Hematite

Jinbianyan, located in the upper reaches of jinbianxi, is a famous scenic spot in Zhangjiajie. Jinbianyan is more than 380 meters high. Its peak is thin on the top and thick on the bottom. It has four distinct edges. It rises from the ground and goes straight into the sky. No matter from which angle, it looks like a long whip that pierces the sky. So this canyon is also called jinbianxi Grand Canyon.

It is said that the first emperor of Qin took the whip to fill the mountain and turned the gold whip into rock. The color of the peak changes several times in a day: at dawn, the peak is dark brown under the cloud; at noon, the sun is direct, and the peak is golden; at evening, the sun is smeared, and the peak surface is red; at clear night, the moon is blue, and the peak body is silver. When the setting sun shines in the evening, the whip body is painted with gold, which is shining and magnificent, forming a unique and magnificent "sunset gold whip picture".

Hematite

After passing the "boudoir peak" and going down the stream for about 500 meters, there is a magnificent and straight peak about 400 meters high, with an upright solitary mark, named jinbianyan. Jinbianyan is a famous scenic spot in Wulingyuan. Its peak is thin on the top and thick on the bottom, with four distinct edges. The edge surface is full of transverse joint lines, forming a whip node, just like a long whip inserted into the earth. When the setting sun shines in the evening, the whip body is covered with gold, shining, magnificent and eye-catching, forming a unique and magnificent "sunset gold whip picture".

Jinbianyan recorded in an article in the middle of the Qing Dynasty: "Qingya mountain, 20 Li west of the county, has five mountains standing side by side. Zhongyi peak is more precipitous. It is the most marvelous one, with the Han Dynasty in the sky "Zhongyifeng" here refers to jinbianyan.

history

It is said that after Qin Shihuang unified China, in order to consolidate his rule, he ordered to build the Great Wall with huge stones. All over the country, men, women, old and young, applied. Goddess Guanyin sympathized with the coolie workers, so she cut off a bunch of her hair and gave each worker a huge stone to carry. Qin Shihuang thought that a hair can pull away a huge stone. If you want to braid the hair into a braid, you can drive away a mountain? So he took up all his hair and woven it into a Golden Whip. He used the Golden Whip to drive the mountains to build the Great Wall. If it was really powerful, he immediately named it "driving the mountains whip" and threatened to use it to drive the mountains to fill the sea. The sea dragon king was angered by the rush to reclaim the sea. The sea dragon king summoned the shrimp soldiers and crab generals to discuss the countermeasures and make a clever plan.

One day, the first emperor of Qin saw a girl who looked like a great immortal, and ordered her to be a concubine. Unexpectedly, the girl was the daughter of the Dragon King. On the night of the bridal chamber, the Dragon girl saw the whip of the first emperor of Qin, and asked the first emperor of Qin to take it off before she could enter the bridal chamber. The first emperor of Qin readily agreed and immediately ordered the soldiers to hold a banquet to celebrate. The next day, Qin Shihuang found that the Dragon girl had disappeared and the whip had been replaced. In a fury, he sent troops to capture the Dragon Girl. Seeing that she could not take the whip away, she threw the whip away and dropped it on the Bank of Jinbian River in Zhangjiajie The gold whip rock has been discovered.

origin

In ancient times, the area south of the Yangtze River (West to Xiangxi and Yunnan, east to Zhejiang, South to the present South China Sea) was a vast ocean. Later, due to the northward movement of the South Asian subcontinent, the southwest part of the Eurasian plate began to rise. At that time, the Qinghai Tibet Plateau began to grow, about 40 million years ago. Plate movements like this continue to work, and that's what makes southern China today. Not exactly. Various external forces of nature are also shaping the landforms of the south. Zhangjiajie, represented by jinbianyan, is a classic area. As a result of marine sedimentation, the area formed a vast and deep quartz sandstone. Quartz sandstone is hard and brittle, so it is easy to be eroded and can retain the appearance after erosion. It vividly records nature's carving of itself.

Address: Zhangjiajie Forest Park, Zhangjiajie City

Longitude: 110.43870544434

Latitude: 29.32084274292

Tour time: 10 minutes

Traffic information: after entering Zhangjiajie National Forest Park from the "forest park ticket station", you can walk about 500 meters to the entrance of jinbianxi canyon. Walk along the Jinbian river.

Ticket information: no ticket required

Included in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, general park tickets.

Opening hours: 7:00-18:00 (the opening hours of Zhangjiajie Forest Park will be adjusted according to different seasons, with the announcement of the scenic spot as the main one.)