Baicaowa National Forest Park

Baicaowa National Forest Park

Baicaowa National Forest Park was established on December 2, 2002 with the approval of No. 274 document issued by forestry center of State Forestry Administration. With a total area of 5396 hectares, the park is located in the southeast of Luanping county, the middle part of Yanshan Mountains, and the south side of Beijing Chengde tourist highway. It is 170 km away from Beijing in the west, 40 km away from Chengde City, and 25 km away from the world-famous Jinshanling Great Wall. It is a must pass for the golden tourist route in northern Beijing (Beijing Jinshanling (baicaowa) - Chengde Mulan paddock).

The park is rich in mountain, water, stone, vegetation, climate and other natural landscape resources, with beautiful and unique landscape. In addition to the deep historical and cultural precipitation around it, the park has become a good place to develop forest eco-tourism on Jingcheng tourism line. It is also a provincial nature reserve in Hebei Province. It has the largest and most complete natural birch forest in North China, and is far away from the capital The nearest National Forest Park in Beijing.

geographical environment

Location context

Baicaowa National Forest Park is located in jinjiagou forest farm in the southeast of Luanping county, Hebei Province, in the middle of Yanshan Mountains, and on the south side of Beijing Chengde tourist highway. It is 160 km away from Beijing, 25 km away from Jinshanling Great Wall, 40 ° 47 ′ 51 ″ ~ 40 ° 55 ′ 8 ″ north latitude, 117 ° 21 ′ 1 ″ ~ 117 ° 51 ′ 50 ″ east longitude. The total planning area of baicaowa park is 5396 hectares, including 1564 hectares of scenic area. The average elevation of the park is 1188 meters, and the highest elevation is 1768 meters of the main peak of baicaowa.

More than 80% of baicaowa scenic area is natural secondary forest, nearly one third of which is Betula platyphylla forest, which is the closest to Beijing and the most well preserved Betula platyphylla forest in North China.

Climatic characteristics

The average temperature in the park is 17-22 degrees during the day and 10-15 degrees at night. According to the accurate records of the staff of the scenic spot, the highest temperature in summer of 2014 was only 25 degrees, 12 degrees lower than that in Beijing on that day.

Resources

plant resources

The forest vegetation of baicaowa National Forest Park belongs to temperate coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest zone. It is mainly natural secondary forest, and has a wide range of plant resources. According to the altitude distribution, it is secondary meadow, larch coniferous forest, broad-leaved mixed forest, pine oak broken forest, especially birch forest. There are 242 species of plants belonging to 171 genera and 61 families in the garden, including 38 species of wild pteridophytes, 7 species of gymnosperms and 774 species of angiosperms. There are not only a wide range of biological species, but also a wide range of local products, rich in hazelnut, hickory, wild vegetables, mushrooms, wild fungus, wild kiwifruit, Schisandra chinensis, etc., 18 kinds of wild medicinal materials, but also contains a certain amount of rare and endangered organisms, such as Juglans mandshurica, acanthopanax senticosus, wild soybean, Phellodendron amurense, Astragalus mongholicus, Ulmus pumila, etc., which are the key protected plants in Hebei Province Among the protective plants, ephedra, dictamnion, Tilia amurensis, Actinidia arguta, Rhodiola, Codonopsis pilosula, dipterygium grandiflorum, etc.

Wild vegetable

1. Pheasant arm: scientific name Guan Zhong, also can be used medicinally

2. Monkey legs: this kind of vegetable stuffing is the best, making steamed dumplings, steamed buns and so on.

3. Bitter tooth: scientific name Cimicifuga

4. Pteridium aquilinum: it is also called longevity dish and Ruyi dish.

In addition, there are spinach, wild bamboo shoots, scallion, Gracilaria lemaneiformis, rice cored vegetables, soybean seedlings and so on.

Wild mushrooms and fungi

1. Meat mushroom: contains anticancer substances.

2. Tricholoma matsutake: growing in the Pinus tabulaeformis forest, known as the "king of mushrooms.".

3. Hazelnut: chicken stewed with mushroom refers to this mushroom. It tastes delicious and tastes good

4. Wild Auricularia auricula: Wild Auricularia auricula only grows on oak trees, and only trees cut down in three or nine days grow Auricularia auricula. Due to the prohibition of cutting in natural forests, it is very rare, and the market has reached about 700-800 yuan per kilogram.

Nuts

1. Carya cathayensis: walnut kernel contains more protein and essential unsaturated fatty acids

2. Hazelnut: there are two kinds of hazelnut: hazelnut and hazelnut. Hazelnut is rich in nutrition. In addition to protein, fat and sugar, hazelnut is also rich in carotene, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and vitamin E. hazelnut has all eight kinds of amino acids needed by human body, and its content is far higher than walnut. The content of various trace elements such as calcium, phosphorus and iron in hazelnut is also higher than other nuts. Its vitamin E content is as high as 36%.

Berries

1. Wild kiwifruit: it is a kind of high-grade nutritional and health-care fruit integrated with food and medicine. It is known as the "king of fruit" and "king of vitamin C", especially the calcium content in the trace elements is the first in the fruit. The calcium in the fruit can be directly absorbed by the human body, and its nutritional value is the highest in the fruit.

2. Vitis amurensis: small, high nutritional value.

3. Sour milk, scientific name small tiller, eat sour, nutritional value is very high.

4. Mangosteen: natural Rosa davurica, also known as Rosa multiflora. Rosa davurica is a member of Rosaceae. Rosa is a kind of perennial deciduous shrub, which is regarded as the "effective medicine for treating scurvy" by European countries, and is known as the "vitamin record holder".

5. Tommy: the tree is very small and the fruit is very small. It's as big as Zizyphus jujuba. It's like a little strawberry, but it's delicious.

Animal resources

There are 207 species of terrestrial vertebrates, including 4 amphibians, 15 reptiles, 154 birds and 34 mammals. The wild animal resources mainly include leopard, roe deer, badger, pheasant, hare and so on. The key protected animals of the state include leopard, Golden Eagle, big bunting, swallow falcon, red footed Falcon and so on.

Main attractions

Stone sea wonders

In the main peak of baicaowa, 1672 meters above sea level, there is a sea of stones. When visitors visit the main peak of baicaowa, they will see this unique landscape. A large number of mossy rocks are exposed in the mountains, piled up into pieces, the scenery is very spectacular, known as the "stone sea". The largest stone is four or five meters square and weighs several tons. The smallest one is the size of a grinding plate. When visitors enjoy the beautiful scenery of the forest sea in the dense forest sea, they suddenly come across a strange sea of rocks hidden at the end of the forest. They can't help but stop to enjoy it, call it strange secretly, and have infinite reverie. According to the investigation of geological experts, this magical stone sea was formed by the change of geological structure during the glacial period. It has high scientific research value.

Baicao Changshou spring

The water source of baicaoquan comes from the spring eye in baicaowa mountain. The spring water is clear and sweet, cool and thirst quenching. It keeps constant temperature all the year round. Because there are hundreds of precious herbs in the spring water, the water is weak alkaline and rich in a variety of minerals beneficial to human body, which has high pharmacological value. In the past, local mountain people and woodcutters used to drink this spring water all the year round, and there were few diseases, so it was called "longevity spring". In particular, the tea made from Baicao spring is even better. Lu Yu pointed out in his book the book of tea that the water used to make tea is the best mountain spring water flowing from the mountains in the mountains and rivers and under the wells.

Xiangshui Valley

In the eastern part of baicaowa scenic area, there is a 3km stream formed by mountain springs, called zuoxiangshui valley. In the early summer of every year, Xiangshui valley will show the wonder of "four seasons in one valley". The 3 km mountain spring water flows to the scenic spot "forest sea Dove" and turns slowly. The ice layer of nearly 1.5 meters thick and 6 meters long comes into view. The stream water flows out from under the ice layer and is clear to the bottom.

Xiaohuangshan

Huangshan, known as "the most wonderful mountain in the world", is located in the south of Anhui Province, famous for its strange pines, strange rocks and sea of clouds. In baicaowa scenic area, there is a mountain peak formed by Danxia landform. Due to the careful carving of nature, it has formed a spectacle similar to Huangshan. When the park was first built, a tourism planning expert of the National Tourism Administration, when he saw the scene, couldn't help admiring the wonderful horse of the mountain and blurted out immediately, "this is a carefully copied Huangshan." Later, it was named "xiaohuangshan" and passed down from mouth to mouth among the tourists who have seen the scenery. Standing here and looking at "xiaohuangshan" from afar, you can not only appreciate the strange pines and rocks like Huangshan, but also see the birch forest like the sea. The distant and near scenery complement each other, forming a unique scenery outside the Great Wall. For example, after the summer rain, when the clouds and fog rise and wind around the mountain, you will have the charm of Huangshan, which is so beautiful that you will never forget to return.

Wild clover Garden

There are more than 240 kinds of plants in baicaowa National Forest Park. Clove, as one of them, is also showing its charm to visitors. Every summer when the tourism peak of the park is in full bloom, clusters of lilacs are dotted in the forest sea of baicaowa, adding a touch of beauty to the vast forest sea. In the vicinity of xiafangsuo, there is an area where lilac trees grow intensively, which is called "Dingxiang garden". Clove belongs to Oleaceae, clove, because the flower tube is slender as nails and full of aroma, so it is called clove, is a famous garden flowers. Most of the flowers are white and purple. The clove oil and eugenol made from it have good medicinal value.

Songlin bathing beach

Larch has the reputation of "king of negative oxygen ions". Songlin bathing place is composed of Larch in large area. It is a natural oxygen bar given by nature. 　　

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