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Banbiyan is a rock with different shapes. The bamboo groves are all over the mountains, which is a natural barrier. It is said that Shennongjia savages are often found in this area. The traces of savages include hair, feces and bamboo nests. The stone forest in the scenic area is full of grotesque rocks. Some of them grow alone, and some of them grow into forests. When you look from side to side, the image and spirit are not the same, but they are all lifelike. The most eye-catching one is a huge stone on the north slope. It looks like a camel from a distance, like a group of monkeys playing in the tree from a close view, and like mother and son cuddling up to each other from a close look. If you have rich imagination, you can see more scenes.

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Banbiyan is located in Shennongjia Nature Reserve, 45 kilometers away from Muyu town and 5 kilometers away from the watchtower. It is known as the haunting place of "savages" and the stone forest, attracting the attention of tourists. Banbiyan's arrow bamboo forests are all over the mountains and dense. This area is a place where savages often haunt. Traces of savages, hair, feces and bamboo nests are often found in arrow bamboo forest. The hair of savages is superior to that of higher primates in terms of epidermis, medulla morphology and cell structure.

essential information

brief introduction

Banbiyan is 2590 meters above sea level. Banbiyan is adjacent to Houzishi in the West and five kilometers away from the watchtower in the East. It is famous because it is called "stone forest" and "haunted by savages". Banbiyan up and down arrow bamboo forest all over the mountains, clumps of dense, is a natural barrier. In the Fargesia forest, there are jagged rocks with different poses. The most fascinating one is a huge stone on the north slope. It looks like camels drinking in the oasis from a distance. From a close view, it looks like monkeys jumping on a jade tree.

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The giant saw rock is like a giant saw flying in the sky. It is marvelous that nature's superb craftsmanship has created it. There are also "turtle play fog" lifelike, "jade rabbit play Golden Snake" wonderful. Hair, feces, footprints and bamboo nests of "savages" have been found here for many times. The footprints are 24.5cm long and the steps are 2.68M long. The epidermis and medulla of hair are higher than those of higher primates. The largest pile of faeces is 1.6 kg, which contains peel, insect pupa and other residues. Bamboo nests are made of Fargesia and lie on them like armchairs. They can peep into the distance. It has been proved that bamboo nests are not made by humans, bears, monkeys, etc., but by exotic animals that are more advanced than higher primates. In the Fargesia forest, strange rocks suddenly appear, high or low, in a variety of shapes. Whether you look at the whole or part of it, whether you look at its front or side, the images are different and lifelike. The most striking is a giant stone on the north slope, which looks like a camel drinking on the oasis from a distance, a group of monkeys playing on the Yushu from a close view, a monkey hopping like a vine, or a mother and son cuddling, or a baby Like lovers whispering. There are also boulders like chicks with their mouths open, and some like the heads of great men. Painters and photographers often spend hours on this huge stone.

Savage excrement

The largest pile weighs 1.6 kg and contains residues such as peel and insect pupae, which can deduce its food structure. The most amazing thing is the wild man's nest, which is made of more than 20 bamboo arrows. People lie on it, with a wide field of vision and comfortable as armchairs. It has been proved that this is not done by hunters, monkeys and bears. Its manufacture and users are of course the strange animals between human beings and higher primates.

Human history

The legend of banbiyan

Banbiyan is said to be the place where the ancestor of China, Emperor Yan of Shennong, set up a shelf to collect medicine and cure people's diseases. Here, he "erected the wood as a ladder to help climb", "erected the wood as a house to avoid wind and rain", and finally "erected the wood as an altar to cross the crane to heaven". Shennong Yandi was one of the pioneers of Chinese civilization. Later generations listed his great achievements as follows: training cattle to cultivate, Jiaowei Wuxian, Jima Yige, pottery, stone and wooden tools, pioneering farming, building shelves to collect herbs, serving the market in the middle of the day, and penetrating wells to irrigate. In 1997, the people's Government of the forest region began to build an altar of Shennong in xiaodangyang at the south foot of the main peak of Shennongjia in memory of their ancestors and praise their great achievements. The statue of Shennong was carved in the mountains. However, the eyes of Shennong with the head of a cow were slightly closed, and it seemed like sleep. The statue of Shennong embraced the ancient simplicity of a thousand years. It was magnificent and magnificent.

The history of banbiyan

Banbiyan has a long history. As early as more than 200000 years ago, there were ancient human activities here. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Shennongjia area has been under the jurisdiction of neighboring prefectures and counties in successive dynasties (Suiyang County was set up from the Three Kingdoms to the early Sui Dynasty only). In the Qing Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of Yunyang Fufang county and Yichang fuxingshan County in Hubei Province. Because of its deep valley, dense forest and inconvenient transportation, it has always been a garrison of military strategists. Tang Zhongzong was demoted as the queen of Luling and ordered Shennongjia mountain range to be the "imperial boundary". During the reign of Shunzhi, Kangxi and Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, Liu tichun's army and Bailian's army were stationed here for 11 years. During the revolutionary war, Helong Red Army established a Soviet government here. From the mid-1950s to the early 1960s after the founding of the people's Republic of China, the state began to develop Shennongjia with the main purpose of timber harvesting, and built a highway running through the north and South in 1966. In 1970, the State Council approved the establishment of Shennongjia forest area with the document [1970] No. 47 issued by the State Council, which is directly under the central government of Hubei Province. The administrative area is delimited from the adjacent areas of Fangxian County, Xingshan County and Badong County, covering an area of 3253 square kilometers. Since then, the administrative subordination has been changed several times, and it was finally determined to be directly under the provincial jurisdiction in 1987.

Peach planting base

The banbiyan culture remains in Shennongjia are like stars, and the folk custom is simple and honest. Jinglian temple in Yangri ancient temple and Tianguan temple in Jiuchong Buddha shadow inherit the Buddhist mantle. The ancient salt road in Sichuan and Hubei vaguely represents the prosperity of the Southern Silk Road. The remaining wood carvings, stone carvings and folk embroidery show the 5000 year wisdom of the descendants of Yan Emperor. The dark biography, which has been found and published here, is called the Creation Epic of the Han nationality, thus breaking the Western myth that China has no epic of its own for a hundred years. The marriage customs of Tujia, playing funeral drums, mountain gongs and drums, and playing artillery, which reflect the joys and sorrows of Qin and Ba people, can be regarded as living fossils of Central Plains culture. Shennongjia is not only the confluence of wild animal and plant species, but also the confluence of the four major cultural species of the Chinese nation. Taking Shennongjia as the starting point, there are Qin and Han culture in the west, Chu culture in the East, Shang culture in the north and Bashu culture in the south. Shennongjia is a cultural depression, where various cultural streams blend. Shennongjia's natural conditions and cultural background together constitute a colorful picture of Shennongjia. The beautiful peaks, vast forests, intact original ecosystem, rich biodiversity, pleasant climate, and unique inland Alpine culture make Shennongjia a pure land and paradise for the harmonious coexistence of human and nature in today's world.

geographical environment

Banbiyan in Shennongjia is located in the north subtropical monsoon area of middle latitude. Controlled by the atmospheric circulation, the temperature is cool and rainy. With the elevation, it forms three climate zones: low mountain, middle mountain and sub mountain. The annual precipitation is 761.4-2500 mm from low to high, so the three-dimensional climate is very obvious. "The foot of the mountain is in summer, the top of the mountain is in spring, the foot of the mountain is in autumn, the top of the mountain is in ice, red, orange, yellow and green are not enough, and it is the most difficult to separate spring, summer, autumn and winter" is the true portrayal of the climate in the forest area. Due to its unique geographical environment and three-dimensional microclimate, Shennongjia has become a transitional area of plant species between the north and the south of China and a cross area of numerous animals. It is the only well preserved subtropical forest ecosystem in the middle latitude inland area of the northern hemisphere. The forest coverage rate is 88% and 96% in the reserve. A large number of precious and ancient relict plants such as Davidia involucrata, Liriodendron chinense and Lianxiang are preserved here. Shennongjia has become a green treasure land in the same latitude area of the world, which has global significance for the study of forest ecology.

In ancient times, banbiyan forest area in Shennongjia was still a vast ocean, which was gradually upgraded to multi-level land by Yanshan and Himalayan movements, and formed strata with distinctive local characteristics such as Shennongjia group and mangaoyuan group. Shennongjia is located at the eastern edge of the second step of China's terrain. It is composed of middle and high mountain landforms by the East extension of Daba Mountains. The mountains in the area are tall and gradually decrease from southwest to northeast. The average altitude of Shennongjia is 1700 meters. Most of the peaks are more than 1500 meters, of which 6 are more than 3000 meters above sea level, and more than 20 are more than 2500 meters above sea level. The highest peak, shennongding, is 3105.4 meters above sea level, becoming the first peak in Central China. Therefore, Shennongjia is known as the "roof of central China". The sea level of Shizhu River in the southwest is only 398 meters, which is the lowest point in the territory, with a relative height difference of 2706.4 meters.

There is a water cave in Songluo township. As long as the natural temperature outside the cave is above 28 ℃, the water inside the cave begins to freeze. The water in the mountain cracks seeps along the cave wall to form a crystal clear ice curtain, which extends down to more than 10 meters. The water dripping at the bottom of the cave forms icicles in various forms. The top is generally mushroom shaped and hollow. In late autumn, the ice begins to melt. In winter, the temperature inside the cave is higher than that outside the cave.

Traffic tips

Shennongding scenic spot is located in the nature reserve in the south of Shennongjia. The traffic of Shennongjia is mainly by road. The main roads in the forest area are 209 National Road, Baiguoshu and honghuahua provincial road, jiuhuping and Jiuhu district road. The total length of the highway in the territory is more than 1300 kilometers, running through the whole region from north to south, east to west, and connecting with Xiangfan, Shiyan, Yichang, Xingshan, Badong and other cities and counties to form a network.

From Wuhan to Shennongjia, you can take a long-distance bus at Xinhua road long-distance bus station. There is a sleeper bus from Wuhan to Xingshan County at 8:00 p.m. every day, and it arrives at Xingshan County at 6:00 a.m. the next day

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