Jiulong Falls National Forest Park

Jiulong Falls National Forest Park

Jiulong waterfall Forest Park is located in Dawu branch of Longlin farm, shengshanxi Town, Hengxian County, 118 km away from Nanning.

Shizi stream, pingtian stream, Bailong stream, Liyu stream and Jiulong stream converge in the park, forming more than 20 waterfalls. Nine waterfalls are the most spectacular, including Bailong out of the pool, Qun long Ying Bin, Shuanglong Xizhu, Zilong meeting, Longnv Tuzhu, Jiulong entering the palace, Feilong Chaoquan, shenlongqing hall and Longgu Xiangtan. In the scenic area, the vegetation is luxuriant and the forest is shady.

geographical environment

Hengxian Jiulong waterfall group Forest Park is located at the south foot of Longshan mountain, Hengxian Town, Nanning City, Guangxi Province. It was originally the Dawu forest farm of state-owned Hengxian Zhenlong forest farm. The park is 56km away from the county seat, 96km away from Guigang City, 118km away from Nanning City, and 30km away from the entrance of school chair of Nanwu expressway.

The park is 5.5km long from east to west and 5.7KM wide from south to north. The total area of the park is 1639.9 hectares, and the forest coverage reaches 87.8%.

The elevation of the park is 400-700m, and the relative elevation is about 300m. The highest elevation is 660.8m, and the lowest is 203.0m. The climate of the park is subtropical monsoon climate, with abundant rainfall, sufficient light, mild climate, wet summer and dry winter. The soil is mainly lateritic red soil formed by fine quartzite and argillaceous siltstone, and the soil is deep, loose and fertile.

In the park, there are luxuriant trees, rich levels and waterfalls. There are five large streams, including Shizi stream, pingtian stream, Bailong stream, Liyu stream and Jiulong stream. There are more than 10 scenic spots for tourists, such as Qunlong Yingbin, Bailong Chutan, Jiulong Gongru, Shuanglong Xizhu and bainiaoyi. More and more strange scenic spots need to be developed.

There are restaurants and canteens in the park. The county mobile communication branch and Unicom branch have established communication base stations in the park. Due to the continuous improvement of various infrastructure, the park was rated as one of the top ten scenic spots in Nanning in 2004.

Development history

On May 9, 1997, under the organization of Hengxian County Party committee and government, the Tourism Bureau, forestry bureau, construction bureau and other relevant departments held an on-site office meeting at dawulin station of Zhenlong forest farm to make arrangements for the development of the park.

In June 1998, entrusted by Hengxian Zhenlong forest farm, Guangxi Forestry Survey and design institute undertook the overall planning of the park.

Through extensive investigation and demonstration of the park's landscape resources, environmental quality, natural conditions, infrastructure, social economy and tourist market, the preliminary plan of the overall planning was completed by the end of July.

After extensive collection and supplementary materials, and according to the opinions and suggestions put forward by relevant leaders and experts, the draft of the master plan was completed at the end of August. On October 13, the District Forestry Bureau presided over the "master plan of Jiulong waterfall group Forest Park in Hengxian County, Guangxi" (draft for review) The review meeting unanimously approved the master plan of Jiulong waterfall group Forest Park in Hengxian County, Guangxi, and put forward many valuable opinions and suggestions.

According to the relevant requirements of Guilin Jijiji Zi [1998] No. 153 "reply on the overall planning of Jiulong waterfall Forest Park in Hengxian County, Guangxi", Zhenlong forest farm of Hengxian County, in accordance with the principle of "who invests, who benefits", introduced capital to build the first phase project of the park, and started trial operation on August 11, 2001. After several years of construction, the first phase project of the park has been completed, and the infrastructure has been improved One step improvement, the park

Main attractions

Bailongchutan, Jiulong Waterfall National Forest Park

From the "Qinglong Dianshui" waterfall, it goes up along the valley. On both sides, there are luxuriant trees, winding vines and towering ancient trees. It is a natural forest scenery.

About 200m upstream, you can see a waterfall about 5m wide falling down from the peak about 30m high, straight into the pool, full of streamline and dynamic rhythm. The waterfall is surrounded by splashing white water mist, which is fantastic, just like a white dragon leaping out of the pool, giving you endless reverie.

Purple Dragon meet

There is a waterfall falling in two layers above the "Jiulong Palace" waterfall. The first layer is narrow and the flow speed is fast. It is surging. After the fall, it passes through the transition of nearly 10m platform and becomes gentle. After reaching the second layer, it passes through seven or eight equal falls and water diversion, becoming wide, flat and magnificent.

With purple stone as the bottom, green leaves as the lining, and water mist in the sky, the waterfall turns into a rainbow of seven colors, which is fascinating.

Dragon and Pearl

One of the most spectacular waterfalls in the park.

Above the waterfall, there is a narrow confluence of water. The water is converged and bound, with great potential and rapid flow. It falls down from the left and right sides of the waterfall.

The waterfall is about 30 meters high and 10-15 meters wide. The small waterfall on the left side slides down like a white hanging curtain, which is quiet and elegant. The large waterfall on the right side washes the wall and washes the rocks, which is turbulent. After the two waterfalls meet, they immediately spin and fall into a huge trough like stone pool. The water in the pool whirls rapidly and comes out from the fracture in front, which makes the view of Zhuang abnormal.

Therefore, it is called "Shuanglong Xizhu". Its shape, sound and color all show the power and momentum of nature

Biological landscape

Biological landscape

Forest Park has luxuriant vegetation, rich forest types and a variety of plant communities form different landscape effects. In the park, there are unique Valley monsoon rain forest landscape; there are orderly, lush, vast artificial forest landscape; there are large arbor forests such as Phoebe, Chinese fir, masson pine, and low flower shrubs such as myrtle and Wild Peony.

The shadow of the trees in the forest, old and young, high and low, dense and sparse, transparent and closed, bright and soft, all give people different feelings. The forest vegetation in the park has obvious seasonal changes, with different scenery in four seasons.

At the end of winter and the beginning of spring, ten thousand trees are revived, mountain flowers are brilliant, and birds are singing in the valley, showing a lively spring atmosphere.

At the end of spring and the beginning of summer, pink azaleas are blooming all over the mountain, making people relaxed and happy. Midsummer, verdant trees, vast green sea, showing a strong vitality. In the golden autumn season, it is clear and crisp in autumn, with red, orange, yellow and green in the green cluster.

It mainly includes four types of 16 landscapes: Woodland (subtropical evergreen monsoon rain forest, masson pine forest, Chinese fir forest, pine and Phoebe mixed forest, camphor forest, Sapium sebiferum / Liquidambar formosana forest, Huanglan forest, star anise forest, green plum forest, forest sea), Bush (liana, shrubbery, pteridophyte), forest flower land (Dujuan forest, Myrtle / Wild Peony shrub), bird habitat (bird world) ）。

(1) Beautiful scenery of rainforest -- subtropical evergreen monsoon rainforest landscape. The broad-leaved forest with certain characteristics of seasonal rain forest is distributed in the valley of the park, with an area of 243.0 hm2.

The forest is rich in woody roots, shaded by shade, towering trees, twigs and tendrils, rich in vines, mosses and ferns, with complex hierarchical structure and diversity of plant population and structure, presenting a humid, shady, mysterious and charming primitive forest scene. Standing in the dense forest, watching the vines flutter, listening to the waves of Lin Tao, birds chirping and cicadas chirping, carefree and happy.

(2) Forest sea and pines -- the landscape of Pinus massoniana forest.

On the middle and upper slopes of most of the mountains in the park, there are mature and Young Pinus massoniana Forests, with a total area of 728.5hm2. The trunk of the pine tree is straight, vigorous and straight, the branches are luxuriant and elegant, and the crown is straight and straight. Walking in the forest, walking on the elastic layer of withered pine needles, smelling the rosin floating in the forest, refreshing.

(3) Green waves in the forest sea -- the landscape of Chinese fir forest.

In the hillsides around pingtian River and Jiulong River, the soil is rich, and a large area of Cunninghamia lanceolata forest is planted. Most of the trees are 15-17 years old, and the planting area is about 125.4 hm2. It is one of the main tree species in the park. The needle leaves of Cunninghamia lanceolata are linear lanceolate, dark green, the crown is pointed, the trunk is straight, the tree posture is beautiful and pleasing to the eye.

(4) The landscape of mixed forest of pine and Machilus. In the area of waterfall group in the park, it is a mixed forest of Pinus massoniana and Michelia macclurei. The color of Michelia macclurei is green all the year round, and there are some color changes with the tree age: young green, middle-aged light green, adult dark green. Tall and straight pine trees in the broad-leaved forest, such as giant proud, full of great bearing. The mixed forest of Pinus thunbergii and Phoebe bournei has obvious seasonal change, rich layers and good landscape effect.

(5) Fragrance of green forest -- camphor forest landscape. There are a large number of camphor trees scattered in the park. Camphor trees are broad-leaved trees, evergreen all the year round, light green in spring, dark green in summer, gray green in autumn, strong and tortuous trunk, elegant shape, fragrant trees, and good landscape effect.

(6) Colorful leaves singing autumn -- the landscape of Sapium sebiferum and Liquidambar formosana forest. There are large areas of Sapium sebiferum and Liquidambar formosana forests on both sides of the forest road leading to nalilin station. The landscape has obvious layering phenomenon. The seasonal variation is large. It is green in spring and summer, yellow and red in autumn and winter, and fallen leaves. The color contrast is strong. At the beginning of autumn, the forest is full of colors, which is magnificent and beautiful.

Jiulong Falls National Forest Park

(7) Huanglan welcome autumn -- Huanglan forest landscape. It is distributed in the middle of the southern part of shizixi and around the wood yard in the west of the park. It is a special fruit tree with a planting area of 27.3 hm2. The young leaves and mature olive fruits are yellowish green, with odd pinnate branches and beautiful lateral leaves. The landscape effect is good.

(8) The fragrance of star anise -- the landscape of star anise forest. Mainly distributed in the west of the park 4

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