Taohuayuan scenic spot

Taohuayuan scenic spot

synonym

Taohuayuan scenic area (Changde Taohuayuan scenic area) generally refers to Taohuayuan scenic area

Taohuayuan scenic spot is located near Shuixi, 15km southwest of Taoyuan County, Hunan Province, and 34km away from Changde City. Taohuayuan scenic area, with the remains of Daxi Culture in Neolithic period, is the prototype of Taohuayuan in Cihai and Ciyuan.

Taohuayuan scenic area has a total area of 157.55 square kilometers, including 15.8 square kilometers of the main scenic area of the paradise, and 44.48 square kilometers of the Yuanshui scenic area where Wuling people fish. 9 square kilometers.

Taohuayuan in China is the original place of Taohuayuan described in Taohuayuan Ji by Tao Yuanming, the only annotated prototype of Taohuayuan Ji in Cihai and Ciyuan, and the only national scenic spot of Taohuayuan approved by the State Council

. Taohuayuan began in the Qin Dynasty, was seen in the Jin Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty

. For thousands of years, Tao Yuanming, Li Bai, Liu Yuxi, Su Shi, etc. have left many precious poems and ink here. They are world-famous for their beautiful landscape, prosperous temples and pavilions, abundant poems and inscriptions, and strange historical legends.

In 1992, Taohuayuan was approved as a national forest park by the Ministry of forestry.

On March 24, 1995, former President Jiang Zemin inspected Taohuayuan and wrote inscriptions

. In 2001, it was approved as a national 4A scenic spot. At the 2019 China tourism industry development conference, China's Taohuayuan, together with the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Potala Palace in Tibet and the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, has won the top ten cultural scenic spots of China's tourism influence in 2018.

Taohuayuan adheres to the concept of "sharing Taohuayuan" and adheres to the core scenic spot to drive the revitalization of Characteristic Towns and villages. Through the combination of culture and tourism, Taohuayuan promotes rich and colorful culture and tourism products, strives to integrate the "three sceneries", adheres to the natural background of ecology, activates cultural experience scenes, creates romantic leisure scenes, and strives to build a global tourism demonstration area and Hunan culture and tourism Integrate new landmarks.

Development history

China's Taohuayuan was built in the Qin Dynasty, and developed to its peak in the Tang and Song dynasties. It was destroyed in the war in the Yuan Dynasty and began to revive after the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the past dynasties, great writers such as Tao Yuanming, Li Bai, Liu Yuxi, Su Shi, Meng Haoran and Han Yu have left many precious poems and ink here

. Today, Taohuayuan scenic area has developed Taoyuan mountain, Taohua mountain, Qingu, Qinxi, Taohuayuan ancient town, taochuan Longevity Palace, Taohuayuan record live show and other scenic spots, with an area of more than 150 square kilometers, including the core scenic area of about 12 square kilometers, including Qinxi, Qingu, Taohua mountain, Taoyuan mountain, Wuliu lake, ten thousand mu peach forest, etc. Facing the Yuanjiang River, relying on the mountains, ancient trees and bamboos are everywhere. The artistic conception of "fresh grass, colorful fallen leaves" described in the story of Peach Blossom Land can still be found

. In addition, the Yuanjiang River flows from west to east to Dongting Lake, nearly 70 kilometers through Taohuayuan scenic area. The Yuanjiang River in this area not only has the danger of the Three Gorges, but also has the beauty of Fuchun River, which adds a lot of beautiful scenery to Taoyuan.

Taohuayuan in China is one of the sacred places of Taoism in ancient China, enjoying the reputation of 35 caves and 46 blessed places. Tao Yuanming, Meng Haoran, Wang Changling, Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Mu, Liu Yuxi, Han Yu, Lu You and Su Shi have left many precious ink marks. After liberation, party and state leaders visited Taohuayuan many times and cared about it.

On June 24, 1959, the people's Government of Hunan Province announced Taohuayuan as a key cultural relics protection unit at the provincial level.

In 1963, the state-owned Taohuayuan forest farm was established to be responsible for the management and protection of Taohuayuan forest resources.

In 1964, Taohuayuan cultural relics management office was established to be specifically responsible for the management and protection of Taohuayuan cultural relics.

In April 1990, Changde City sent a tourism investigation team headed by Wang Dayuan, chairman of the Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, to carry out on-the-spot investigation of Taohuayuan's tourism resources. Subsequently, the administrative region was delimited, the Taohuayuan cultural relics management office and the Taohuayuan state forest farm were merged, and the Taohuayuan scenic spot management office was established at the end of 1990.

In 1991, the Taohuayuan Scenic Area Management Office of Hunan Province was established, which was upgraded from the original stock level to the deputy department level.

In 1992, Taohuayuan was approved as a national forest park by the Ministry of forestry.

In the spring of 1992, the first phase of the restoration and development project was completed, and the Taohuayuan grand archway, Yuanming garden and other scenic spots were restored and newly built. From the winter of 1992 to the spring of 1993, the second phase of the restoration and development project was completed, and the taochuan Longevity Palace (Shanggong) and Tianning Memorial courtyard were restored and newly built. In addition, a number of hotels for accommodation were built. Tourism facilities such as restaurants and infrastructure such as water and power supply.

On March 24, 1995, former President Jiang Zemin inspected Taohuayuan and wrote inscriptions.

From 1996 to 1997, the third phase of the restoration and development project was launched, focusing on excavating the cultural connotation of Taohuayuan, developing the scenery of Yuanshui River and improving the function of the scenic area. Some scenic spots, including Taolin, have been restored, renovated and equipped. Yuanming temple, Jixian temple, Taohua temple, etc.

On June 12, 1998, at the 5th International golden tourist route Grammy Award (1997) selection meeting in Osaka, Japan, Changsha Taohuayuan Zhangjiajie tourist route won the special award for destination development, becoming the only golden tourist route in China.

In 2001, a total of 100000 square meters were invested in the third phase of the project, covering more than 300 hectares of Hillsides for afforestation and planting 500000 trees.

On December 1, 2006, the "Regulations on scenic spots" came into effect.

In 2011, Changde Municipal Party committee and government closed Taohuayuan to the market and established Taohuayuan management zone, which is fully responsible for the development, construction and management of Taohuayuan, and has invested more than 60 million yuan in the comprehensive construction of the scenic spot, mainly improving the quality and capacity of the old scenic spot, improving the infrastructure and so on. At the same time, the Taohuayuan ancient town project with an investment of 4 billion yuan has been put into construction, and the construction of Yijing Taohuayuan, Yuanming rural life experience Park, love city, Wuling fishing village and other projects are under way.

In August 2017, Taohuayuan was opened for trial operation.

In order to comply with the development trend of cultural tourism industry, Changde City launched the Taohuayuan transformation project with a total investment of more than 10 billion yuan at the end of 2014. After nearly three years of closed transformation, Taohuayuan reopened on September 22, 2017

. After the renovation, the area of Taohuayuan tourist attraction has been expanded from 2 square kilometers to 12 square kilometers. The main scenic spots include Qinxi, Qingu, Taohua mountain, Taoyuan mountain, Wuliu lake, Taohuayuan ancient town, etc

. In the newly added landscape live performance "the story of peach blossom", tourists can take a boat up the Qinxi River to experience the local conditions and customs of the Peach Blossom Land.

At the 2019 China tourism industry development conference, China's Taohuayuan, together with the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Potala Palace in Tibet and the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, won the top ten cultural scenic spots of China's tourism influence in 2018.

geographical environment

Location context

Taohuayuan is located 34 kilometers southwest of Changde City, Hunan Province, in the lower reaches of the Yuan river. The geographical location is 110 ° 25 ′ - 110 ° 27 ′ E and 28 ° 47 ′ - 28 ° 49 ′ - n

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Located at the West foot of Mount Tai, Taohuayuan in China got its name because of the peach blossom Valley in ancient times. Zhang Zhichun, a Taoist of the Yuan Dynasty, wrote a poem: "running water comes to Tiandong, and the world is connected. The peach garden is not far away. There is a cableway in Taohuayuan. You can get to Daiding by cableway.

The main scenic area of Taohuayuan in China has a forest coverage rate of more than 88.14%, which belongs to subtropical monsoon climate. It has dense vegetation and abundant precipitation. The average concentration of negative oxygen ions in the scenic area is up to 2584 per cubic centimeter, and the number of days with good air quality is up to 93.7%

. In 2019, Taohuayuan tourism management zone was awarded the title of "China natural oxygen bar".

Climatic characteristics

Taohuayuan scenic area belongs to the subtropical monsoon humid climate zone. It is characterized by warm and humid, four distinct seasons, many cold waves and rainy in spring, heavy rain and high temperature in summer, warm days and cool nights in autumn, and rare cold in winter. Landscape adjustment, unique cave. The annual average temperature is 14.2 ℃ - 15.7 ℃, the annual extreme high temperature is 39.8 ℃ (July), and the annual extreme low temperature is - 11.5 ℃ (January). The annual precipitation is 1500-2000 mm, and the effect of temperature regulation by water is significant. The sunshine hours over the years are 1501.5 hours. Over the years, there are 37.7 days of fog days, and more than 130 days of light fog in the morning and dusk.

topographic features

The basin of Taohuayuan scenic spot rises weakly or stably, causing strong accumulation and weak erosion, denudation, forming water landform; the whole terrain of Changde City inclines from west to East, and the landform type is middle mountain, middle and low mountain or mountain plain, low mountain to erosion and denudation hill, and the sequence distribution of plain is hillock water accumulation plain and lake accumulation enclosure.

Main attractions

Taohuayuan scenic spot in China

Peach Blossom Garden

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