Meijiang Scenic Area

The natural landscape type of Meijiang river is karst landform, with a variety of surface and underground landscapes, which has the basic conditions for the establishment of a national geopark. The unique geological landscape of Meijiang river is obviously different from other famous landscapes such as Shilin in Yunnan, Guilin in Guangxi and Zhangjiajie in Hunan. There are many kinds of karst caves in Meijiang river, which are rare in China.

Meijiang Scenic Area

Meijiang scenic spot is located in the northwest of Lianyuan City, Loudi, the hinterland of central Hunan Province. The geological relic landscape is dominated by karst landform. It is divided into five scenic spots, including Dajiangkou, xianrenfu Xianglu mountain, saihai Longquan gorge, guanyinya zangjun cave and xiannvzhai, with a total area of 136.64 square kilometers.

Meijiang scenic area has a generation of imperial mausoleum, two lakes and beautiful waters, three rock gates, four oases, five temples, six waterfalls, Qili gorge, eight dangerous scenes, hundreds of strange caves, thousands of skillful stones, ten thousand trees and Chimonanthus. The geological landform of Meijiang scenic spot is low mountain karst landform, with unique geological structure, complete development of rock fissures and full karst geological process. For example, "Tiantan ready to go" bridge in Xianglu mountain, "Lianhua Yongquan" in Guanyin cliff, "S-shaped curve deep ditch" in Longquan gorge, "natural mural" in zangjun cave, etc. are rare geological relics in the world, which have aesthetic value and scientific research value. It is a comprehensive scenic spot with natural scenery and karst geological relics. Since its development and construction, Meijiang scenic area has opened up six scenic spots, including Guanyin cliff, zangjun cave, Xianren mansion, saihai lake, Longquan gorge and Dajiangkou. It has completed the post and telecommunications, road transportation, power supply and water supply, hotels and medical facilities. It has good tourism reception ability and has initially formed a "Three-Day Tour" tourism pattern.

On September 23, 2013, the national rating committee of scenic spots officially approved Meijiang scenic spot in Lianyuan City as a national AAAA scenic spot.

geographical environment

Location context

Meijiang scenic spot is located in the northwest of Lianyuan City, 30 kilometers away from Lantian town. The total area is 108 square kilometers. Xiaojia village in the East, Taoxi village in the west, Shenkeng village in the South and Paoma village in the north. It is composed of 40 villages in Shitao, Gutang, Qicun, Daqiao and four ancient villages. Located 45 kilometers away from boyue cave in Lengshui River and 50 kilometers away from Loudi City, it is the center of Hunan tourism network.

Geology and geomorphology

Its natural landscape type is karst landform, with a variety of surface and underground landscape. The unique geological landscape of Meijiang river is obviously different from other famous landscapes such as Shilin in Yunnan, Guilin in Guangxi and Zhangjiajie in Hunan.

Climatic characteristics

Meijiang scenic area belongs to the subtropical continental monsoon humid climate zone. Rich in heat, suitable temperature, four distinct seasons. The annual average temperature is 16-17.3 ℃. The annual average sunshine time is 1538 hours, which is more in the east than in the West. The frost free period is 268 days. The city's annual average precipitation is 1406 mm, with a total precipitation of 11.395 billion cubic meters.

natural resources

With unique scenery, concentrated scenic spots and complete landscapes, Meijiang is a comprehensive scenic spot with natural scenery as the main body, integrating mountains, water, caves, rocks, peaks, cliffs, streams, lakes, bridges, waterfalls, canyons, beaches, oases and ancient temples. Meijiang river is a natural geological museum with unique geological landforms. For example, "Tianshengqiao" in xianrenfu, "Tiantan ready to go" in Xianglushan, and "Sutra drawing from the West sky" in zangjun cave are rare geological relics in the world, which have aesthetic value and scientific research value.

Main attractions

Natural bridge

Tianshengqiao in Meijiang scenic area, also known as Shenxianqiao, is located in the limestone of Maokou Formation on the east wing of chetianjiang Syncline in Lianshao basin. It is formed by the dissolution of groundwater and gravity collapse for thousands of years. It is the only hyperbolic three pore authigenic bridge found in carbonate salt solution developed areas in China.

In the south of the bridge, there is a single span bridge with a height of 40 meters and a span of 10 meters. It is called "neixian bridge" to cross the stream. To the north, there is a double span bridge with a height of 50 meters, which is called "waixian bridge". The inner and outer fairyland bridges are connected to form a complete and natural three hole overpass. Under the bridge, there is a stream flowing through, and there are four small stone peaks beside the bridge, just like four piers

Lotus spring

Lotus spring is located in Guanyin cliff zangjun Cave Scenic Area, which is a rising spring with large flow. The maximum discharge of the spring is 5000L / s, and the minimum is 500L / s. It is a spring with constant water throughout the year. The spring water gushes out from five encircled springs, and the diameter of each spring is 1-2m.

Zangjun cave

It is a large natural karst cave with a length of 25000 meters and a proven length of 4000 meters. There are caves in the cave and rivers in the cave. The underground river flows in a zigzag way. The caves are distributed in the middle and Upper Carboniferous carbonate rocks. Stalactites are very rich in the cave: stalagmites, stone pillars, stone mantles, stone buildings and stone statues are everywhere. The cave is one of the rare large-scale carbonate karst caves in China, with unique structure, colorful stalactites, wonderful landscapes and rare treasures.

The developed 4000 m cave is composed of 12 large karst cave groups. From the entrance to the inside, there are many karst cave landscape areas, such as Hujun hall, Huidi hall, liangchongtian hall, Nanxun hall, never night city, Longfeng palace, Beiguo hall, Jiangnan hall, jiangheba hall, parade field and national treasure hall. Karst caves are generally 5-30m in height, 60-100m in length, 10-20m in width and 60-200m2 in area. Twelve caves are distributed in a string of spheres along the underground river, and there are tunnels (underground river pipelines) between the caves.

Guanyin cliff

The elevation of Guanyin cliff in Meijiang river is 499.8m, and the relative elevation difference is 300m. It is a semicircular cliff with a ring diameter of about 500m, which is formed by erosion.

Guanyin cliff was originally a water cave, which was formed by the rising of the earth's crust and continuous collapse. There are still five Juebi caves on the cliff, such as Guanyin cave, Tibetan Buddha cave, Luohan cave, Panjiao cave and Tibetan Scripture cave.

Ten miles Gallery

The Shili Gallery of the Meijiang scenic spot is located on the Huangluo bay wall, known as "three Xiangs and one unique". The cliff is majestic. It is north-south along the Meijiang river bank, and North-South along the Meijiang river bank, It is 3500 meters long and 360 meters high from the river bed. The cliff section is almost vertical. The cliff is colorful due to weathering. Its color changes with the seasons. It is a colorful ten mile gallery. It can be said that it is rare for Chinese experts to have such a picture in karst landform area. It is a national geological relic.

Saihai Lake

Saihai lake is a natural karst lake, also known as Meitang lake. In ancient times, it was the first of the "eight scenic spots of Anhua". Its water area is 8 million cubic meters, and its surface elevation is 329.7 meters, 329.7 meters. It is an underground lake formed by the dissolution of structural fissures along the northwest direction Due to the uplift of the earth's crust to the surface, the lake was originally an underground river in an underground karst cave formed by the dissolution of NW trending structural fissures. Later, due to the uplift of the earth's crust to the surface, the cave top collapsed and fell after weathering, denudation, erosion and dissolution, and gradually developed into a lake.

Immortal house

Xianrenfu is a large natural bridge formed by vertical joints and fissures under the action of groundwater dissolution and gravity collapse. It is a geological relic landscape group composed of cliffs, Tianshengqiao, karst caves, canyons, waterfalls and streams.

Xianren cave is 280 meters long, 30 meters wide and 60 meters high. It is characterized by a hole in the cave, a sky in the cave, a flying bridge under the world, water flowing under the bridge, a waterfall, and a turtle stone falling from the waterfall. In particular, two natural born bridges fly in the air, with a height of 50 meters and a span of 30 meters, which are rare authigenic stone arch bridges in the world. The shape of the double hole Tianshengqiao is similar to "Mei" with the initial letter "m" in pinyin, and the shape of the single hole Tianshengqiao is similar to "Jiang" with the initial letter "J" in pinyin. The combination of the two forms "MJ" - Meijiang river, which is a scenic spot with typical domain name signs in China.

Censer mountain

Xianglu mountain scenic area is an aging peak forest landform. The vertical height of the peak is generally about 30-150 meters. The main peak of Xianglu peak is 587 meters above sea level, and the relative height is nearly 100 meters, which looks like a incense burner.

Due to the erosion of surface water, the dissolution of groundwater and the physical weathering along the joints and fissures, it is a unique geological landscape group, such as funnel, depression, stone cone, stone peak and a line of sky. The shapes of the stone peaks are different, like human beings and things, like birds and animals, lifelike. The main scenic spots are: Xianglu peak, eight sceneries of one stone, Deshengmen, ancient battlefield, ancient fort, Tiantan ready to go, fubinghao, Shiqi, Huabiao, xiongshishouzhai, Wumen, etc. In particular, the "one stone and eight sceneries" pillar stands on a wide flat ground, more than 20 meters high. From eight different angles, it can present eight different forms of Landscape: "loving mother and carrying son, strict mother and teaching son, husband and wife sending son, parents visiting son, Acacia mother and son, two old people looking forward to son, homecoming son, pilgrimage mother and son".

Sandaoyan gate

Sandaoyan gate is located on saihai Lake in Lianyuan Meijiang scenic area. Sandaoyan gate is a three-layer gate, which is the unique mountain peak in Lianyuan Meijiang scenic area.

The three rock gates of Lianyuan Meijiang scenic spot have three layers, which are stacked and stand in turn. At present, the landmark landscape of Lianyuan Meijiang scenic spot is Sandao Yanmen. In any external publicity, Sandao Yanmen is a symbol representing Lianyuan Meijiang wind