Guifeng scenic spot

Guifeng scenic spot

Guifeng scenic spot is located in the southwest of Yiyang County, Jiangxi Province, beside 320 national highway, 311 Expressway and Zhejiang Jiangxi railway, 10 kilometers away from Yiyang County, with a total area of 136 square kilometers. It is an integral part of the World Geopark Longhushan Guifeng Geopark and the world natural heritage "China Danxia". It is a national scenic spot, a national AAAAA tourist attraction, a National Forest Park and a national patriotic education demonstration base.

Guifeng is named because there are countless tortoise like pictographs in the scenic area and the whole scenic area looks like a giant turtle from a distance. It is known as "thirty six peaks and seventy-two sceneries". It is a combination of "strange, dangerous, smart and ingenious". It is known as "turtle peak on the river is rare in the world" and "natural bonsai". With its unique natural landscape of "no mountain, no turtle, no stone, no turtle" and profound cultural heritage, it has become a recommended scenic spot for many famous dramas such as Xu Xiake, the TV play journey to the West and so on.

Development history

From the relics left by Yaowu Shang and Zhou cultural sites, it can be seen that Guifeng was inhabited during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, engaged in hunting, planting and other production labor, creating a primitive civilization.

The development of Guifeng by Buddhism began in the Liang Dynasty. Master Cao Chan planned to build a temple in Guifeng, and master Mao Chan built Lingsheng temple in the Tang Dynasty. Guifeng temple has become one of the famous temples in the south of the Yangtze River in the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the temple was expanded, and in the Qing Dynasty, it continued to flourish. Thanks to the development of Buddhism, the scenic spots and wonders of Guifeng are also known to the world, attracting many famous officials and poets. The number of tourists to Guifeng has increased from generation to generation, and the popularity of Guifeng has increased accordingly. The famous people of Tang, song, Ming and Qing Dynasties left a lot of poems and inscriptions, which formed a long corridor of cliff inscriptions.

After the liberation, the development scale of Guifeng was expanded. A highway was built from the county to Guifeng. A wide tunnel of more than 100 meters was dug under Zhanqi peak. Guifeng lake and outer Lake were built, covering an area of about 70 mu. Office buildings, auditorium, guest house, library, stadium, restaurant and shop were built in the center of the scenic spot. Bridges and pavilions were built in Guifeng lake, and boats were added. Guifeng horticultural farm was built in 1957, covering an area of 118 mu. The sika deer farm was established in 1958.

In October 1953, Shangrao cadre sanatorium was established. In 1958, Nanchang and Jingdezhen sanatoriums were canceled, and some staff and equipment were incorporated into Guifeng sanatorium. After expansion, it was renamed Jiangxi Guifeng sanatorium. In 1977, it was put under the management of Shangrao district and renamed Guifeng sanatorium. Since 1985, the sanatorium has set up a tourism service company to undertake tourism business in addition to receiving cadres for recuperation and recuperation.

geographical environment

Topography and geology

Guifeng, a typical Danxia landform, developed in the late Cretaceous period 135 million years ago. Danxia landforms such as peak forest, peak cluster, stone pillar, isolated peak, residual stone, residual hill, stone beam, stone wall, through hole, Tianshengqiao, wide valley, quasi flat lake, etc. are developed

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Scenic climate

Guifeng is a subtropical humid monsoon climate region in the south of the Yangtze River. In winter, it is often attacked by cold air from the northwest, which has the characteristics of continental climate. Due to the joint regulation of a large area of water and lush forest vegetation, it has the characteristics of no intense heat in summer, no severe cold in winter, warm and humid, and four distinct seasons. The annual average temperature is 17.9 ℃, the extreme maximum temperature is 40.7 ℃, and the minimum temperature is – 8.6-7%. The average temperatures in January and July are 5.3 ℃ and 29.6 ℃ respectively. The annual average frost free period is 262 days, the annual sunshine is 1800-1900 hours, the annual average sunshine is 1820 hours, and the average solar radiation is 404.2-467.7kj/cm2.

The area has abundant rainfall and high atmospheric humidity, with an average annual rainfall of 1878 mm and an average annual relative humidity of 75% - 80%; the average annual rainfall days are 160 days, the plum rain season is from July to August, and the rainy season is from September to February of the next year; the average annual evaporation is 1648.4 mm. The main disastrous climate includes low temperature, high temperature, dry hot wind, frost, freezing, rainstorm, continuous rain, drought, strong wind, hail, etc

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Biological resources

Botany

The floristic composition of Guifeng is very rich. There are more than 140 families and more than 800 species of higher plants, mainly subtropical floristic elements, and some ancient relict unique elements, such as Ginkgo biloba, bamboo cypress, water pine in gymnosperms, Sassafras Sassafras, Cyclocarya paliurus, Fokienia hodginsii in angiosperms. In particular, the tall bamboo cypress and Taxus chinensis var. mairei are rare in China. There are 18 species of woody plants in Guifeng under national protection and more than 30 species under provincial protection, so it is called "small kingdom of plants".

In the territory of Guifeng, there is a Osmanthus fragrans with a height of about 10 meters, a crown width of 15 meters, eight branches, luxuriant branches and leaves, blooming all the year round. It is estimated that it is thousands of years old, which is a major characteristic plant landscape of Guifeng. Located at suoyun bridge in the park, an ancient camphor tree is 2.1 meters in diameter at breast height, 30 meters in height and 36 meters in crown. It is said that Mao Chan, a Zen master of the Tang Dynasty, planted it by himself when he built "Ruixiang Temple". It has a history of more than 1100 years.

The climate of Guifeng is suitable and the terrain is complex. There are many ornamental landscape plants in the natural forest. In spring, there are azalea, rose, peach, plum, locust, wisteria, etc. In summer and autumn, there are scattered lilies, clusters of gardenia, Osmanthus fragrans, Lagerstroemia indica, etc. Pine, bamboo and plum in winter are plant landscapes with Chinese characteristics

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animal

According to the county annals, there are more than 1000 kinds of animals in Guifeng, including leopard, Sumen antelope, sika deer, pheasant, acacia, etc

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Human history

Religious culture

In history, Guifeng is the place where Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism gather. Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism blend in Guifeng. There is a Buddhist cultural tourist area represented by Nanyan temple in Guifeng, which is famous for charuixiang temple. There are more than 40 Buddhist carvings in Tang and Song dynasties. It is one of the birthplaces of Buddhism and Zen. At the same time, Guifeng has a profound Taoist culture. There is also a famous Taoist site Gexian temple in Guifeng. Confucianists are also respected in Guifeng. The famous Confucian architectural sites include the Dieshan Academy of Confucianism

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Opera Culture

Yiyang tune, the first of China's four major tunes, is a new local tone produced by the integration of southern opera, local dialect and folk custom, which spread in Yiyang area of Jiangxi Province in the late Southern Song Dynasty. It is named "Yiyang tune" because of its birthplace. Its distinctive feature is "one singing and many harmonizing", accompanied by percussion music and musical instruments such as silk, bamboo, string, wind, etc. the singing has great plasticity and high tone. It not only has the elegant charm of the south, but also has the impassioned temperament of the north. It combines hardness and softness, and is free and easy.

According to nanci xulu, Yiyang tune was popular in more than 10 provinces and cities, including Beijing, Hunan, Fujian and Guangdong. There are 100 kinds of Yiyang Opera repertoire and more than 400 tunes in Ming Dynasty. The famous ones are the journey to the East, the journey to the west, the journey to the East, the journey to the west, the journey to the south, the journey to the north, the story of selling water, the story of jingchai, the story of Mulian opera, etc

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Scenic spots

natural landscape

Guifeng Reclining Buddha

With a total length of 416 meters and a shoulder height of 68 meters, "the mountain is a Buddha, and the Buddha is a mountain", it is the largest natural mountain Reclining Buddha in the world so far

 

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Wanglangshi

On Wanglang peak. A strip of stone several feet high stands obliquely on the hillside of Guifeng. The shape of the stone is like a young woman with a Luo skirt and waist. Looking far away, I saw her slim figure, breast bulge, abdomen micro drum, seems to be pregnant. Looking into the distance, looking forward to Lang's return.

Heavenly dog looks at the bone

At the entrance of Guifeng, on the side of Zhanqi peak, there is a strange stone on the top of the mountain, ten meters high, like a crouching dog. The dog's neck was twisted, his mouth was open, and he was staring at the spareribs peak. Opposite there is a flat mountain peak, shaped like ribs.

Filial son crying grave

It is located in the northeast corner of Guifeng scenic area, on the hill of wuhuali away from Guifeng. There is a strange stone protruding from the ground, ten feet high, like a young man, wearing mourning clothes, kneeling in front of the grave, kowtowing and crying. The tomb is a mountain, 100 meters away from Xiaozi stone, with a big top garden at the foot of the mountain, which looks like an ancient tomb.

Hawk play chicken

200 meters southeast of Guifeng, there are two huge stones, facing each other. On the right is a chicken in the shape of fear, hiding its head and necking in the grass. On the left is a stone in the shape of a fierce Goshawk. Its mouth is like a machete and its claws are like hooks. Its eyes are fixed on the chicken and its wings are spread. The chicken runs for its life.

Crouching Tiger bites sheep

Located 800 meters to the east of Guifeng, on chaomaofeng, there are two intersecting boulders. In front of them, one is like a gentle goat, holding its short tail tightly, struggling to escape from the tiger's mouth. Behind a stone like tiger, lying on the ground, biting the goat buttocks.

Horse head stone

It is located in the north of Jinzhong peak, 600 meters east of Guifeng. It's halfway up the hill

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