Zhangshiyan

Zhangshiyan

Zhang Shiyan, a national scenic spot, is located in Zanhuang County, southwest of Shijiazhuang (52 kilometers to Zanhuang county). It is about 110 kilometers away from Shijiazhuang, the capital city of Hebei province. It is the essence of Taihang Mountain Forest Park.

Its characteristic scenic spot is large natural echo wall. The area of the scenic spot is about 120 square kilometers. Standing at the highest point of the scenic spot, huang'ananao (1774 meters above sea level), you can see two provinces and five counties. The landform of the whole tourist area has been identified as "Zhangshiyan landform" by the National Tourism and geological departments. Zhangshiyan landform named after Zhangshiyan, together with Danxia landform and Zhangjiajie landform, is known as China's three major tourist sandstone landforms.

Historical evolution

In 1972, Guo Kang, from the Institute of geography, Hebei Academy of Sciences, discovered a magnificent Red Cliff longwall sandstone landform in Taihang Mountain. After years of investigation and research, the landform was officially named Zhangshiyan landform. "Zhangshiyan landform" has five characteristics: continuous Danya long wall, stepped cliffs throughout the whole territory, "Ω" - shaped peaks and valleys connected in complete sets, sharp angular block structure, vertical valley from beginning to end, and contains a large number of unique geological, geomorphic landscape and related "harmony between man and nature" historical and local cultural landscape. It is essentially different from Danxia landform and Zhangjiajie landform. Zhangshiyan landform has established a unique formation and evolution model, enriched the content of geomorphology and opened up the research field of applied geomorphology.

In December 1999, the largest Memorial forest of the Great Wall built in Macao, China, with a total length of 1000 meters and 999 steles inlaid, added a great cultural landscape to the scenic area. Attachment: local people often write "Zhangshiyan".

In 1994, it was approved as the third batch of national key scenic spots by the State Council.

In 2004, it was approved as a national geopark by the Ministry of land and resources.

In 2005, it was rated as national AAAA tourist area by National Tourism Administration.

In 2006, it was rated as one of the "most beautiful places in Hebei", and in 2007, it was rated as one of the "2007 most popular charm scenic spots in Hebei".

In 2009, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of new China, the centennial of the founding of the Geographical Society of China, and the centennial of the founding and development of modern geography in China, National Geographic magazine of China and the Geographical Society of China jointly launched the selection activity of "the Centennial discovery of Chinese Geography". The primary list included "in 1972, Guo Kang discovered the Zhangshiyan landform of Taihang Mountain", but it did not enter the final 30 list.

geographical environment

Zhangshiyan natural scenic spot is located in the southwest of Zanhuang County, 100 kilometers southwest of Shijiazhuang City, with a total area of 120 square kilometers, the central scenic spot of 20 square kilometers, and the highest altitude of 1774 meters. Zhangshiyan scenic spot has abundant rainfall and pleasant climate. The annual rainfall is 747mm, the average temperature is 11.5 ℃, and the average temperature in the hottest month is 22.1 ℃. Enjoy the cool and refreshing pleasure. It has the reputation of "cool island in the north, natural oxygen bar".

natural resources

Biology

There are 654 species in 98 families in 2009. Walnut, lacquer tree, Rhododendron and fern are all over the mountains. Gastrodia elata, ginseng, bupleurum, Polygonum multiflorum, acanthopanax senticosus and other precious Chinese medicinal materials are also produced. Animals and birds such as yellow goat, grass deer, mountain pig, squirrel, fox, pheasant, black stork, etc.

water resource

The source of the mineral spring is from Jurassic strata. The water is clear and transparent, the taste is sweet and smooth, refreshing and refreshing. The water contains a lot of 34 kinds of trace elements beneficial to human health, such as metasilicic acid, selenium, strontium, iron, potassium, sodium, calcium, lithium and iodine. The content and ratio of calcium and magnesium are better. If you drink this water often, it has obvious effect of physical therapy and health care. At the same time, it can enhance human immune function and prolong life. According to the analysis and identification of the water quality of China mineral water quality testing center, the water quality "reaches the limit index value of the national standard for drinking natural mineral water", and is determined as the low-quality mineral water of calcium sodium bicarbonate containing metasilicic acid and strontium.

Scenic spots

Landscape features

Zhangshiyan is a national key scenic spot and National Geopark. It is also the discovery and naming place of "Zhangshiyan landform" discovered by Guo Kang in the 1990s. Zhangshiyan landform is one of the three major tourist sandstone landforms (Danya landform, Zhangjiajie landform and Zhangshiyan landform) in China. It is a typical section of Taihang Mountain. Danya cliff, which is composed of three-level red sandstone cliffs with a height of more than 600 meters, extends more than 20 kilometers from north to south in Zhangshiyan area, and extends far away. In this context, there are many deep valleys, strange peaks and rocks, and the unique "Ω" - shaped Valley - "the world's largest Echo Wall" has been selected as the Guinness world record. "There are more than a thousand people in the half flower palace of the rock, and it is doubted that it is empty when you look at it from afar. Even though Wang Wei's paintings are not as good as his, the poet Qiao Yu of Ming Dynasty praised Zhangshiyan, while Liu Yingbin of Yishui, a Jinshi in the late Ming Dynasty, wrote "one side is absolutely superior.".

Zhangshiyan landscape mainly includes "Danya, biling, Qifeng and Yougu". Its landscape features can be summarized as "three stacks lead nine sets, four screens hide eight scenes". Three stacks are three ancient roads; nine sets are nine valleys connecting the three ancient roads; four screens are four relatively independent scenic spots (jiunvfeng, Yuantong Temple, zhiroutao and lenglingbei). Among the four scenic spots, there are eight famous scenic spots: Jiuxian gathering, yanbanhua palace, sunny and rainy days, Huiyin cliff, huaiquan cool, frozen Yuzhu, chongmenkou jade, and diezhang hanging bell. These three stacks, four screens, eight scenic spots and nine suites are connected by paths, which connect 120 scenic spots in a string. Among them, natural echo wall, frozen jade pillar, fog cave and Buddha light are the "four wonders of Zhangyan"; on sunny days, flying rain, stone milk spring, cloud cliff and pearl, silver waterfall and falling lake are the "four wonders of Zhangyan water scenery". The majestic mountains are stacked in three layers, and the picturesque Jiunv peak is breathtaking. A string of natural scenic spots, such as yixiantian, sanxiu gorge, huaiquan Valley, Ruquan cave and datianti, are fascinating. Huaiquan temple, a thousand year old temple, Yuhuang temple and Thousand Buddha monument, dawangtai, Yijun village and other cultural landscapes are good places to explore the ancient.

Zhangshiyan landform is mainly distributed in Zhangshiyan scenic area of Taihang Mountain in Zanhuang County, central and Southern Hebei Province. In addition, Zhangshiyan landform is distributed in many other places of Taihang Mountain. The artificial Tianhe "red flag canal" is built on Zhangshiyan landform. In addition to Taihang Mountains, Zhongtiao mountains in Shanxi are also distributed, but they are basically located in Hebei, Shanxi and Henan.

scenic spot

Zhangshiyan

Zhangshiyan is a national scenic spot with three layers of steep cliffs. Its landscape can be summarized as "three stacks lead nine sets, four screens hide eight scenes". The nine sets refer to the nine valleys connecting the three stacks, including shirenzhai Valley, shouldatai Valley, xisantao Valley, dabeizhang Valley, Zhangshiyan Valley, huaiquanyu Valley, Daxigou Valley, Huiyin Valley and lenglingbei valley. Its four screens refer to four relatively independent sub scenic spots in Zhangshiyan scenic area, including jiunvfeng scenic area, Yuantong Temple scenic area, zhiroutao scenic area and frozen background area.

Yuantong Temple

Yuantong Temple scenic spot is located in the southwest of Zhangshiyan scenic spot. Yuantong Temple is built on the second steep cliff of fengshiyan. Get off at Zhangshiyan parking lot and go west to bajiaomen. You can see a huge stone 500 meters ahead. This is the lecture hall of the great treasure monk of Yuantong Temple in Ming Dynasty. From the lectern, you can see the magic cube and Jiamen scenic spots, and then you can go to yixiantian scenic spot. The skyline of Zhangshiyan scenic spot is sandwiched into a long and narrow stairway by the steep wall. When you look up at the sky, you can only see the narrow gap of more than 50 meters high formed by the cliffs. The stairway is 150 meters long. At the top of the first line of Tianya, there are snake head cliff scenic spots, followed by chisel stone, sword testing stone, sky looking stone and other scenic spots. On the top of the two stacks are the remains of Yuantong Temple, and there are six groups of rock paintings on the cliff. In the east of the temple, there is a cave more than 20 meters high, in which there are stone springs, stalactites, etc., which are of great appreciation value. After passing the Yuantong Temple site, you can also see some scenic spots, such as turtle begging dew, huixinping and so on. From huixinping southbound, you can see the cloud nest Pavilion, which is located in a very steep terrain, which is also the starting point of the curved path landscape. From the cloud nest pavilion to the southwest, you can see Mantou peak, dinghaishen needle, fengdongshi, Jinggu and other scenic spots. Southward to the Trident, you can see gongnan stone landscape. Up the trestle road from the Sanchakou, through the three stacks of pine forest, through a piece of primary secondary forest, that is, to the bottom of Bijia peak, a very steep ladder road is chiseled on the stone wall for people to climb, which is the great ladder. When you go to dingzhan (the third steep cliff), you can see a towering peak forest. Bijia peak, Liuzi peak, Jianshan peak, Nanri peak and Huangan Nao peak are higher in the competition. In addition, fog cave, ant ridge, Tianchi scenic spots are also beautiful. Huangannao is the highest peak of Zhangshiyan, 1774 meters above sea level. Bijia peak is the second highest peak, 1733 meters above sea level. From Sanchakou southbound, through guangnao, xiaotianti, cangshuyan and other scenic spots, you can get to shuilian. In the water curtain across the cave to the north, you can see zhengxitao, which is one of the most beautiful scenery of Zhangshiyan. When you cross the water curtain and turn eastward, you can see Iron Lion Peak, Yanta peak, Zengyu cliff, Jiangxiang peak, Pomo cliff, houyangou, Duxiu Peak, Jianfeng and other landscapes.

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Zhiroutao scenic spot is located in the west of xigetai village in Zhangshiyan scenic spot. There are traces of the activities of the rest of Li Zicheng's Volunteer Army in this scenic spot. Shaoshi, Shimen, dawangtai, gufoyan and other scenic spots seem to tell the past of hundreds of years. From the stone gate to the west, there is huaiquan temple, which was built in the Tang Dynasty and rebuilt in the yuan and Ming Dynasties. It was formerly called Shifo temple, but was renamed in the Ming Dynasty. There are three halls in the temple for six Buddha statues and three civil and military statues. In 1995, it was renovated. The existing buildings include Shanmen and Tiantian

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