Yuntai Mountain

Yuntai Mountain Scenic Spot

synonym

Yuntai Mountain (Yuntai Mountain, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province) generally refers to Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area (Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province)

Yuntai Mountain scenic spot, located in Xiuwu County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, is 70 kilometers northwest of Zhengzhou City, with a total area of 280 square kilometers. It is a popular science ecotourism scenic spot with Taihang Mountain waterscape as its feature, canyon geological landscape and historical culture as its connotation, and integrates scientific value and aesthetic value

. Including Hongshi gorge, tanpu gorge, quanpu gorge, Qinglong gorge, Fenglin gorge, Zifang lake, Zhuyu peak, Diecai cave, macaque Valley, Baijiayan, Wanshan temple and other major scenic spots.

Yuntai Mountain scenic spot is named because of its precipitous mountains and the perennial cloud lock and fog between peaks and valleys. The main peak of Yuntai Mountain, Zhuyu peak, is 1308 meters above sea level, with a 314 meter fall of Yuntai Tianbao. At the end of quanpu gorge, it is one of the largest falls found in China

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The Yuntai Mountain scenic spot is rich in geological relics, and rock strata of 3.4 billion years ago have been discovered. In the past 3 billion years, Archean, Proterozoic, Paleozoic and Cenozoic strata have been formed. Many tectonic movements, especially since 23 million years ago, the strong uplift of neotectonic movement and the deep undercutting of water erosion have created a group of canyons with double cliffs and various dynamic waterfalls, springs, streams and pools, which together constitute the "Yuntai landform" landscape

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On February 13, 2004, Yuntai Mountain scenic spot was selected as one of the first global geoparks by UNESCO. On May 8, 2007, Yuntai Mountain scenic spot was approved as a national AAAAA scenic spot

. In January 2014, Yuntai Mountain scenic spot was listed in the natural scenery tourism project of key tourism areas in resource-based cities

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Historical development

Appellation of past dynasties

According to the legend, the Yellow Emperor Tao Zheng's official Ning granted the Yellow Emperor the skill of dragon flying clouds. Self Immolation rose up and down with the smoke of the road, and its bones were buried in the "ningbei mountain". This ningbei mountain is now beiyuntai mountain in Xiuwu County. Xiuwu County was called "Ning" in ancient times. Later, it was called Pangu mountain, Nuwa mountain and Wuxing mountain in myths and legends.

The Eastern Han Dynasty was generally called Taihang Mountain. Liu xiechan, the last emperor of the Wei Dynasty, was located at Cao Pi, the king of the Wei Dynasty. After his death, he was buried at the south foot of Yuntai Mountain, which is called the ancient Han mountain. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Yuntai Mountain was friendly to each other because of "Seven Sages of bamboo forest", but only "bamboo forest" was named in ancient books. It was called Yuntai Mountain in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, fupusan in the Tang Dynasty, Yuntai Mountain in the Jin Dynasty and xiaobeiding in the Qing Dynasty. Today, it is called Yuntai Mountain, and the original name of Yuntai mountain should be restored

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Scenic spot construction

Yuntai Mountain scenic spot was investigated and demonstrated in 1983, and was officially developed in 1985

. In December 1987, Yuntai Mountain scenic spot was designated as a provincial scenic spot by the people's Government of Henan Province.

In April 1989, Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area Administration Bureau was established as a department level unit. In 1994, according to the standards of national key scenic spots, the master plan of Yuntai Mountain scenic spot was worked out. In March 1997, Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area Administration was upgraded to a vice county level institution. In 2001, it successively invested 2.2 million yuan, invited more than 60 experts from the Ministry of housing and urban rural development, the Ministry of culture and tourism, Tsinghua University, Nankai University and other universities to re position the scenic spot, and prepared a series of plans, such as "Yuntai Mountain Tourism in-depth development plan" and "Yuntai Mountain tourism area regulatory detailed plan". In October 2003, Yuntaishan Scenic Area Administration was upgraded to a county-level institution.

In 2005, Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area invested 100 million yuan to build a parking lot, covering an area of 350000 square meters, with 5000 parking spaces, and invested more than 4 million yuan to install lighting system in the parking lot. At the same time, a tourist reception service center integrating the main mountain gate, ticket hall, multi-functional tourist service center and shopping center has been built, and 180 sightseeing buses have been added

. 150 million yuan was invested to build a digital monitoring center

The water Taijiquan performance stage was built.

In November 2006, Jiaozuo City integrated resources and brought fenglinxia, which was originally managed by Jiaozuo Water Conservancy Bureau, into the unified management of Yuntai mountain. Scenery of Yuntai Mountain Scenic Spot

The rural areas around the district have been integrated. Five natural villages in Ashan Township, located at the exit of Yuntai Mountain scenic spot, have been transformed into five comprehensive tourism service areas to provide catering, accommodation and transportation services for tourists. Along the tourist road, four sightseeing and leisure agricultural parks are planned and constructed, which are forest and fruit sightseeing park, livestock and poultry breeding Park, walnut Park and agricultural products Park covering an area of 2000 mu

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In 2009, Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area invested more than 900 million yuan in hardware construction. The roads in the scenic area are fully hardened, and the toilets in the scenic area are above three-star level. The appearance, color and shape of the rest facilities are coordinated with the surrounding environment, and the lines of the scenic area, electric power, communication, radio and television are trenched and buried

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In 2014, the application specification for digital tourism scenic spots (GB / t-30225) compiled by Yuntai Mountain scenic spot was officially promulgated and implemented.

On November 4, 2015, the master plan of Yuntai Mountain scenic spot < I (2016-2030) < / I, which was compiled by Henan General Institute of urban and rural planning and Design Co., Ltd., was published

Fenghuangling glass plank road was built.

In 2017, hongshixia Wisteria corridor and Baijiayan lawn square were built.

In 2018, Yuntai mountain night tour, 360 Cloud View ball screen cinema, yundoudou Food City, Fenghuangling cableway and Yuntai Mountain Culture and Tourism College were built and operated.

geographical environment

geographical position

Yuntai Mountain scenic spot is located in Xiuwu County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province. It is located at 35 ° 25 ′ 19.78 ″ N and 113 ° 25 ′ 10.07 ″ E. It is 70 kilometers northwest of Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, with a total area of 280 square kilometers.

Geology and geomorphology

Yuntai Mountain scenic spot was a vast ocean in the Proterozoic era. With the passage of the century, the crustal movement gradually raised and formed a plain. During the orogenic period (Ordovician and Sinian) more than a billion years ago, the landscape changed greatly. During the Yanshanian period, the northern part rose to form a high mountain, while the southern part declined to form a plain. Under the influence of Himalayan orogeny, the mountain area rose sharply and the river cut down rapidly, forming deep and steep canyon. After that, the rock was eroded by the surface and groundwater along the fissures, and the influence of other weathering forces resulted in the present mountain and stone form

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Yuntai Mountain scenic spot is located at the intersection of North China rift zone of Cenozoic East Asia rift system in North China landmass and Xi'an Zhengzhou Xuzhou nearly EW rift transition zone. Controlled by the deep fault in front of Taihang Mountain, in the process of Himalayan orogeny, a series of "Yuntai" landforms with zigzag, linear, circular, stepped cliff, wenggu, deep barrier Valley, hanging ditch and other topographical combinations were formed in the Cambrian Ordovician limestone strata, forming the Taihang landscape with deep valleys, towering mountains, waterfalls and clear springs The tectonic movement and the evolution of rifting are of great significance

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Yuntai Mountain scenic spot has middle Proterozoic Yunmengshan formation of Jixian system upper Carboniferous Taiyuan formation, which was formed in about 1.4 billion to 300 million years ago. There are Archean Early Proterozoic basement and typical structural relics, such as Archean gneiss complex structure of basement, remote dome structure of Early Proterozoic supracrustal rock, overburden structure of caprock and ductile shear zone structure They are ductile brittle deformation structure, brittle fracture structure, one-sided mountain structure, collapse structure and landslide structure in caprock

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climate

Yuntai Mountain scenic spot is a warm temperate continental monsoon climate. It has four distinct seasons, dry and windy in spring, high temperature and rainy in summer, cool in autumn and dry and cold in winter. Due to the barrier function of Taihang Mountains in the north, the leeward is sunny. The plain is a high temperature and less rain area in the north of Henan Province. The mountain terrain is complex, and the climate varies with altitude and mountain form

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Main attractions

Redstone Gorge

Hongshixia (also known as wenpanyu) is located in Zifang Hunan, with a total length of 2000 meters. The canyon is 68 meters underground

. It is composed of red rocks and belongs to Danxia landform canyon landscape in China. The cliff is red, so it is called "hongshixia". In Hongshi gorge, there are "Bailongtan", "Huanglongtan", "qinglongtan", "Heilongtan", "wolongtan", "mianlongtan", "xinglongtan", "zilongtan" and "youlongtan", which constitute "jiulongxi". There are also "Youbao", "chuanshidong", "xiangkishi", "shuangshijishui", "peacock Kaiping", "Qipanshan" and other landscapes. At the south end of Hongshi gorge, there is a narrow gorge called "yixiantian", with Bailong waterfall more than 50 meters high

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Tanpu Gorge

Tanpu Gorge (also known as xiaozhaigou), located in the north of Yuntai Mountain, is a source of Zifang river. The tanpu gorge is 2000 meters long and runs north-south. There is a stream in tanpu gorge called Xiaolong stream. The main scenic spots include Duxian lake, lover's waterfall, Jinlong Wobo, Yazi waterfall, Qingyi pool, shuilian cave, Biyu pool, Jianshi stone, butterfly rock, longfengbi and so on, showing the waterfall, Zou spring, caitan and rock landscape. The waterfall gorge is called "waterfall gorge" because it has three steps, one spring, five steps, one waterfall and ten steps, one pool

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Spring waterfall Gorge

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