Boshan Lake

Boshan Lake

Boshan Lake scenic spot is located 20 kilometers south of Queshan County in Zhumadian, only 2 kilometers away from Beijing Guangzhou railway, Beijing Zhuhai Expressway and Beijing Shenzhen highway, with convenient transportation. The lake has a storage capacity of 620 million cubic meters and a water body of 25 kilometers, covering an area of 22 square kilometers. The dam with an elevation of 130 meters and a length of 545 meters stands between the two mountains, forming an artificial lake.

Around the lake, surrounded by mountains, peaks looming, canyons crisscrossing, pines and bamboos, lakes and mountains, misty morning, birds singing in the woods, pavilions and pavilions, fishing songs singing in the evening, changing scenery in one day and different tastes in four seasons.

Boshan Lake scenic area is composed of gulangling scenic area, Daba scenic area, Hudong scenic area and jiulonggou scenic area. Famous scenic spots include: Shentuo playing in the water, tiger roaring in the sky, Huzhong Island, boar ridge, Jinji peak, jiangjunbi, Dagou pool, Cuizhu stream, and monkey cliff.

brief introduction

Boshan Lake scenic spot is located 18 kilometers south of Queshan County, Zhumadian City, Henan Province. It is adjacent to Zhugou revolutionary base known as "little Yan'an" in the northwest, Tianmu Mountain "jade Gallery" in the south, Beijing Zhuhai Expressway, Beijing Guangzhou railway and 107 National Road running through the north and south. The scenic area covers an area of 240 square kilometers, with a forest coverage rate of more than 90% and a lake surface of 22 square kilometers.

In the scenic area, there are green peaks and blue water. It is one of the first batch of national forest parks, National Water Conservancy Scenic Spots and provincial scenic spots. Famous landscapes include Whale Island, Linggui Island, Hongfeng Island, Luotuofeng, moso bamboo forest, Huxiao peak, jiangjunbi, houerya, cuizhuxi, longnvtan, luwangzhai ruins, modern military water (underwater) training center, etc. It is a collection of ancient, secluded, beautiful and strange, known as "Lijiang River in Central China" and "Baili Gallery". Baoshan Lake Cuizhu River scenic spot has rich cultural connotation. It has been known as "Langling scenic spot", "tianzhongao district" and "Zhongyuan Longhu" since ancient times. Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, and Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher, have left poems for thousands of years: Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, wrote "Boshan" with his own pen; modern artists know pearls with their eyes, and CCTV's "journey to the west" and "Long March" crew take it as the location. Yang Jie and Tang Guoqiang praised the scenic spot of Boshan lake for "showing thousands of lakes" and "thousands of scenery in Boshan Lake".

Boshan lake, a 60 Li Gallery of wild macaques, is a paradise for animals and plants with pure water and elegant environment. There are more than 1400 kinds of plants in the scenic spot, among which Pinus massoniana, magpie, Liquidambar formosana and Kenan are distributed in the northern margin of China; Magnolia officinalis and Gleditsia sinensis are distributed in the southern margin of China; wild soybean, Eucommia ulmoides, Gleditsia villosa and fragrant fruit tree are the national key protected plants; Boshan orchid is a famous orchid variety resource pool in northern China with excellent quality and various species. There are nearly 100 species of animals in the scenic area, including more than 10 rare species such as white swan, mandarin duck and golden pheasant, and more than 30 species of fish, such as giant salamander, mandarin fish, Changyu and Boshan pine needle fish. The scenic area is rich in chestnut, monkey peach, fried in August, wild mushroom and other valuable products.

The scenic spot has star hotels, recreation and leisure facilities, business shopping, transportation and communication facilities, as well as natural baths, lover resorts, military summer camp, special hunting and fishing Park and other special services. It is an ideal paradise for tourism, mountain and water sightseeing, leisure and entertainment.

Cultural connotation

Boshan lake is a long and narrow valley lake, surrounded by mountains and water, stretching for 25 kilometers. If you look down from the sky, Boshan lake is like a flying green dragon, drunk between the mountains. There are 100000 mu of forest on both sides of the lake, covering the mountains and islands in the scenic area and surrounding the lake. Boshan Lake scenic area consists of Langling scenic area, Daba scenic area, Dongdashan scenic area and jiuzigou scenic area.

Today, our tour is mainly arranged on the lake. During the tour, we will visit the island in the middle of the lake, maozhulin, jiuzigou, Linggui Island, "the green Great Wall", daguotan, Yuwang water control, Chu, luotuoyan, jiangjunbi, houerya, etc. the whole tour is about 15 kilometers and takes 3-4 hours. The dam of Boshan lake is majestic and magnificent. It rises from the ground and connects Boshan and ligangshan tightly. The dam is 48 meters high, 545 meters long and 8 meters wide with a storage capacity of 620 million cubic meters. The mountain to the east of the dam is called Boshan. It belonged to Langling County in ancient times. It has a history of more than 2000 years since it was established in the fourth year of emperor Gaozu of the Western Han Dynasty. This is the junction of Tongbai mountain area and Funiu Mountain area. In the southwest is the undulating and majestic thousand mile Tongbai mountain; in the northwest is the majestic thousand mile Funiu Mountain. Boshan means to be near or close to the Dabie Mountains. Boshan lake has a rich cultural connotation, and has been known as "Langling scenic spot", "Tianzhong Olympic area" and "Zhongyuan Longhu" since ancient times. Li Bai, a great poet of Tang Dynasty, and Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher, left a dry ancient poem chapter: Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, wrote "Boshan" with his own pen; modern artists know beads with their eyes, and CCTV's "journey to the west" and "Long March" crew take it as the location. "Showing thousands of lakes" and "thousands of sceneries in Boshan Lake" are Yang Jie's and Tang Guoqiang's praises for Boshan Lake Scenic Spot: Boshan lake, a 60 Li Gallery of wild macaques in Boshan lake.

With pure water and elegant environment, Boshan lake is a paradise for animals and plants to multiply. There are more than 1400 kinds of plants in the scenic spot, among which Pinus massoniana, magpie, Liquidambar formosana and Kenan are distributed in the northern margin of China; Magnolia officinalis and yezaojia are distributed in the southern margin of China; wild soybean, Eucommia ulmoides, Gleditsia villosa and fragrant fruit tree are the national key protected plants; Boshan orchid is a famous orchid variety resource bank in northern China with excellent quality and various species. There are nearly 100 species of animals in the scenic area, including more than 10 rare species such as white swan, mandarin duck and golden pheasant, and more than 30 species of fish, such as giant salamander, mandarin fish, Changyu and Boshan pine needle fish. The scenic area is rich in chestnut, monkey peach, fried in August, wild mushroom and other valuable products.

Lake Island Scenic Spots

The island is oval, like a big whale. With the rise and fall of the lake water level, it is like a mother and a child. People praise the island in the center of the lake as "the mountains are surrounded by clear water, the mountains are quiet, the water is quiet, the fish and birds are happy, the world knows the beauty of the West Lake, and people compete with gods in the center of the lake.". Huzhong island has the most distinctive plant landscape. To the southeast of the island is a large natural botanical garden, with more than 470 kinds of plants from north to south. Among them, the most precious plants are Eucommia ulmoides, wild soybean, Nanking Machilus, Japanese Douglas fir, wild soap, etc. This is a garden for popular science tour of plants. In front of the left, there is a flat round island in the lake. The central part of the island is green with green trees and the two ends of the island are full of grass and bacteria. It looks like a vivid green turtle. This is Wannian Linggui island. It is said that Lan Caihe, one of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, was saved by a ten thousand year old tortoise. However, LAN Caihe, who was careless, missed the chance to become an immortal. He waited here for more than 3000 years and turned into a ten thousand year old tortoise island.

Cuizhuxi scenic spot

Bamboos are perennial plants of Gramineae. There are many kinds of bamboos in China, about 250 species. Bamboos from Fengxin, Jiangxi, Huaping, Guangxi, Junshan, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan and Chizhou, Anhui are the most distinctive. Phyllostachys pubescens originated in China, with fast growth, high yield, good material and wide use. It is the bamboo species with the highest economic value and the largest cultivation area in China. It is a good material for building and bamboo utensils. It is also a high-quality raw material for papermaking. It can also be used to make musical instruments and handicrafts. Bamboo forest scenic area is a beautiful valley. Xinyang, Nanyang and Zhumadian in Henan Province are the northern fringe areas of Phyllostachys pubescens cultivation. Under the condition of small terrain, they can normally grow and develop into forests. You can feel the unique terrain of this valley.

Some of them are strong, some are young, and all over the eyes are green. Bamboo has been praised by scholars of all ages for its festival, hollow and evergreen. It can be used in poetry and painting. Praising bamboo is like "there was Festival before it was unearthed, even Lingyun was modest". Zheng Banqiao, a painter in the Qing Dynasty, loved bamboo all his life. He often quoted Su Dongpo's famous saying: "it's better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo. No meat makes people thin, and no bamboo makes people vulgar.". Well, Boshan lake is also a kingdom of birds, mainly including crane hawk, egret, grey heron, pheasant, Yingque, woodpecker, gull, turtledove, cuckoo, lark, Pulsatilla, thrush, Osprey and so on. You can see the egret walking around the lake, which is one of the most beautiful birds in the family Ardeidae. There is a famous poem: "a line of egrets goes up to the sky.". In the past, the artistic conception that can only be appreciated in ancient poems is a common sight in front of us.

Camel Rock Scenic Spot

It is said that it is the king of the desert country. Because of the beautiful scenery in the south, it traveled a long way to come here. It has beautiful mountains and beautiful scenery. After drinking the river, it is reluctant to leave here, becoming the "camel rock" scene of today's Boshan lake.

Milongzhu scenic spot

The stone pillar stretches out from the bottom of the water and points to the blue sky. The mountain forest on the left of milongzhu is the original forest belt of Boshan lake. Tall and straight Pinus massoniana blocks out the sun, during which squirrels poke their heads, pheasants spread their wings and fly low by the lake, jackals, wolves, badgers, and wild boars are the most ferocious. Wild fruits include wild hawthorn, mountain grape, wild yuhoutao, mountain plum, mountain persimmon, mountain pear, Tang pear, mountain walnut, sand fruit, fig, August fried, mountain jujube, sour jujube, chestnut, pomegranate, etc. these mountain fruits are sweet and sour, and are famous for their high yield, good quality and many kinds. The most famous is Boshan chestnut, which is one of the specialties in South Henan.

Jiuzigouli scenic spot

Lutang mountain, 385 meters above sea level, is located in luwangzhai and jiuzigou

Chinese PinYin : Bao Shan Hu