Jiulian Mountain Scenic Spot

Jiulian Mountain Scenic Spot

Taihang Jiulian Mountain scenic spot is located in songshuping village, shangbali Town, Huixian city. It is the most beautiful section of Taihang Mountain - South Taihang. Taihang Jiulian Mountain scenic spot gets its name because it has nine peaks connected and looks like lotus. With a total area of 25 square kilometers, the scenic area is composed of two canyons and a red cliff. In 2009, Xilian gorge natural landscape tourist area and Xiaoxitian folk belief tourist area were developed. Taihang Jiulian Mountain scenic spot is a key scenic spot in Henan Province, a national AAAA scenic spot, a national geopark, and a natural macaque reserve.

Historical evolution

Jiulianshan was formed in the Proterozoic Sinian and Paleozoic Cambrian between 800 million and 570 million years ago.

In June 2008, the development and Reform Commission of Xinxiang City approved the plan and approved the development of Jiulian Mountain scenic spot, with a total investment of 280 million yuan and a phase I development investment of 57 million yuan. The development of the scenic spot is carried out by overall planning and by stages. In April 2009, the "little Xitian" folk belief tourist area and Xilian gorge landscape tourist area were presented to you, with a development investment of 36 million yuan.

On April 26, 2009, Jiulian Mountain scenic spot in the southern foot of Taihang Mountain officially opened to receive tourists.

geographical environment

geographical position

Jiulian Mountain scenic spot is located in Huixian City, Henan Province, adjacent to baligou scenic spot in the west, Huilong scenic spot in the East and wangmangling scenic spot in Jincheng, Shanxi Province in the north. With a total area of 25 square kilometers, it is 20 kilometers away from Huixian City, 55 kilometers away from Xinxiang City, 120 kilometers away from Zhengzhou City, 160 kilometers away from Luoyang City and 130 kilometers away from Kaifeng City.

Geology and geomorphology

Jiulianshan scenic area is located in the east side of the South Taihang fault zone. In the long geological process, frequent tectonic movements have been carried out here, especially affected by the tectonic faulting. The rocks forming the mountain are mainly Permian purplish red quartz sandstone and shale, Sinian quartz sandstone and schist, and associated metamorphic mica schist, chlorite schist and andesite. The scenic spot is full of cliffs and cliffs, towering peaks, waterfalls and springs. The elevation of scenic spots is about 1000 meters, and the relative height is between 100 and 500 meters.

Climatic characteristics

Jiulian Mountain scenic spot is located in the warm temperate semi humid climate zone, which is characterized by warm temperate continental monsoon climate and valley climate. The average annual temperature is 14 ℃, the average temperature in January is - 0.9 ℃, the average temperature in July is 27.3 ℃, the average annual sunshine hours is 2293.7 hours, the active accumulated temperature ≥ 10 ℃ is 4687.6 ℃, and the average annual precipitation is 640.4 mm, mostly concentrated in summer, with an average of 429.1 mm, accounting for 67% of the annual precipitation. The annual variation of precipitation is large. The annual evaporation is 1743 mm, which is 2.7 times of precipitation. The annual average relative humidity is 67%. The average frost free period is 217 days, and the annual average wind speed is 2.3 m / s. The maximum wind speed is in April, with the monthly average of 2.8 m / s.

Resources

mineral resources

The mineral resources are purple red quartz sandstone and shale of Permian, quartz sandstone and schist of Sinian, mica schist, chlorite schist and andesite of associated metamorphic rock.

plant resources

Jiulian Mountain is covered with dense vegetation and primeval forests. It has national first-class protected plants Taxus chinensis, second-class protected plants Pterocarpus tatarinowii, Tilia amurensis, etc., and Chinese herbal medicines such as Forsythia suspensa, Huoxiang, dangshen, Polygonum multiflorum, bupleurum, Schisandra chinensis, yam, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Ganoderma lucidum, Rabdosia rubescens, etc.

Main attractions

Tianhu waterfall

Tianhu waterfall is located in the three cliffs at the end of Lianxia gorge in the west of Jiulian. The water of the waterfall comes from a big pool on the cliff. It is said that Jiulian's mother threw a teapot here to form a teapot shaped pool, which was named Tianhu. The waterfall poured down from the spout of the kettle, with a drop of 130 meters.

Xilian Temple

Xilian temple is located on a cliff more than 1000 meters high in Shanghai, which is the ladder of heaven. The whole temple is located in Xilian village with more than ten families. Xilian temple, which faces south from the north, was built in the Tang Dynasty. It has five courtyards and dozens of halls. The temple is mainly dedicated to female gods such as Jiulian mother and unborn mother. Xilian temple has been flourishing for hundreds of years. In the long-term folk belief activities, three wonders and three wonders of Xilian temple have been formed.

Houjing Palace

Houjing palace was built in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is said that Wang Mang pursued Liu Xiu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. When Liu Xiu fled through this place, he was hungry. When an old man offered food to help him, Liu Xiu was able to escape. After Liu Xiu became emperor, he did not forget the kindness of the old man, so he built a courtyard here, called Houjing courtyard, for the old woman to live in and enjoy her life. After the old woman died, people took advantage of the courtyard to build a temple and named it Houjing palace.

Tianyun Lake

Pregnant pool is a landscape of Jiulian Mountain. A big stone in the pool is said to be made of the spit of the dragon and the Phoenix. The pool under the waterfall in the east of the stone is called the hand washing pool, and the pool under the waterfall in the north is called the foot washing pool. It is said that there used to be a sister-in-law who couldn't bear children for many years after marriage. Later, her sister-in-law accidentally washed her hands in the East pool water and got pregnant. She gave birth to a daughter. Her sister-in-law washed her feet in the North pool water and got pregnant and gave birth to a son. From then on, many people came here to wash their hands for their daughter and feet for their son.

Macaque area

There are macaque communities in Jiulian Mountain, which provide animal resources for the scenic spot. Taihang macaque inhabits in coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest, shrub forest and cliff all the year round. Taihang macaque belongs to primate macaque family in evolutionary system, which is a national second class protected animal. Because Taihang macaques live in the coldest climate and the northernmost latitude, the surrounding environment is steep. Therefore, macaques have large population, strong body, long hair and short tail, are good at climbing and like to jump.

Lotus cave in Jiulian Mountain

Lotus cave is also called shuilian cave. The water in the cave is flowing all the year round. In the deepest part of the cave, there is water, which is meters deep. How deep the cave is and how long the water is, we still need to explore. In summer, in addition to the cool in the cave, there is often wind blowing from the cave to the entrance.

Jiulian Mountain sea of clouds

Clouds formed under certain conditions, and the height of the cloud top is lower than that of the top of the mountain. When people look down at the clouds at the top of the mountain, they can see boundless clouds, such as facing the shore of the sea, with waves rising, waves splashing and waves crashing on the shore. So this phenomenon is called "cloud sea".

special snacks

Liu Xiucai's rice

Liu Xiucai rice is a special food in Jiulian Mountain. The main raw materials are rice, glutinous rice, wild vegetables, radish and so on. The taste is unique and delicious.

Xinxiang smoked jujube

Xinxiang smoked jujube is a special product of Jiulian Mountain scenic area. It has the effect of invigorating spleen, appetizing, reducing fire and nourishing yin.

Honors

Myths and legends

The legend of Jiulian Mountain

It is said that there is a pool of lotus in Yujing, the xuandu capital of Tianzun in the Yuan Dynasty. Here is a fairy who serves lotus day by day and is as close as a sister to lotus. The immortals in Yujing call her lotus fairy.

One day, Yuanshi Tianzun was meditating and closing his eyes. Taiyi came to save kutianzun in a hurry. He said that there was a drought in the southern part of Taihang Mountain. After three years of rain, the spring water in the mountain could not flow out. The people were not satisfied with food and clothing, supporting the old and the young, escaping from famine and begging. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Tianzun immediately gave orders and sent people down to the South Taihang Mountain. Just then, the lotus fairy came and told Yuanshi Tianzun that she was willing to go down to the South Taihang mountain to help the people suffering from the disaster.

At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the God agreed to the request of the lotus fairy, and told the lotus fairy: "you go to pick a blooming lotus, pick two lotus leaves, hold the lotus in your hand, and step on the lotus leaves. You will soar and travel thousands of miles every day. When Xiangyun appears, you will break off nine petals of the lotus and scatter them on the earth. The place where you fall is the place where you practice at the foot of the South Taihang Mountain, where you will practice universal Dharma and bless all living beings To show the power of the goddess. "

According to the order of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, the lotus fairy stepped on the lotus leaves and floated gently. She left the xuandu Yujing. A light wind blew in her ears and fell to the ground. All of a sudden, a white and red cloud surrounded the lotus fairy. The lotus fairy pinches nine petals of the lotus in her hand and throws them down. Nine petals of the lotus fall in the South Taihang Mountain. In the blink of an eye, she asks, where the petals fall, there are nine peaks. Next, the lotus Fairy Falls on a flat ground in the middle of the nine peaks. She scattered the lotus in her hand around, and later it became a lotus pool. The lotus fairy stepped on two lotus leaves and floated eastward with the wind. She floated across the deep valley and landed.

Lotus fairy looked around. There was a cave on the cliff. She climbed into the cave to practice and cast magic here to save the people. She first had a heavy rain, and after a period of time, the disaster went up and down the mountain, and the weather was good, and the people were smiling. After a period of time, the people knew that a goddess had come to the mountain to preach, save the suffering and protect the peace, so they came up one after another to thank the goddess, and to ask the goddess to bless and protect the peace.

People come and go, day after day, gradually people know that the nine peaks here are the lotus petals, so they call it Jiulian Mountain, and the flat land in Jiulian Mountain is called jiuliantai. I don't know how many years later, there are people living here, called Xilian. The two lotus leaves fell to the ground

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