder in the world.

Adjacent to the stone waterfall, there is a 7-meter-high Shuiqiu stone column, which has been formed for several decades. It is very beautiful and straight, just like the Huabiao coiled in front of Tiananmen Square in Kowloon. On the hillside along the way, there are delicate landscape stones, one silk, one layer after another, which are similar to ganoderma lucidum, so it is called "Ganoderma lucidum fairy mountain". There is a small stone frog in the mountain, which is as beautiful as jade. It is hiding in the cave and is ready to come out. On the other side, there is a stone lion lying on the ground, which looks like closing one's eyes. A lion and a frog jointly guard the important task of Ganoderma lucidum. There are also magnificent "stone curtain platform", lifelike "carnation jungle" and colorful scenery“

The fragrance of Magnolia and the charming "panda playing ball" It's dazzling.

In the second cave hall with ups and downs of terrain, the canyon is deep and the clear spring flows slowly. A stalagmite beside the water looks like an old man with a white beard fishing. Some people say it's Jiang Taigong, too

Chinese PinYin : Tong Lu Yao Lin Xian Jing