Shimen waterfall

Shimen waterfall

Shimen waterfall is a landmark landscape of Shimen cave in Qingtian County, Zhejiang Province. Shimen waterfall is located at the end of Hexi river. It is the last waterfall in Hexi River and the most peculiar one. There are four waterfalls on it. Along the stone path on the right side of the waterfall, you can find the source of the waterfall.

geographical environment

Shimen waterfall is a hanging waterfall in Shimen Cave Scenic Area. It faces northeast and consists of five cascades. The source of Shimen waterfall group is Dongbei village. The canyon on both sides of the stream is about 300 meters wide at the top and 50 meters wide at the bottom, with a slope of about 60 degrees, in a "V" shape. Its water potential and water volume are the first of the three waterfalls in East China (dalongqiu, Shiliang and Shimen waterfall). Because the source is forest, it has strong water conservation capacity, and even in winter, the water volume is also large, which can be called "the best in East China". From the first cascade to the fifth cascade, the length of Tandi stream is about 800 meters, the total drop is about 180 meters, and the catchment area is 5 square kilometers.

Main attractions

Jiyintan

At the end of Shimen cave, the waterfall flows down from a cliff with a width of about 5 meters and a height of 112.5 meters, like a black dragon and a white snake. Waterfall pool, also known as Jiyin pool, covers an area of about 1500 square meters, with the deepest depth of about 10 meters. In order to maintain the water flow of the waterfall, a reservoir with a storage capacity of 160000 cubic meters was built in Dongbei village on the upstream of the first cascade in 2002. The waterfall does not change much with seasons, but the rainy season is the best viewing period.

The shape of Shimen waterfall is like vertical training, splashing like jumping beads and scattering like silver fog. It is known as "Tianquan" and "holy water" and praised by scholars of all ages. In Tang Dynasty, Li Bai praised the poem and said: "in what year, the thunderbolt was startling, the clouds scattered and the cliff cracked. Straight up the Milky way, endless flow. Tang Xianzu, the author of xixianfang in the Ming Dynasty, wrote a poem: "the spring is empty and cold, the rain and stone gate spring is as bright as a hundred million rainbow and as close as smoke. Only wash the moss, note the clouds and gullies, and fly the white crane around the green field. The famous contemporary poet Guo Moruo's poem name of "flying waterfall in the sky, cool and like to urge poetry" is the eternal masterpiece of Shimen waterfall. Under the waterfall, there are three waterfall viewing platforms: Waterfall viewing platform, waterfall viewing Pavilion and Shimen Pavilion. You can enjoy the charm of the waterfall from three different directions. From the Southern Dynasties, Tang, song, yuan, Ming, Qing and modern times, literati left precious ink here, and visitors came in droves.

Tianquan

Shimen waterfall falls from the 112.5-meter cliff with a majestic momentum. Its shape is like tempering, its sound is like thunder, its splash is like jumping beads, and its dispersion is like silver fog. It is called "Tianquan" and "holy water".

Inscriptions on poems left by literati

Many scholars in the past dynasties wrote poems and inscriptions to praise the Shimen waterfall. Li Bai left such an exclamation: "what year is the thunderbolt, the clouds are scattered and the cliffs are cracked. Straight up to the Milky way, endless flow Tang Xianzu also wrote: "spring is cold, rain and stone gate spring, far like rainbow, near like smoke, only wash the moss, pour into the cloud gully, fly white crane Rao Qingtian." These are the best portrayal of Shimen waterfall.

Address: Shimen Cave Scenic Area, Qingtian County, Lishui City

Longitude: 120.28285980225

Latitude: 28.134183883667

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