Diaoshuilou waterfall

Diaoshuilou waterfall

Diaoshuilou waterfall, also known as Jingpo Lake Waterfall, is located in the southwest of Ning'an City, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province, at the north end of Jingpo Lake, only three kilometers away from Jingpo villa. From Mudanjiang city to the south, through the ancient city of Ning'an City, and then westward to Tokyo City, you can drive 30 kilometers from here to the North Lake head of Jingpo Lake. The width of the waterfall is about 70 meters. When the amount of rain is large, the width is more than 300 meters. The drop is 20 meters. The pool under it is 60 meters deep, which is called "black dragon pool". Every rainy season or flood season, the sound of the water is like thunder, the torrent roars and pours, the water and stone strike each other, the white flow is surging, and the water mist steams out a colorful rainbow. It is shaped like Niagara Falls in Canada. It is the largest basalt waterfall in the world.

geographical environment

Diaoshuilou waterfall is located 55 kilometers southwest of Ning'an city center in the southeast of Heilongjiang Province. Because it lives in the north end of Jingpo Lake, it is also called Jingpo Lake Waterfall.

In ancient times, the name of indigenous people was Faku, which was located at the north end of the lake. The cliffs on both sides of the waterfall are towering and steep, and the strange rocks are towering.

Standing on the edge of the cliff and looking at the deep pool, it's like facing the abyss, which makes people dizzy. A tall ancient elm with numerous branches and dense leaves, like a natural giant umbrella, stands dangerously between the cliffs and rocks.

In the mottled shadow of the trees, a small octagonal pavilion stands on the rock, known as "waterfall Pavilion". From the pavilion to the waterfall mouth and the north edge, there are iron chain guardrails.

Under the ancient elm, there is also a stone ladder which is made by hand, winding to the side of heishitan at the bottom of the cliff. During the dry season, the water in the pool is as flat as a mirror. According to the measurement, heishitan is 60 meters deep and more than 100 meters in diameter.

Every sunny day, light to the waterfall, there are colorful rainbow appear. All visitors here marvel at its magnificent scenery. The poet once left "flying down thousands of piles of snow, thundering a hundred Li autumn" for it. The deep pool is full of mist, and there is a beautiful poem of "dew and shore show".

Diaoshuilou waterfall is similar to the world-famous niagara waterfall. The lake is rolling and roaring on the lava bed. It rushes to the deep pool like a thousand troops. Then it pours down from the cliff and pours into the round Ou cave. The water splashes, like clouds and snow, and white fog; it also looks like silver river flowing down, and white training hanging in the air. The sound of water is as loud as thunder.

The waterfall is generally 40 meters wide with a drop of 12 meters. During the rainy season or flood season, the waterfall falls in two or more streams, with a total width of more than 200 meters.

In the dry season of winter, the waterfall is gone, but you can enjoy another view. On the lava bed, visitors can find many caves of different sizes and depths formed by erosion of lava blocks impacted by perennial flowing water.

These caves are as smooth and round as artificial chiseling, which is very unique.

According to investigation, the cause of the waterfall is confirmed to be that during the eruption of the Jingpohu volcano group, during the flow of the lava, the part contacting with the air first cools into a hard shell, and some of the gas in the lava flowing in the hard shell still does not escape. After all the lava hardens, these gases are discharged from the hard shell, forming many pores and cavities.

These pores and cavities collapse and form lava caves of different sizes.

When the lake water falls from the section of the lava cave, it forms a very spectacular waterfall.

The black stone wall around the pool is also a natural echo wall, which can clearly convey the light songs and jokes of visitors to your ears through the refraction of the round stone wall. The stone wall can be compared with the "echo wall" of Beijing Tiantan Park.

Cause of formation

From 4700 to 8300 years ago, in today's Ning'an County, the crustal movement was very strong and frequent, and there were five strong volcanic activities. After the lava cooled, it was like a huge dam, blocking the upstream Mudanjiang water, forming a lava barrier lake Jingpo Lake.

Jingpo Lake is formed by the blockage of Mudanjiang River, so its shape still retains some characteristics of river course. It is not like a general lake, or round or semicircular, but like a wide and narrow ribbon, embedded in the mountains.

Its length is 45 km, the widest is only 6 km, and the narrowest is less than 1 km. There is incoming water from the upstream, and the outlet water can flow down through diaoshuilou waterfall.

The river water rushes out from the fracture and forms diaoshuilou waterfall. The waterfall is surrounded by black volcanic rocks with a drop of 20 meters and a width of 40 meters. The width of the waterfall is more than 100 meters in flood period.

Due to the erosion of the falling water, a circular pool with a diameter of 70 meters and a depth of 60 meters was formed at the bottom of the waterfall.

Waterfall straight down, spray four splash, majestic, shock sound like thunder. Diaoshuilou waterfall is one of the famous waterfalls in China and has become a tourist attraction.

Development history

In the first ten days of June 2006, the state officially issued a 45 million yuan investment plan for Jingbohu reservoir reinforcement project. In recent years, Mudanjiang city has won the most national free investment in infrastructure projects. The most direct good news is that by 2008, from May to October every year, people can enjoy the magnificent landscape of diaoshuilou waterfall overflowing on three sides. Diaoshuilou waterfall, known as "longan" in Jingpo Lake scenic spot, is located 1.5km downstream of the dam. The water from the reservoir is the only water source for forming the waterfall.

Since 2006, because the reservoir can't store water in winter, and in order to meet the water demand of downstream 200000 Mu paddy fields in May every year, the reservoir releases a large amount of water, which leads to the low water level of Jingpo Lake. Only in rainy July and August, there are waterfalls overflowing, and the water potential is weak or even cut off.

After the completion of the project in 2008, the use of sluice adjustment can ensure that diaoshuilou waterfall can reappear three overflow landscapes at any time in the peak tourist season.

At the same time, the flood control standard of Jingpo Lake Reservoir will be increased from the current return period of less than 50 years to the return period of 100 years; the water storage capacity of 400 million cubic meters will be increased every winter, which can effectively improve the urban and rural water supply guarantee capacity; with the increase of water level of Jingpo Lake, the area of surrounding wetlands will be increased, which can not be underestimated for the ecological environment protection and regional climate improvement.

legend

The king made a mirror for the queen

The king of the Yi nationality wanted to choose the most beautiful queen, so he called on all the craftsmen to make a mirror. This mirror is called the golden mirror. It can not only reflect the most beautiful woman in the world, but also deeply engrave on it, which will never be worn off. If it is not for the most beautiful woman in the world, the king will choose an old Taoist to lead the men and horses with a box of gold, silver and jewelry outside the mirror to choose the queen for the king.

There is a big lake with two sides of Jiashan and a length of 100 li in the middle. The lake is as bright as a mirror, so it is called "Jingpo". There was a fisherman who sat on the rocks along the lake every day and whistled until late at night before returning to her cabin to rest. She whistles every night and the fish and birds come to listen. Swan to listen to the girl left behind white feathers, geese to listen to leave under the wing of the long down. After a long time, the girl gathered a lot, and she used Swan hair and goose down to weave a light and soft sweater and skirt. She used ginseng juice to bleach the blouse whiter than frost and snow, and used ginseng flowers to dye the skirt scarlet than the morning glow. So she was named "Hongluo girl".

Taoist meets Hongluo girl by chance:

The imperial priest who elected the first queen of the country went to many cities and counties and saw many beautiful women, but none of them could look in the mirror. Once a Taoist priest came to diaoshuilou waterfall and followed the whistle. First he saw Dagushan on the lake with a small fishing net in the sun, but there was no fisherman. Sitting on a wooden log, walking forward, I suddenly saw a stone pillar on the water, a rubber boat tied to it, and a girl in dressing up. At the foot of the green mountain, the red skirt is dazzling, and the waves are dazzling. Lao Dao urged the guard to move the wood cutting forward and tie it to another stone pillar. He saw the girl's beautiful eyebrows. Her face was like peach blossom, her waist was like willow, and her skin was shining. When Lao Dao looked at her in a golden mirror, the girl's appearance, skin color, posture and expression were all in the mirror.

The old Taoist put his hands together, bent down and said, "congratulations to Hongluo girl!"

The girl looked up with a smile and asked, "where does joy come from?"

The old Taoist said, "you have been chosen as the queen!"

The girl said with a smile, "you are a monk. How can you talk freely?"

Lao Dao explained the origin and used the golden mirror as a certificate. When the girl looked at it carefully, her figure was printed on the bronze mirror.

The girl did not panic and said calmly, "I have already made an oath. No matter which one comes to ask for marriage, you have to answer first, what is the most precious thing in the world, before you can talk about marriage."

The old Taoist was stunned. He held the golden mirror in his hands and asked the girl, "where do you live?"

The girl said, "I am me! A boat, floating around the lake, a hundred miles everywhere for home The old Taoist went to the middle of the lake by logging. The wind was so strong that he dropped the golden mirror in the lake. As soon as the mirror fell, the wind and waves stopped and the water was as calm as ever.

People propose:

Since the old Taoist left, Hongluo's beauty has spread to all directions. Once a warrior came to propose, took out his sword, cut a big stone in half and said, "I came all the way to propose to you!" The girl said, "warrior, do you know 'what is the most precious thing in the world?'" The warrior said, "the most precious thing in the world is to have strength.". The girl said with a smile: "you can hunt tigers in the mountains, but you can't cut all the injustice in the world. The rich are still rich and the poor are still poor

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