Butterfly Spring

Butterfly Spring

Butterfly spring, clear as a mirror. Every year at the butterfly Festival, thousands of butterflies come from all directions and dance all over the sky by the spring. A butterfly is as big as a palm and as small as a coin. Countless butterflies hang from the tree to the water. It's a wonderful sight.

Butterfly spring is one of the famous tourist attractions, with beautiful scenery and clear spring water, which is a rare wonder in the world (Butterfly Club). With the spread of the classic film "five golden flowers", which reflects the life of the Bai nationality, butterfly spring is even more famous and well-known at home and abroad. The more famous are Dali butterfly spring, Zaozhuang butterfly spring, Yangshuo butterfly spring and so on.

On June 9, 2018, Yunnan provincial tourism scenic spot quality rating committee issued the decision on approving four scenic spots including Dali butterfly spring scenic spot as national 4A scenic spot, officially approving Dali butterfly spring scenic spot as national 4A scenic spot.

In February 2020, the scenic area decided to implement a free admission policy for medical workers across the country. Among them, Hubei Medical workers can also travel with one family member free of charge in six scenic areas of Dali.

geographical position

Butterfly spring, located in Dali Cangshan cloud Lane peak. It is like a transparent gem, inlaid in the shade, with its unique wonders, attracting tourists from far and near.

Take a bus from Xiaguan and drive northward along the Yunnan Tibet highway for more than 30 kilometers. On the left side of the bus, you can see an ancient stone archway. The inscription "Butterfly Spring" on the archway is the ink left by Guo Moruo when he visited Dali.

From the memorial archway to the butterfly spring, it is about 100 meters. The spring pool is two or three feet square, surrounded by transparent marble. The spring water is clear to the bottom, a string of silver bubbles, slowly gushing out of the sand, gurgling out of the water, and splashing with water. The spring water has been transformed into snow by Cangshan Mountain. It not only has stable water quantity, but also excellent water quality.

Since ancient times, many scholars have visited here and wrote many important poems. Xu Xiake, a famous geographer in the Ming Dynasty, once praised butterfly spring in his travel notes. He wrote: "the big tree on the spring will blossom like a nymphal butterfly at the beginning of April, with vivid wings, just like a living butterfly. There are also tens of millions of real butterflies, with their whiskers hooked, hanging upside down from the top of the tree and reaching the surface of the spring. All the visitors can see it from this group of moons. It's past may. " In his poem Shangguan butterfly spring, Sha Chen, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, praised: "thousands of butterflies are lost in the butterfly tree, and their tails are like tassels, brushing the green sky. If you don't arrive at the butterfly spring, who will believe it, the shadow flag will cover the solemn butterfly. "

Every year from April to May of the lunar calendar, all kinds of exotic flowers and plants bloom on yunnongfeng mountain. The acacia tree beside the spring emits a kind of elegant fragrance, which induces thousands of butterflies to come to the party. These butterflies are as big as palms and as small as bees. They either dance among the colorful camellia, rhododendrons and other flowers, or play on the heads of tourists. There are countless butterflies hanging upside down from the tree of Albizia julibrissin, with long strings of whiskers and feet, all the way down to the water. Under the sun, they are colorful and magnificent. Especially on the 15th of April in the old calendar, if the weather is sunny, it will be even more magnificent. There are not only a surprising number of butterflies, but also a wide variety of butterflies, such as Phoenix Tail butterfly, big tile grey butterfly and so on, which will form the world of butterflies.

Butterfly spring is located at the foot of Shenmo mountain, yunnongfeng, the first peak of Cangshan Mountain, 27 kilometers south of Dali ancient city. Butterfly spring area of more than 50 square meters, for the square spring pool. The spring water is as clear as a mirror. The bottom of the spring comes out, and the edge of the spring is covered with shade. There is a tall ancient tree lying on the spring, which is called "butterfly tree". At the turn of spring and summer every year, especially on April 15, butterfly trees are fragrant and attract butterflies. A large number of butterflies gather by the spring and fly all over the sky. The most amazing thing is the colorful butterflies, which hang upside down on the butterfly tree, forming countless strings, hanging down to the water, which is spectacular. The scenery of butterfly spring has existed since ancient times, and it has been vividly recorded by Xu Xiake in Ming Dynasty. When Guo Moruo visited in 1961, he wrote three big characters of "Butterfly Spring" in calligraphy, which were carved on the square stone beside the spring.

In recent years, butterfly spring park has been renovated and expanded, including butterfly building, hexagonal pavilion, big crescent pond, butterfly museum, Wanghai building and Xu Xiake statue.

Cause of formation

The formation of butterfly spring is related to the environmental conditions in this area. The spring is close to Cangshan in the West and Erhai Lake in the East. Cangshan is towering and straight, standing like a screen. The snow on the top of the mountain is shining in summer. The cloud gathers to produce the rain, the precipitation is rich, the plant each item. Erhai Lake covers a total area of about 240 square kilometers. It has beautiful scenery, continuous flowers and branches, and spring like seasons.

Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake not only provide people with the beautiful scenery of "yincangyuer", but also constitute the natural environment for insects such as butterflies to breed and grow in large numbers. Butterfly spring is located in the northeast side of Erhai fault. Under the action of groundwater dissolution, many sinkholes and karst caves have been formed. It is recharged by atmospheric precipitation and surface water and forms karst aquifer. The groundwater in the aquifer flows along the dissolution pipeline, and is blocked by fine-grained loose materials at the contact part with alluvial and proluvial materials, and spills over the surface to form butterfly spring. 77 L / s. The mineralization degree of spring water is less than 0.5 g / L. it belongs to bicarbonate and magnesium type water. It is odorless, tasteless and tasteless. The spring is beautiful, and the Albizzia tree beside the spring makes butterflies happy to visit. It can be seen that the butterfly meeting is not caused by the death of the lovers, but by the special environmental conditions there.

It is a pity that in the past ten years, it has been very difficult for people to see the beautiful butterfly Festival. Sometimes, although there are butterflies gathering, the number is small. According to the local legend: butterfly spring side, the original a thick branches and leaves, white flowers, hair fragrance of cipeng, flower twigs wrapped in the horizontal slope of the trunk of the spring, butterflies along these drooping flower twigs connected into a string. Today, the trees and leaves on the spring surface are withered, and the surrounding natural environment is damaged. A large number of pesticides are used in the fields, injuring many butterflies by mistake. The spectacle of hanging the whiskers on the spring surface has disappeared for a long time. It seems that only by carefully studying the law of butterfly growth, strengthening the protection of the natural environment, and striving to maintain the ecological balance, can the charming butterfly Festival be restored and prospered.

Three wonders

The butterfly spring, which Xu Xiake has heard for a long time, can be summarized as "three wonders": spring, butterfly and tree.

mountain spring

The first is the spring. The water of butterfly spring is soaked out from the rock seam sand layer. The water quality is very clear. Once it comes out of the surface, it will gather into a pool without any pollution. In recent years, the spring water from butterfly spring has been treasured by park managers and stored in three pools larger than one for people to watch. The largest pool is about 10 mu. Butterfly spring has changed from one pool to four pools, which is the most prominent landscape in butterfly spring park.

butterfly

The second is butterfly. There are many kinds of butterflies in the butterfly spring. From March to May every year, butterflies are as big as palms, and as small as bees. They hang in a string on the acacia tree beside the spring. On April 15, it was designated as butterfly society by Bai people. In his travel notes, Xu Xiake once described as follows: "there are thousands of real butterflies, hanging upside down from the top of the tree to the surface of the spring, full of colors."

When Guo Moruo, a famous poet, visited the butterfly spring in Dali in the autumn of 1961, he wrote a poem that "at the head of the butterfly spring, there are thousands of butterflies flying, and the head and tail are connected by a few meters, and the flowers droop from the tree". One said that the butterfly "even must hook foot", the other said that the butterfly "head to tail connection", because of the timing difference, the two scholars did not see the spectacle of butterflies hanging in a string under the tree by the spring, which one is closer to the truth of the details, it is up to the tourists to carefully observe.

If you miss the butterfly Festival by chance, you don't have to regret. The newly built butterfly pavilion to the south of butterfly spring truly reproduces the ecology, species and butterfly culture of butterflies beside butterfly spring, and provides valuable information for tourists who can't visit the butterfly festival in person to understand the wonders of butterfly spring.

tree

Finally, the tree. In the Butterfly Spring Park, there is an environmental placard saying "the beauty of butterfly spring lies in green, please love flowers and trees". This sentence is true to say that the beauty of butterfly spring benefits not only from the newly planted trees along the way, such as Phoenix tailed bamboo and Christmas tree, but also from the pine forest, Berlin forest, palm forest, tea forest, Rhododendron forest and Phyllostachys pubescens forest It is a local unique aromatic tree species, such as Albizzia julibrissin, suanziang tree, Pistacia chinensis, etc. Every time the tree blooms in early April, its petals open like a butterfly during the day and close again at night, spitting out bursts of fragrance. The poet praised the butterfly as a "flying flower", while the flower of Acacia tree is a "still butterfly". During the butterfly Festival, flowers and butterflies dance together. It's hard to tell whether they are true or not. It's a wonder of butterfly spring.

Looking at the sea Pavilion, climbing the pavilion and looking far away: Jishan mountain is flying, and the towering tower on the top of the mountain is faintly visible; the houses and fields in villages such as digging at the foot of the mountain and Shuanglang can be discerned; Erhai water is like a mirror; Shangguan in the North and Xizhou in the south are filled with smoke trees; Jiangwei village in front of the right is like a sharp sword inserted into Erhai Lake. This pavilion is really a good place to see the sea.

Butterfly tree in the spring pool in the northwest corner of the pool, there is a vigorous ancient tree of Acacia at night, branches and leaves whirling, shade block out the sun, this is the butterfly tree, across the spring, every time in late spring and early summer, the ancient trees bloom, like butterflies, and send out the lure of butterflies

Chinese PinYin : Hu Die Quan