Meijiang National Geopark

Meijiang National Geopark is located in the hinterland of central Hunan and the north of Lianyuan City, with convenient transportation and communication. It has the overall service functions of food, accommodation, transportation, tourism, entertainment and shopping. In 1993, it was identified as a provincial scenic spot. According to its unique karst geology and landform, it is applying for National Geopark this year. The natural landscape type of Meijiang river is karst landform, with a variety of surface and underground landscapes, which has the basic conditions for the establishment of a national geopark. The unique geological landscape of Meijiang river is obviously different from other famous landscapes such as Shilin in Yunnan, Guilin in Guangxi and Zhangjiajie in Hunan. There are many kinds of karst caves in Meijiang river, which are rare in China. Shili gallery is a unique geological landscape rarely seen in China, which has the value of geological structure research. The karst cave formed by thin bedded limestone siliceous rock in xianrenfu is rare in China. Lotus spring under Guanyin rock is a spring formed by underground cave cracks, which is continuous all the year round, and has five springs, which are like boiling water. The stone pile of the national treasure hall of zangjun cave is 16 meters high and needs 12 people to embrace. Ancient China is a large karst cave with four layers of self growing bridge, which is unique in shape. The wind rock in Xianglu mountain can be shaken by one hand, but it can't be pushed down by dozens of people. Xianglu mountain has eight sceneries with one stone. It is also a wonderful natural rock sculpture.

Meijiang National Geopark

Meijiang river is located in the northwest of Lianyuan City, the hinterland of central Hunan, with a total area of 128 square kilometers. It is the only National Geopark in central Hunan. It has three national geological relics, 20 provincial geological relics and hundreds of other geological relics. The scale, types and connotation of its karst geological relics are of national and even world significance.

It was approved as a provincial scenic spot in 1993 and a provincial karst Geopark in 2002. In 2009, it obtained the qualification of national geopark construction and invested 180 million yuan in the construction of Geopark. In 2013, it passed the formal name acceptance of the Ministry of land and resources and successfully created a national 4A scenic spot.

The Mekong River is a combination of beautiful scenery, wonders and dangerous situations. It is characterized by magic, magnificence and beauty. Its picturesque scenery and poetic taste have been praised by many leaders and experts as "three Xiangs and one show", "Chu Xiang wonders" and "China's Mekong River".

Introduction to the park

The scenery of the Meijiang river is unique, with concentrated scenic spots and complete landscapes. It has the characteristics of wonder, danger and divine travel. It has a generation of imperial mausoleum, two lakes, three Yanmen, four oases, five temples, six waterfalls, seven Li gorge, eight dangerous peaks, nine bend Meijiang river, ten peerless sceneries, one hundred odd caves, one thousand skillful stones, ten thousand wax plum trees and other beautiful landscapes. The geological landform of Meijiang river is low mountain karst landform with unique geological structure, complete development of rock fissures and sufficient karst geological process. For example, "Tiantan ready to go" in Xianglu mountain, "Tianshengqiao" in xianrenfu, "lianhuayongquan" in Guanyin cliff, "S-shaped curve deep ditch" in Longquan gorge "and" natural mural "in zangjun cave are rare geological relics in the world, which have high aesthetic value and scientific research value. It is a place with natural scenery as the main body, Meishan culture as the connotation and karst geological relics as the characteristics Comprehensive scenic spots.

Since its development and construction in 1992, Meijiang has invested 120 million yuan to develop and open six scenic spots, including Guanyin cliff, zangjun cave, xianrenfu, saihai lake, Longquan gorge and Dajiangkou. It has completed a series of tourism service facilities, such as posts and telecommunications, road transportation, power supply and water supply, hotels and health care. It has good tourism reception capacity and has initially formed a "Three-Day Tour" Tourism pattern. In the future, the Management Office of Meijiang scenic area will speed up the construction of scenic spots, strengthen the protection of tourism resources and ecological environment, increase investment attraction, speed up the establishment of marketing network, speed up the pace of talent structure adjustment, and improve service facilities, so as to strive to meet the national AAAA tourist area standard, and apply for national key scenic spots, so as to truly build Meijiang into Loudi and Hunan To the national preferred tourism brand.

Booking information

① Opening hours: 8:00-17:00

② Children's ticket: height 1.1-1.4 meters half ticket, 1.1 meters below free

③ Elderly people over 70 years old can enjoy 50 yuan half price discount with their senior citizen card, while students can buy 40 yuan discount tickets with their certificates

④ Tickets include: Guanyin cliff, Dajiangkou, Xianren mansion, saihai lake, Longjun cave and saihai Lake scenic spots, Dajiangkou reservoir, cruise at your own expense.

natural quality

In the Meijiang Geopark, there are many kinds of geological relic landscapes, such as Canyon, peak and cliff, stone forest landform, karst cave landform, underground river, spring, waterfall, collapse accumulation landform, odd shape and strange stone, marine biological fossil and so on. They are typical, rare, systematic and complete, natural and beautiful. They have high scientific value, ecological environment value and aesthetic value Value.

typical

The typical geological relics in the park are mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1. The Longquan gorge in the park is a typical karst valley geomorphic landscape of carbonate rock formed by dissolution and erosion. The relative elevation difference is 200-400m. The karst caves appear along the upper valley of the gorge. The source of the stream in the gorge is the underground river in the Meigong karst cave.

2. There are typical karst cave geological landscape in the park, and the cave sediments are typical and concentrated. The "Jiuzhou Wanguo bridge" in ancient China is a four story Tiansheng bridge, and the meihuagong cave is a 19 story cave.

3. There are typical karst peak forest, peak cluster, a line of sky, Tianshengqiao, karst funnel and other landscapes in the park. Xianglu mountain forest is densely developed with various forms. Xianrenfu Sangong Tianshengqiao is another example of Tianshengqiao formed by carbonate karst.

4. In the park, the siliceous banded limestone in the lower Permian Maokou Formation is the standard stratum of the lower Permian in South China, and the silty carbonaceous shale and siltstone at the bottom of Qixia Formation are the standard stratum for the boundary between Carboniferous and Permian.

5. The park and its surrounding areas (Qiaotouhe, caijiabian Shuangtang anticline, chetianjiang syncline, etc.) are typical regional folds and coal bearing synclines.

6. Inside and outside the park, there are standard fossils which can be divided into Carboniferous and Permian, i.e. Ozawa meander and Xiaofang meander from middle and Upper Carboniferous, and shivage meander from Lower Permian.

7. In about 40 km2, a complete groundwater network is composed of 5 main underground rivers with a total length of 35 km and dozens of springs, which is typical and peculiar.

rarity

1. Karst caves are well developed in the park. There are many types of chemical sediments in the caves, and the unique scenery is rare in the country and even in the world. Meihuagong karst cave with nine layers of caves, the longest 2.5m long slender goose tube group, the multi-level Tianshengqiao and karst waterfall in the ancient Chinese karst cave, the lifelike murals on the cliff and in the cave (photo 2-20), etc. These karst caves and cliff landscapes are rare in China and even in the world.

2. Xianren bridge across Xianren river is a three arch overpass composed of a single arch Tiansheng bridge and a double arch Tiansheng bridge. The single arch is 40 meters high and the span is 10 meters. The double arch bridge is 50 meters high and the span is 30 meters. In addition, there are four stone peaks beside the bridge, just like piers, waiting to be repaired. Such a wonderful and spectacular Tiansheng overpass can be called one of the best in the world.

3. In the park, there are eight kinds of strange and ingenious stones, each of which has its own unique features. Its vivid shape and wonderful scenery are rare. "Tiantan ready to go" is a huge stone weighing about 10 tons and about 5 meters high (photo 2-21). It stands on the top of the cliff at an angle of 60 ° with the bedrock. The contact surface between the two stones is only 50 cm2. One person can shake it with his hand, but dozens of people can't fall down. It's ready to go all day, It can be called one of the best in the world.

4. The lotus spring in the park is a karst spring group, covering an area of 1200 square meters. The spring water gushes from five springs, forming five lotus flowers protruding upward. The maximum flow of the spring reaches 5 cubic meters per second, and the diameter of the flowing water is about 2 meters. It is a rare super large karst spring in China.

Systematic integrity

The systematicness and integrity of the geological relics in the park are mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1. There are many types of geological relic landscapes inside and outside the park. From stratum formation to tectonic movement to modern landform, the total formation process and development stage of geological relic are preserved systematically and completely, and the contents are rich and colorful.

2. The development types of carbonate karst landforms in the park are complete, and the formation process and development stages are systematic and complete. There are not only the karst gully, stone bud, funnel and other landforms in childhood, but also the valley, peak forest, peak cluster and other landforms in middle age, as well as the solitary peak and residual hill in late age.

3. Saihai karst lake is an underground river developed along the NW direction of joint and fissure dissolution, which was formed by the crustal uplift and cave roof collapse. It is the main gathering place of groundwater in the area, and forms a complete underground water network with underground rivers, springs, fissure water and streams in the park.

4. The distribution of Carboniferous and Permian strata in the park is complete, which is a complete standard section of Carboniferous Permian strata.

5. Inside and outside the park, there are complete anticlines and synclines, such as chetianjiang syncline and Qiaotouhe syncline.

6. There are two complete groundwater storage structures inside and outside the park, namely Qiaotouhe syncline and chetianjiang syncline.

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