Jigong Mountain in Jigong Mountain Management Area, Xinyang City, Henan Province is a geomantic treasure land. It is located at the western end of Dabie Mountain and is closely connected to Tongbai Mountain. If the Dabie Mountain and Tongbai Mountain winding for thousands of miles are compared to two giant dragons If so, then Jigong Mountain is the shining pearl in the mouth of these two giant dragons. "Two dragons playing with the pearl" has been a myth symbolizing auspiciousness for the Chinese nation since ancient times. I hope that your trip to Jigong Mountain will bring you good luck and blessings. Jigong Mountain has the reputation of "the blue is divided into Chu and Yu, and the atmospheric pressure is between Song and Heng". Historically, it was one of the four major summer resorts in China along with Lushan Mountain, Beidaihe Mountain and Mogan Mountain. As early as 1,400 years ago in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Li Daoyuan's "Shui Jing Zhu" had written records. Later, many celebrities, dignitaries, and wealthy businessmen also came to visit the mountains. The literati left a lot of records. Psalms of Praise. At the beginning of the last century, after the Pinghan-Hankou Railway was opened to traffic, foreigners flocked to the area. It reached its peak in the 1920s and 1930s. After more than a hundred years of development, it has now become a scenic spot for people to travel and vacation. In 1978, it was one of the first eight scenic spots open to the outside world approved by the State Council. In 1982, it was included in the first batch of 44 national-level key scenic spots in the country. It has become a collection of natural landscapes, supplemented by cultural landscapes, as well as recuperation, summer vacation, and tourism. , sightseeing, scientific research, internship, and mountainous scenic spots with natural ecological protection value. In 1988, it was approved as a national nature reserve by the State Council, and in 1996, it was rated as one of the "Top Ten Tourist Attractions in Henan Province". Now it has become the "Chinese Children's Hand-in-Hand Activity Camp", "China Senior Citizens Association Recuperation Base" and "China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Artist Collection Base". In order to better protect, utilize and develop scenic area resources and accelerate the development of various undertakings in Jigong Mountain, the Jigong Mountain Management Area was established in 2001, expanding the original area of ??the scenic area from 27 square kilometers to the current 287 square kilometers. Scenic spots and surrounding protected areas implement unified leadership, unified planning, unified development, and unified utilization of tourism resources. The Jigong Mountain Management Area has given many preferential policies to welcome friends from all walks of life to invest in the mountain and build a great tourism industry. In the future, Jigongshan people will aim to become "domestic famous and world-famous" and develop Jigongshan into a national first-class resort for sightseeing and leisure, business meetings, scientific research and inspections, training and learning, and summer vacation and recuperation. Jigong Mountain has unique natural landscape. "Buddha's light, sea of ??clouds, rime, rain, rays of light, exotic flowers and plants, strange peaks and rocks, waterfalls and flowing springs" are known as the eight natural landscapes of Jigong Mountain. The altitude of Jigong Mountain is not very high, only 700 to 800 meters, but its geographical location is unique, with deep and flat canyons on both sides, and the wind blows all year round. Jigong Mountain has an alpine climate but no altitude sickness, making it especially suitable for recuperation and summer vacation. It has special effects on certain diseases such as lung disease, beriberi, heart disease, bronchitis, and hypertension. In addition, there are many factors such as strange peaks and rocks, springs and waterfalls, rare flowers and grasses, mountain villages and pastoral buildings and unique pavilions and pavilions, which constitute a beautiful natural scenic area. Jigong Mountain is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round, and is known as "Yunzhong Park". Jigong Mountain has no heat in midsummer and has a cool climate. The average summer temperature is only 23°C. The temperature difference between Xinyang City and Wuhan, the "furnace", actually reaches 4-7°C. "The morning is like spring, the afternoon is like autumn, and the night is like early winter." It can be said that " The heat of the three days makes people want to die, but when the coolness comes here, they feel like they are immortal." Tourist friends, you have to prepare your spring and autumn clothes even in the hot summer. Not only that, the strange peaks and rocks of Jigong Mountain are in various shapes and shapes. The gods of creation, houses are built on the rocks, trees grow beside the rocks, and grass grows in the rocks. It is long, flowers bloom beside the stone, and spring flows under the stone. They are all strange, ingenious, strange and beautiful, and integrate with other natural landscapes. The scenery of Jigong Mountain changes in all four seasons. In spring, summer, autumn and winter, the scenery changes with time and is magical and unpredictable. The Donggou Waterfalls in Jigong Mountain is a scenic corridor with water features as the main body. It is about 20 miles in length and is naturally beautiful and wild. It can be accessed by aerial cableway. Throughout the ages, Jigong Mountain, with its majestic and beautiful scenery and specific geographical environment, has also attracted many historical celebrities, including Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant uprising, and the legendary story of the Red Flower Girl... all of which have given Jigong Gongshan adds many beautiful colors and also casts a mysterious veil on Jigong Mountain. Jigong Mountain not only has an obvious blend of northern and southern cultures, but also has the connotation of a blend of Chinese and Western cultures. As early as the beginning of the last century, nearly a thousand diplomats and missionaries from 23 countries as well as domestic warlords and wealthy businessmen came to Jigong Mountain to build 300 holiday villas and gardens with unique charms. These multi-ethnic and multi-national architectural communities are located in the mountains and complement each other, just like a "Architectural Exposition of All Nations". It is also one of the best among mountainous scenic spots in the country.
Jigong Mountain is the dividing line between north and south, and a transition zone between subtropical and warm temperate zones. Plants from both north and south can settle here, with a vegetation coverage rate of up to 87%. There are more than 2,000 types of plants, of which more than 600 are Chinese herbal medicines alone. It is known as the "natural botanical garden" and the "natural Chinese herbal medicine garden". At that time, Li Shizhen traveled all the way to Jigong Mountain to collect herbs, adding rich content to the "Compendium of Materia Medica". At the beginning of the last century, British and American botanists also studied and cultivated plants in Jigong Mountain. It is an ideal scientific research and teaching base for biological workers and a natural treasure house of green genes.
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