Beipanjiang Grand Canyon

Beipanjiang Grand Canyon

Beipanjiang Grand Canyon is located in Zhenfeng County, Guizhou Province. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was the territory of the ancient Yelang state. Beipanjiang is what Sima Qian said in historical records, and the capital of the ancient Yelang state is in the upper reaches of the river. As Ban Gu said in the book of Han Dynasty, "Yelang people are near the river. Jiang Kuan, a hundred steps boat is feasible. "

Main attractions

Beipan River flows through seven towns of Zhenfeng County, forming a 94 kilometer long Grand Canyon, the largest in Guizhou. This gorge integrates peak forest, karst cave, grotesque rock, waterfall, undercurrent, Huatan, Xuantang and primeval forest vegetation. It is not only beautiful and precipitous in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, but also magnificent in the Grand Canyon of Colorado. In this section of the canyon, the mystery of Yelang Culture, such as ancient murals and ancient city ruins, as well as the cultural landscape such as Tiesuo bridge, cliff stone carvings and ancient post road, lingers. It can be said that Beipanjiang Grand Canyon is a new bright spot on the tourism line of Western Guizhou. It is also the reappearance of "circuitous Gallery" and "the sound of apes on both sides of the Strait can not stop, and the boat has passed the mountains". In particular, the Beipanjiang bridge on Guanxing highway is 388 meters long and 486 meters high, which is the tallest bridge of its kind in Asia. It gives people a sense of "one bridge Flying North and south, the natural moat becoming a thoroughfare". From the bridge overlooking the long and secluded Grand Canyon of the deep tunnel, it gives people a sense of "gutter and fissure". Nearly 1000 meters high and several thousand meters long, the axe Cut Cliff is like a magnificent and majestic Gallery mural. Especially when it is foggy and misty, it gives people a fairyland like feeling.

Features of scenic spots

Huajiang Gorge

The section of Beipanjiang river flowing through Beipanjiang town of Zhenfeng county is called Huajiang River by the local people. According to the local people, in ancient times, the cliffs on both sides of this area were very luxuriant with flowers and trees. Every spring and summer, a hundred flowers were in full bloom and petals fell into the river one after another. There was a layer of gorgeous color floating on the green river, so this section of Beipanjiang river was called "Huajiang River", and this section of gorge was also called Huajiang gorge. The mountain here is dangerous and continuous, and the current is turbulent and roaring. The local folk song is like this: "the top of the mountain goes into the clouds, and the foot of the mountain goes to the river. Cry across the river, it will take half a day to meet. In 1962, the Huajiang highway bridge in Bangui township was completed and opened to traffic. It was very convenient for people on both sides to meet.

From Zhenfeng to Guanling on the other side, the mountains are towering, beautiful and straight, often surrounded by clouds, just like a fairyland. In the TV series journey to the west, the episode of "Liushahe Shousha monk" was shot in Huajiang gorge. Huajiang river is regarded as a river of quicksand. When Zhu Bajie fights with Sha Seng, Sha Seng is defeated and escapes to the top of the mountain on the other side. Zhu Bajie then arrives and a nail of palladium is knocked down. Sha Seng dodges and a piece of palladium is nailed off the top of the mountain Of course, it's a combination of computer stunts, but the top of the mountain is a live shot. If you connect several peaks on the other side, it looks like a "Sleeping Buddha" lying on his back. There is also a legend about the Sleeping Buddha: the Buddha sent an eminent monk to build roads and bridges on the Huajiang River to benefit the people. After repairing the roads on both sides and building the bridge, the eminent monk gave up drinking, drank the celebration wine and lay drunk on the bank. Unexpectedly, the bridge was destroyed by the rainstorm and the surge of the river. The Buddha was so angry that he turned him into a mountain range and stayed here forever.

On both sides of the Huajiang River are typical karst landforms, worthy of the name of "Kingdom of stone". There is little soil and no dense forest. For tourists, this is a landscape, but for local residents, the living conditions on this rocky desertification land are very difficult. ZHENFENG people have created two miracles in this karst area, which is considered as "not qualified for survival": one is to develop ecological agriculture, planting 100000 mu of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, turning rocky desertification into an oasis, completely changing the living environment; the other is to build an agricultural economic brand, cultivating "Dingtan Zanthoxylum bungeanum" with "Guizhou's first hemp". Therefore, Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Council paid a high appraisal to Zhenfeng's ecological agriculture when he visited Dingtan. On both sides of the road are Zanthoxylum bungeanum forests, most of which are wild in situ, and a few of which are transported. They do not apply fertilizer or water, and let them grow freely. They are absolutely "green food".

Huajiang railway bridge

Peng Ershu, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem about the Huajiang River: "Tiesuo Heishui used to be famous, and Tianshui used to be a million soldiers. How did you get to Kunming in those years The "Tiesuo" in the poem refers to the Huajiang Tiesuo bridge. Since the Ming Dynasty, the government has built bridges in this area several times, either washed down by floods or destroyed by bandits. During the reign of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, Jiang Zonghan, the army gate, tried his best to raise money to build the bridge. After six years, he finally built the 71 meter long, 2.9 meter wide and 70 meter high Tiesuo bridge. The tiesuoqiao bridge has gone through a hundred years of wind and rain, several floods, and was bombed by Japanese planes during the Anti Japanese war. It is still cold and still.

This bridge is not only a link between Zhenfeng and Guanling, but also a key and throat on the road between Guizhou and Yunnan. The ancient post road on the other side leads to Huajiang town in Guanling, Anshun and Guiyang via Huangguoshu waterfall, and the ancient post road on Zhenfeng side leads to Kunming via Xingren and Xingyi.

In 1952, when a group of sheep passed the bridge, they broke the big wooden square on the iron rope. It was restored by Guizhou Provincial Department of communications in 1953. In 1984, Guizhou provincial government repaired the Tiesuo bridge again to make it more firm and beautiful, and built a hexagonal pavilion at the end of the bridge. After the Huajiang highway bridge in upstream Bangui township was completed and opened to traffic, it gradually fell into the cold. The Tiesuo bridge existed more as a cultural relic, so in 1982 Guizhou provincial government listed it as a key cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level.

On the ancient post road in Zhenfeng County on the South Bank of tiesuoqiao, there is a long corridor of calligraphy art, which is connected by many large and small cliff stone carvings and stone carvings. At the end of the bridge, there are "Feihong", "Huajiang bridge", "Wanyuan bridge", "immortal achievement" and some memorial tablets for waiting for the bridge, etc., which can make people recall the long history and express their nostalgia for the past.

Guanxing Highway Bridge

It can be said that several bridges on the Huajiang River represent different centuries. The Tiesuo bridge was built in the 18th century, the reinforced concrete Bangui highway bridge was built in the 20th century, and this modern cable-stayed viaduct is the product of the 21st century.

From Guanling County to Xingren County, the high-grade highway between Guanling and Xingren county crosses Beipanjiang river. It has become a new traffic artery connecting the two sides in the 21st century. It is beyond the reach of the ancient post road in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Yunnan Guizhou highway in the 20th century. The bridge has become the key and throat of the new Yunnan Guizhou passage. This section of Beipanjiang gorge is particularly steep, especially turbulent, with a valley depth of more than 1000 meters. To cross such a valley, we can imagine the magnificence of this bridge. It is 388 meters long and 486 meters high from the water surface, ranking first in China and second in Asia.

Because of the sparsely populated, the original ecological environment of this section of Canyon across the bridge is well preserved. The gorge is full of green water, abundant grass and lush trees, wild boars, monkeys and egrets. It is full of karst wonders and scenes depicted in Tang and Song poems. Today, in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, we can no longer hear "the sound of the apes on both sides of the Strait can't stop crying" or see "the red leaves on the mountains are like rosy clouds". However, we can hear and see them here. A geologist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences said after inspecting the Beipanjiang gorge: "what we lost in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River can be found in the Beipanjiang gorge in Guizhou." A writer once said: "the Beipanjiang Valley can help me find the artistic conception of Tang poetry and Song poetry lost for thousands of years."

Tourism information

admission ticket

Adult ticket: 30 yuan

Children's ticket: 15 yuan

Other benefits: free for children under 1.2m

Opening Hours

Opening hours: 8:00 to 17:30

traffic

Public transportation: take a bus from Yangyang to Huajiang town of Guanling County, 25 yuan; then take a minibus from Huajiang Town, 5 yuan, 2 km westward to the Grand Canyon Scenic Area, and take a tricycle in this section.

Self driving: self driving from Guiyang, along Guihuang highway, Guanxing highway to Huajiang, about 3 hours.

guide

In February 2020, the Department of culture and tourism of Guizhou Province and the culture and tourism departments of nine cities (prefectures) and Gui'an New District decided that from the end of the epidemic to December 31, 2020, the national medical workers with valid certificates (doctor's certificate or nurse's certificate) can enjoy the free admission policy (excluding hot spring scenic spots and franchised projects in scenic spots).

Address: Beipanjiang Town, Zhenfeng County, Qianxinan Prefecture

Longitude: 105.743213

Latitude: 25.562939

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