Xishan Forest Park

Xishan Forest Park

Xishan Forest Park is located on the Bank of Dianchi Lake in the western suburb of Kunming. It is 15 kilometers away from the urban area. It starts from bijiguan in the north and reaches huiwan in the south. It is composed of Biji mountain, Huating mountain, Taihua mountain, Taiping mountain and Luohan mountain. It rises from north to south. The highest peak is 2507.5 meters above sea level. The highest Luohan mountain is about 620 meters above Dianchi Lake.

Xishan Park is adjacent to Dianchi Lake in the East and Changpo in the west, covering an area of 889 hectares.

Environmental layout

In the west, the mountains are undulating, the trees are green, the birds are contending, the streams are flowing, the clouds are shining, and the scenery is beautiful. Overlooking Xishan group

Feng, like a giant Sleeping Buddha and a girl lying on her back, is also called "Sleeping Beauty". During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Shen praised Xishan Mountain in the annals of Yunnan's mountains and rivers for its "vast cliffs, green waters, clear waves and clear moon, the top of clouds and a beautiful place in Central Yunnan." In Ming Dynasty, Xishan in Kunming, together with Xiushan in Tonghai, Weibaoshan and Jizushan in Binchuan, were called "four famous scenic mountains in Yunnan".

Except for the rocky Luohan cliff, the whole mountain is a luxuriant primary secondary forest, and the forest vertical band spectrum is very obvious with the change of height. There is a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest dominated by Quercus in the lower part of the mountain, and a coniferous forest dominated by Pinus yunnanensis and Pinus armandii in the upper part of the mountain. There are 167 families, 594 genera, 1086 species of shrub trees and other plants, and more than 90 species of medicinal plants. There are also some rare tree species, such as Taihui, Carpinus, Huaxiang, Illicium verum, Bauhinia yunnanensis, Cinnamomum camphora, Zhennan Longpetiole and so on. Since 1998, the park has been committed to the restoration of the "Biji autumn" project, and has been planting lacquer trees, red maple and other color trees for years.

In the mountains, you Huang is green, the shade is falling, the clear stream is flowing, and Cheng Cong is singing harmoniously. Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, there is also a traditional custom of "playing Xishan" and singing folk songs. Comrade Chen Yi once wrote a three character poem "a journey to the West Mountain in Kunming" praising: "Kunming City, March 3, tens of thousands of people, travel to the west mountain. Huating strange, Taihua cold, Longmen dangerous, Dianchi wide. Sigh at the vastness and emptiness. Car like tide, people like sea, Qingming tour, climb together.

Environmental layout

Xishan Forest Park is adjacent to Dianchi Lake, 15 kilometers southwest of Kunming, stretching more than 40 kilometers, with an altitude of about 2500 meters. Overlooking the peaks of Xishan Mountain, it is like a girl lying on her back on the Bank of Dianchi Lake, so local people call it "Sleeping Beauty". When tourists come to Xishan, it is more important to enjoy its scenic spots. Xishan is composed of Huating temple, Taihua temple, Nie'Er tomb, Sanqing Pavilion and Longmen. It is suggested that tourists spend half a day hiking, along the way can enjoy different attractions. Legend: it is said that there were two young men and women by the Dianchi Lake. They loved each other, fishing and weaving. In order to show his love for the girl, the young man drove a boat to the sea to take seaweed for her. However, she never came back. The girl missed her lover, cried day and night, and shed "five hundred Li" tears into the Dianchi Lake. At last, her body turned into a Lake and mountains, and her long hair scattered in the grass sea. This is the origin of "Sleeping Beauty".

Due to the collision and extrusion of the plate on the west side, a steep and hard limestone cliff, Xishan cliff, with a height of 100-300m and a length of 3km, is formed on the Bank of Dianchi Lake. It is a good place for rock climbing.

Features of scenic spots

Kunming Xishan Forest Park, located in the western suburbs of Kunming 15 km between the peaks. It is mainly composed of Huating temple, Taihua temple, Sanqing Pavilion, Longmen and other scenic spots. Huating temple is located in the mountains with an altitude of 2050 meters. Founded in the 14th century, the temple is a famous Buddhist holy land in Kunming. Taihua temple was built at the beginning of the 14th century. The flowers and trees are flourishing and the fragrance is striking. The Wanghai tower in the temple is a good place to watch the sunrise in Dianchi Lake. Sanqing Pavilion and Longmen are a group of buildings built on the cliff of Luohan mountain, the main peak of the western mountain, with nine floors and eleven pavilions. Longmen stone carving project, including stone road, ancient room, ancient bar, ancient cave, ancient Buddha, is the essence of the Western Hills. When you climb the dragon's gate and look down on the fence, you can see the precipice of a hundred feet; when you look up from afar, you can see the sea and sky in the same color, and you can have a panoramic view of Dianchi Lake.

This is a forest park with undulating peaks, green trees, white birds and beautiful scenery. Dense forest vegetation, perennial lush, Huating temple, Taihua temple, Sanqing Pavilion and other ancient temples, pavilions are hidden in the depths of bamboo.

Xishan was known as Biji mountain in Tang Dynasty, Taihua mountain since Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and Xishan Mountain was used to be called by the masses because it was in the west of the city. Overlooking the peaks of the western mountains, it is like a "Sleeping Beauty" lying on her back on the shore of the Dianchi Lake. Her face, chest, abdomen, legs, and even her hair falling into the water are vividly visible and well-defined.

Denglongmen view sunrise, in the face of the vast Dianchi Lake, it is refreshing and brings endless reverie.

The tomb of the famous people's musician Nie Er was also placed in the garden.

Introduction to scenic spots

From the 11th century to the beginning of the 20th century, the Xishan Mountain was once built with the villa of the Marquis of the state of banshankuang, the summer palace of the king of Liang, Jiner temple, Biji temple, Puxian temple, Huating temple, Taihua temple, Taiping temple, Songyin temple, sanqingge, Longmen, Zhangxian temple, Ruyi temple, pilgrimage temple, Longwang temple, etc. Some temples were not rebuilt after the collapse. By 2000, there were Huating temple, Taihua temple, Sanqing Pavilion and other ancient temples, which were close to the mountains and the sea, hidden in the forest and bamboo groves and inlaid on the cliffs.

Since 1980, the government's investment in the park's infrastructure has been increasing year by year. Temples in the park have been maintained continuously, and uphill roads have been paved. In 1984, the Dengdao from Longmen to xiaoshilin was opened up, and the xiaoshilin tourist area was opened up. In 1986, Taihua villa service center was built. After years of continuous construction, Xishan Forest Park has developed from a temple scenic spot into a scenic spot integrating tourism, vacation, catering and shopping.

At present, the park is connected to the urban area by Anshi and Mingbo highways, Yunnan Burma highway and Gaohai expressway, and the urban area by No.6 bus and special minibus directly to Xishan. There is a large cableway across the Dianchi ridge leading to Yunnan ethnic village. There are asphalt roads in the scenic spots. There is a special line from Taihua villa to sanqingge to see off the tourists by "battery car", and there is a Longmen cableway from Taihua villa to xiaoshilin. Taihua villa has a large vehicle parking lot and a multi-storey ecological parking lot for small vehicles. In the scenic area, there are multi-level sightseeing roads, including Mountaineering Road, Taihua ancient road, detour road and viewing lane. Especially in the past crowded sanqingge scenic area, in recent years, it has opened up a circuitous road, which is convenient for tourists to enjoy the scenery by the hurdle.

facilities

The park set up Park office, tourism consulting service department, security office, industrial and commercial office, security office and other full-time institutions to implement comprehensive management of scenic spots. Xishan tourist center tourism consulting service department, set up a voice guide system and guide staff, there are more than 30 kinds of pictures, text, audio-visual publicity materials. There are 39 Park phones (including 13 IC card phones) distributed in each park, which have international and domestic direct dialing functions, and the communication service is smooth. The postal service can handle international and domestic letters, parcels, sale of commemorative stamps, postcards, ordinary stamps, local souvenir covers, and has a commemorative postmark.

The park has a police station and a full-time security management department. Full time forest protection and fire management, patrol, publicity and fire fighting teams are set up for forest fire prevention. Sanqingge and Longmen cliff steep sections are equipped with protective railings and warning signs at dangerous places. The whole day cleaning system is implemented in the scenic spot, with a full-time health management organization, a professional cleaning team and special toilet for the disabled. The restaurants operated in the park are equipped with disinfection and environmental protection facilities, which are in line with the national food hygiene regulations. For the individual business households operating in the scenic area, the industrial and commercial office is set up for management, and full-time industrial and commercial cadres are set up to continuously carry out civilized business legal education for the business households, and timely handle tourists' complaints. All major facilities, such as parking lots, entrances and exits, road signs, catering, emergency center, complaints and alarms, are equipped with graphic symbols in both Chinese and English.

As a result of decades of intensive management of scenic forests, persisting in planting trees every year and strictly preventing forest fires, the forest coverage rate has reached 94%, and the air quality and noise quality of Xishan Forest Park have reached the first class national standard. The drinking deep well groundwater reaches the national standard for drinking mineral water.

There are 11 national, provincial and city level cultural relics protection units in Xishan. Nie Er's cemetery at the foot of Taihua mountain in Xishan Mountain is a national key cultural relic protection unit; Longmen Grottoes in Luohan mountain is a Yunnan key cultural relic protection unit; Buddhist temples and Taoist buildings such as Huating temple, Taihua temple and sanqingge, and Zhang Tianxu's cemetery are municipal key cultural relic protection units; there are also a number of county and district key cultural relic protection units such as Bai Xiwen's tomb and Yang Jie's tomb. Xishan is a collection of cultural relics protection units at all levels, which have high ornamental value and can be called the treasure house of cultural relics in Central Yunnan.

present situation

Now Xishan Forest Park is rich in sightseeing activities. There are mountaineering and fitness tourism, religious pilgrimage to Buddha tourism, Cultural Relic Appreciation tourism, patriotism education red tourism to pay homage to Nie Er's tomb, Nanyang mechanic memorial hall, sunrise and sunset scenery tourism in Dianchi Lake, Yunnan famous flowers in Taihua temple and flower appreciation in Biji Yulan garden

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