Tiantai Mountain Scenic Spot

Tiantai Mountain National Scenic Spot

synonym

Tiantai Mountain scenic area generally refers to Tiantai Mountain National Scenic Area

Tiantai Mountain National scenic spot is located in Tiantai County in the East and middle of Zhejiang Province. It is a famous mountain in the east of Zhejiang Province. Known as "the source of Buddhism and the beautiful scenery", it is the birthplace of Tiantai Sect of Buddhism and Nanzong sect of Taoism in China. It is also the hometown of Jigong, a living Buddha. It was listed as one of the top ten tourist attractions in Zhejiang Province in 1992, rated as one of the first batch of AAAA tourist areas in China by the National Tourism Administration at the end of 2000, and rated as AAAAA tourist area by the National Tourism Administration in October 2015. It is a national key scenic spot. Ninghai and Sanmen in the East, Pan'an in the west, Xianju and Linhai in the South and Xinchang in the north. It is a well-known national scenic spot at home and abroad, stretching along the coast of the East China Sea in Zhejiang Province. It is famous for its "eight fold mountain, four sides in one, three stars at the top, being an ox girl, sleeping on the platform, so it is called Tiantai". It is famous for its ancestral hall of Tiantai Buddhism, the ancestral hall of Nanzong Taoism and the hometown of Jigong "living Buddha". It is famous for its "origin of Buddhism and beautiful landscape", and is one of the "ten famous mountains in China".

Tiantai Mountain is divided into 13 scenic spots: Guoqing scenic spot, Chicheng scenic spot, Fulong scenic spot, Shiliang Tonghu scenic spot, Huading scenic spot, Baizhang Qiongtai scenic spot, tongkengxi Wannian Temple scenic spot, Taoyuan scenic spot, Qingxi scenic spot, Kaiyan zining scenic spot, Hanshan Lake scenic spot, minghanyan scenic spot and jiuzheshan scenic spot. Each scene is naturally interesting and unique. Each scene is good at its own advantages and is beautiful. Among them, Shiliang waterfall and Huading Guiyun are the most popular.

Characteristics of mountain system

Tiantai Mountain is a branch of xianxialing mountain, with a Southwest northeast trend, with an average altitude of more than 500 meters. The main peak, Huading mountain, is 1098 meters above sea level.

Tiantai Mountain is located in the central and eastern part of Zhejiang Province. It is located at the junction of Ningbo, Shaoxing, Jinhua and Wenzhou. Known as "the source of Buddhism and the beauty of mountains and rivers", it is well-known at home and abroad.

There are many overhanging rocks, cliffs and waterfalls, among which Shiliang waterfall is the most famous.

Composition of mountain system

Huading Guiyun

It is mainly composed of Guoqing, Chicheng, fo long, Shiliang (Tonghu, Huading), Baizhang (Qiongtai), tongkenxi (Wannian temple, Taoyuan, Qingxi), Kaiyan (zining, Hanshan lake, minghanyan, Jiuzhan).

The mountains are naturally interesting, unique and beautiful. The most beautiful scenery is Shiliang waterfall and Huading Guiyun.

Geological characteristics

Tiantai Mountain is composed of granite. There are many overhanging rocks, cliffs and waterfalls.

It stretches along the coast of the East China Sea in Zhejiang Province. "The mountain has eight layers, four sides are like one, the top is opposite to the three Chen, when the cow and the girl are divided, they should stay on the platform, so they are called Tiantai.".

It is famous for its beautiful scenery. It connects xianxialing in the southwest and Zhoushan Islands in the northeast. It is the watershed between Cao'e River and Yong river.

The main peak of Huading mountain is in the northeast of Tiantai County, with an altitude of 1098 meters (3602 feet).

Resource overview

Tiantai Mountain is rich in natural resources. There are nine immortal grasses, light-weight and long-term "Dendrobium officinale", Tiantai Mountain "black medicine", Xiandao food "Huangjing", famous "dried bamboo shoots", crisp and transparent "tofu skin", etc. Tiantaishan Yunwu Tea, Tiantaishan tangerine, and xiaohongmao peanut are famous for a long time.

Tiantaishan tangerine and xiaohongmao peanut are famous for a long time. Rich in fir, citrus, medicinal materials.

Tiantai is one of the most premature tea producing areas in China. Tiantai Mountain is rich in high-quality mountain tea - Yunwu Tea, and also the birth of the Oriental Tea Culture - Chinese tea ceremony. Tiantai Mountain is also rich in traditional Chinese medicine, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, Dendrobium and other precious medicinal materials more than 1000 kinds. "Tiantai Wuyao" has unique quality and is the "elixir" of traditional Chinese medicine.

"Shiliang" brand Alpine vegetables grow in the mountains of 1000 meters. They are pollution-free green products and have been exported to Shanghai, Shandong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Hong Kong and Macao.

geographical environment

geographical position

Tiantai Mountain National scenic spot is located in the north of Tiantai County, Zhejiang Province. Relying on the natural landscape, it is characterized by Buddhist culture and integrates tourism, leisure and pilgrimage.

topographic features

Tiantai Mountain is the middle branch of xianxialing mountain, which is connected with Dapan mountain in the southwest and extends into the sea in the northeast to form Zhoushan Archipelago; the North Branch of xianxialing mountain is Kuaiji mountain and Siming Mountain, and the South Branch is Kuocang mountain, which constitute the hills of eastern Zhejiang. Tiantai is known as "eight mountains and half water and half field". The land area of the county is 82.3% in the middle mountain area, 4.02% in the rivers and lakes area, and 13.68% in the river valley plain area. There are continuous mountains, rolling hills and surrounded by mountains. There are Cangshan (1113.4 m above sea level) in the East, Tianzhu Mountain (1019.6 m above sea level) in the west, Dalei mountain (1144 m above sea level) in the South and Huading mountain (1098 m above sea level), the main peak of Tiantai Mountain, in the north. The whole terrain is higher in Northeast, northwest and southwest, lower in southeast, and valley basin in the middle. Shifeng river originates from dapanling, Pan'an County. It winds across the county from west to Southeast, with a total length of 119 kilometers and a drainage area of 1610 square kilometers.

climatic conditions

Tiantai belongs to subtropical monsoon humid climate. The annual average temperature is 16.8 ℃, the average temperature in January is 5.1 ℃, the average temperature in July is 28.5 ℃, the extreme minimum is - 9.1 ℃ (1967.12.30), the extreme maximum is 41.7 ℃ (1961.7.23). The annual average frost free period is 232 days, with four distinct seasons, abundant heat, abundant rainfall and abundant light energy. Due to the regulation of marine water body and the blocking of cold current by the northwest mountains, the territory is less hot in summer, cold in winter, rich in heat, abundant in rain, mild and humid climate.

Resources

Tiantai is a national ecological county with beautiful scenery, pleasant climate and excellent ecological environment. Tiantai Mountain tourist scenic spot has luxuriant vegetation, beautiful environment, 92% forest coverage, rich biological resources, diverse types, a total of 8 types, 28 formations, 40 clusters; 1235 species of seed plants, belonging to 574 species respectively, with 4678 ancient and famous trees, 89 first-class trees, 268 second-class trees, 4321 third-class trees, among which 14 species of 30 rare trees have been listed as national protection plants . Among them, Carpinus Tiantai, Cyclobalanopsis Tiantai, Pinus taiwanensis, Celastrus Tiantai and Rhododendron Tiantai, named after Tiantai Mountain, are rare species in China; Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Cyclobalanopsis glauca, Lysimachia christinae, Liriodendron chinense, Cinnamomum camphora, Magnolia officinalis, Heptacodium and Cyclobalanopsis paliurus, Rhododendron Yunjin, Magnolia huangshanensis, Betula luminifera, etc. are the first, second and third class of key protected plants in China. There are also two famous immortal herbs in the world: Tiantai Wuyao, a medicine for immortality, and Dendrobium officinale, a good tonic. Tiantai Mountain is famous for its nine immortal grasses, light-weight and long-term "Dendrobium formosana", immortal "black medicine", fairy food "Huangjing", famous "dried bamboo shoots", crisp and transparent "tofu skin", etc. Tiantaishan Yunwu Tea, Tiantaishan tangerine, and xiaohongmao peanut are famous for a long time.

Scenic spots

Tiantai Mountain is divided into 13 scenic spots: Guoqing scenic spot, Chicheng scenic spot, Fulong scenic spot, Shiliang Tonghu scenic spot, Huading scenic spot, Baizhang Qiongtai scenic spot, tongkengxi Wannian Temple scenic spot, Taoyuan scenic spot, Qingxi scenic spot, Kaiyan zining scenic spot, Hanshan Lake scenic spot, minghanyan scenic spot and jiuzheshan scenic spot. Each scene is naturally interesting and unique. Each scene is good at its own advantages and is beautiful. Among them, Shiliang waterfall and Huading Guiyun are the most popular.

Shiliang scenic spot

In the Cong mountain valley, 23 kilometers away from the county seat, the area of the scenic area is 2.1 square kilometers, which combines the world's landscape wonders into one. It is the essence of Zhedong's "Tang Poetry Road". Li Bai, Meng Haoran and other famous poets once praised this spectacle and left immortal poems. Up the stream, the mountains are green, the ancient trees are towering, the rocks are everywhere, and the peaks are abrupt. It is an excellent scenic spot with different scenery. Tourists are in a fairyland. The total length of cuigu is more than 1800 meters. The most famous ones are "rhinoceros watching the moon", "old monk rending", "sleeping lion for thousands of years", "turtle elephant for thousands of years", primitive wood lotus forest, "Yingzhen bathing pool" and so on.

Tiantai Shiliang is a rare "granite born bridge" in the world. The so-called "Tianshengqiao" is a kind of bridge like terrain with two ends connected to the ground and suspended in the middle. Limestone and sandstone are the most common. According to the field investigation by Academician Wang Sijing of the Chinese Academy of engineering and researcher Yang Zhifa of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shiliang is a masterpiece of nature with six unique geological and hydrological conditions "coincidentally". In short, from the internal cause, there are vertical and horizontal "two steep and one slow" crack systems in the rock mass; from the external cause, the "cascade waterfall" provides enough water for "erosion beam". These are of great significance to the study of granite geology and geomorphology, the application of granite materials and the promotion of scientific tourism.

The Shiliang waterfall in the scenic area is known as the first wonder in the world. The length of the stone beam is about 7 meters, the width of the beam is not full of feet, such as Canglong ridge, across the cliffs of the two mountains, wonderful workmanship, rare in the world. "Waterfall" after three fold through the beam, and then from 40

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