Qi Yueshan

Qi Yueshan

Qiyue mountain is the largest mountain grassland in South China. Higher altitude, originally known as Qiyao mountain, now known as Qiyue mountain. It is located in the west of Lichuan City, Hubei Province, bordering Chongqing Shizhu and Wanzhou in the west, only 30km away from Lichuan City and 80km away from Wanzhou port. National Highway 318 passes through the scenic spot.

Detailed evaluation

After entering Lichuan from Shizhu, Chongqing, Qiyue mountain stretches from southwest to northeast, with a total area of 562km2, a main peak of 1911.5m and an average altitude of more than 1500m.

Just like a towering wall across the western sky, it became a big barrier and military important place in the middle of Jingchu and Bashu in ancient times. There were seven passes on the mountain. Liu Taicang, the leader of the thirteen Kuidong families of Li Zicheng's remaining department, set up camp on the mountain in the late Ming Dynasty and held on for nine years. Later, Bailian sect in Sichuan and Chu defeated the Qing army with the help of natural danger. In 1934, the third Red Army also set up camp here and defeated laiwai many times The enemy we are fighting. Therefore, it has the reputation of "ten thousand Li city wall".

In summer, there are green grass and flocks of cattle and sheep. There are three horse racing fields. It's a rare grassland scenery for southerners; it's snowy in winter, and it's also a northern scenery, which is an ideal place for vacation and summer vacation.

Qiyueshan Ranch

brief introduction

Qiyueshan Ranch

Located in the southwest of Lichuan City, Hubei Province, it is located in 108 ° 34 ′ - 108 ° 53 ′, 30 ° 11 ′ - 30 ° 34 ′, altitude 1500-1800 meters, with a total area of 120000 mu. Qiyueshan ranch has beautiful scenery and convenient transportation. It is 30 kilometers away from Lichuan City and 80 kilometers away from Wanzhou port. There are new and old national highway 318 passing through the ranch, and there are roads connected in the ranch, forming a crisscross road network. With sufficient power and rich coal resources, it has created extremely superior conditions for the processing and flow of livestock products.

The climate is cool and foggy with abundant rainfall and high humidity. The annual average temperature is 8.03-11.3 ° C, the relative humidity is 85%, the annual rainfall is about 1700mm, the frost free period is 208 days, and the annual sunshine hours is 1519.5 hours. Qiyueshan grassland terrain is relatively flat, mostly gentle slope land, and deep soil layer, fertile land, there are 100000 mu of available grassland, most of which belong to the type of grassland. Since the 1980s, Lichuan City has been developing and utilizing the grassland, carrying out artificial grass planting and livestock raising. Now more than 40000 mu of artificial grassland has been built, most of which have implemented engineering fence and biological fence, and built 10 drinking pools of 1800 m3, 6 silage pits of 750 m3, and two grazing roads of 35 km.

Qiyue mountain, like a towering wall across the western sky, has become a major barrier and military important place in the middle of Jingchu and Bashu in ancient times. There were seven passes on the mountain. Liu Taicang, the leader of the thirteen Kuidong families of Li Zicheng in the late Ming Dynasty, set up a camp on the mountain and held fast for nine years. Later, the Bailian sect of Sichuan and Chu defeated the Qing army with the help of natural danger. In 1934, the third Red Army also set up a camp here and defeated the enemy troops who came to encircle and suppress them many times. Therefore, it has the reputation of "ten thousand Li city wall".

Qiyueshan grassland is boundless, the sea of clouds is vast, and the scenery is beautiful. There are many horse racing fields and camping villages, barbecue garden, leisure villa, hotel, etc. In summer, there are green grass and flocks of cattle and sheep. At present, there are three horse racing fields, which are rare grassland scenery for southerners. In winter, with snow and jade trees, it is also an ideal place for vacation and summer vacation.

present situation

Qiyueshan pasture governs 7 villages, 35 villager groups, 792 households and 2906 people. Grain production is mainly corn and potato, economic crops are mainly cabbage and flue-cured tobacco, and animal husbandry is the main economic source of farmers here. Especially after grass planting and livestock raising, the ranchers vigorously developed herbivorous livestock such as cattle and sheep, successively introduced Chinese Merino fine wool sheep, Romney semi fine wool sheep, Boer goat and Nanjiang Yellow sheep from the cattle and sheep breeding base of Shandong Animal Husbandry Bureau, and then introduced Simmental frozen semen to improve local yellow cattle, with obvious effect. At present, 2550 cattle and horses, more than 3600 sheep and 2780 pigs are raised in the pasture, and more than 3500 livestock are sold every year. The output value of animal husbandry accounts for more than 65% of the total agricultural output value.

Historical evolution

Development and construction

With an area of more than 500000 mu, Qiyueshan grassland has been recognized as the largest grassland in southern China by experts at home and abroad. After 20 years of development and construction, the grassland animal husbandry industry has begun to take shape. The patches of grassland and groups of cattle and sheep have added a beautiful scenery to Qiyue mountain. The beautiful natural mountain grassland scenery, cool and pleasant climate environment and convenient and superior traffic location constitute the unique tourism resources of Qiyue mountain. This kind of resource advantage has shown attractive charm in the tourism development in recent years, and now the Qiyue mountain scenic spot has boundless grassland.

Name legend

There are many ancient names of Qiyue mountain. It is said that in the Ming Dynasty, Taoist herbalists collected herbs to refine the elixir of immortality, and collected all the famous mountains in the world. They didn't need all the main herbs. Later, he came to Qiyue mountain by accident and found that the main herbs he needed were almost all over the mountains. Therefore, in ancient times, people commonly called this mountain Qiyue mountain. The top of Qiyue mountain is basically level, with seven mountain parcels, including heidabao, kanjin Dabao, luojiadabao, dengjiadabao, wanjiadabao, Dabao and pengjiadabao, spread out like seven stars, so the ancients called it Qiyao mountain.

Traffic information

There are many shuttle buses passing through Qiyue mountain at Lichuan Nanmen bus station. You can also charter a bus from Lichuan to the scenic spot.

Honor of scenic spot

In April 2020, it was selected into the "2020 list of famous summer resort mountains in China".

Address: Lichuan City, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture

Longitude: 108.650344

Latitude: 30.322205

Ticket information: free.

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