Spring is also the season when flowers bloom. Peach blossoms, plum blossoms, rape blossoms, cherry blossoms, etc. are very popular with everyone. In fact, in spring, you can also enjoy azaleas. In addition to Guizhou’s Baili Rhododendron Outside the scenic area, the azaleas in Kunming's Heilongtan Park are also very attractive, and a Rhododendron Festival is also being held. 2021 Kunming Heilongtan Park Rhododendron Festival
Hold time: March 17th - May 10th
Held location: Heilongtan Park, Kunming City, Yunnan Province
Activity introduction:
"Bright red like drops reflecting the bright rosy clouds, fiery and beautiful, and countless azaleas". In the depth of spring, the Rhododendron Valley in Heilongtan Park is dark red and light purple, and the mountains are covered with red. "There are flowers everywhere in the streams and mountains." She is graceful and has lingering dreams of wind and rain every year." The "Azalea Valley" built at the foot of Longquan Mountain covers an area of ??about 100 acres, with more than 30 varieties and more than 350,000 plants. It is the largest courtyard-style park for planting azaleas in Southwest China. On March 17, 2021, the 19th Kunming Rhododendron Festival of "Beautiful Longtan Rhododendron" kicked off. Until May 10, the Heilongtan Park, where spring is as deep as the sea, will let you feel the deliciousness of spring and the azaleas. An introduction to the scenic spots of Kunming Heilongtan Park, which is lively and tranquil.
Exploring Plum Blossoms in Longquan
The landscape plum garden is connected to the Taoist temple complex. The first phase of the plum garden was built in 1994, and the second phase of the plum garden was built in 1994. Qimei Garden was built in 2002. The current scale of the plum garden has reached 520 acres, with more than 20,000 plum blossoms planted on the ground, and nearly 4,000 plum blossom bonsais collected and preserved. It has become a unique landscape plum garden in southwest China and one of the top ten plum gardens in the country.
In winter, thousands of plum blossoms bloom in the 100-acre plum garden. The plum blossoms on each tree are either red, pink or white, filling the atmosphere. The garden is filled with subtle fragrance, refreshing the heart and mind. . At this time, the most important flower event in Kunming is visiting plum blossoms in Longquan. People come to Black Dragon Pond to appreciate plum blossoms, smell their fragrance, find their charm, and appreciate the traditional Chinese plum culture.
Spring in the Azalea Valley
In order to promote the ornamental advantages of Yunnan azaleas, the largest "Azalea Valley" in Kunming, covering an area of ??8 hectares, was opened in the valley north of "Longquan Exploring Plum Blossoms". There are more than ten varieties of Jinxiu Rhododendron, Cangshan Rhododendron, Western Rhododendron, etc., with more than 100,000 clumps and 65 large trees of Lantana.
At the beginning of spring, the valley is full of rhododendrons blooming in full bloom, with red, yellow, white, pink and other colored petals overlapping each other, creating a sea of ??flowers. Yunnan rhododendrons are planted all over the deep valleys on the mountain slopes, beside the flowing streams, and under the chestnut trees. In particular, a large number of transplanted small wooden horse cherry blossoms. When in full bloom, the red, pink, and white horse cherry blossoms form clusters and become the characteristic ornamental flowers of Heilongtan. .
In late spring, at the bottom of the hills of the Rhododendron Valley, white, pink and white, white-green, yellow, orange, bright red, peach red, purple red, deep purple and red and white azaleas bloom all over the mountains and fields, as far as the eye can see. Spring is in full bloom in the Cuckoo Valley, and spring is as deep as the sea.
Ancient Pagoda Yin Maple
On the top of Longquan Mountain, there is the Dingfeng Pagoda built in the Ming Dynasty. Dingfeng Pagoda is a seven-story, octagonal, solid tower with dense eaves, 13 meters high. "Tai Chi rotates to the south with double mirror moons, and Dingfeng towers to the north to hold a pot of sky." Dingfeng Pagoda is a Feng Shui tower on Longquan Mountain. Legend has it that this tower can stop the cold wind blowing from the northwest in winter, so that Longquan Temple can still experience the Indian Summer climate of "four seasons of mist, rain and clouds halfway up the mountain" in the cold winter.
Every autumn, the red leaves on the mountainside and the sweet-scented osmanthus in the garden form a unique landscape of "the fragrant sweet-scented osmanthus everywhere in August, and the red leaves unfolding in the wind". Black Dragon Pond in autumn is a rare place for leaf viewing and scent smelling.
The Legacy of the Heroes
In 1984, the park built the first underground party provincial committee secretaries of Yunnan Province, Wang Desan, Wu Cheng and Ma Dengyun, in the pine and cypress jungle on the halfway slope of the east mountain mouth of Longquan Mountain. Tomb of the Three Martyrs.
On the platform on the upper right side of these three tombs is the resting place of martyrs such as Wang Fusheng and Zhang Fang. The cemetery is located from north to south and is divided into four platforms. It is a provincial cultural relic protection unit and a patriotism education base in Yunnan Province. Every year, all major, middle and primary schools, as well as the military, government agencies, enterprises and institutions come here to pay homage to the heroes and martyrs.
Ziji Xuandu
In Heilongtan Park, at the entrance of Longquan Temple is the "Ziji Xuandu" archway.
"Ziji Xuandu" means "Ziwei Constellation", because in ancient times people divided the sky into Ziweiyuan, Tianshiyuan and 28 constellations, etc., and Ziweiyuan was in the middle. The ancients believed that the heavenly palace where the emperor lived should be in the center. , Ziwei Yuan became the seat of the Emperor of Heaven. "Ziwei" also represents "Ziwei Arctic Emperor". He is the god who assists the Jade Emperor in controlling the longitude and latitude of the heaven and earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the climate of the four seasons. It is equivalent to the "prime minister" in the human world. "Xuan" means black, and black represents the north. Xuandu refers to the place where the gods live. "Ziji Xuandu" means the place where Emperor Ziwei and the gods live. The emperors in the world also use "Zi" to refer to them. of the royal palace to show the dignity and nobility of the imperial power.
Questions about Dragon Pond
One of the wonders in Black Dragon Pond is the Clear Water Pond and the Muddy Water Pond, one clear and one turbid forming a thousand-year wonder. A large amount of water flows out of Qingshuitan every day. Whether this water is underground spring water or underground river water from afar has never been known.
The Rhythm of the Blue Stream
The 500-meter-long stream landscape from the park's waterscape garden to Bajiao Valley is winding, ups and downs, like the blood of Longtan, with constant runoff. During this period, there are deep forests, lush bamboos, shades of ancient trees, clear blue streams, misty rain all the time, and beautiful scenery.
Listen to the Rain in the Banana Forest
In the most tranquil place of Heilongtan, walk along the mouth of the ditch. Huge banana trees stand on the roadside. When tourists walk by, banana leaves brush their cheeks. , as if caressed by immortals. When it rains, the water falls from the high leaves and drips on the banana leaves of different sizes below. It crackles like a piano and is melodious in an instant.
Sparse Shadows of Pine Taos
It is located in the Dongshanzui Autumn Plant Area in the northeast of the park. In addition to triangular maple, five-cornered maple, chicken claw maple, ginkgo and other autumn landscape plants, the most common autumn landscape plants here are Oil fir. There is a leisure lawn covering an area of ??20,000 square meters, where you can lie down, sit, read, or exercise, and feel comfortable.
Han Temple traces back to ancient times
"Han Heishui Temple" is known as "the first ancient temple in central Yunnan". It is said that during the Tang Dynasty, monks built temples here. An ancestral temple was built here in the early Yuan Dynasty, but was later destroyed by war. Longquan Taoist Temple was built here in the 27th and 28th years of Hongwu's reign in the Ming Dynasty. Taoist Xu Rixian was the first Taoist priest. He preached and built a lot of construction here. He successively built the three major halls of Ziji, Leishen and Beiji. It has been more than 500 years ago. Year. It was repaired in both the Ming and Qing dynasties. And the Jade Emperor Hall, Sanqing Hall and Zhenren Temple were added.