Cuihua Moutain

Cuihua Mountain, formerly known as Taiyi mountain, consists of three parts: Bishan Lake scenic area, Tianchi scenic area and avalanche stone sea scenic area. It's said that Taiyi had practiced here, so it got its name. It is said that during the reign of king you of Zhou Dynasty, there was a big earthquake in Guanzhong. Strong landslides occurred in Cuihuashan area with relatively weak geological structure. Ganqiuchi and cuihuafeng were the most seriously damaged areas. A large number of landslides filled the valley and intercepted water to form lakes, forming two rare barrier lakes on the north slope of Qinling Mountains, namely shuiqiuchi and ganqiuchi. Shuiqiu pool covers an area of about 20 hectares, because its altitude is more than 1000 meters, also known as Cuihua Mountain Tianchi. There is a natural ice cave and a wind tunnel on the top of the colluvial body. The temperature difference between the inside and outside of the ice cave can reach 23 ℃, and it will not freeze all the year round.

Cuihua Moutain

Cuihua Mountain, formerly known as Taiyi mountain, consists of three parts: Bishan Lake scenic area, Tianchi scenic area and avalanche stone sea scenic area. It's said that Taiyi had practiced here, so it got its name.

Cuihua Mountain scenic spot is located in the north foot of Qinling Mountain, 20 kilometers south of Xi'an City, covering an area of 32 square kilometers. In 1992, it was rated as "Zhongnanshan National Forest Park" by the Ministry of forestry; in 1993, it was rated as "provincial scenic spot"; in 1997, it was rated as "Xi'an top ten tourist attractions"; in 2001, it was rated as "Shaanxi Cuihua Mountain Landslide landscape national geopark"; in 2002, it was rated as "AAAA tourist attraction" by the National Tourism Administration; in 2009, it was rated as "Qinhua mountain landslide landscape national geopark" by UNESCO Lingzhong Nanshan World Geopark;

In the same year, it was rated as "safe scenic spot of Shaanxi Province"; in 2010, it was rated as "safe demonstration scenic spot of Shaanxi Province"; in 2012, it was awarded the National Water Conservancy Scenic spot.

geographical environment

Cuihua Mountain is a natural scenic spot, located in the north of Qinling Mountain, 23 kilometers south of Xi'an, with an altitude of 2132 meters and an area of 1785 hectares. It is famous for "Zhongnan Duxiu" and "China Geological and geomorphological Museum".

Cuihua Mountain scenic spot consists of three parts: Bishan Lake scenic spot, Tianchi scenic spot and avalanche stone sea scenic spot.

Cuihua Mountain is located in Taiyi Valley, 30 kilometers south of Xi'an city. Yukou is also known as Taiyi palace, which was built in the second year of Yuanfeng (109 BC) by Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty

"Taiyi mountain", it is said that Taiyi immortal cultivates here, and gets this name.

Cuihua Mountain, originated from the Qin Dynasty, is the "Shanglin garden" and "Royal Garden" of all dynasties. Emperor Qinshihuang hunted here for leisure, and Emperor Hanwu set up a Taoist temple to worship Taiyi. Qinsheng palace is the summer palace of Li Shimin, the king of Tang Dynasty. With its unique natural landscape, rich human history and more than 2000 years of legend, it is known as the "Sanqin" tourist attraction.

In 1992, it was named Zhongnanshan National Forest Park. In 1997, it was recommended to be one of the top ten tourist attractions in Xi'an. In 2002, it was rated as national AAAA tourist area by National Tourism Administration.

Cuihua Mountain is located in the north of Qinling Mountains (taiyigong Town, Chang'an District), 23 kilometers south of Xi'an city. The beautiful scenery of lakes and mountains and the rare landslide landform in China make Cuihua Mountain famous for its unique scenery in Zhongnan and Chinese geological and geomorphological Museum.

Cuihua Mountain scenic spot consists of three parts: Bishan Lake scenic spot, Tianchi scenic spot and avalanche stone sea scenic spot. Cuihua Mountain is surrounded by peaks and steep cliffs. Tianchi, also known as Taiyi pool or longyiqiu, is a natural pool with an area of about 50000 square meters.

Cuihua Mountain is beautiful with picturesque scenery. The most attractive one is Qiuchi at the top of the peak. Qiuchi mountain ring stand, rippling blue waves, clear as a mirror, spotless. The Taiyi hall in the south of the pool is the place where people prayed for rain in the old days. In addition, it is also famous for Lugong cave, Huanglong cave, ice cave, wind tunnel and Baxian cave in chibei. The ice cave is still frozen in midsummer, and the wind tunnel is chilly all the year round. There is a waterfall flying down the southeast of the ice cave, which is described as spectacular.

Around Qiuchi. In ancient times, many temples were built, such as Laojun temple, Notre Dame palace and so on. The wind tunnel in the west of the pool is a landslide relic. It is made of huge granite. When you enter the tunnel, you will feel cool and cool. The ice cave is made of huge rocks. Although there is strong ice in summer, it is chilly all the year round. In the southeast of the pool, there is ambergris nest. In the northeast, there are laojun'an, Jinhua cave, Yuan peak and other places of interest. The scenery here is beautiful, elegant and quiet. It is a summer resort in the suburbs of Xi'an. Cuihua temple fair is held every year from the first day to the third day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar.

Historic sites

In the Qin and Han Dynasties and Tang Dynasties, it was established as the Royal "Shanglin garden" and "Royal Garden". King Yingzheng of Qin Dynasty used to hunt and relax here. Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty once set up a temple to worship Taiyi God. The palace of Qin Sheng is the summer palace of Li Shimin of Tang Dynasty. It is regarded as a tourist attraction of "Sanqin". Zhongnanshan scenic spot, as well as Taiyi palace and Cuiwei palace built in the Han and Tang Dynasties, is a place for emperors to sacrifice gods and play in the summer.

Landslide spectacle

SHORTS

Strange stones refer to the colluvium and boulders that fall down from the mountain, which are large boulders that accumulate into huge colluvium from the mountain, also known as "colluvium boulders".

The geological traces and geomorphic types formed by Cuihua landslide are well preserved, especially in the collapse rock sea area to the north of the ice wind tunnel. Due to the overlapping of boulders, scattered height, dense vegetation, poor accessibility, and the tolerance of the rock itself, the relics are better preserved. There is a boulder in Cuihua Mountain, which is 60 meters long, 40 meters wide and 30 meters high. Someone built a house on the boulder, which is as stable as a rock.

The large gravels are deposited into huge colluvial bodies from the place where the mountain body breaks down. The avalanche gravels are accumulated along the valley, forming a large area of gravel slope. Looking down from a high place, the boulders are in strange shapes, either standing or lying, or straight or inclined, in various shapes, rugged and magnificent.

In the process of landslides, the huge gravels sometimes break off along the joints. Beside shuiqiuchi, there is a gravel which is divided into two pieces by serrated joints, and the fracture surface with crisscross teeth is very typical. It is estimated that the total amount of colluvium beside Ganqiu pool and Shuiqiu pool can reach 300 million cubic meters.

Strange hole

There are ice caves and wind tunnels. During the avalanche, the huge gravels collide, squeeze and stack with each other, leaving many deep gaps between the boulders. Ice caves and wind tunnels are the two most special types of such crevices. The ice cave and wind tunnel are located in the upper part of cuihuafeng colluvium at an altitude of 1200 meters.

The ice cave is deep and the terrain inside the cave is low, forming irregular outer and inner caves. Due to the lack of conditions for cold and warm air exchange with the outside of the tunnel, the temperature difference between the inside and outside of the tunnel can reach more than 23 ℃ in summer, the outside tunnel is cold and cloudy, and the inside tunnel is frozen all year round.

The wind tunnel is a long and narrow gap formed by two huge gravels supporting each other in a "herringbone" shape. The cave is a long and narrow triangle, more than 30 meters long and 15 meters high. There is no sunshine in the cave all the year round. When the air flows through, the speed increases and the wind becomes smaller. When visitors enter the cave, they feel the cool wind blowing.

The porch under the wind tunnel is a narrow gap between two boulders with a height of more than 30 meters. The width of the gap is only a few meters. It may be a narrow channel formed by the broken boulders.

Wonder

Spectacle refers to the residual peak cliff formed by landslide. Cuihua peak and Ganqiu peak are the two small peaks most seriously damaged by landslides. Cuihua peak is 1414 meters above sea level, surrounded by residual peaks left by landslides. The remnant peak is small in scale, with prominent sharp corners, pointing directly to the sky, forming a peculiar granite peak ridge landscape.

There is an isolated remnant peak beside Cuihua peak. Its four walls are like chipping. It stands aloof and has extraordinary momentum. The cliff on the side of Cuihua peak is about 200 meters high and very steep. It is one of the sources of landslides. A large number of landslides are deposited under the cliff.

Ganqiu peak, 2145 meters above sea level, is also one of the sources of landslides. Here, a mountain with a width of more than 1500 meters, 260-900 meters and a height of more than 400 meters collapses in the north-south direction, forming a huge colluvial body. The cliffs of Cuihua Mountain can be seen almost everywhere. Yingya waterfall is a pearl curtain waterfall formed by artificial water diversion on the 60 meter high cliff surface.

Qihu

Qihu lake is formed by landslides, also known as "barrier lake". There are many strange lakes in Cuihua Mountain, including Tianchi dammed lake, ganqiuchi dammed lake and Daping dammed lake.

After the landslide, the vertical fracture surface formed on both sides of the valley is smooth and steep as if cut by a knife, which is very dangerous and magnificent. The natural dam blocks the mountain water in the upper reaches of the Taiyi river. One kilometer behind the dam, a natural lake, barrier lake, with an area of 0.14 square kilometers, can be used for boating and fishing. It is known as the "Pearl of the Qinling Mountains". It is the only barrier lake in the 72 valley of the Qinling Mountains.

The combination of landslides and the light of Tianchi Lake, green peaks, green water, strange rocks and different caves make up a fairyland on earth. Local people call it "Tianchi", "Shuiqiu Lake", "Cuihua Lake", "Taiyi Lake" and so on.

At the source of the upper reaches of the Taiyi River, there is also a barrier lake, ganqiuchi. Ganqiu pool is located at the foot of Ganqiu peak, covering an area of 0.2 square kilometers. Due to the lack of water, the pool water is seriously infiltrated and has become a dry lake, so it is called Ganqiu pool.

The scale of landslide deposits in ganqiuchi area is larger, and the thickness of landslide deposits is more than 500 meters. According to preliminary calculation, the total volume of landslide deposits in Cuihua Mountain is 300 million cubic meters, and the distribution range of landslide remains is about 520 million cubic meters

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